Indian High Commissioner to Dhaka Riva Ganguly Das says rail communication between Akhaura of Bangladesh and India’s Agartala will start by next year.

A faculty member of the Department of Crop Science and Technology of Rajshahi University was allegedly physically assaulted by his colleague over some “hijacked confidential documents”.

The Government decides to appoint Rear Admiral Nazmul Hassan as the new High Commissioner of Bangladesh to the Republic of Maldives.

At least 34 passengers, all students of Chittagong University, are injured as a bus falls into a road-side ditch in Chattogram’s Fatikchhari upazila.

A six-year-old has been brutally murdered in Kashiani upazila of Gopalganj.

A nurse of a private clinic has been allegedly gang-raped by four youths in Daulatkhan upazila of Bhola.

A Dhaka court accepts a Tk 100 crore defamation case against Shajahan Khan, former shipping minister.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina told the parliament that joint measures were being taken with neighbouring countries to stop smuggling of drugs as part of the ongoing anti-narcotics campaign.

The Department of Environment fines Spectra Engineering Limited, a contracting firm, Tk 5 crore 23 lakh for cutting hills at Sitakunda’s Salimpur area.

A Kishoreganj court yesterday sentenced a man to life term imprisonment for killing his wife in Pakundia upazila in 2017.

Acute teacher shortage has been hampering academic activities at government primary schools in Gaibandha for a long time.

The Department of Environment (DoE) during their drives over the last couple of days in three upazilas of Moulvibazar demolished and fined six illegal brick kilns.

Illegal sand lifting from the major rivers in the district, especially the Padma and the Jamuna, has continued for years, although the district administration officially stopped leasing the sand fields in 2010 following an injunction by the curt.

On the occasion of its 29th anniversary, The Daily Star honours two change makers for their courage to dream big and their commitment to materialise it.

The Daily Star is today celebrating its 29th founding anniversary with the theme ‘Journalism Without Fear or Favour’.

Ilias Kanchan files a 100-crore defamation case against former shipping minister Shahjahan Khan.

Law enforcers arrest four people, including two women, with yaba tablets in Faridpur Sadar upazila.

The High Court acquits four people, who were sentenced to 10 years' imprisonment by a lower court in the case filed over death of four-year-old Jihad after he fell into a deep abandoned shaft in Dhaka's Shahjahanpur seven years back.

A schoolgirl is allegedly raped by a young man at Gourighona village in Jashore’s Keshabpur Upazila.

Uber announces the launch of its services in Cox's Bazar, making it the fourth city in Bangladesh after Dhaka, Chattogram and Sylhet.