Iurii Melnyk, an associate professor of journalism at the Ivan Franko National University of Ukraine’s Lviv, is keeping the world posted after Russia began its invasion on February 24. The Daily Star’s Diplomatic Correspondent Porimol Palma caught up with him on Friday for on-the-ground information.

About 150 Bangladeshis have entered Poland from Ukraine over the last two days, fleeing the Russian invasion of Ukraine that began on February 24.

Police arrested 22 villagers over the murders of a Karbari and his four sons in remote Mro Para of Bandarban’s Ruma upazila Thursday night.

At least 759 new infections were recorded and eight people died from Covid-19 in 24 hours till 8:00am yesterday, read a press release of the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS).

An indigenous man was shot dead in remote Rowangchhari upazilla of Bandarban yesterday noon. 

Police recovered the hanging body of a youth from a residential hotel in Patuakhali town early yesterday.

Around 2600 workers engaged in loading and unloading goods are at a considerable risk of contracting the Covid-19 virus at Burimari Land Port in Patgram upazila of Lalmonirhat as they are to work along with foreign workers amidst the latest Covid-19 spike.

A 70-year-old woman was found dead in her house in Manikganj municipal area yesterday.

A man was crushed under the wheels of a train in Madarganj village of Thakurgaon Sadar upazila yesterday morning.

The newborn baby rescued from beside a roadside dustbin at Puran Bazar in Lalmonirhat town on Valentine’s Day has been identified.

Customs officials detained a cleaner of the Civil Aviation Authority of Bangladesh with 36 gold bars, weighing over 4kg, at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport yesterday morning.

Terming Bangladesh a geographically contiguous neighbour of the Asean, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has expressed her country’s keen interest in strengthening institutional engagements with the important regional organisation.

Vegetarians have 14 percent lower risk of developing cancer than those who regularly eat meat, according to a new study by researchers from the University of Oxford.

The nation yesterday mourned the death of 74 people, including 57 army officers, during the BDR carnage on February 25-26 in 2009.

The students of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman University of Science and Technology in Gopalganj protested for the second day yesterday.

Bangladesh is losing 7 billion working hours annually due to extreme heat exposure caused by global warming, a new study reveals.

Medical College students started picketing in the early morning of February 21, 1952. Students of Nabakumar Institutions joined the picketers. At around 8:00-8:30am I went to Amtala.

The World Bank approved a $300m loan for Bangladesh yesterday aiming to support the country’s urban local government institutions in facing the coronavirus pandemic and its future shocks.

Sub-inspector Debashish Sutradhar was transferred from Santiganj Police Station in Sunamganj on Wednesday, two days after 40-year-old Wazir Mia died from alleged custodial torture in the police station.

After staging an incredible fightback to win the first ODI, Bangladesh will take on Afghanistan in the second match today in Chattogram with hopes of sealing the three-match series with a game in hand.