Dhaka Water Supply and Sewerage Authority (Wasa) board members will discuss a proposal today for extension of Engr Taqsem A Khan’s tenure as the managing director for three more years.

A Narayanganj court today placed eight suspended officers and workers of Titas Gas Transmission and Distribution Company Limited on a two-day remand each in connection with the blast at a Narayanganj mosque on September 4, which claimed 33 lives so far.

Several trains operating between Dhaka and the western regions of the country got delayed for three to four hours, as rail operations remained suspended for around six hours after an oil-laden train derailed in Gazipur earlier today.

Indian Border Security Force (BSF) Director General (DG) Rakesh Asthana said they are working out a strategy to bring down the killings in India-Bangladesh border areas to zero.

A mob has beaten a truck driver to death in Rajshahi’s Puthia upazila after his truck ran over two goats.

A man has been stabbed to death allegedly by muggers in Dhaka’s Dhalpur area.

India and Japan are looking at working together in countries like Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Myanmar, Indian External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar has said.

Two persons, who suffered severe injuries in a blast at a mosque in Narayanganj, have died at Sheikh Hasina National Institute of Burn and Plastic Surgery in Dhaka, raising the death toll to 33.

Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, a stalwart liberal on the US Supreme Court since 1993, died on Friday at age 87, giving President Donald Trump a chance to expand its conservative majority with a third appointment at a time of deep divisions in America with a presidential election looming.

A panel of experts led by Prof Shamim Z Bosunia, chairman of the government's panel of experts on Padma Multipurpose Bridge Project (PMBP), has been assigned to solve the design-related problem of railways viaducts on both sides of the bridge.

Officials of India’s External Affairs and Commerce Ministries today held discussions for the second successive day on how to ensure that trucks carrying onions from India and stranded at the border with Bangladesh are allowed to cross into that country.

Police arrested the brother of a restaurant owner in connection with a case filed over torturing a 13-year-old employee in Kurigram’s Rajibpur upazila last night.

The Indian government is likely to grant its authorities a special permission to export 25,000 tonnes of onion to Bangladesh.

Condolences poured in from different socio-political parties and Islamic organisations immediately after the demise of Hefazat-e Islam’s chief Ahmad Shafi.

A lawyer for Julian Assange has told a London court that she was present when an ally of US President Donald Trump offered to arrange a pardon for the WikiLeaks founder in return for information that would “benefit President Trump politically”.

The global hunger crisis caused by conflict and compounded by Covid-19 pandemic is moving into a dangerous phase, the head of the UN World Food Programme (WFP) said.

Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) Mayor Md Atiqul Islam today urged traders to follow city corporation’s rules and regulations and said no illegal work will be allowed in the capital.

BNP today harshly criticised The Daily Star Editor Mahfuz Anam for his commentary on democracy and alleged that it was against the party.

The US Commerce Department said it will issue an order Friday that will bar people in the United States from downloading Chinese-owned messaging app WeChat and video-sharing app TikTok starting on September 20.

The government will pay an estimated Tk 2,256.7 billion as interest on loans in the next three fiscals including the current one.