The village people, mostly belonging to indigenous Garo community, have joined hands to save their homesteads from erosion by the Sumeswari river in Durgapur upazila of Netrakona.

A local influential man tortured a youth inhumanly, bringing allegation of stealing a goat against him at Jamtoil village in Sirajganj’s Kamarkhand upazila of Friday.

Police recovered the body of a man in Joypurhat’s Khetlal upazila on Friday, two days after he went missing on Wednesday.

Police in a drive early Friday detained three youths from different areas for their alleged involvement in connection with a case for killing a tea-stall owner for money in Morrelganj upazila on Wednesday.

A housewife was raped allegedly by her husband’s elder brother at Churamankathi village in Jashore Sadar upazila on Friday.

The ruling Awami League’s candidate Nuruzzaman Biswas has won in Pabna-4 (Ishwardi-Atghoria) by-election by a huge margin.

The International Farakka Committee (IFC), which campaigns for parity in water-sharing of transboundary rivers between India and Bangladesh, has welcomed the government’s move to implement a Chinese-funded project for the Teesta River, but asked that the original basin be included in it.

A joint team of the National Security Intelligence (NSI) and police have arrested a person who harassed people by introducing himself as an NSI official from Noakhali’s Shonaimuri upazila this evening.

Police have arrested four persons, including a local Jubo League leader, for their alleged involvement in the murder of a 16-year-old madrasa student in Ashulia of Savar.

Thirty-two Bangladeshi expatriate workers have not been allowed by the immigration authority to go to Saudi Arabia as they got tested for Covid-19 at private hospitals instead of the government approved test centre at Dhaka’s Mohakhali.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today asked the world community to treat the Covid-19 vaccine as a “global public good” and urged the United Nations to ensure its timely availability to all countries at the same time.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina is set to virtually address the 75th Session of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) in New York tonight.

Two people, including a 10-year-old boy, were killed and another injured by a lightning strike at Durlavpur village in Ranisankail of Thakurgaon this afternoon while they were fishing.

Police have said the arrestees in a case filed over the gang-rape of a Chakma woman in Khagrachhari on Thursday have primarily confessed to their involvement in the crime.

Prof Md Saleh Ahmed, principal of Murari Chand College (MC College) in Sylhet, has talked to The Daily Star over the incident of gang-rape of a woman at a hostel of the college last night that has drawn flak from people across the country.

The prime accused in a case filed in connection with Wednesday’s recovery of large stash of alcohol from a restaurant in Dhaka's Gulshan, is still on the run.

Members of Rapid Action Battalion arrested two people in connection with the rape of a women in the capital’s Monipurpara under Mirpur Police Station last night.

The by-election to Pabna-4 constituency was held today amid low turnout of voters and boycott by the BNP candidate.

A Dhaka court today placed Savar schoolgirl Nila Roy murder case’s prime accused Mizanur Rahman Chowdhury on a seven-day remand.

Police recovered a firearm and eight bullets early today after a group of people snatched those from a police team during a drive in Sreepur upazila of Gazipur.