The Daily Star has clinched the third place in the Best Initiative to Bolster Next Generation of Readership category at the 89th INMA Global Media Awards 2026, a global stage that honours the most innovative initiatives in the news industry across the world.

25 out of 85 secretaries are contractual appointees; bureaucrats call for cancelling contracts

BNP Chairman and Prime Minister Tarique Rahman will sit with grassroots leaders today as the ruling party seeks to restore discipline and strengthen its organisational structure.

The Prime Minister’s Office has formed a special cell to ensure quick and effective implementation of the promised and expected programmes of members of the parliament.

For Moniruzzaman Jamaddar, a resident of Damodar village in Phultala upazila, memories of student life in Khulna are inseparable from the once-vibrant bus services that connected the city with its outskirts.

Establishing strong editorial institutions and resisting financial and political pressures are essential for the survival and growth of investigative journalism, speakers said at an event yesterday.

Home Minister Salahuddin Ahmed and Pakistan’s Interior Minister Syed Mohsin Raza Naqvi sign the instrument

Police say four of the cases relate to a BNP-Awami League clash in 2023, while another concerns an attack on students in 2024

National Newspaper Olympiad secured third place in the Best Initiative to Bolster Next Generation of Readership category

Officers and sailors of INS Sunayna to tour naval establishments, tourist sites in Ctg

Doctor files GD after allegedly receiving threats from Facebook accounts and WhatsApp numbers following media coverage of the child rape case

Family says Shahidul Islam Jomaddar left home Tuesday evening and has not been heard from since

The flight is scheduled to reach Dhaka at 8:40am tomorrow

Transparency International Bangladesh Executive Director Dr Iftekharuzzaman met Prime Minister Tarique Rahman at the latter’s office in the Secretariat yesterday.

A nine-year-old boy died after compressed air was reportedly pumped through his rectum using a tyre inflator machine at an auto-rickshaw garage in Narsingdi’s Palash upazila yesterday.

Experts and officials yesterday called for reinvigorating the family planning programme to improve reproductive health services, reduce unintended pregnancies, and address the country’s declining contraceptive coverage.

Home Minister Salahuddin Ahmed yesterday said the government has taken a policy decision to gradually withdraw the army from field-level law enforcement duties, as discipline has been restored in the police force.

Bangladesh’s Ministry of Religious Affairs has urged citizens to strictly comply with Saudi Arabia’s hajj regulations and avoid attempting to perform the pilgrimage without official permits.

The government has, for the first time, drawn up a guideline to regulate street vendors in the capital aimed at reclaiming footpaths and roadsides to ease pedestrian and traffic movement while also bringing discipline to the trade for the welfare of hawkers.

Speakers yesterday called for ensuring that education sector funds are not diverted to other sectors, alleging that money from the education budget had previously been allocated to projects such as the Rooppur Nuclear Power Plant and the Bangabandhu Satellite.