Farida Yasmin of the Daily Ittefaq made history by getting elected as the first female president of the Jatiya Press Club (JPC) today.

Police have arrested a man in connection with the rape of a 13-year-old girl in Bogura's Shibganj upazila.

The Criminal Investigation Department (CID) has prepared a charge sheet against 29 people over the fire explosion at Baitus Salah Jame Masjid in Narayanganj which killed 24 people on September 4.

President M Abdul Hamid and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today greeted the people of Bangladesh on the eve of the New Year.

As Asia says goodbye to 2020 - a tumultuous year that saw the planet roiled by a deadly pandemic - celebrations will be smaller, shorter and more muted amid fears of coronavirus flare-ups.

The world risks a “moral catastrophe” if Covid-19 vaccinations are delayed in Africa while wealthier regions inoculate their entire populations, the head of the continent’s disease control body said.

A man in the central Indian state of Madhya Pradesh has bequeathed half of his 18-acre landed property to his dog and the remaining to his wife.

China has confirmed its first case of a new coronavirus variant that was recently detected in Britain, health officials said.

A Dhaka court today sent a 55-year-old man to jail on charge of raping an eight-year-old girl in Savar’s Aichanodda.

Transport owners and workers in Pabna have postponed their indefinite transport strike till Monday following request of the local administration, Habibur Rahman Habib, president of Pabna district unit of Transport Owners Association, confirmed to The Daily Star.

A Dhaka court today placed three people, including a bank official, on different terms of remand in connection with question leak of different university admissions and bank recruitment tests.

More than 10 million children in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, northeast Nigeria, the Central Sahel, South Sudan and Yemen will suffer from acute malnutrition in 2021, the United Nations Children’s Fund (Unicef) has said.

A parliamentary body today formed three separate sub-committees to investigate three different issues including finding out irregularities and corruption in realising toll from all bridges across the country including Dhaleswari River.

To honour the most loved brands of Bangladesh, the 12th edition of Best Brand Award Bangladesh was held yesterday. Bangladesh Brand Forum (BBF) powered by AIUB, in partnership with Nielsen Bangladesh and in association with The Daily Star, for the first time has put together the event virtually.

IPDC Finance Limited in collaboration with Bangladesh Supply Chain Management Society (BSCMS), have hosted Bangladesh Supply Chain Excellence Awards 2020 through a virtual event on December 29. This year, BSCEA 2020 recognised 15 organisations and individuals under eleven categories for their excellence in supply chain management, with 12 winners and 3 special mentions.

India’s Assam government is going to close down over 600 state-run madrasas and turning those into general schools from next year.

India today announced it would conduct a dry run of Covid-19 vaccine roll-out in all the states on January 2.

The High Court today directed the inspector general of police to give Tk 20 lakh as compensation to Md Arman, a technician at a Benarasi Palli in Mirpur, in 30 days as police personnel have wrongly arrested him and kept him in jail for around four years instead of the original accused in a drug case.

Twenty-eight people have died with Covid-19 infection in 24 hours (till 8am today) across the country.

Seven lakh out of the total 50 lakh OMS cards, distributed during the closure declared by the government due to Covid-19 pandemic, were found to be fake, Food Minister Sadhan Chandra Majumder admitted to a parliamentary body.