The Chinese province at the epicenter of the coronavirus outbreak reports a record rise in the death toll under a new method for diagnosing cases, as health experts warned the epidemic could get worse before it gets better.

The Department of Environment fines Spectra Engineering Limited, a contracting firm, Tk 5 crore 23 lakh for cutting hills at Sitakunda’s Salimpur area.

On the occasion of its 29th anniversary, The Daily Star honours two change makers for their courage to dream big and their commitment to materialise it.

The Daily Star is today celebrating its 29th founding anniversary with the theme ‘Journalism Without Fear or Favour’.

Mohammad Soinuddin Miah, a farmer of remote village in Tangail, put in superhuman labour for four years to construct a 1.5-kilometre long earthen road with the intention of ending the sufferings of his fellow villagers.

For close to a decade, Abdur Rashid, a marginal farmer from a remote village in Lalmonirhat, has been running the school, “Kaliganj Pratibandhi Bidyalay”, with support from locals and specialised teachers who volunteer.

Ilias Kanchan files a 100-crore defamation case against former shipping minister Shahjahan Khan.

Law enforcers arrest four people, including two women, with yaba tablets in Faridpur Sadar upazila.

The High Court acquits four people, who were sentenced to 10 years' imprisonment by a lower court in the case filed over death of four-year-old Jihad after he fell into a deep abandoned shaft in Dhaka's Shahjahanpur seven years back.

A schoolgirl is allegedly raped by a young man at Gourighona village in Jashore’s Keshabpur Upazila.

Hafiz Saeed, accused by India and the United States of masterminding the 2008 attacks in Mumbai, is jailed for 11 years in Pakistan on terrorism financing charges.

Seventeen Chinese sailors, who were stuck in a ship docked at Sitakunda coast for five days, are set to return to their country tonight on a flight departing from Shah Amanat International Airport in the capital, reports our Chattogram correspondent.

The tragedy that unfolded on Tuesday is as disturbing as it was preventable. The local authorities, as well as UN agencies and other international organisations, are perfectly aware of a transnational human trafficking network that preys on vulnerable refugees and often traps them into a life of bonded labour and slavery. Despite this, very little has been done to dismantle this network.

Hello dear readers! How are you doing today? Here are the news headlines so far on February 12, 2020

Uber announces the launch of its services in Cox's Bazar, making it the fourth city in Bangladesh after Dhaka, Chattogram and Sylhet.

Singapore is doing what is needed to try to contain the coronavirus outbreak, which included immediately closing off all entrance points to the country to anyone with fever.

A suspected member of fake question paper-leaking ring is arrested in Patuakhali.

Hamida Begum became the first sex worker from a brothel in Daulatdia to receive a formal Islamic funeral, breaking a longstanding taboo in Muslim majority Bangladesh where prostitution is legal but regarded by many as immoral.

Students have demonstrated at Rajshahi University demanding exemplary punishment for those accused in a rape case filed by one of their fellows.

China reports its lowest number of new coronavirus cases since late January, lending weight to a prediction by its senior medical adviser that the outbreak could end by April.