The James Webb Space Telescope’s first images aren’t just breathtaking -- they contain a wealth of scientific insights and clues that researchers are eager to pursue.

A Rajshahi MP has allegedly assaulted a college principal at his office last week.

Britain’s ruling Conservative party Wednesday began winnowing down the eight candidates vying to succeed Prime Minister Boris Johnson, who hinted the race could last days rather than weeks.

Former finance minister Rishi Sunak won the biggest backing from Conservative lawmakers yesterday in the first vote to choose who will succeed Boris Johnson as party leader and British prime minister, while two more rivals were eliminated.

Twitter has sued Elon Musk for breaching the $44 billion contract he signed to buy the tech firm, calling his exit strategy “a model of hypocrisy,” court documents showed.

The government has decided to appoint Bangladesh High Commissioner to India Muhammad Imran as the country’s next envoy to the US, said a foreign ministry statement yesterday.

Bangladesh logged five more Covid-linked deaths and 1,027 new cases in 24 hours till yesterday morning amid a rise in infections.

The country’s national flag carrier, Biman Bangladesh Airlines, got a new managing director and CEO yesterday. 

A Bangladeshi student passed away on Tuesday, two days after she was injured in a road accident in Kolkata.

Shanghai roasted under some of its hottest temperatures ever recorded yesterday as a searing heatwave in China triggered a flurry of weather alerts and strained the farming and energy sectors.

A Tokyo court yesterday ordered former executives from the operator of the devastated Fukushima nuclear plant to pay 13.32 trillion yen ($97 billion) for failing to prevent the disaster, plaintiffs said.

Victims of Lebanon’s deadly 2020 port blast have filed a quarter-billion-dollar lawsuit against a US firm for its suspected links to the tragedy, a Swiss foundation assisting the plaintiffs said yesterday.

Russian, Ukrainian and Turkish military delegations met with UN officials in Istanbul yesterday for talks on resuming exports of Ukrainian grain from the major Black Sea port of Odesa as a global food crisis worsens.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday called for ensuring integrated environment of education to help nurture merit and flourish creativity of children with autism and neuro-developmental disorders (NDD).

The Met office predicts rain at different places in the country.

A Dhaka court yesterday asked the investigator to submit by August 1 the probe report in a case filed against Bashundhara Group MD Sayem Sobhan Anvir after the officer failed to submit the report for the 15th time.

A 55-year-old man was killed and at least 30 others were injured in a clash between the supporters of two local leaders of the Awami League.

A local Chhatra League leader was tied to a tree and tortured by a group of men over his relationship with a woman in Hatia Sunday evening.

Pranay Kumar Verma, currently the Indian envoy to Vietnam, will be the next Indian high commissioner in Dhaka, a diplomatic source has confirmed The Daily Star.

Three rape accused in Khagrachhari have still not been arrested, even though a case was filed in this regard around 11 days ago.