President Donald Trump’s threat to shut down the southern border raised fears Monday of dire economic consequences in the US and an upheaval of daily life in a stretch of the country that relies on the international flow of not just goods and services but also students, families and workers.

Two Bangladeshi citizens are killed allegedly by Indian Border Security Force (BSF) on Masudpur frontier in Shibganj upazila in Chapainawabganj.

For the first time in South Asia, Sri Lanka's largest telecommunications service provider Dialog Axiata PLC has successfully demonstrated a fully standards based 5G mobile service, integrating 5G network infrastructure with a mobile 5G device.

Bangladesh should cease expulsion of Rohingya refugee students from schools, Human Rights Watch (HRW) has said in a statement issued.

A supporter of an independent candidate, who won in the upazila election in Nabinagar upazila of Brahmanbaria yesterday, has been stabbed to death.

A police official is withdrawn after a video went viral in social media showing him physically assaulting a rider of ride-hailing service Pathao in Dhaka’s Hatirjheel area.

The turnout of voters in the fourth phase of the Upazila Parishad election was 36.50 percent as voters apparently showed their little interest in casting votes.

A teenage boy is killed after being run over by a pickup van in Dhaka’s Khilgaon.

A man died and three others are injured in a fire at a plastic factory in Senbagh upazila of Noakhali.

One of the survivors of the tragic fire incident at FR Tower in Dhaka’s Banani, Ripon shares his story to The Daily Star as he came in front of the building today, three days after the incident in which 26 people lost their lives and scores of others sustained injuries. Watch the Star Live video to know more.

A total of 14,988 candidates are absent on the first day of the Higher Secondary Certificate (HSC) and its equivalent examinations while 27 students are expelled for resorting to unfair means.

Thirty firefighters died after they were sent to tackle a forest blaze in remote mountains in southwest China’s Sichuan province at the weekend, authorities say.

Walls draped in lush vertical gardens and air filtered through purifiers insulate diners at a swanky New Delhi food court from the choking haze outside in one of the most polluted places on earth.

A man allegedly kills his six-month-old infant daughter and injures his wife and other two daughters in Sadar upazila of Panchagarh.

Gonoforum's another MP-elect Mokabbir Khan (Sylhet-2) is going to be sworn in tomorrow, following the footstep of party MP Sultan Mohammad Mansur.

The British Council, in partnership with the WOW Foundation, UK is delighted to bring WOW - Women of the World festival for the first time ever to Dhaka on April 5 and 6 at the Bangla Academy premises.

The authorities of Jahangirnagar University (JU) suspends five students, all activists of JU unit Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL), for their alleged involvement in mugging and beating up a car driver on the campus.

The High Court questions the legality of the government officials’ extending greetings to ministers through publishing advertisements in the newspaper.

Turkey's Tayyip Erdogan suffers stunning setbacks in local elections as his ruling AK Party lost control of the capital Ankara for the first time since the party's founding in 2001, and was on course to lose the biggest prize of all, Istanbul.

Facebook Inc says it is removing 687 pages and accounts linked to India's main opposition Congress party, just days before voting begins in a general election, because of "coordinated inauthentic behaviour" on the social media platform.