The Daily Star has won bronze prize in “Best in Social Media Engagement” category of the prestigious South Asian Digital Media Awards 2019.

Bangabandhu today visits Ramgati in Noakhali and Shantirhat in Bhola. This is the prime minister’s second visit to the rural areas of Bangladesh after his assumption of office.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday asked the authorities concerned not to build high-rise establishments along the sea in Cox’s Bazar.

Seven policemen, including two officers-in-charge of two police stations in Chattogram, were sued yesterday for taking Tk 23 lakh from a businessperson by “threatening to kill him in crossfire”.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi is likely to visit Bangladesh on March 16 or 17 to attend the birth centenary celebrations of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.

Two suspected robbers were killed in a “gunfight” between two dacoit groups in Sadar upazila of Magura early yesterday, said police.

Nearly 80 years after the US authorized the internment of Japanese-Americans during World War II, California plans to formally apologize this week for its role in one of the darkest chapters in US history.

Three people, including a child, drowned after a fishing trawler capsized in the Bay of Bengal in Chattogram’s Banshkhali upazila yesterday.

Al-Shabaab Islamists on Wednesday carried out attacks on two Somali military bases, using a suicide vehicle bombing and dozens of heavily armed militants, a military official said.

Former Australian prime minister Tony Abbott has claimed “very top” level Malaysian officials believed vanished Flight MH370 was deliberately downed by the captain in a mass murder-suicide.

Three people, including a child, drowned after a fishing trawler capsized in the Bay of Bengal in Chattogram’s Banshkhali upazila yesterday.

An adviser in British Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s office resigned on Monday after online comments resurfaced where he linked intellect to race and seemed to advocate a eugenics policy.

A Rohingya woman was beaten to death by two others in their camp in Teknaf, Cox’s Bazar yesterday.

Government air strikes have hit hospitals and displaced persons camps in northwest Syria and killed about 300 civilians as President Bashar al-Assad’s forces press an assault against the last rebel stronghold, the United Nations said yesterday.

A suspected drug peddler was killed in a “gunfight between two groups of criminals” in the district’s Bochaganj upazila early yesterday.

The Daily Star obtained a copy of the letter and ran a report on it with the headline: "Pirojpur schoolgirl writes to PM for new school building".

Police yesterday recovered the body of a seven-year-old girl, killed allegedly after rape, in Chapainawabganj. In addition, two men were sued yesterday in a rape incident in Gazipur and one accused of gangraping a minor was arrested in Khulna.

Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman has been empowered by the working committee of Awami League to form a committee to reorganise the party to provide the people leadership.

A tea estate in Chattogram has continuously been encroaching on one of the oldest and richest reserve forests in the country. Over the years, it has foiled forestation attempts and continuously damaged trees while expanding its territory.

Police in China have arrested a prominent activist who had been a fugitive for weeks and criticised President Xi Jinping’s handling of the coronavirus epidemic while in hiding, a rights group said yesterday.