A schoolgirl was saved from early marriage in Thakurgaon Sadar upazila of Friday night following timely intervention of local police.

At least 14 students of Chandipur Model Government Primary School in Kurigram’s Nageshwari upazila fell sick after having unhygienic food from a street vendor yesterday morning.

A silicosis-affected former stone-crushing labourer in Lalmonirhat’s Patgram upazila died on the way to Rangpur Medical College Hospital yesterday afternoon.

Unidentified criminals stabbed a Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal (JCD) leader to death at Shukbebpur village in Bochaganj upazila on Friday night.

With almost empty hand, Shariful Islam returned home from Dubai in 2011 and became very upset. At one stage, he tried his luck in pigeon farming following suggestion of a local pigeon lover and since then he did not need to look back.

A section of fishermen have continued catching fish with illegally set large trap nets in the rivers of the coastal area and the shore of the Bay of Bengal, posing threat to different species of marine as well as sweet water fish.

A schoolgirl was murdered after she was allegedly raped by a suspected Rohingya youth in Ghumdhum area of Bandarban’s Naikhongchari upazila, says police.

​Members of Bangladesh Coast Guard recover the body of a woman in the Bay of Bengal, near Chera dip area in St Martin’s Island.

At a time when debates and discussions are rife over the “Central Admission Test”, a system that the University Grants Commission (UGC) is set to introduce for admission to public universities across the country, The Daily Star has taken views of Prof Emeritus Serajul Islam Choudhury, UGC Chairman Kazi Shahidullah and Prof Tanzimuddin Khan of the Department of International Relations, Dhaka University on the matter.

Police claim to have arrested a fugitive militant of banned Islamist outfit Jama’atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) from Debidwar upazila of Cumilla.

The 14-day quarantine for the 312 Wuhan-returnee Bangladeshis at Ashkona Hajj Camp ends.

At least four people are killed and 10 others injured in separate road accidents on the Dhaka-Mymensingh highway in Sreepur upazila and Gazipur city.

A local leader of Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal (JCD), the student body of BNP, is hacked to death by miscreants in Bochaganj upazila of Dinajpur.

A wild elephant is critically injured after being shot by criminals at a remote area in Lama upazila of Bandarban.

A police constable is injured in a misfire while cleaning his firearm at Rangunia upazila of Chattogram.

A woman and her two children were murdered and left inside a house in Dhaka’s Dakshinkhan, which the killer had locked from outside, police believe.

Police recover the body of a physician from a private hospital’s director’s room at Matuail in Dhaka.

Police have arrested two locals over an attack on members of law enforcement at Solambaria Bus Stand under Moralganj upazila in Bagerhat.

Saudi Arabia has sent back another 102 Bangladeshi migrant workers amid a deportation spree.

Seven people are killed and 22 others injured in two separate road accidents in Gopalganj and Mymensingh districts.