A very important aspect of countering the onslaught of the militants in Bangladesh, particularly the religious militants...

A girl from Dhaka has been selected to become the shadow ambassador for a day with the Embassy of Denmark in Bangladesh.

The people in half of Pirojpur district, according to a report in this paper on February 28, are facing the worst crisis imaginable – lack of safe drinking water.

Dhaka North City Corporation has issued a one month period to all building owners who must remove illegal structures that have sprung up in the...

Rangpur court grants bail to Daily Star Editor Mahfuz Anam in a defamation case filed by ruling Awami League’s Rangpur district organising secretary. The court sets May 26 for next hearing.

We are appalled by the inhumane condition in which children are being forced to work in different sweatshops across the capital. Boys

The horrific news from Rangpur of 27-year-old Tahmina Begum being doused by kerosene and set on fire by her mother-in-law, leaving

ONE wonders why the government service providers, particularly those that are supposed to provide the city dwellers with amenities and

DESPITE the many questions swirling around the 'cessation of hostilities', brokered by the US and Russia and backed by the UN Security

People of 15 villages under Jhalakathi Sadar upazila are suffering badly as the 14-km-long Shekerhat-Guaton road is in very bad shape

It was on February 29 in 1948 when the people of Pabna observed hartal for upholding the dignity of our mother language, four years

A report titled 'Bangladesh Education Statistics-2015', prepared by the Bangladesh Bureau of Educational Information and Statistics

We find it difficult to express our sorrow for the family of Shalin bin Nawaz who, along with his wife, are fighting for their lives due to the

A three-day long Ijtema, an Islamic congregation in Lalmonirhat town, ended yesterday with the Akheri Munajat joined by thousand of

Labourers at Bangladesh Chemical Industries Corporation (BCIC) fertiliser godown at Mahendranagar area in Lalmonirhat Sadar upazila

Every morning Sabita Rani Mandal, 45, of Paschim Baniary village of Matibhanga union in Pirojpur's Nazirpur upazila, collects three jars

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has called on Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina to stop what it said “hounding” The Daily Star Editor Mahfuz Anam over his comment that, like many other newspapers and TV stations, he published information in 2007 that seemed to implicate Hasina in corruption, which could not be verified independently.

The poignant story of Mahafuzar Rahman which appeared in this paper on Feb 25, ought to move the conscience of the state, and impel it to take concrete

Yet another person has lost his life in what is described as a 'gunfight' between the Rapid Action Battalion and the dead. The dead is an accused in the most

Global search and rescue charity, Migrant Offshore Aid Station (MOAS), will begin a new mission in the Andaman Sea and adjacent areas on March 3 to track, monitor and, if needed, provide search and rescue of refugees or migrants.