The High Court today ordered authorities to conduct three separate inquiries into allegations that a 60-year-old union parishad chairman in Patuakhali married a 14-year-old girl at an arbitration.

At least six people were killed and 50 others were injured in an explosion in Dhaka's Moghbazar this evening.

Iran has drones with a range of 7,000 km (4,375 miles), Iranian state media cited the top commander of the Revolutionary Guards as saying on Sunday, a development which may be seen by Washington as a threat to regional stability.

Sal forest of Tangail has been a natural haven of rich biodiversity and lush green. In this flat Bengal delta, it has been one of the refuges for thousands of families. However, the forest is now being destroyed by land grabbers, pushing it towards extinction.

A five-year-old was strangled to death after rape in Chattogram’s Chandgaon area today. Police recovered the body from under the bed of the victim’s residence at noon.

Members of Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) today said they have detained nine members of an inter-district robbery gang and recovered eight homemade weapons and drugs from them in Ashulia of Savar.

The government has directed to suspend all types of public transport, except goods-laden vehicles and rickshaws, across the country from 8am tomorrow to 6am on Thursday.

Zead Al Malum, a senior prosecutor of the International Crimes Tribunal (ICT), died tonight. He was 67.

Indian Air Force Chief Marshal Rakesh Kumar Singh Bhadauria, PVSM, AVSM, VM, ADC, arrived in Dhaka yesterday for a three-day visit on invitation from the Chief of Air Staff of Bangladesh Air Force.

Britain's health minister Matt Hancock has resigned after he admitted breaking COVID-19 guidance by kissing and embracing an aide in his office, angering colleagues and the public during lockdown.

Iran said on Saturday it believes a reinstatement of its 2015 nuclear deal with major world powers is possible but warned that Tehran “will not negotiate forever”.

The authorities of Chittagong University today decided to postpone all exams indefinitely due to the deteriorating Covid-19 situation in the country.

The countrywide "complete lockdown" will be enforced from July 1 (Thursday), not from Monday (June 28), SK Rafiqul Islam, Additional Secretary of District and Field Admin Wing of the Cabinet Division, told The Daily Star this evening.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today called upon all to protect farmland for sustainable agriculture.

In the face of another, probably more severe, Covid-19 surge in Bangladesh, the government is imposing a countrywide “strict lockdown” from Monday, June 28.

A Filipino-American who loved to play the piano and her Chilean husband lived on the 10th floor of the building. One flight down were Cuban immigrant grandparents who had dreamed of retiring at the beach. And just a week ago, a young Paraguayan arrived to work as a nanny.

Jashore’s road communication with other districts was cut off this afternoon ahead of the countrywide complete lockdown from Monday to curb the surge of Covid-19.

The British destroyer Defender, which angered Russia by sailing through waters off Crimea, docked at the Georgian Black Sea port of Batumi on Saturday.

The Myanmar military regime has organised a new legal team led by its foreign minister, U Wunna Maung Lwin, to present the defense in the Rohingya genocide case at the International Court of Justice (ICJ).

The Dhaka University authorities have asked all concerned departments to hold final examinations of all academic years online as the Covid-19 situation in the country has deteriorated.