Recently, he announced that he will be taking a remuneration of only one taka for the film. “Bangabandhu gifted us our country and our flag,” Arifin Shuvoo told The Daily Star. “What more can a child expect from a father? He has given us his everything. I don’t want a big remuneration for portraying him.”

Four people, including a pedestrian, were critically injured when a covered van fell off Muktarpur Bridge in Munshiganj.

The United States told Iran on Tuesday that it must let the UN atomic agency continue to monitor its activities, as laid out in an agreement that has been extended until June 24, or put wider talks on reviving the Iran nuclear deal at risk.

University of Dhaka and Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (Buet) have yet again failed to make any progress in the latest Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) world university ranking of 2022.

Dhaka moved one notch up in the Economist Intelligence Unit’s annual ranking of most liveable cities in 2021, which has largely been shaken up by the Covid-19 pandemic.

Top US infectious disease expert Dr Anthony Fauci has urged China to release information about six labourers who fell ill after working in a mine in Yunnan province in 2012, and are now seen as a key part of efforts to find the origins of Covid-19.

Prime Minister of Canada Justin Trudeau joined several thousand mourners in a vigil to remember three generations of a Canadian Muslim family killed in what police said was a premeditated hate crime, as a grieving community stood united in the midst of the crisis.

A twelve-year-old girl died at hospital after a boundary wall collapsed on her in Dhaka Mirpur area.

President Joe Biden's policy coordinator for the Indo-Pacific region said on Tuesday the situation inside military-ruled Myanmar was deeply concerning and continuing to get worse and the United States was looking at all possible scenarios there.

World Bank President David Malpass said on Tuesday the bank does not support waiving intellectual property rights for COVID-19 vaccines at the World Trade Organization out of concern that it would hamper innovation in the pharmaceuticals sector.

Ratko Mladic was dubbed the "Butcher of Bosnia" for terrorising the capital Sarajevo with a 43-month siege and presiding over the 1995 massacre of up to 8,000 Muslims in a U.N.-designated “safe area”, Europe's worst atrocity since World War Two.

The World Bank has projected that Bangladesh's GDP growth will be 5.1 percent in the next 2021-22 fiscal year.

Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko on Tuesday signed into law prison sentences for people taking part in protests or insulting state officials, part of an unprecedented crackdown by the veteran leader since a disputed election last year.

A mango orchard in Cumilla has seen the introduction of three new variety of mangoes in the country.

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Tuesday labeled the killing of four members of a Muslim family, who were run down by a man driving a pick-up truck, as a "terrorist attack," which he said was carried out with "Islamophobic" intensions.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today sang a line from the popular Bhawaiya song “O ki garial bhai” over the issue of the Chilmari river port during a meeting of Executive Committee of the National Economic Council (Ecnec).

The Chattogram district administration has relocated 200 families living in the risky hill slopes and they have been given shelter at 19 shelter centres in the city.

State Minister for Civil Aviation M Mahbub Ali today directed the concerned engineers and contractors to complete the runway expansion of Cox's Bazar Airport and the construction work of link-bridge over the Baagkhali River by next December.

Turkey has offered to guard and run Kabul's airport after the United States and other NATO forces withdraw from Afghanistan, but US officials say Ankara is imposing conditions which need to be resolved as their leaders prepare to meet next week.

The Daily Star's crime reporter Jamil Khan talks to one of the victims of the recently uncovered human trafficking racket. She managed to escape from captivity in India and returned to Bangladesh.