Police have arrested Mufti Abdur Rahim Quasemi, the former joint general secretary of the Hefajat-e-Islam Brahmanbaria district and a member of the central committee, who earlier resigned from the organisation seeking justice of those involved in the violence on March 26 to 28 in the district.

Attorney General AM Amin Uddin today said the government will decide after considering the overall situation whether it will send BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia abroad for her treatment.

IPL got suspended for an indefinite period.

Police detained a man who assaulted a rickshaw puller in Dhaka’s Bangshal area this afternoon.

Police today arrested two more leaders of Hefajat-e-Islam in connection with the violence surrounding the organisation’s protest of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit in late March.

Expatriate Bangladeshis in Mauritius have been facing trouble in sending money to their near and dear ones at home as money transfer companies in the country have been closed again, just two days after a two-month lockdown ended.

Eight Asiatic lions at Nehru Zoological Park in the southern Indian city of Hyderabad have tested positive for SARS-CoV2 virus that is responsible for Covid-19 infections, India’s Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change said today.

Airfare to different Middle Eastern countries has increased manifold in the last few months, putting an additional burden on migrant workers returning to their workplaces. The Daily Star had published a story in this regard titled ‘‘Flights to Middle East: Sky-high airfare adds to migrant workers’ woes’’.

Norway's Telenor wrote off the value of its Myanmar operation in light of the country's deteriorating security and human rights situation, plunging the group into a first-quarter loss and sending its shares lower on Tuesday.

Europe's medicines regulator said on Tuesday it has started a real-time review of Sinovac's COVID-19 vaccine, based on preliminary results from animal and human trials that suggested the vaccine produces an immune response against the coronavirus.

People's willingness to take a vaccine for the coronavirus varied across the world in 2020, with the percentage of people saying they would take a vaccine ranging from a high of 96 percent in Myanmar to a low of 25 percent in Kazakhstan, while it is 83 percent in Bangladesh, says a global survey.

BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir called Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal this evening to inform him of the health status of the party’s chairperson Khaleda Zia.

Bangladesh's position in the World Press Freedom Index is declining every year. In 2021, Bangladesh ranked 152 out of 180 countries. Bangladesh ranks lower than India, Pakistan, and even Afghanistan, in the index.

Bangladeshi students studying in German universities but unable to go to the country since last year amid the pandemic appealed to the German embassy in Dhaka and the foreign ministry to facilitate the student visa process as some universities asked students to attend in-person classes from next semester.

The ongoing restriction on movement and public transport has been extended till May 16, considering the current Covid-19 pandemic situation.

A worker died after falling off an under-construction building in Khulna’s New Market area early today.

For the first time, media organisations in Bangladesh, India, Pakistan and Nepal are coming together to report about the killings, attacks, harassment, and intimidation of journalists in these South Asian countries. It is the first such collaboration by media outlets in the region.

A union parishad member in Chitalmari upazila of Bagerhat has been accused of raping a Class-6 student by family members of the victim.

The Mamata Bannerjee-led Trinamool Congress is on its way to form the state government for the third time. Hindu-Muslim vote sharing, Narendra Modi’s visit to Bangladesh, and Amit Shah’s controversial statements – with all these issues combined, how much does the West Bengal election result matter for Bangladesh?

In a major promotion in the police administration, seven superintendent of police (SP) ranked officials have been promoted to the rank of additional deputy inspector general and 63 additional superintendents of police have been promoted to SP.