A father's brutal killing of his teenage daughter over her relationship with a man causes widespread anger in Iran, with President Hassan Rouhani urging lawmakers to work quickly on a bill to prevent violence against women.

US President Donald Trump is to sign an executive order on social media companies, White House officials say after Trump threatened to shut down websites he accused of stifling conservative voices.

Stormy weather thwarted a landmark moment for private rocket company SpaceX and NASA, forcing launch directors in Florida to postpone what would have been the first flight of US astronauts into orbit from American soil in nine years.

The family of an African American man killed by Minneapolis police while handcuffed in custody demanded Wednesday that the officers be charged with murder.

Five people died in a fire that broke out at the Corona Isolation Unit of United Hospital in Dhaka.

The ongoing Covid-19 pandemic is inflicting a shock to the employability of the vulnerable youth population in Bangladesh, according to a report of the International Labour Organization (ILO).

If the government decides to operate public transport on limited scale, then Bangladesh Railway will resume limited operations from May 31, Railways Minister Nurul Islam Sujan says.

National Bank Limited, a concern of Sikder Group of Companies, today sent an explanation to The Daily Star after the newspaper published on its online version a news report with the headline “Case filed over attempt to shoot Exim Bank top officials”.

India’s relations with two of its northern neighbours China and Nepal have of late come under considerable strain over territorial disputes.

Like other businesses, the sale of mobile phones has also been hit hard by the pandemic. Sales of mobile phones increase around the two Eids every year. But this time, due to the epidemic, a large portion of the target will not be sold, officials of various companies are expressing fears.

At least 15 people have died of probable ethanol poisoning in Rangpur and Dinajpur between Monday night and Wednesday afternoon.

The government has decided not to extend the ongoing shutdown following May 30. And in a renewed decision, the government has also decided to start public transport—road, rail and waterways—on a limited scale starting May 31.

Ministry of Health and Family Welfare has directed to treat Covid-19 patients in all government and private hospitals in the country.

Gonoshasthaya Kendra's founder and trustee Dr Zafrullah Chowdhury, who tested Covid-19 positive according to the organisation's newly developed Rapid Dot Blot test, has been receiving plasma therapy.

The Centre for Policy Dialogue (CPD) and Metropolitan Chambers and Commerce Industry (MCCI), Dhaka express their deep mourning over the passing of Niloufer Manzur, a renowned educationist and the founding principal of Sunbeams School.

With the coronavirus outbreak, people are now forced to live and survive in this new normal. And with the economic downturn of the pandemic, different sectors are trying their best to cope by introducing alternate strategies following the national lockdown.

Two people, undergoing treatment at the isolation ward of Manikganj District Hospital, dies.

Rescue workers have recovered two more bodies from Jamuna, a day after a boat capsized in the river in Chowhali upazila of Sirajganj.

Twenty-two people have died with coronavirus infections in the last 24 hours, the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) says.

Three people including a child die from electrocution in Siddhirganj of Narayanganj this morning.