India’s former foreign, defence and finance minister Jaswant Singh, a close associate of ex-Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee, died in New Delhi today following a protracted bout of illness.

Two accused, including prime suspect Saifur Rahman, have been arrested in a case filed over the rape of a woman at the hostel of Murari Chand College in Sylhet on Friday night.

Twenty-two Europe-bound migrants, including eight Bangladeshis, were rescued from Libya's Mediterranean coast, after their dingy capsized in the sea.

Four members of a family died as a mud wall of their house collapsed on them while they were sleeping in Parbartipur upazila of Dinajpur last night.

The ruling Awami League’s candidate Nuruzzaman Biswas has won in Pabna-4 (Ishwardi-Atghoria) by-election by a huge margin.

The International Farakka Committee (IFC), which campaigns for parity in water-sharing of transboundary rivers between India and Bangladesh, has welcomed the government’s move to implement a Chinese-funded project for the Teesta River, but asked that the original basin be included in it.

A joint team of the National Security Intelligence (NSI) and police have arrested a person who harassed people by introducing himself as an NSI official from Noakhali’s Shonaimuri upazila this evening.

Police have arrested four persons, including a local Jubo League leader, for their alleged involvement in the murder of a 16-year-old madrasa student in Ashulia of Savar.

Thirty-two Bangladeshi expatriate workers have not been allowed by the immigration authority to go to Saudi Arabia as they got tested for Covid-19 at private hospitals instead of the government approved test centre at Dhaka’s Mohakhali.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today asked the world community to treat the Covid-19 vaccine as a “global public good” and urged the United Nations to ensure its timely availability to all countries at the same time.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi today made a strong case for India’s inclusion as a permanent member of United Nations Security Council (UNSC) and asked how long will his country be “kept out of the decision-making structures” of the global body.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina is set to virtually address the 75th Session of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) in New York tonight.

Two people, including a 10-year-old boy, were killed and another injured by a lightning strike at Durlavpur village in Ranisankail of Thakurgaon this afternoon while they were fishing.

Police have said the arrestees in a case filed over the gang-rape of a Chakma woman in Khagrachhari on Thursday have primarily confessed to their involvement in the crime.

Prof Md Saleh Ahmed, principal of Murari Chand College (MC College) in Sylhet, has talked to The Daily Star over the incident of gang-rape of a woman at a hostel of the college last night that has drawn flak from people across the country.

The prime accused in a case filed in connection with Wednesday’s recovery of large stash of alcohol from a restaurant in Dhaka's Gulshan, is still on the run.

Members of Rapid Action Battalion arrested two people in connection with the rape of a women in the capital’s Monipurpara under Mirpur Police Station last night.

Lebanon's premier-designate stepped down Saturday, saying he had been unable to form a reform-minded government to lift the country out of its worst economic crisis in decades.

The by-election to Pabna-4 constituency was held today amid low turnout of voters and boycott by the BNP candidate.

A Dhaka court today placed Savar schoolgirl Nila Roy murder case’s prime accused Mizanur Rahman Chowdhury on a seven-day remand.