Durga Puja, the biggest festival of the Hindu community, ended with the immersion of idols. On the final day of the festival, devotees congregated in puja mandaps to celebrate Vijaya Dashami.

There’s a jumghar library at 1300ft above sea level on the chimbuk hill in Bandarban. A local youth by the name of Yangan Mro developed this jumghar as a children’s library. He named it 'Sangchia Tekra, Sangchia Shontara Kim', which translates to 'telling stories, listening to stories'.

Urban Study Group (USG founder, Taimur Islam, speaks to The Daily Star about his organisation's work and experience.

Famous historian and former teacher at Dhaka University, Professor Sirajul Islam, is the lighthouse of history of Bangladesh.

Manpower export from Bangladesh rose 185 per cent year-on-year in the first eight months—which is a record. However, remittance inflow and export earnings fell in September when the country’s import volume continue increasing.

"Alap" is a book of confession, written by two famous writers and intellectuals of India-Pakistan in the aftermath of 1947 partition.

Dhaka is losing $6 billion worth of labour productivity each year due to heat stress from extreme temperatures. The country’s labour productivity has been severely affected owing to this. In a recent study by The Rockefeller Foundation and Adrienne Arsht published the figures. How is rising temperature affecting labour productivity?

This year 52 Bangladeshi companies got permission to export hilsa to India during Durga Puja festival. 

What was once a hilly wasteland is now beautiful gardens of malta. Cultivation of lemon and malta is ideal for the hilly soil of Sylhet division. Local farmers are turning to growing green malta because of increasing demand for this tasty fruit.

Proper care can turn “disability” into special ability -- that’s what’s been proven by the specially abled child athletes from Pabna.

Joyeeta Trisha shares her journey as a photographer along with her take on life on how to live to the fullest.

Bank owners’ corruption and loan defaults are not new in Bangladesh.

Once pirates roamed freely in the Sundarbans and fishermen feared their brutality. Abduction, murder, and violence were the form of life in the deep forest. But Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) cleared the mangrove forest from that. Operation Sundarbans is the story of Rab's thrilling operations.

For the past 50 years Bangladesh has been unable to export goods via the Indian railway.

Tech Academy is a robotics school dedicated for children. The tech academy will represent Bangladesh in this year’s “First Global Challenge” for the 5th year in a row.

The increase in prices of daily necessities has resulted in instability in the country’s markets. In response to this situation, Bangladesh Competition Commission has filed 44 cases against 36 individuals and companies, accusing them of creating an artificial crisis in the market. 

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

For those who are interested in space, they’d be delighted to know that the country's first privately owned astro-observatory has been set up at Bindubari in Sreepur Upazila of Gazipur.

The unveiling of the iPhone 14 has users worried about e-sim connectivity. Will the iPhone 14 series only support e-sim? What will happen to non-e-sim users if that is the case?

After conquering the box office with yet another hit, "Operation Sundarban", Nusraat Faria stands in front of the camera at The Daily Star to get candid about her life, work and future plans!