Despite the less than adequate quality of treatment, most people in our country depend on government hospitals for treatment. Being an overpopulated country, Bangladesh still lacks enough government hospitals to serve all its people. Criminal gangs posing as brokers are taking the opportunity of such circumstances. While seeking treatment, ordinary people are falling into the traps of these brokers.

The Hindi film “Jalsa” directed by Suresh Triveni was released last month. The two main characters in the film are "Maya Menon" and "Rokhsana" played by Vidya Balan and Shefali Shah respectively. The story of the film with these two powerful actors is centred around an accident.

This is the year 1429 in the Bengali calendar. However, since many argue that if Emperor Akbar introduced the Bengali calendar 438 years ago, why is it the year 1429 in the calendar?

After two years of Covid-19 pandemic related restrictions, the welcoming ceremony of Bangla New Year began this morning (April 14) with numerous shades and colours.

For the second episode of “Star Lifestyle Recipes” sponsored by Fresh Spices, we show you how to make the delicious Shundhi Daal Bhuna, something that can be paired with rice or bread like naan, like we have, or paratha.

Shafiqul Islam, a Gaibandha engineer, has been working to develop an electric version of the traditional rice grinding tool "Dheki".

Prof Abul Kashem Fazlul Haq of the Bangla department of Dhaka University was a colleague of Prof Humayun Azad. He spoke to The Daily Star about his late friend. He also spoke about how a universal democratic system could widen the path to free-thinking.

The dedicated service lanes and bus bay or bus stop projects amounted to around Tk 700 crore, and the construction work at various bus stands and market locations from Gabtoli to Paturia Ghat is near completion. However, most bus stops and market areas along the Dhaka-Nabinagar route do not use these separate lanes for the stoppage. As a result, the highway is completely packed all the time.

Health plays an important role in our lives. It is mostly defined by the mental, and physical fitness of our body. If our physical health is not well, neither will be our mental health and vice versa.

Humayun Azad, a writer, poet, linguist, and a professor of University of Dhaka was brutally attacked by extremist militants on February 27, 2004. The verdict of his murder case is going to be delivered today at last after 18 long years.

Bangladeshi garment exporters to Russia did not see the eastern European country’s war with Ukraine coming. They became really worried about their payments from Russian buyers when the US government and the European Union started imposing bans to hamper Russia’s foreign transactions. Even bans were slapped on the use of airspaces. Moreover, the Biden administration took steps to cut off Russia's central bank from US dollar transactions.

Hridoy Chandra Mandal, a teacher of Munshiganj Sadar Upazila's Binodpur Ramkumar High School, has been released on bail.

What made those long waits worthwhile was the food served at the shanty restaurants dotted on the sides of the road leading to the ghat.

Covid-19 vaccination drive in Bangladesh is for the most part a success story. According to WHO, as of April 6, 75.25% of the population have received the first dose of Covid-19 vaccine and 67.37% the second dose, and 9.10% have already received the third booster dose.

Climate change has put the entire world at risk of natural calamities. Bangladesh faces a greater risk because it is a coastal country.

Once, a village fair used to be filled with pottery items like jars, plant pots, rice pots, tepa dolls, terracotta jars of different sizes, small toys, vases and many more.

Hriday Mondal is a teacher at Binodpur Ram Kumar High School. For the past 22 years he’s been teaching maths and science here. But now the education system has him in jail. The school’s headmaster Alauddin Ahmed mentioned that on March 20 students were asking Hriday general questions but the next day 10 to 12 had gone to him and brought allegations of blasphemy against the science teacher. The headmaster had temporarily suspended Hriday over the allegations.

Pilots of various local and foreign airlines have complained that people are quite often and frequently targeting lasers on planes during landing or takeoffs at the Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport. Pilots are saying there could be a major accident due to these laser beams. Who are pointing these lasers on aeroplanes? What steps can be taken by the authorities to stop the laser beam menace?

The Maha Ashtami festival or Basanti Puja has been organised along the Brahmaputra river in Narayanganj's Langalband, Kaliganga river in Manikganj and Rishal Babuganj, after 2 years. The area was kept under heavy surveillance by the administration during the festival.

Not only was he a Nawab, but he was also a poet, musician and foodie, with whom biryani's triumphant journey began in Calcutta. But the story of this nawab will defeat any tragedy of the West. The Nawab who came to Calcutta with the intention to regain the kingdom, had to end up in the trap of various conspiracies at Metiabruz near Calcutta.