A Bangladeshi woman whose husband died dismantling an oil tanker in a local shipyard was given the green light this week to keep pursuing a claim for compensation from a UK company linked to the vessel in a test case for the shipbreaking industry.

Myanmar’s junta added new bribery allegations to its charges against deposed leader Aung San Suu Kyi, while an advocacy group said security forces killed 12 protesters in one of the deadliest days since the military took power.

Bangladesh and Australia have expressed interest in deepening and widening the economic cooperation between the two countries in a shift from aid to trade relations as the South Asian nation will graduate from the least developed country (LDC) category by 2024.

A fire that broke out at Kathalbagan slum in the capital’s Kalabagan area tonight was brought under control.

I thought I would give this article the title “Kishore is my brother”. But I changed it to “Mushtaq is my brother”.

Police have rescued a teenage girl today seven days after her abduction from Sharsha upazila of Jashore.

Prince William has denied that Britain’s royals were racist after Meghan, wife of his younger brother Harry, said one unnamed member of the family had asked how dark their son Archie’s skin might be.

A Dhaka-bound passenger bus caught fire on Dhaka-Chattogram highway in Gazaria upazila of Munshiganj, leaving five injured on board.

At least two people were killed and 15 others injured this evening as a bus caught fire on the Dhaka-Chattogram road at Daudkandi in Cumilla.

Health Minister Zahid Maleque has urged the people to be aware as Covid-19 infection rate is increasing again.

A tourist died after being trampled by an elephant in Rangamati’s Kaptai area.

India is likely to block its mobile carriers from using telecom equipment made by China’s Huawei, two government officials said, under procurement rules due to come into force in June.

United States, the richest and most powerful country has staggering levels of child poverty, which is one of its great moral stains; on Wednesday, it decided to scrub the stain with the final legislative approval of US President Joe Biden’s $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan, says a New York Times opinion piece written by columnist Nicholas Kristof.

A Khulna court sentenced two accused to death today for killing a teacher of Shahid Abul Kashem Degree College in 2017.

A ten-year-old girl was admitted to Khoksha Upazila Health Complex in Kushtia last night with wound marks all over her body. She returned from Dhaka after nine months, where she worked as a domestic help.

Six people have died from Covid-19 in 24 hours (till 8 am today), according to a press release issued by the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS).

UK doctors say it is normal and expected to feel a bit unwell after the first Covid-19 vaccine shot.

Injured West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, in a video message from hospital bed, said that she would return to the assembly election campaign trail in two to three days and also urged her supporters to maintain peace and restraint.

Air travelers will have to pay more due to the price hike of jet fuel, sources in the aviation industry told The Daily Star.

Seven people were killed when security forces opened fire on anti-junta protests in Myanmar on Thursday, witnesses and local media said, as rights group Amnesty International accused the military of adopting battle tactics against demonstrators.