US-Bangla Airlines has started scheduled flights on Dhaka-Chennai-Dhaka, Chattogram-Chennai-Chattogram and Dhaka-Kolkata-Dhaka routes from today under the ‘Air Bubble Agreement’ between Bangladesh and India.

Newly-appointed Sylhet Metropolitan Police (SMP) Commissioner Nisharul Arif has said that everyone involved in the killing of Raihan Ahmed would be brought to justice.

A senior Chinese official accused the United States on Wednesday of deflecting blame and breaking its word when it comes to fighting climate change, as the simmering diplomatic row between the world’s two biggest economies shifts to the environment.

Md Abu Zahir, the lawmaker from Habiganj-3 constituency and also president of Habiganj district Awami League, was airlifted to Dhaka Combined Military Hospital this morning, two days after he tested positive for coronavirus.

Earlier this year, a low-key biomedical firm briefly toppled Australia’s biggest bank and miner to become the country’s most expensive company and a household brand, thanks to its part in the race to produce a Covid-19 vaccine.

Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) today filed a case against Syed Nasir Uddin Ahmed, manager of Titas Gas Transmission and Distribution Company Limited, for allegedly acquiring illegal assets.

Members of Forest and Nature Conservation Department in a drive detained four people, including three minor boys, and seized at least 32 dead birds from them in Habiganj’s Chunarughat upazila on Monday evening.

The flood protection embankment of the Bishkhali river, which flows through the southern part of Patharghata town in Barguna, is gaining popularity among tourists.

At least 200 poverty-stricken families, many of whom were fishers by profession, in Sharsha upazila of Jashore have resorted to catching snails for survival in the past few months.

The United Kingdom recorded a further 367 deaths within 28 days of a positive Covid-19 test today, the highest daily toll since May 27, government data showed.

Anzar Mustaeen Ali, a six-year-old from Bangladesh, has won a special prize of $1,000 for his beautiful artwork.

Comrade Md Shah Alam has been discharging duties as the general secretary of the Communist Party of Bangladesh (CPB) since May 2017. He has been involved with politics since his student life and played a key role during the mass upsurge in 1969. The valiant freedom fighter was the commander of the joint guerrilla force of NAP-Communist Party-Chhatra Union during the liberation war in 1971. Recently, he talked with The Daily Star on the country’s politics and other contemporary issues.

The mayor of Bogura’s Dupchanchia municipality, Jahangir Alam, was suspended from his post today. The Ministry of Local Government, Rural Development and Co-operatives has issued a circular in this regard.

Train communication between Khulna and other parts of the country were restored after ten hours of suspension today following a collision between two freight trains at Safdarpur Rail Station in Kotchandpur upazila of Jhenaidah.

A Dhaka court today sent Mir Mohammad Helaluddin, son of former BNP state minister for civil aviation Mir Mohammad Nasiruddin, to jail after he surrendered in a corruption case in which he was sentenced to three years imprisonment.

Police have arrested a 35-year-old Union Parishad member-- Sheikh Mizanur Rahman--in connection with the rape of a 22-year-old garment factory worker in Bagerhat.

Seven people were burnt in a fire caused by an explosion at a scrap material shop in Dhaka’s Mohammadpur area this afternoon.

Department of Environment (DoE) of Chattogram region fined 20 businesses including a shipyard, 11 brick kilns and two hospitals a total of Tk 11,65,000 for violating their conditions and polluting environment.

The trial of a corruption case against suspended Deputy Inspector General (DIG) of Police Mizanur Rahman and three others began at a Dhaka court today with deposition of the complainant.

A Dhaka court today framed charges against Jamaat-e-Islami Amir Dr Shafikur Rahman and 185 others in a sabotage case filed with Motijheel Police Station in 2012.