People in Dhaka and most other parts of the country start their day amid fog and rain due to a land depression.

We sympathise with the demand for dormitories by Jagannath University students who are suffering from severe residential problems. And more so because of the on-going militancy issue following the Gulshan attack that is making it particularly difficult for students to rent houses and make arrangements for their accommodation.

When the first flight of Hajj pilgrims left Dhaka for Saudi Arabia on August 4, we were happy hoping that Bangladeshis pilgrims would have a smooth sailing this year in performing their Hajj. Our delight has been very short-lived and our hopes, it seems, were unfounded.

The results of this year's HSC examinations published on Thursday are foremost a matter of pride. The success rate of the examinees rose

According to an assessment made by the Directorate General of Family Planning and USAID, most of the 3,590 Union Health and Family

Information Minister Hasanul Haq Inu alleges that Jamaat-e-Islami and Pakistan’s intelligence agency Inter-Services Intelligence are involved in terrorist activities in Bangladesh.

On the second day of its campus activation programmes, the export idea contest 'Rise High Bangladesh' reached Chittagong University of Engineering and Technology (CUET) on August 18, 2016.

A report published in this paper on August 18 exposed the history of the growth of jihadi groups over the years. Today, the threat posed by militancy brooks no repetition.

The alleged grabbing of several hundred crore worth of government land in Cox's Bazar by influential quarters is unacceptable.

Erosion by the river Kaliganga took a serious turn devouring about 50 dwelling houses at Barta village under Chandahar union in Singair

Bangladeshi expatriate imam Maulana Alauddin Akhonjee, who along with his assistant was shot to death in New York of the US on Saturday, has been laid to eternal rest at Gospara village in Chunarughat upazila.

With the name of Rise High and a promise of doing the same, The Daily Star has joined hands with the flourishing global brand Crown Cement. The objective is to deal with the well-known notion that despite manufacturing various unique items we fail to escalate the goods into exportation. By incentivising youths to think about the issue, not only will out-of-the-box ideas surface but it may also end up being a study on which other countries apart from the already-known ones can be potential importers of our goods.

The country's four maritime ports have been advised to keep hoisted local cautionary signal number 3 as the land depression over Gangetic West Bengal and adjoining area of Bangladesh moved northwestwards further and lies over Jharkhand and adjoining Gangetic West Bengal of India.

It could be a charming feature in a work of literature: a bamboo bridge that has for 50 years been the primary connection for thousands of villagers to the outside world. But in Mymensingh's Bhaluka upazila, for the residents of 15 villages such a bridge is not charming. It's an obstacle to modern living.

Though Bangladesh is often cited as a role model for the impressive achievements in maternal and child health and gender parity at primary education...

The Dhaka Chittagong highway has been expanded from 2-lane to 4, but the pedestrian-crossing bridge near Dania College in Jatrabari was constructed before the expansion.

A video of a demonstration before the Indian high commissioner to Bangladesh against the proposed Rampal power plant project goes viral on the popular social media Facebook.

Organisation of Islamic Cooperation Secretary General Iyad Ameen Madani is scheduled to arrive in Dhaka on a two-day visit.

A Supreme Court lawyer sends a legal notice requesting the government to form a judicial inquiry committee to probe the death of the Indian wild elephant, Bangabahadur.

Two Bangladeshi expatriates, an Imam and his assistant, were killed by an assailant outside a mosque in Queens in New York City on August 15.