Star Special / Rohingyas coming in through hidden hill routes
They quietly enter Bangladesh via remote forests in Bandarban; local trafficking networks help them evade security checkpoints, find work
Rights Watch / Workers’ rights and remedies against unjustified terminations
26 August 2026
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Law & Our Rights
Lay-off, retrenchment and unjustified dismissals have become a pervasive reality for Bangladeshi workers, especially in the Ready-Made Garments (RMG) sector.
Law Review / Protecting Bangladesh’s ecological heritage through law
26 August 2026
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Law & Our Rights
The enactment of the Forest and Tree Conservation Act, 2026 marks a significant development in Bangladesh’s environmental law regime.
Law Views / How the built environment shapes the realities of human rights
19 August 2026
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Law & Our Rights
The built environment, comprising residential, commercial, and industrial structures, is a typical feature of urban development, shaping the realities of human rights.
For Your Information / When confessional statements may not lead to conviction
19 August 2026
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Law & Our Rights
Daily Life Blues / Remedies for excessive electricity bills
19 August 2026
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Law & Our Rights
Law Vision / The danger of using AI in legal submissions
12 August 2026
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Law & Our Rights
Law Views / Constitutional environmental rights in South Asia
12 August 2026
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Law & Our Rights
Law Opinion / Cyber-attacks and a state’s right to self-defence
12 August 2026
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Law & Our Rights
How negligence and lack of law enforcement led to Sitakunda tragedy
18 August 2026
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Law & Our Rights
Law Opinion / The sleeping giant
8 July 2026
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Law & Our Rights
Law views / Refusal of entry visa in a global sporting event and international law
2 July 2026
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Law & Our Rights
Law Vision / The need to protect our data
2 July 2026
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Law & Our Rights
Gender and Law / Recognising women’s right to a safe workplace
2 July 2026
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Law & Our Rights
Rajshahi: The story behind Bangladesh’s cleanest city
A man finishes a bottle of water, looks around, then walks over to a bin set up by the Rajshahi City Corporation to discard it instead of throwing it on the roadside.
How the built environment shapes the realities of human rights
The built environment, comprising residential, commercial, and industrial structures, is a typical feature of urban development, shaping the realities of human rights.
19 August 2026
How negligence and lack of law enforcement led to Sitakunda tragedy
The death of 9 ship breaking yard workers at Sitakunda has left the nation in a shock. It is primarily suspected that the exposure to toxic gas inside a confined tank onboard the vessel has led to this tragedy.
18 August 2026
Strengthening Cyber Resilience for MSMEs: Tackling Financial Fraud and Improving Grievance Mechanisms
The Asia Foundation and The Daily Star jointly organised a policy dialogue on 14 July 2026, with support from Google.org.
17 August 2026
Public-Private Partnership for Hepatitis Elimination in Bangladesh
Beacon Pharmaceuticals PLC and The Daily Star jointly organised a roundtable on July 27, 2026, ahead of World Hepatitis Day 2026.
16 August 2026
The middle-class gutted by inflation
For many middle-class families, life is built around some common characteristics.
15 August 2026
Louhajang: The sweet capital of greater Dhaka
Today I take my Dhaka readers on a sugar‑high day trip into the greater Dhaka region; our stop is Louhajang upazila in present‑day Munshiganj, historically known as Bikrampur.
15 August 2026
Boat race returns to old Dhaka's Nawab Bari pond
After a pause of more than three decades, Nawab Bari’s pond, also known as Gol Talab, came alive once again with the return of a long-lost tradition.
13 August 2026
Cyber-attacks and a state’s right to self-defence
Imagine a hostile cyber operation that disables Bangladesh’s cyber infrastructure, kills the electricity grids, takes digital payment gateways offline, paralyses critical healthcare facilities and shuts down communications across the country.
12 August 2026
Constitutional environmental rights in South Asia
The concept of constitutionalising environmental rights refers to the embedding of the protection of environment into the country’s constitution.
12 August 2026
The danger of using AI in legal submissions
In Bangladesh as well as in other common law jurisdictions, court decisions are heavily dependent on the pleadings, briefs, arguments, etc.
12 August 2026
Before the luxury: Origins of Dhaka’s Gulshan
At first impression, Gulshan is all about modernity — tall office buildings, luxurious apartments, trendy cafes, and the tag of being a neighbourhood for the rich! But keeping aside all that, there is another side of this swanky area which often gets overlooked: its history.
10 August 2026
Inside KHAR X: A first-timer at Bangladesh's cage-fighting night
Two weeks after the World Cup final, I was still refreshing old match clips at 2 AM waiting for the withdrawal to lift. It did not. Then an Instagram reel interrupted my scroll: fighters trading punches inside a cage, a caption promising KHAR X at FDC on 31 July. I tapped through without knowing what KHAR meant.
8 August 2026
The fall of an industrial city
Khulna’s industrial belt now lies largely abandoned, with its people leaving too
8 August 2026
Dhaka university memories
Dhaka means different things to different people. Some people loathe it for nuisances while others love it for some unexplained reason.
8 August 2026
Shishu Park: the missing piece of Shahbagh
I often catch myself, almost involuntarily, looking towards the spot where Shishu Park once stood whenever I pass through Shahbagh.
2 August 2026
Money talks: Now the machines are listening
Artificial intelligence is helping banks and financial institutions understand customers, manage risks and make faster decisions
1 August 2026
The sins of midnight shoppers
“Track your parcel” is the new‑age “You’ve got mail.” The beep of delivery updates has replaced the once‑iconic inbox ping of the early internet era.
30 July 2026
Understanding the 15th Amendment case
In 2024, the High Court Division (HCD) of the Supreme Court of Bangladesh (SCOB) repealed that part of the 15th constitutional Amendment that had eliminated the caretaker government system, which was introduced in 1996 through the 13th Amendment, and reversed by the 15th Amendment in 2011.
29 July 2026
An assessment of the new wetland law of Bangladesh
Our latest law on the protection of wetlands, ie, Bangladesh Haor and Wetland Conservation Act 2026 aims to change the regulatory landscape for tourism practices in the haors.
29 July 2026
Legal future of Bangladesh after the UNECE Water Treaty accession
On 20 June 2025, Bangladesh acceded to the 1992 UN Convention on the Protection and Use of Transboundary Watercourses and International Lakes (UNECE Water Convention).
29 July 2026