A woman who ran away from London as a teenager to join the Islamic State group lost her bid Friday to return to the UK to fight for the restoration of her citizenship, which was revoked on national security grounds.

Eleven people have died from Covid-19 in 24 hours (till 8:00am today), according to a press release issued by the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS).

US-based rights body Committee to Protect Journalists has called on the Bangladeshi authorities to conduct a swift, transparent, and independent investigation into the death of writer and commentator Mushtaq Ahmed in custody.

The High Court has issued a status quo for three months on encroachment, land grabbing, earth filling and operating brick kilns on Bhadra and Hori rivers in Khulna’s Dumuria upazila.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will address a virtual press conference tomorrow afternoon marking the United Nations' final recommendation for the graduation of Bangladesh from the group of the least developed countries (LDCs).

India’s coast guard found 81 survivors and eight dead on a boat crammed with Muslim Rohingya refugees adrift in the Andaman Sea, and were repairing the vessel so that it can return safely to Bangladesh, Indian officials said on Friday.

Autopsy of writer Mushtaq Ahmed, who died in police custody last night, has been completed at Gazipur Shaheed Tajuddin Ahmed Medical College Hospital morgue.

Protesting the death of writer Mushtaq Ahmed in police custody who was arrested under the Digital Security Act, teachers and students of Rajshahi University (RU) demanded justice over the death.

Myanmar police detained a Japanese freelance journalist at a protest in the commercial capital of Yangon, one of his colleagues said on Friday, the first detention of a foreign reporter since a military coup on February 1.

An inquiry committee will be formed to look into the death of Mushtaq Ahmed in police custody if thought necessary, the home minister said today.

Two separate protests took place on the Dhaka University campus today demanding justice for writer Mushtaq Ahmed’s death in police custody.

The Indian Newspaper Society (INS), an association of the country’s biggest newspapers, has urged global search engine Google to hike the publisher’s share of its advertisement revenue to 85 percent for carrying their content online, joining an intensifying international face-off with the media houses.

Foreign Minister Dr AK Abdul Momen has requested the UN to provide humanitarian assistance for the Rohingyas in Bhasan Char, where a housing facility has been developed for one lakh Rohingyas.

Khulna Bus Owners’ Association has called a 24-hour strike starting from this evening ahead of BNP’s divisional rally.

Four people were killed today when a bus heading to Bogura from Dhaka hit a CNG-run autorickshaw from behind the Majhira check-post area in ​​Shajahanpur upazila.

Brad Adams, Asia Director of Human Rights Watch, today released a statement regarding the devastating death of Mushtaq Ahmed where he said the writer should not have been detained in the first place.

The Indonesian Safeguards Committee (KPPI) recommended that the Indonesian government take safeguard measures against Bangladeshi apparel import to save the Indonesian domestic industry, according to a senior official of commerce ministry of Bangladesh.

Writer Mushtaq Ahmed died tonight at Shaheed Tajuddin Ahmad Medical College Hospital, Brigadier General Md Mominur Rahman Mamun, inspector general of prisons, told The Daily Star.

Bangladesh has begun administering coronavirus vaccines to sex workers from the country's largest brothel, a vast warren of shacks home to around 1,900 prostitutes.

The High Court has directed the authorities concerned of the government to shut down all illegal brick kilns still in operation in Chattogram within 14 working days to curb pollution.