After making a big splash on international media including the likes of National Geographic and LA Times Bangladeshi surfer girls have now made it to CBC, Canada’s largest news organization.

We think we reflect the sentiment of every section of our people, when we say the just concluded visit of the Chinese President has been extremely fruitful for both countries, liking our relationship to a strategic level, mainly for our commercial and economic development.

A grocer started travelling to Dhaka from Rangpur on foot to raise public awareness about road safety across the country.

Documents obtained by The Daily Star regarding fertiliser imported from Saudi Arabia have highlighted negligence on part of both the state-run organisation which imports the sacks and the company exporting them.

Sylhet college student Khadiza is shifted to High Dependency Unit (HDU) from Neuro Intensive Care Unit of Square Hospitals as her condition is improving gradually, doctors say.

The indifference of the authorities to the continuing encroachment and dumping of waste materials on what used to be canals with fresh water flow and aquatic biodiversity, we believe, is shocking. One can easily guess, just by looking at the 3 glaring photographs of the problem published by this newspaper on Wednesday, the severity of the menace.

Our deepest condolences go out to the people of Thailand on the death of Thai King Bhumibol Aduyadej who passed away peacefully on

We warmly welcome the visit by Chinese president to Bangladesh, the first by a Chinese head of state in 30 years.

Despite the noise and fanfare about women empowerment, Bangladesh ranks 111th among 144 countries in providing opportunities to girls, according to a report by 'Save the Children'.

Bangladeshi authorities should immediately release three children of opposition leaders convicted of war crimes who were forcibly disappeared and have been illegally detained since August 2016, Human Rights Watch has said.

Members of Shia community take out a ‘Tajia’ procession from Hosni Dalan in the old part of Dhaka on the occasion of holy Ashura amid tight security measures taken by the law enforcement agencies.

Irregularities and nepotism by local government representatives have disappointingly become a burden on marginalised people who are failing to benefit from society safety net programmes because of such practices.

Dhaka city is urbanising at a rapid rate. Lifts have now become an essential prerequisite for high rise buildings for both commercial purposes and residences.

Speakers at a memorial meeting in Panchagarh said Comrade Mohammad Farhad worked for a revolution to make a new society.

To express hatred, dustbins have been set up and named it after Chhatra League man Badrul Alam, who brutally hacked Sylhet Government Women's College student Khadiza Begum Nargis on October 3.

Durga Puja, the biggest religious festival of the Hindu community, ends with the immersion of goddess Durga.

We are deeply disturbed by the news published in this paper yesterday, according to which as many as 2,000 demarcation pillars on the Buriganga and the Turag were installed inside the river.

We want to heartily congratulate the Tigers, particularly Mashrafe Bin Mortaza, for leading from the front, in helping Bangladesh clutch a well deserved victory against England, in their 2nd One Day International match on Sunday.

About 2,000 Paul families in the district are doing brisk business making jhora on the occasion of Durga Puja, the

Chinese President Xi Jinping to visit Cambodia, Bangladesh and India from October 13 to 17.