A delegation of Bangladesh Railway (BR) will visit India this month to discuss preparations for introducing a passenger train service between Dhaka and Siliguri, officials said.

China’s Tianwen-1 probe has sent back its first image of Mars, the national space agency said, as the mission prepares to touch down on the Red Planet later this year.

Libya yesterday embarked on a new phase of its post-Kadhafi transition after a unity government was selected to lead the country until December elections following a decade of chaos.

Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen yesterday said Bangladesh was preparing to sue Al Jazeera channel over airing the report “All the Prime Minister’s Men” with inaccurate information.

A father and his daughter were crushed to death by a truck after it ploughed into their roadside house in Pabna on Friday night.

At least 10 pro-government Afghan militiamen were killed in fierce overnight fighting after their checkpoint came under attack from Taliban fighters in northern Afghanistan, officials said yesterday.

Serajul Hoque Khan, a former Bangladesh Bank official, passed away yesterday. He was 74.

A long-time friend of Bangladesh Dr Pierre Claquin, a French citizen, who worked for small pox and poliovirus eradication in Bangladesh, died in Paris on February 4, aged 74.

Today is the first death anniversary of Mohammad Badrul Ahsan, a weekly columnist for The Daily Star for many years, and the publisher and editor of now defunct weekly magazine, First News.

Police in Malaysia are investigating an incident of bribery by law enforcement personnel, to which a Bangladeshi migrant worker reportedly fell victim near the Kuala Lumpur International Airport.

Bangladesh Police Service Association yesterday slammed and trashed the news report, titled “All the Prime Minister’s Men”, broadcast by Qatar-based international TV channel AL Jazeera on February 2.

The United Nations is aware of the reporting done by Al Jazeera investigations concerning allegations of corruption against senior officials in Bangladesh and the press release issued by the Ministry of Defence in Bangladesh,

The High Court in the full text of a judgement has upheld the rule that allows the Anti-Corruption Commission to assign the same officer the task of conducting both the inquiry and investigation of a corruption case, observing that there is no scope for the officer to become biased in doing this job.

US President Joe Biden on Thursday promised a new era after the scattershot foreign policy of his predecessor, Donald Trump, declaring “America is back” on the global stage in his first diplomatic address as president.

A Hungarian newspaper reported that it was Bangladesh that offered the East European country 5,000 doses of a coronavirus vaccine.

Before reaching her teen years, Borsha had to leave her parents’ house.

One of the accused in the case over rape of a private university student yesterday confessed to a Dhaka court that he had raped the victim at her friend’s house in the city’s Mohammadpur area.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel admitted Thursday that she has lost sleep over the pandemic, tossing and turning over “tough decisions” for a nation eager for relief from months of virus restrictions.

A group of unidentified miscreants has vandalised idols at five temples in Dinajpur’s Chirirbandar upazila.

Bangladesh reported seven new Covid-19 deaths until yesterday morning, including six in Dhaka, taking the national tally to 8,182 since the pandemic began.