AM Jahid

Small businesses, which are considered the lifeline of the economy, had hoped that the government would take care of them to help them stay afloat when it announced a countrywide lockdown and a gigantic stimulus package to protect the economy and the people from the coronavirus disease in March last year.

Shoppers thronged grocery stores, super shops and kitchen markets across Dhaka yesterday following the announcement of a fresh nationwide lockdown to curb the spread of Covid-19.

Intentionally, Nasir Uddin has been returning home almost every night after his two daughters go to sleep because he can’t afford the things the girls ask for.

The once tell-tale sounds of foundries bringing household utensils into shape out of pewter, brass and copper are increasingly making a comeback in Chapainawabganj.

Women are increasingly entering decision-making positions but full gender parity is far from being reached as they rarely hold leadership positions in executive and legislative offices.

Amphan, one of the strongest cyclones formed in the Bay of Bengal, is likely to hit Bangladesh’s coast with the maximum storm surge of 15 feet height above normal astronomical tide.

The World Health Organization (WHO) has given a set of guidelines on ways to prevent the spread of Covid-19 in the workplace.

Forty-five districts out of 64 are now under total lockdown as a part of the government’s measures to contain the spread of coronavirus.

Over the years, technology has transformed the world and changed the way we entertain ourselves, communicate with others, stay healthy, and ensure safety and mobility. Here are the top ten innovations, the blessing of the modern technology, in 2019 that can make the world better and smarter, and change way of the human lives in 2020.

This year, the nation has lost some great sons and daughters, who will not stop shining even after their death. They will live in their accomplishments and contributions to the humanity. Here is a compilation of the souls in the eve of the NEW YEAR 2020.

People can get the update of cyclone Bulbul and the current weather situation of their respective area or district from their mobile phone.

Onion prices have gone beyond the general people’s reach as per kg of the cooking ingredient was selling for Tk 150 at kitchen markets in the capital on Thursday, despite government’s measures to pull the reins.

Onion prices go beyond the capacity of general people as the prices of the essential cooking ingredient have already broken the previous records.

Onion price at the retail markets in Bangladesh goes up to around 71 per cent per kg within a day, the highest level in last several years, as the wholesalers reportedly jacked up the price following India’s ban on the ingredient export.

For the first time, Bangladesh’s parliamentary elections will be using Electronic voting machines (EVMs) and voters of Dhaka-6 and-13, Chattogram-9, Rangpur-3, Khulna-2 and Satkhira-2 will have the privilege of trying it out.

Here are the top ten scientific discoveries of 2017 which hold the potential to enhance the advancement of human civilisation and change our very understanding of the universe as a whole.

Bangladesh has had remarkable achievements in innovations at different sectors in 2016. Several Bangladeshi scientists have brought international laurels and have attributed their discoveries to the country.

Bangladesh Bank official Golam Rabby, who was subjected to police torture for bribe, has rejected the report submitted to the Supreme Court over the incident. “I did not do anything, they grabbed me by my collar from the behind,” he tells The Daily Star hours after the report is filed to the apex court.

Mass graves and killing fields of Liberation War in Dhaka are hard to find now as they are almost lost owing to lack of efforts to preserve these sites where many martyrs were buried or thrown in the marshes, canals and rivers after being killed, or were burnt alive.

If you are told: Name a city where you can drive or walk as you like, the first answer would be Dhaka! Because people find their own ways to go around the city. Traffic signals change colors—from green to red to green again--but the drivers need not pay any attention to them. But even worst menaces are motorcycles zooming by on the footpaths or people darting through the speeding cars to cross the roads among the already chaotic traffic.