India today began a nationwide dry run to check the preparedness for vaccinating people against Covid-19 and plug possible gaps in logistics, as the country with the second highest number of infections waits for the final approval of the jabs for an estimated 30 crore people to start with.

As we wrap up 2020, The Daily Star -- in association with Prerona Foundation -- would like to pay a visual tribute to the luminaries we lost this year.

The driver, prime accused in a case filed over attempted rape of a college student in a moving bus in Sunamganj, was arrested this morning.

A teenage boy was killed and two others sustained stab injuries when a rival group attacked them in Dhaka’s Mohakhali area last night.

Ayesha Khanam, president of Bangladesh Mahila Parishad, passed away this morning.

Iran has told the United Nations nuclear watchdog it plans to enrich uranium to up to 20% purity, a level it achieved before its 2015 accord, at its Fordow site buried inside a mountain, the agency said.

India’s markets watchdog fined Reliance Industries 250 million rupees ($3.42 million) and its chairman Mukesh Ambani 150 million rupees for what it said were fraudulent trades while selling a stake in a subsidiary in 2007.

The British government decided to close all primary schools in London for the next two weeks to counter the rapid spread of a more infectious variant of the Covid-19 virus, the capital’s mayor has said.

US President Donald Trump’s fellow Republicans in the US Senate have begun taking steps to override his veto of a major defense bill in a rare New Year’s Day session and hand him his first major rebuke 20 days before he leaves office.

British health officials have reactivated emergency hospitals that were built at the start of the pandemic to handle a surge in Covid-19 cases that is putting existing wards under extreme pressure, particularly in London.

Police detained a man for his alleged involvement in the partial damaging of a mural of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman in Thakurgaon’s Pirganj upazila this afternoon.

India’s drug regulator approved a coronavirus vaccine developed by AstraZeneca and Oxford University for emergency use, two sources with knowledge of the matter told Reuters.

At least 25 people were killed in an attack on New Year’s Eve by rebels in Congo’s eastern Beni territory, local officials said Friday.

At least 25 people were killed in an attack on New Year’s Eve by rebels in Congo’s eastern Beni territory, local officials said Friday.

The members Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) seized drugs, arms and ammunition, gold and foreign currency worth Tk 120 crore in the last one year from smugglers at different areas along the Benapole border.

The United Kingdom began the New Year outside the European Union’s orbit after ending a tempestuous 48-year liaison with the European project, its most significant geopolitical shift since the loss of empire.

The United Kingdom began the New Year outside the European Union’s orbit after ending a tempestuous 48-year liaison with the European project, its most significant geopolitical shift since the loss of empire.

Four staffers of a restaurant in Narayanganj’s Araihajar upazila sustained burn injuries in an explosion resulting from gas trapped inside the eatery.

Four people were killed and one person was injured in a collision between a bus and a private car on Dhaka-Sylhet Highway in Narsingdi’s Belabo upazila this afternoon.

Members of Rapid Action Battalion have arrested two members of the banned militant group Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) from Brahmanbaria’s Sarail upazila.