Saying that around 20,000 to 25,000 expatriate workers will face uncertainty over reaching their workplaces abroad, Bangladesh Association of International Recruiting Agencies, Association of Travel Agents of Bangladesh demand today demanded to keep international flight operations out of purview of weeklong lockdown.

Police have arrested eight Jamaat-e-Islam activists from a secret meeting in Meherpur today. Of them, seven were female.

For the second year in a row, Chhayanaut announced that it will organise virtual programmes with Bangladesh Television (BTV) marking Pahela Baishakh instead of staging its traditional gathering at the capital's Ramna Batamul to usher in the Bengali 1428 calendar year, due to the ongoing second wave of the Covid-19 pandemic.

At least 25 people were injured in a clash between two groups of ruling Awami League yesterday in Kushtia’s Sadar upazila over allegedly posting statuses on Facebook about Hefajat-e-Islam leader Mamunul Haque.

The government has appointed Deputy Inspector General (DIG) of Police Md Asaduzzaman as the chief of the Counter-Terrorism and Transnational Crime (CTTC) unit of Dhaka Metropolitan Police.

A honey collector was killed by a tiger in west Sundarbans of Khulna.

India’s Election Commission today banned West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee from campaigning in the state assembly election for 24 hours for violating the model code of conduct.

The Ministry of Religious Affairs today said a maximum of 20 people, including the khatib, imam, hafez, muezzin and khadim, can attend Tarabi prayers at a mosque during the holy month of Ramadan.

During the past year, photojournalists of The Daily Star have been visiting hospitals and graveyards to present the true heartbreaking picture of the Covid-19 reality to readers.

A man was arrested on charges of raping an eight-year-old in Sharsha upazila of Jashore district yesterday.

Railways Minister Nurul Islam Sujan today said it would take at least five to six months to fix everything, including Brahmanbaria Railway Station, damaged during the mayhem by Hefajat-e-Islam supporters and activists last month.

In total 409 pedestrians were killed on roads and highways in 398 accidents in January-March this year.

A Dhaka court today placed Hefajat-e-Islam organising secretary Azizul Haque Islamabadi on a seven-day remand in connection with the mayhem in the capital in May, 2013.

Four members of Hefajat-e-Islam were placed on remand in Narayanganj today, a day after their arrest in two cases filed over the mayhem centering the "confinement" of Hefajat's Joint General Secretary Mamunul Haque at a resort in Sonargaon upazila of the district.

India reported a record 168,912 Covid-19 infections overnight, overtaking Brazil to become the second-most affected country globally by the coronavirus.

Almost all the men in 70 villages of Faridpur’s Saltha have gone into hiding following cases filed in connection with violence on April 5 in the area.

Ecuadorean banker Guillermo Lasso pulled off a surprise win in presidential runoff against socialist economist Andres Arauz, putting the country on track to maintain open market policies rather than return to socialism.

Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) has handed over an Indian citizen who was critically injured after being shot by Indian Border Security Force (BSF) while trying to illegally enter Bangladesh through Kurigram’s Fulbari border.

China’s failure to provide access to global health experts made the Covid-19 pandemic worse than it had to be, US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken said, and it was important to “get to the bottom” of the origin of the novel coronavirus.

Most CEOs on a call to discuss a new push against US state voting restrictions said in a poll they will reassess donating to candidates who fail to support voting rights, while many will consider holding back investments in states that restrict voting access, according to people familiar with the matter.