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Interactive profile: Loved ones we lost in Banani FR Tower fire

Let’s not forget the people who lost their lives in Thursday’s Banani FR Tower fire.
STAR Day at a Glance | Sunday, April 29, 2018

Hello readers! How are you doing today? Here are the headlines so far on April 29, 2018
Trump threatens to shutdown if no funding for wall

US President Donald Trump threatens to shut down the federal government in September if Congress did not provide more funding to build a wall on the border with Mexico.
We are still being threatened: 2 Hill Women Leaders

Recently released two leaders of Hill Women's Federation (HWF), who were abducted on March 18, say they are still receiving life threats from the abductors.
16 BNP leaders held in Dhaka

Police detain 16 BNP leaders while they were holding a meeting in Bangla Motor area of Dhaka.
Bar Council election May 14

The election to Bangladesh Bar Council, a statutory body regulating the country’s lawyers, is scheduled to be held on May 14 to elect its 14 executive members.
Level-playing field yet to be ensured in Gazipur, Khulna: BNP

BNP blames the Election Commission for its utter failures in creating level-playing field in Gazipur and Khulna city corporation elections scheduled to be held on May 15.
JU female student harassed in Shyamoli, 2 held

Police detain a hawker and his sister-in-law on charge of assaulting a female student of Jahangirnagar University from Dhaka’s Shyamoli area.
Khaleda being given treatment as per jail code: Quader

Awami League General Secretary and also Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader says BNP Chairperson Begum Khaleda Zia is being given treatment following the jail code.
Iraq sentences 19 Russian women to life for joining IS

Iraq sentences 19 Russian women to life in prison for joining the Islamic State group, according a judicial source.
2 newborn babies found dead in dustbins

Law enforcers recover bodies of two newborn babies from dustbins in Bhatikeshor and Baghmara areas of Mymensingh town.
Midday Brief, Sunday, April 29, 2018

Hello readers! How are you doing today? Here are the headlines so far on April 29, 2018
'Jihadists kill 40 Tuaregs in north Mali'

Suspected jihadists kill 40 Tuaregs, mostly young men, in two attacks in northern Mali's Menaka region, local governor says.
Lightning strikes kill 15 in 7 districts

At least 15 people are killed in lightning strikes in seven districts -- Magura, Sirajganj, Sunamganj, Rangamati, Brahmanbaria, Noakhali and Gazipur.
Call for doing more to protect people from natural disasters

Today is the dreadful April 29. On this day in 1991, Gorky, a tropical cyclone, lashed the coastal areas of southern Bangladesh with a wind speed of 155 miles per hour. It claimed 138,000 lives, leaving about one crore people homeless.
Rampura ML Tower fire doused

The fire that broke out at a garment factory in Rampura of Dhaka is doused.
‘Myanmar’s problem imposed on Bangladesh’

Rohingya crisis is Myanmar’s internal problem imposed on Bangladesh, Bangladesh’s State Minister for Foreign Affairs M Shahriar Alam tells United Nations’ Security Council members.
Arrears: Jute workers' demo blocks road, rail

Jute workers of Khulna and Jessore jute industrial belt stage a demonstration and block the Dhaka-Khulna highway and rail line for four hours to press home their 11-point demand including payment of arrears.
Bad weather halts water vessel services

Bangladesh Inland Water Transport Authority (BIWTA) suspends all types of water vessels services from Sadarghat launch terminal in Dhaka due to stormy weather.
Fruit’s pungent smell mistaken for gas leak, prompts panic

The pungent smell of the rotten durian fruit at an Australian university library has been mistaken for a gas leak, prompting an evacuation of the building.
Kim offers to close nuclear test site in May, invites US experts

North Korea promised to close its atomic test site next month and invite US weapons experts to the country, Seoul says, as US President Donald Trump expressed optimism about securing a nuclear deal with the secretive regime.
Heavy rain inundates Dhaka roads

Heavy rain sweeps through Dhaka city after a nor’wester lashes the capital following two days of stifling summer heat, bringing down the mercury level to cool and comfortable levels while also causing inundation on major thoroughfares in the city.
'Criminal' killed in Satkhira 'gunfight'

A suspected criminal is killed in a “gunfight” with police in Sadar upazila of Satkhira.
There’s no magic solution: UNSC

UN Security Council delegates complete visit at the Rohingya camps in Ukhia and assess first-hand the plight of the refugees sheltered there and Bangladesh's role in handling the responsibility of 700,000.
Rozina, who lost leg in road mishap, also dies

Rozina Akter, who lost her right leg in a road accident in the Dhaka’s Banani area on April 20, dies at Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH)
Xi, Modi agree to reduce border tensions

Chinese President Xi Jinping and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi ends informal meetings with a promise to reduce border tensions after a high-altitude standoff in the Himalayas last year.
Govt began works to devise development plan for 2021-2041: PM

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina says her government has begun works to formulate plans and action programmes to transform Bangladesh into a developed country during a set timeframe from 2021 to 2041.
Australia to help resolve Rohingya crisis, Turnbull tells Hasina

Australian Prime Minister Malcom Turnbull assures Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina of continuing support to Bangladesh for resolving the Rohingya crisis.
Continue movement, Khaleda tells BNP leaders

BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia has urged the party leaders and activists to continue movement for “restoration of democracy”, its Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir says after visiting her at Old Central Jail in Dhaka.
Khaleda won't be released before JS polls: Tarikat Federation chief

Tarikat Federation, a partner of the Awami League 14-party ruling alliance, categorically says that BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia would not be able to walk out of jail before the 11th parliamentary election.