ANOTHER gruesome assassination of blogger and an organiser of local Gonojagoron Mancha, Ananta Bijoy Das in Sylhet illustrates that the systematic killing of free thinkers is still on the extremist agenda.

AUTHORITIES appear blissfully unconcerned about the fact that the fire extinguishing equipment at Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University (BSMMU) had expired over a year ago.

Around two months after going missing from Dhaka city, BNP leader Salahuddin Ahmed has been found in Shillong, the capital of north-eastern Indian state of Meghalaya.

Twenty-day Jaipur Foot Artificial Fitment Camp starts today at the capital's National Institute of Traumatology and Orthopedic

His outlook on life was very simple, yet broad: evaluating issues, arising from his experiences of the society, against the touchstones of intellect and rationality.

His outlook on life was very simple, yet broad: evaluating issues, arising from his experiences of the society, against the touchstones of intellect and rationality.

Access to Internet can help lift up more than 10 million people in Bangladesh from poverty, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg writes on the occasion of launching Internet.org in Bangladesh.

There could be 10,000 boat people detained near the Thai-Malaysian border in more than 100 detention camps, held in custody by guards who are both locals and Rohingya,

Morning shows the day. But yesterday was an exception in the capital. It was a normal sunny morning; children were rushing to school and the office-goers to workplaces.

We deplore in the strongest possible terms the police brutality on the activists, some of them women, who were demanding the arrest and trial of criminals who, as an orgainsed gang, sexually harassed a number of women during the Bengali New Year.

THE government has finally decided to impose a 10 percent duty on foreign rice to curb import of the grain. Needless to say this measure comes too late for the farmers and millers of the country.

IT is a story of aggrieved garment workers – with a difference! The ring of familiarity ends with their demand for payment of arrear salaries when this is drowned in the more strident chorus of serious grievances.

WE wonder when, if ever, the police would learn to treat a citizen with due respect and civility.

Alpana Barua; mother of Rupam Bidrohi Barua, business development executive of The Daily Star Chittagong bureau; died due to old-age

Alpana Barua; mother of Rupam Bidrohi Barua, business development executive of The Daily Star Chittagong bureau; died due to old-age

We congratulate the Conservative party on a hard-fought campaign climaxing in a convincing victory.

We are concerned that the government is yet to reject a condition in the new draft of Child Marriage Restraint Act 2014 which recommends that, even though the minimum age for marriage would remain 18, parents can marry off their 16-year-old girls as long as they have justifiable reasons behind this decision.

Ample opportunity for jobs abroad, development of skilled manpower, appropriate wage hike at home, and implementation of the

A joint team of police and DGFI (Directorate General of Forces Intelligence) yesterday arrested an activist of banned Islamist outfit Hizb-ut

THE unanimous passage of the Land Boundary Agreement Bill in both the Houses of the Indian Parliament is a historic development.