Today is the 16th death anniversary of M Youssouf Ali, a fisheries biologist.

Ismat Ara was married off only at 13 to her 18-year-old cousin in Bogra in late 2012. Within the next few months, their marriage ended up in a dispute. A ninth-grader at the time, she wanted a divorce but her parents refused.

April 13 is a day that inhabitants of five Raozan villages in Chittagong would perhaps never forget.

With the advent of monsoon, muddy and slushy potholes plague several streets of the capital.

After an exhaustive process of trial, the War Crimes Tribunal convicted Salauddin Quader Chowdhury to death sentence.

The registration for first year honours admission test under 2015-2016 academic year at Rajshahi University will begin on October 1 and

Bacha Mia; father of Moslem Mia, secretary of Dhaka Shongbadpotro Hawkers' Bahumukhi Somobay Samity; died on Friday. He was 103.

Prioritising garbage management, greenery and mosquito control, Dhaka North City Corporation Mayor Annisul Huq yesterday announced a Tk 1,601.95 crore budget for the 2015-16 fiscal year.

It is highly disquieting that the Royal Bengal Tiger, one of the most valued species of tigers in the world, appears to be on an extinction course in its home, the Sundarbans.

We express our profound grief at the death of former Indian president APJ Abdul Kalam.

The Dhaka South City Corporation South (DSCC) spent Tk 72 crore to repair the dilapidated road under the Mayor Hanif flyover amid public outcry and sufferings during rainy season last year.

Abdul Latif Talukdar, an alleged Razakar from Bagerhat who was facing seven war crime charges along with two other accused, died

India's 11th President APJ Abdul Kalam died yesterday evening at a hospital in Meghalaya, where he had gone to deliver a lecture. He was 83.

Mozahar Hossain Dulal, Magura union parishad chairman in Nilphamari, died due to cardiac arrest in Rangpur medical college Hospital yesterday. He was 68.

The picture of a billboard dislodged from the top of a building in Dhaka that was published in our paper yesterday must have shocked many.

We welcome the move of the parliamentary caucus on indigenous affairs to place a bill in the upcoming session of the parliament proposing that a national commission be formed for the protection of indigenous rights.

The figure is horrendous and must make the authorities stand up and take notice.

Prime Minister's forthright address to the 28th council of Bangladesh Chhatra League on Saturday reverberated with some very pertinent instructions to student leaders and councillors.

Today is the ninth death anniversary of Novera Deepita, a former journalist of The Daily Star.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday asked senior officials of Bangladesh Army to rise above personal likings and dislikings and select the most qualified, capable, efficient and patriotic officers, who believe in the spirit of the Liberation War, for promotion.