A Supreme Court lawyer yesterday sent a legal notice to the authorities concerned of the government to take steps in

Eleven professionals in a statement yesterday called upon the government to hold open consultations with tea workers

It appears that progress has been made in the process of bringing those responsible for the Rana Plaza deaths before the court. We are

The government draft policy formulated recently to protect the rights of domestic workers could not have come a day too soon. We

Over half of the child labourers in the municipal area and three unions of Savar Sadar upazila, outside the capital, are

Today is the 4th death anniversary of Awami League leader Abdur Razzak, also one of the Liberation War organisers.

Tomorrow is the first death anniversary of Sheikh Abu Hamed, a social worker and a Liberation War organiser.

Rashidul Hussain, a sound engineer who played a key role in the early transmission of Swadhin Bangla Betar Kendra

A meeting, commemorating the members of UN peace keeping mission of Bangladesh Army who died in an air crash in Benin 12 years ago, was held in the capital yesterday.

Former Motijheel police officer-in-charge AKM Rafiqul Islam, who got capital punishment for killing a student, died at Dhaka Medical College Hospital last night, aged 65.

A FIFA ethics tribunal banned Sepp Blatter and Michel Platini for eight years each on Monday, saying they had abused their positions over a 2 million Swiss francs payment made to Platini in 2011 for work as a consultant carried out between 1999 and 2002.

We are aghast at Election Commissioner Shah Nawaz's appeal to the Prime Minister, seeking her intervention to stop some of her party

We are filled with a sense of optimism to know that a much awaited scheme to supply 110 million litres of safe water to half of Khulna

On the occasion of the first death anniversary of Bangladeshi scientist Maqsudul Alam, a doa mahfil was held at Bangladesh Jute Research Institute (BJRI)

Today is the 20th death anniversary of Abdul Haque, a renowned leader of the country's large left movement during 1960s and 70s.

Anowara Begum; a teacher and mother of Fazle Rabbi Dollar, Bogra Press Club member and chief reporter of the Daily Bogra; died of

Safar Ali, a freedom fighter and educationalist of Dinajpur, died of a cardiac arrest in a private hospital early yesterday. He was 75.

Bangladesh showed an extraordinary progress in human development index (HDI) with an average annual growth of 1.64 percent in the last two and a half decades, which is the highest among the eight South Asian countries. Despite the progress, Bangladesh remains behind Sri Lanka, the Maldives and India on the latest global ranking with a static 142nd position in the HDI, according to the 2015 Human Development Report (HDR) released by the United Nations Development Programme at the planning ministry in Dhaka yesterday.

A roundtable on Corporal Punishment at The Daily Star Center yesterday has brought to light the need for all members of society to work

We commend the Election Commission for rejecting the proposal of the police to limit journalists' access to polling stations on December