US-Bangla Airlines has started scheduled flights on Dhaka-Chennai-Dhaka, Chattogram-Chennai-Chattogram and Dhaka-Kolkata-Dhaka routes from today under the ‘Air Bubble Agreement’ between Bangladesh and India.

Newly-appointed Sylhet Metropolitan Police (SMP) Commissioner Nisharul Arif has said that everyone involved in the killing of Raihan Ahmed would be brought to justice.

Md Abu Zahir, the lawmaker from Habiganj-3 constituency and also president of Habiganj district Awami League, was airlifted to Dhaka Combined Military Hospital this morning, two days after he tested positive for coronavirus.

Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) today filed a case against Syed Nasir Uddin Ahmed, manager of Titas Gas Transmission and Distribution Company Limited, for allegedly acquiring illegal assets.

Members of Forest and Nature Conservation Department in a drive detained four people, including three minor boys, and seized at least 32 dead birds from them in Habiganj’s Chunarughat upazila on Monday evening.

The flood protection embankment of the Bishkhali river, which flows through the southern part of Patharghata town in Barguna, is gaining popularity among tourists.

At least 200 poverty-stricken families, many of whom were fishers by profession, in Sharsha upazila of Jashore have resorted to catching snails for survival in the past few months.

Anzar Mustaeen Ali, a six-year-old from Bangladesh, has won a special prize of $1,000 for his beautiful artwork.

Comrade Md Shah Alam has been discharging duties as the general secretary of the Communist Party of Bangladesh (CPB) since May 2017. He has been involved with politics since his student life and played a key role during the mass upsurge in 1969. The valiant freedom fighter was the commander of the joint guerrilla force of NAP-Communist Party-Chhatra Union during the liberation war in 1971. Recently, he talked with The Daily Star on the country’s politics and other contemporary issues.

The mayor of Bogura’s Dupchanchia municipality, Jahangir Alam, was suspended from his post today. The Ministry of Local Government, Rural Development and Co-operatives has issued a circular in this regard.

Train communication between Khulna and other parts of the country were restored after ten hours of suspension today following a collision between two freight trains at Safdarpur Rail Station in Kotchandpur upazila of Jhenaidah.

A Dhaka court today sent Mir Mohammad Helaluddin, son of former BNP state minister for civil aviation Mir Mohammad Nasiruddin, to jail after he surrendered in a corruption case in which he was sentenced to three years imprisonment.

Police have arrested a 35-year-old Union Parishad member-- Sheikh Mizanur Rahman--in connection with the rape of a 22-year-old garment factory worker in Bagerhat.

Seven people were burnt in a fire caused by an explosion at a scrap material shop in Dhaka’s Mohammadpur area this afternoon.

The trial of a corruption case against suspended Deputy Inspector General (DIG) of Police Mizanur Rahman and three others began at a Dhaka court today with deposition of the complainant.

A Dhaka court today framed charges against Jamaat-e-Islami Amir Dr Shafikur Rahman and 185 others in a sabotage case filed with Motijheel Police Station in 2012.

The Criminal Investigation Department (CID) of police today arrested three men from the capital's Pallabi area on charge of embezzling over Tk 6 crore from 1,427 people by scamming them using a multi-level marketing scheme.

The UN has expressed concerns over the human rights situation, including violations of right to political participation of minority groups – Rohingyas and ethnic Rakhines -- ahead of the general elections in Myanmar on November 8.

A case was filed today in connection with the rape of a college student in Barishal’s Agailjhara upazila on October 24.

The Australian High Commission in Dhaka today announced the release of Australia's Covid-19 Development Response Plan for Bangladesh for 2020- 2021, saying the country appreciates its strong development, people-to-people and trade ties with Bangladesh.