Expatriate Welfare and Overseas Employment Minister Imran Ahmed says the labour market in Malaysia is going to open as the recruitment of Bangladeshi workers will start from August.

Terming the allegation made by Priya Saha to US President Donald Trump about Bangladesh as ‘false and fabricated,’ Kazi Reazul Hoque, former chairman of the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC), says she should be tried for spreading such falsehood.

Forensic experts extract bones from two ossuaries within the walls of the Vatican as part of an investigation aimed at resolving the case of a girl who vanished in 1983.

An unknown assailant stabs Hong Kong actor Simon Yam during a promotional event in mainland China but Yam's injuries were not life-threatening, Chinese state media reported.

Many victims of an arson attack on a Japanese animation studio were young with bright futures, some joining only in April, the shaken company president says, as the death toll climbed to 34.

Selima Ahmed, the lawmaker from Cumilla-2, has sent a rejoinder to The Daily Star report headlined “Councilor, 9 held for attacking Cumilla MP’s car” published on July 18, 2019. We have checked and found that this was an error and was not intentional at all. We have already corrected our report.

A nine-year-old physically challenged girl has been raped by a youth of the same village in Araihazar upazila of Narayanganj.

The Indian Army successfully wraps up 12-day summer user trials of third generation anti-tank guided missile NAG in a desert in Rajasthan state, paving the way for production and induction of the weapon.

The death toll from a huge explosion that rocked a gas plant in central China rose to 10, state media says, with five people still missing.

Hello dear readers! How are you doing today? Here are the news headlines so far on July 20, 2019

Himalayan Airlines, one of the private carriers of Nepal is going to commence Kathmandu-Dhaka-Kathmandu direct flight.

The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) has been dealing with corruption allegations against about a dozen of the ruling party men, the commission’s Chairman Iqbal Mahmood says.

Terming the allegation made by Priya Saha to US President Donald Trump about Bangladesh 'absolutely false', Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader has said she will be sued on sedition charges.

The detained British-flagged tanker Stena Impero was in an accident with an Iranian fishing boat and ignored its distress call, Iran's Fars news agency reports, quoting an official.

The government has termed as "blatant lies" the complaints made by Bangladeshi national Priya Saha to US President Donald Trump claiming that minority communities in the country are exposed to persecution.

Angry mobs beat two unidentified people to death suspecting them as child kidnappers in separate incidents at Dhaka and Narayanganj.

Flood situation has worsened in Manikganj while in Kurigram flood water has been flowing above the danger level.

Cattle rearing in flood-affected areas of Lalmonirhat has been severely affected due to lack of green fodder owing to rising floodwaters in Teesta and Dharla rivers for the last one week.

Congress General Secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra meets the family members of the victims of a violent clash over a land dispute in an Uttar Pradesh village and empathises with them.

The man suspected of setting ablaze a beloved Japanese animation studio, killing 34 people, was raging about theft and witnesses and media reports he had a grudge against the company, as questions arise why such mass killings keep happening in the country.