Like previous years, Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) has issued special instructions for New Year celebrations, amid the Covid-19 pandemic.

The number of deaths in the Netherlands increased at the highest rate since World War Two this year due to the coronavirus pandemic, the Dutch national statistics office (CBS) said on Tuesday.

The High Court today cleared the way for students aged under 11 to apply for admission to class six in government high schools across the country.

Government is planning to hold next year's SSC exam in June.

Former Mayor of Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC) Sayeed Khokon and six others have been sued on charges of embezzlement of around Tk 35 crore.

A foreign ship conducted a test at Matarbari Deep Sea Port this morning to check its capacity.

A chicken trader died after a truck hit their van in Dhaka’s Gulshan area early this morning.

The High Court today refused to grant bail to JKG Healthcare Chairman Dr Sabrina Arif Chowdhury in a case filed over issuing fake Covid-19 certificates.

The novel coronavirus has had a devastating impact around the globe, but the World Health Organization warned Monday that worse pandemics could lie ahead, urging the world to get “serious” about preparedness.

Officials of Habiganj forest department rescued a fishing cat and a fishing eagle last night.

Britain must vaccinate two million people a week to avoid a third wave of the coronavirus outbreak, a study by the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) has concluded.

India found a total of six cases of the mutated coronavirus strain detected in the United Kingdom among the London returnees to the country.

President-elect Joe Biden said on Monday many of America’s security agencies had been “hollowed out” under President Donald Trump and the lack of information being provided to his transition team by the outgoing administration was an “irresponsibility.”

A white Ohio police officer was fired Monday after bodycam footage showed him fatally shooting 47-year-old Andre Hill — a Black man who was holding a cellphone — and failing to administer first aid for several minutes.

A total of 1,804 Rohingyas reached Bhasan Char in Hatiya upazila of Noakhali from Chattogram this morning.

Rashed Khan Menon, an important figure in Bangladesh’s political history who was at the frontlines during the mass upsurge in 1969 and the Liberation War in 1971 and currently the president of the Workers Party of Bangladesh, recently talked with The Daily Star about the present political situation in the country.

The Cabinet has approved in principle the draft of the Hajj and Umrah Management Bill 2020 that aims to deal with irregularities and mismanagement in the sector.

Bangladesh High Commissioner to the UK and the Commonwealth Saida Muna Tasneem has been unanimously elected as the vice-chair of the 26th Assembly of International Mobile Satellite Organisation (IMSO) for the biennial 2021-2022 at the weeklong assembly held recently in London.

India tonight announced lifting of the ban on onion exports with effect from January 1.

The Serum Institute of India, the world’s largest vaccine producer by volume, has already produced around 50 million dosages of the Oxford-AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine ''Covishield'' and plans to scale it up to 100 million by March next year, a top company official said today.