The High Court refuses to grant bail to suspended director of Anti-Corruption Commission Khandaker Enamul Basir in a case filed over transaction of Tk 40 lakh as bribe.

A new probe built by NASA and the European Space Agency set off on a blazing hot journey to the sun on Sunday (February 9) to take the first close-up look at the star's polar regions, a mission expected to yield insight into how solar radiant energy affects Earth.

Around two-thirds of the world population could be affected by the coronavirus if it cannot be contained, Hong Kong’s leading public health epidemiologist said today, according to a report by The Guardian.

Foreign Minister Dr AK Abdul Momen expresses deep condolences for the loss of lives due to the coronavirus outbreak in Wuhan city and other places in China.

Seven workers have died in a fire that erupted in a denim factory located on Narol-Pinara road of Ahmedabad.

Hello dear readers! How are you doing today? Here are the news headlines so far on February 11, 2020

The number of US service members diagnosed with traumatic brain injuries has shot up to more than 100, the Pentagon has said as more troops suffer the aftereffects of the Iranian ballistic missile attack early last month in Iraq.

Forty-four percent women of the ethnic minority communities in the Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT) have experienced violence at home at least once in their lifetime, a survey by Manusher Jonno Foundation (MJF) has revealed.

A suspected drug trader is killed in a “gunfight” between detectives and drug traders in Naogaon, after his arrest from Manda upazila.

US President Donald Trump will pay his first state visit to India on February 24-25, the Indian Prime Minister’s office announce, amidst indications that the two countries are working on sealing a ticklish trade deal.

India's ruling party is projected to lose a key state election, the vote count showed, in its first electoral test since deadly anti-government protests erupted nearly two months ago.

A suicide attack rocks the Afghan capital Kabul early today killing at least five people, officials says, in what is the first major assault in the city in months.

Today is the 19th death anniversary of Tawfiq Aziz Khan, former executive editor of The Daily Star, sports writer and commentator.

At least 15 people have died as a trawler sank in the Bay of Bengal near St Martin's Island while trying to go to Malaysia illegally.

The death toll from the coronavirus outbreak in mainland China passes 1,000 people, health authorities announces.

A mobile court sentences one youth to one month’s jail term and fines another Tk 5,000 for harassing a woman passenger on a bus on her way to Natore from Rajshahi.

After Bangladesh Under-19s' seminal World Cup triumph on Sunday, the cricketing world both at home and abroad, legends past and present, showered Akbar Ali's teen titans with praise.

Health Minister Zahid Maleque says around 90,245 people were screened at airports, river, sea and land ports of the country as of February 10 in the wake of coronavirus outbreak in China.

Workers Party of Bangladesh President Rashed Khan Menon says in Parliament they will have to listen only to praises of the government if lawmakers do not have the freedom to discuss any important issues.

Wall Street is set to open largely unchanged after strong gains in the previous week as investors keep an eye on the economic impact from the coronavirus outbreak and company updates, with people starting to return to work in China.