Qatar expressed regret over the treatment of the female travellers after Australia said women on 10 flights underwent invasive physical searches following the discovery of an abandoned baby at the country’s international airport.

A senior Chinese official accused the United States on Wednesday of deflecting blame and breaking its word when it comes to fighting climate change, as the simmering diplomatic row between the world’s two biggest economies shifts to the environment.

Md Abu Zahir, the lawmaker from Habiganj-3 constituency and also president of Habiganj district Awami League, was airlifted to Dhaka Combined Military Hospital this morning, two days after he tested positive for coronavirus.

Earlier this year, a low-key biomedical firm briefly toppled Australia’s biggest bank and miner to become the country’s most expensive company and a household brand, thanks to its part in the race to produce a Covid-19 vaccine.

Saudi Arabia is set to announce major labour reforms that could effectively end its controversial “kafala” system for foreign workers, reports Arabian Business quoting a news outlet close to the government.

Indian High Commission in Bangladesh hopes to start issuing tourist visas for Bangladeshi visitors soon.

Joe Biden flayed Donald Trump on Tuesday with accusations the US President has surrendered to a surging pandemic, as the Democrat took his campaign to the Republican stronghold of Georgia one week before the US election.

US police officers shoot three times as many unarmed Black people as unarmed white people relative to their population size, according to a study published Wednesday on what researchers termed a "public health emergency".

Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) today filed a case against Syed Nasir Uddin Ahmed, manager of Titas Gas Transmission and Distribution Company Limited, for allegedly acquiring illegal assets.

The United Kingdom recorded a further 367 deaths within 28 days of a positive Covid-19 test today, the highest daily toll since May 27, government data showed.

Anzar Mustaeen Ali, a six-year-old from Bangladesh, has won a special prize of $1,000 for his beautiful artwork.

The government managed to restore 40 percent of RMG orders which had been cancelled by foreign buyers amid the coronavirus pandemic, Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen said today.

Agriculture Minister Dr M Abdur Razzaque today said the government will take steps to exploit the possibilities of mushroom cultivation soon as expanding cultivation will play a vital role in the economy.

Comrade Md Shah Alam has been discharging duties as the general secretary of the Communist Party of Bangladesh (CPB) since May 2017. He has been involved with politics since his student life and played a key role during the mass upsurge in 1969. The valiant freedom fighter was the commander of the joint guerrilla force of NAP-Communist Party-Chhatra Union during the liberation war in 1971. Recently, he talked with The Daily Star on the country’s politics and other contemporary issues.

The mayor of Bogura’s Dupchanchia municipality, Jahangir Alam, was suspended from his post today. The Ministry of Local Government, Rural Development and Co-operatives has issued a circular in this regard.

The Local Government Division (LGD) has suspended Erfan Salim from the post of ward-30 councillor of the Dhaka South City Corporation.

Train communication between Khulna and other parts of the country were restored after ten hours of suspension today following a collision between two freight trains at Safdarpur Rail Station in Kotchandpur upazila of Jhenaidah.

A Dhaka court today sent Mir Mohammad Helaluddin, son of former BNP state minister for civil aviation Mir Mohammad Nasiruddin, to jail after he surrendered in a corruption case in which he was sentenced to three years imprisonment.

Two separate cases were filed against Erfan Salim and his bodyguard Zahidul Islam with Chawkbazar Police Station today for carrying illegal firearms and possessing narcotics.

Police have arrested a 35-year-old Union Parishad member-- Sheikh Mizanur Rahman--in connection with the rape of a 22-year-old garment factory worker in Bagerhat.