Following a recent ruling of Bangladesh Copyright Office, Sheikh Abdul Hakim has won the bragging rights of 260 books of Masud Rana series, previously belonging to Qazi Anwar Hossain. In an interview with The Daily Star, he shares why he wrote by the name of Qazi Anwar Hossain for all these years, what eventually prompted him to claim the rights and how it all started.

Masud Rana, the valiant Bangladeshi spy, who travels the world on secret missions, has been attracting readers new and old alike since 1966.

Noted educationist and industrialist MA Kashem has been elected North South University’s trustee board chairperson.

The CMP-Bidyanondo Field Hospital is going to be inaugurated today, with hopes amid increasing number of Covid-19 patients in Chattogram city.

Government is set to put Dhaka's Wari area under a 21-day complete lockdown from July 4 to curb coronavirus transmission there.

A field hospital -- jointly set up by Bidyanondo Foundation and Chattogram Metropolitan Police -- is going to be inaugurated tomorrow amid increasing number of Covid-19 patients in the port city.

Kamal Uddin alias Haji Kamal, suspected leader of a human trafficking gang, has been shown arrested today in two cases filed over the killing of 26 Bangladeshis in Libya on May 28.

The average life expectancy of Bangladeshis has increased to 72.6 years in 2019, as compared to 72.3 years in 2018, according to a report of Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics (BBS).

The government will convert a temporary ordinance into a permanent law in order to continue operating virtual court systems after the Covid-19 pandemic, said Law Minister Anisul Huq.

MA Kashem, an eminent industrialist and patron of education, philanthropist, a dynamic social worker and one of the promoters and founder members of North South University (NSU), has been elected unanimously as the chairman of Board of Trustees (BOT) of North South University recently.

Rescue workers today recovered one more body from the Buriganga river, taking the death toll in the launch capsize to 34.

Seven people including the owner of Moyur-2 -- the launch that hit another in Buriganga river yesterday and caused the latter to capsize -- have been sued over the deaths of 32 people.

The Directorate General of Health Services has requested Holy Family Red Crescent Medical College Hospital and five other hospitals to take necessary measures to provide Covid-19 treatment to the members of Dhaka Bar Association (DBA) and their families.

When the daily activities came to a halt during the shutdown across the country to prevent the spread of coronavirus, some initiatives from the Department of Livestock (DLS) saved farmers from financial distress.

When offices reopened at the end of May, novel coronavirus was still spreading in Rajshahi city and Ariful Amin was unwilling to join work to save his family from getting infected through him.

The government is giving Tk 10,000 as grant to 1,500 journalists each at the primary stage during the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, Information Minister Hasan Mahmud told parliament yesterday.

Former Bangla Academy Director General Prof Shamshuzzaman Khan yesterday returned to his old workplace, but at a new capacity.

At least ten people died after showing Covid-19-like symptoms in four districts between Sunday and yesterday morning.

Detectives arrested an alleged member of a human trafficker gang in Gouripur upazila of Mymensingh early yesterday.

Layla Arjumand Banu, wife of Liberation War Affairs Minister AKM Mozammel Haque, died of coronavirus this morning. She was 71.