The government plans to open a portion of the rail route connecting Dhaka to Jashore through the Padma bridge by June 2021 as the problems in the rail project’s design have been resolved.

When farmers were looking forward to some earnings by fishing, the Hakaluki haor in Moulvibazar has turned into a contaminated wetland with dead fish floating ashore.

Bangladesh will hold a meeting with China and Myanmar on the repatriation of Rohingyas on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly in New York next week.

Police arrested a Rohingya man and two Myanmar citizens with 250 SIM cards in Teknaf land port area yesterday.

Chhatra League leaders who publicly spoke about receiving a hefty amount of money from JU VC Prof Farzana Islam last night said that they were feeling insecure on the campus after being threatened over phone.

South Korea yesterday reported its first cases of African swine fever, becoming the latest country hit by the disease that has killed pigs from China to North Korea, pushing up pork prices worldwide.

Former Italian prime minister Matteo Renzi yesterday announced that he was leaving the centre-left Democratic Party (PD) to form his own party, potentially destabilising the days-old ruling coalition.

UN investigators yesterday called for an expert evaluation of whether Myanmar’s civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi can be legally implicated in the abuses committed against the country’s Rohingya minority.

Britain’s Supreme Court began considering legal challenges to Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s controversial decision to suspend parliament for over a month, as the country’s political crisis over Brexit intensifies.

Spain’s King Felipe VI yesterday began meeting parliamentary leaders in an eleventh-hour bid to form a government and head off what would be the country’s fourth elections in as many years.

Indian authorities were engaged in a major search and rescue operation yesterday to find 39 people missing after their tour boat capsized in a fast-flowing swollen river.

The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) yesterday arrested a Jubo League leader of Bandarban on charge of swindling Tk 50 lakh out of Agrani Bank Ltd.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday stressed the need for having an accommodative attitude towards relations among neighbouring countries for the sake of mutual development.

A suspected robber was killed in what police claimed was a gunfight between police and armed cohorts of the suspect in Rajbari’s Sadar Upazila early yesterday.

Oil prices made their biggest jump since the Gulf War yesterday after President Donald Trump warned that the US was “locked and loaded” to respond to attacks on Saudi oil infrastructure that Washington blamed on Iran.

Bangladesh Press Council yesterday issued instructions regarding court reporting, urging the media not to publish any news or article that may influence under-trial cases.

An Air India flight was delayed by several hours after a swarm of bees landed on the cockpit window, attacking ground staff when they tried to remove them, officials said.

The red and green flag fluttering by the side of one of the many dirt roads in Bamako is a welcoming sight to a visiting Bangladeshi.

The High Court yesterday directed the Rajshahi chief judicial magistrate to conduct an enquiry into the alleged manipulation of the first information report (FIR) of a murder case by Puthia Police Station OC Shakil Uddin Ahammed.

The Shampadak Parishad (Editors’ Council) has formed its new executive committee with The Daily Star Editor and Publisher Mahfuz Anam as its president and Bangladesh Protidin Editor Naem Nizam as general secretary.