The government slashes the international incoming voice call rate by 65.71 per cent to $0.006 per minute.

Hello dear readers! How are you doing today? Here are the news headlines so far on February 15, 2020

A schoolgirl was murdered after she was allegedly raped by a suspected Rohingya youth in Ghumdhum area of Bandarban’s Naikhongchari upazila, says police.

​Members of Bangladesh Coast Guard recover the body of a woman in the Bay of Bengal, near Chera dip area in St Martin’s Island.

Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal today expresses hope that Myanmar will take back their nationals as discussion is still underway regarding the Rohingya repatriation.

Google is in discussions on deals to pay media organizations for content, a move aimed at blunting criticism that it unfairly profits from copyrighted news, according to people familiar with the talks.

Four children, aged between 10 and 12 years, are charred to death after a mini van of a private school carrying 12 students catches fire in Punjab’s Sangrur district.

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has approved a second portion loan of $170 million to conclude the Third Capital Market Development Program in Bangladesh.

The United States says it will send an aircraft to Japan to bring back US passengers on the quarantined cruise ship Diamond Princess, where the most coronavirus infections outside China have occurred.

At a time when debates and discussions are rife over the “Central Admission Test”, a system that the University Grants Commission (UGC) is set to introduce for admission to public universities across the country, The Daily Star has taken views of Prof Emeritus Serajul Islam Choudhury, UGC Chairman Kazi Shahidullah and Prof Tanzimuddin Khan of the Department of International Relations, Dhaka University on the matter.

Geographic proximity of the seven-nation BIMSTEC to the area stretching from Afghanistan to Myanmar and Thailand, which are major opium producing regions of the world, puts all countries, including Bangladesh, in a precarious position as far as the drug menace is concerned.

An elderly Chinese tourist hospitalised in France has died of the coronavirus, becoming the first fatality in Europe, French Health Minister Agnes Buzyn said today.

Police claim to have arrested a fugitive militant of banned Islamist outfit Jama’atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) from Debidwar upazila of Cumilla.

The 14-day quarantine for the 312 Wuhan-returnee Bangladeshis at Ashkona Hajj Camp ends.

Voter turnout in the 11th parliamentary polls might have been 30 percent and another 50 percent was shown “farcically”, noted economist and former caretaker government adviser Dr Akbar Ali Khan said today.

Hello dear readers! How are you doing today? Here are the news headlines so far on February 15, 2020

At least four people are killed and 10 others injured in separate road accidents on the Dhaka-Mymensingh highway in Sreepur upazila and Gazipur city.

US President Donald Trump, ahead of his visit to India, claims that Facebook has ranked him number one and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi number two, adding that it is a “great honour”.

Facebook Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg has said that global tax reforms mean it may have to pay more taxes in different countries, excerpts of a speech he is due to deliver in Germany on Saturday show.

Mymensingh Divisional Commissioner Khondoker Mustafizur Rahman is injured in a road accident in Gazipur.