Anatomy of BGB shootings in Rampura
It was 6:14pm on Friday, July 19, 2024. Two Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) personnel were advancing into Banasree G Block in Dhaka.
6 August 2025, 18:00 PM
6 August 2025, 18:00 PM
Seating spat, tense exchanges: Consensus commission's reform talks enter 2nd phase
As dialogue resumes tomorrow, the path to consensus appears far from smooth
17 June 2025, 13:59 PM
17 June 2025, 13:59 PM
Internal democracy lies at the heart of NCP charter
The National Citizen Party is set to unveil its charter this week, prioritising democracy within the organisation and presenting a vision for a “New Bangladesh” built on youth-driven decentralised governance.
25 May 2025, 18:15 PM
25 May 2025, 18:15 PM
A martyr without a country
Last year, 17-year-old Nur Mostofa, like many of his peers, took to the streets, standing shoulder to shoulder with the masses to protest the killings of hundreds at the hands of law enforcers during the July uprising and to demand the resignation of then-prime minister Sheikh Hasina.
19 April 2025, 18:44 PM
19 April 2025, 18:44 PM
‘He’d still be alive had those in power cared’
Ashiqur Rahman Hridoy, 16, was hit with 35 shotgun pellets -- three of them lodged in his head -- during a protest against the state crackdown on quota reform demonstrators in Dhaka’s Jatrabari on July 18.
6 April 2025, 18:00 PM
6 April 2025, 18:00 PM
‘Make TNZ pay our wages’
Emotions ran high. Exhaustion was evident on their faces.
28 March 2025, 18:00 PM
28 March 2025, 18:00 PM
The disappeared of the July Uprising
The Daily Star found evidence of systematic government efforts to cover up medical records and bodies of the July uprising victims so they can never be found again.
18 March 2025, 04:15 AM
18 March 2025, 04:15 AM
The disappeared of the July Uprising: Part 4 / Families want closure, however painful
When we first started visiting Dhaka Medical College Hospital in January for this story, there were seven protest-related unclaimed bodies freezing in its mortuaries.
15 March 2025, 18:00 PM
15 March 2025, 18:00 PM
A systematic cover up of bodies
On the afternoon of August 5, 2024, word spread across the country that Sheikh Hasina fled to India. In Gazipur, like elsewhere in the country, thousands poured into the streets in celebration. But there was also anger.
14 March 2025, 18:00 PM
AL govt sought to hide true extent of massacre
They all had families, desperately searching for them amid a nationwide curfew and internet shutdown at the height of the July uprising. Yet, they were buried as "unclaimed" bodies within one to six days after being shot dead, before their loved ones could find them. Seven months after the July
13 March 2025, 18:00 PM
Hastily buried in unmarked graves
The Daily Star investigates how July uprising protesters were disappeared in unmarked graves
11 March 2025, 18:00 PM
Pledge made to build a ‘second republic’
The young leaders behind the successful mass uprising against Sheikh Hasina officially launched the National Citizen Party (NCP) yesterday, declaring their vision for a “second republic”.
28 February 2025, 18:00 PM
Time to Act: A one-stop solution for uprising victims is moral imperative
The state is sending them from one office to another, from one city to another
6 February 2025, 07:10 AM
Injured uprising victims: Compensation caught up in red tape
Crippled and blinded, many July uprising protesters continue to suffer. The one-time assistance -- Tk 5 lakh for martyrs’ families and Tk 1 lakh for the wounded -- that was promised to them soon after the incumbent took over remains entangled in an utterly bureaucratic procedure.
4 February 2025, 18:00 PM
Breathing death: The air that kills
Air pollution has become the biggest killer in Bangladesh, and it's not just some far-off statistic
18 January 2025, 16:19 PM
Removal of word ‘adivasi’: Indigenous group attacked at NCTB; 20 hurt
At least 20 persons were injured yesterday in an attack on an indigenous group and its supporters protesting the removal of a graffiti from textbooks featuring the word “indigenous” (adivasi, in Bangla).
15 January 2025, 18:00 PM
Unease at DU campus as some incidents reek of vigilantism
After the Awami League’s fall and the ban on Chhatra League, improvement in the overall atmosphere is quite visible at Dhaka University.
6 January 2025, 20:13 PM
Students Against Discrimination: ‘Proclamation of July revolution’ set for Dec 31
The Students Against Discrimination is set to proclaim on December 31 the July mass uprising as a revolution.
28 December 2024, 18:00 PM
Remembering the dark day in solemnity
“Sonar Banglay Manob Itihasher Nrishongshotomo Hottakando” (The most brutal massacre in human history of Bengal), read the lead headline in an issue of The Daily Ittefaq published in December 1971.
14 December 2024, 18:41 PM
DU, ‘laasher michhil’, and an uprising
A child steps onto the street from an alley -- only to be shot dead in an instant. A college student lies lifeless in a pool of blood at a city hospital, his phone vibrating with calls from “Maa”. And a “laasher michhil” (procession of bodies) on the streets of Dhaka.
29 November 2024, 18:00 PM
Shot, shackled, blinded
Eighteen-year-old Alif Hassan Rahat, a student from Milestone College in Uttara, dreamed of becoming a rocket engineer.
22 November 2024, 19:31 PM
Savagery at DU: They beat him, fed him, then killed him
Tofazzal Hossain was a familiar face to many resident students of Dhaka University. He would often wander about the campus, dorms, and gladly eat if somebody offered him food.
20 September 2024, 01:00 AM
A battleground of change: Role of DU in social movements
The pulsating energy of Dhaka University campus works as a catalyst to inspire students and shape their conscience.
6 September 2024, 18:00 PM
When floods came, students rose to challenge
Hundreds of students from Dhaka, Chattogram and districts in between were seen marching towards Feni on August 22. They travelled in trucks, with speedboats and life jackets, on a mission to rescue those stranded by the unprecedented floods that swept through the region.
30 August 2024, 18:00 PM
Shot six times, Amir lives to tell his tale
After broadband internet was restored in selected areas on July 23, a video dated from July 19 began circulating on social media showing a boy hanging from the cornice of an under-construction building.
19 August 2024, 18:00 PM
Shot six times, Amir lives to tell his tale
Man seen hanging from ledge of Rampura building while being shot by police in viral video miraculously escapes death
19 August 2024, 15:50 PM
Women’s role in toppling the govt
A female student, her face streaked with blood, pleads with Chhatra League activists to stop the relentless beatings.
16 August 2024, 18:00 PM
‘We will safeguard our freedom’
“Shadhinata orjoner cheye rokkha kora kathin”
9 August 2024, 18:00 PM