The country’s second submarine cable has come out of the ground in Patuakhali due to tidal waves in the Bay of Bengal.

Investigators brought OC Pradeep, Inspector Liaqat and Sub-inspector Nandadulal Rakshit to the spot where Maj (retd) Sinha Rashed Khan was killed on July 31, to provide a blow-by-blow account of what happened. The media was invited to watch from the sidelines.

The cyber security and crime unit of Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) has started a drive to arrest the people who made "derogatory comments" on a photo of Shakib Al Hasan's daughter on Facebook.

Investigative journalist and former South Asia correspondent of the Far Eastern Economic Review Lawrence Lifschultz has said General Ziaur Rahman was a ‘psychopath’ in his capability to use violence, use others and then betray them.

Ashraf Ali (50), once a well-off farmer of Char Haatbaria village under Sariakandi upazila in Bogura, has lost everything to river erosion in just a matter of days.

Renowned singer Ferdous Wahid has been admitted to the Combined Military Hospital in Dhaka yesterday evening, his assistant Mosharraf told The Daily Star.

UN Refugee Agency has called for renewed support and lasting solutions for the displaced Rohingya communities both within and outside Myanmar.

Four members of a family were killed and two others injured after a bus rammed into a CNG-run auto-rickshaw in Tangail’s Sadar upazila today.

At least 22 shops were gutted in a devastating fire that broke out at a Burmese market in Bandarban town this afternoon.

Rayhan Kabir, a young Bangladeshi arrested in Malaysia, has finally been released and is leaving for Dhaka on a Malaysian Airlines flight at 11:00pm local time (Kuala Lumpur). He is scheduled to land in Dhaka at 1:00am.

China's Sinovac Biotech has committed to provide up to 40 million coronavirus vaccine doses to Indonesia's government between November and March, as the Southeast Asian nation seeks to secure its supply as cases rise unabated.

The Criminal Investigation Department (CID) today arrested Nishan Mahmud Shamim, president of Faridpur district unit Chhatra League in connection with a money laundering case.

Britain's economic recovery from the shock of the Covid-19 pandemic has gathered pace, but government borrowing rose past the 2 trillion pound ($2.6 trillion) mark and fears of future job losses are mounting.

The Supreme Court administration has suspended two officials for taking bribes.

A physically challenged man was killed at Rajanagar of Rangunia upazila of Chattogram today.

The Maldivian Ministry of Economic Development has extended the ban on bringing in new Bangladeshi labourers to Maldives for a period of one year.

Thirty-nine people have died from Covid-19 in the country during the last 24 hours, according to a press release issued by the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS).

A legal notice has been served on the authorities concerned asking them to give Tk 50 lakh as compensation to each of the families of the three teenage boys who were killed at Jashore Juvenile Correction Centre on August 13.

Five Covid-19 positive patients died in Bogura in the last 24 hours.

Three prime accused of Major (retd) Sinha murder case are taken to Shamlapur police check post on Marine Drive in Teaknaf, where the killing took place.