Global energy challenges are continuing to impact Bangladesh's garment industry.

According to media reports, there are around 3,310 seats at halls but at least 12,000 students unlawfully inhabit them, with up to 12-15 students living in one room.

While the participants in the Ukraine war are spending billions of dollars each day on weapons and other destructive arsenals, millions of people and the leaders in South Asia and Africa are passing days in anxiety with rising external debt, a strong dollar, lingering supply chain disruptions, and food shortages.

On August 21, Fahmida Azim, a Bangladeshi born, Seattle-based artist and journalist, was awarded the 2022 Pulitzer Prize for Illustrated Reporting and Commentary. The winning team—with Fahmida Azim as artist, Josh Adams on art direction, and Anthony Del Cole as the writer—won the award for “How I escaped a Chinese internment camp”, a visual story on a woman who survived the abduction and internment of Muslims in Chinese camps. The comics reveal insider accounts of China’s anti-Muslim measures, particularly their treatment of the Uyghur community in China.

Daily Star Books editor Sarah Anjum Bari speaks with Fahmida Azim about her work with The Insider and about the responsibilities of visual storytelling.

Chinese envoy Li Jiming shares his views on the depth and prospects of Bangladesh-China bilateral relationship with The Daily Star.

What was the first partition of the British Raj in 1937 created a separate crown colony with very little representative government

What prompted those devoted pilgrims in Panchagarh to ride an overcrowded boat and join a death march on the Korotoa River?

Jules Verne opened my eyes to the wonderful world of science-fiction, a world where the pinnacle of human imagination meets the beauty of the known. 

We need to refocus old age care to ensuring “a good life for the elderly people” rather than on “prolonging their lives.”

Badiul Alam Majumdar discusses the controvery surrounding the Election Commission's decision to use EVMs with The Daily Star.

A political economy lens is needed to understand the current situation of Bangladesh.

After eight years of being an active mother, I have finally come to terms with acknowledging the identity of motherhood.

What does the recent ICJ decision regarding Myanmar mean for Rohingya refugees?

Over the past several months, efforts have been afoot to frame a data protection law in Bangladesh.

One does not have to be a doctor or a researcher to understand that food security is not just about having rice three times a day.

Can the new Detailed Area Plan cure Dhaka's ills?

Our national women’s football team’s victory surely gives us all, especially the women, an extraordinary level of confidence.

What do a clinical psychologist, an ex-kickboxer and a colour commentator have in common?

There used to be more than a thousand rivers crisscrossing through Bangladesh. Many of those rivers are now lost, mostly due to human interventions.