Bangladesh and India are in discussion to finalise a date in early September for Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s visit to New Delhi, says Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen.

Moscow yesterday warned Lithuania of “serious” consequences over its restriction of rail traffic to Russia’s Kaliningrad exclave, as Kremlin forces made gains in Ukraine’s strategic Donbas region.

Ongoing floods have so far damaged 56,000 hectares of the country’s Aush paddy, Agriculture Minister Muhammad Abdur Razzaque said yesterday.

Police recovered the body of a 75-year-old man, with his throat slit, from his home in Bagerhat’s Morrelganj upazila yesterday morning.

The High Court yesterday rebuked Faridpur’s Boalmari Upazila Nirbahi Officer (UNO) Md Rezaul Karim for ill-treating two process servers of the district judge’s court and threatening them for an altercation with his official over handing over of a summon.

Appreciating Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s “far-sightedness and political astuteness”, Japanese Ambassador to Bangladesh Ito Naoki has said the completion of Padma Bridge demonstrates what Bangladesh can do for its economic development and stability.

The number of coronavirus cases is going up with the rising trend of the infection rate.

La Nina is moderately active in the Pacific Ocean this year. This would cause more rains across the Ganges and Brahmaputra basins ultimately leading to more floods, said Dr Rashed Chowdhury in an interview with The Daily Star.

His only fault was that he failed to give motorcyclists room to overtake. 

Consumers Association of Bangladesh has said the process of fixing fuel prices without holding any public hearings is “illegal”.

Bangladesh registered one Covid-related death with 873 fresh cases in 24 hours till yesterday morning.

Police yesterday arrested three transport workers for gang-raping a woman inside a parked bus in the port city’s Oxygen intersection area on Sunday noon.

Sick of swiping and tired of Tinder? Old-fashioned love letters may be the answer, says one Japanese city whose unusual matchmaking scheme has been a surprising success.

A girl was hacked to death allegedly by her father while her grandmother, mother and sister were critically in jured in the incident over a land dispute in Rangpur’s Pirgachha on Sunday evening.   

A 12-year-old boy was killed in a landslide triggered by heavy rain in Chattogram city’s Sholoshahar early yesterday.

At least 20 people, including 12 police personnel, were injured in a clash yesterday when police tried to stop a blockade of Chitalmari Police Station by protesters.

The Press Council Act-1974 is being amended with a provision of fining a journalist up to Tk 10 lakh for participating in illegal activities.

Main opposition in parliament Jatiya Party yesterday said they did not want the use of electronic voting machines in the next national election.

With the health directorate reporting 7.38 percent Covid positivity rate yesterday, the highest in the last four months, a top health official said the transmission might spread faster among people living in shelter centres in the flood-hit areas for not following health safety rules properly.

Andalusia votes yesterday in an early regional election that the incumbent conservative Popular Party is expected to win comfortably, dealing a blow to Spain’s Socialist Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez ahead of a national vote expected at the end of 2023.