Israeli forces have launched air strikes and deployed troops on the ground on the Gaza Strip, according to a brief message from the Israeli army, while the Gaza Strip’s feeble health system has been struggling to provide treatment to the injured in the Israeli attack amid a runaway surge of coronavirus cases.

Twenty-six people have died from Covid-19 during 24 hours (till 8am today), according to a press release issued by the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS).

Myanmar’s National Unity Government (NUG) has said it is going to consult the Rohingya leaders across the world and engage them in its next courses of action as it seeks to regain power from the military junta that took control of the country through a coup in February this year.

An earthquake of magnitude 6.6 struck off the northwest coast of Indonesia’s Sumatra island, the GFZ German Research Center for Geosciences (GFZ) has said.

A local Awami League leader in Lama upazila of Bandarban has allegedly raped a young woman from the Mro community.

A court in Chattogram today placed Saidul Islam Shaku, accused of Mahmuda Khanam Mitu murder case filed with Panchlaish police station, on four-day remand.

On the occasion of Eid, Star Connects brings one of the most popular actors working in Bangladeshi film industry at present, Siam Ahmed.

Palestinians usually get mainstream Western media coverage when they are either protesting or physically confronting Israeli aggression, with their outcry broadly coloured as “escalation of violence”. Historically, however, there seemed to be no escalation of violence when Israel increases night raids on Palestinian homes or Israeli settlers attack Palestinian farmers. Most reporting refers to the apartheid wall as a “separation wall”; correspondents reporting from Jerusalem never explain or unpack the historical context behind the Palestinian struggle, neither do they accurately claim Jerusalem as “occupied Jerusalem”. Time and again, mainstream media in the West have misrepresented Palestine. Sheikh Jarrah is only a speck of dust in the desert of Palestinian woes.

The government is likely to extend the ongoing restriction on movement and public transport for another week, considering the current Covid-19 pandemic situation.

Thirty-one people have died from Covid-19 during 24 hours (till 8am today), according to a press release issued by the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS).

Rapid Action Battalion has arrested FIR accused Saidul Islam Alias Shaku, 45, in connection with the much talked about Mitu murder case.

Antibody developed in 92 percent people a month after taking the first dose of Oxford-AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine, while it developed in 97 percent people two months after receiving the vaccine, said IEDCR.

The US has taken note of the statement of Chinese Ambassador to Bangladesh Li Jiming that Dhaka's relations with Beijing will "substantially get damaged" if it joins Quad, a US-led initiative meant to ensure free and open Indo-Pacific.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will address the nation tomorrow on the occasion of Eid-ul-Fitr which will be celebrated on Friday across the nation.

Minu Akhter, who has been serving in prison for three years instead of the convicted Kulsuma Akhter in a case filed over the killing of one Kohinur Begum in Chattogram in 2006, awaits a High Court ruling on her unjust circumstances.

Going against all national and international predictions, Bangladesh has seen unprecedented inflow of remittance throughout this ongoing pandemic -- surpassing the $20-billion mark in the first 10 months of this fiscal year.

Nearly 2709 returnees from India who entered through Benapole check post will celebrate Eid-ul-Fitr at residential hotels in quarantine this time. They returned to the country between April 26 and May 11.

Eid-ul-Fitr, the largest religious festival of Muslims, will be celebrated in the country Friday as the Shawwal moon was not sighted in Bangladesh this evening, state minister for religious affairs Faridul Haque Khan said.

There will be five jamaats at the Baitul Mukarram National Mosque on the day of Eid-ul-Fitr.

A 13-storey residential tower in the Gaza Strip was hit by an Israeli air strike yesterday night and soon after collapsed, witnesses said, amid a surge in fighting between Israel and Gaza militants.