Shaheen Mollah

Under this mobile "Truck Sale" initiative, TCB is selling edible oil, sugar, and lentils at subsidised rates. The prices are set at Tk 135 per litre for cooking oil, Tk 85 per kg for sugar, and Tk 80 per kg for lentils

Police have arrested over 48,400 people across the country over the last one month, according to data from the Police Headquarters.

On Monday afternoon, five-year-old Roza Moni got hungry while playing in front of her house in Tejgaon’s Tejkunipara. She went to her mother and asked for lunch, but the meal was not ready yet.

Three individuals named as witnesses in the case filed over the killing of Mahfuz Alam Shraban during last year’s mass uprising said they were unaware of being listed as witnesses.

After the killing of her husband, the sole breadwinner of the family, in last year’s uprising, the woman pinned her hopes on the eldest daughter. The girl’s death, reportedly by suicide following the trauma of being gang-raped, shattered the mother’s new dreams.  

Police have arrested more than 12,700 people across the country over the past eight days.

Every other day, businessman Babul Miah boards a crowded bus from West Shewrapara and heads to Karwan Bazar to buy vegetables for his family..“It’s not convenient to carry seven or eight kilogrammes of vegetables back home by bus,” he said..“But I do it out of necessity. My business

For the past seven months, farmers in Kulaura upazila of Moulvibazar have stayed away from their land near the Lalarchak border, fearing attacks allegedly by India’s Border Security Force (BSF).

Earlier on September 3 last year, the 16-year-old girl was gunned down allegedly by the members of Indian Border Security Force (BSF) in Kulaura upazila of Moulvibazar

Consequently, a week before the Bangla New Year on April 14, the demand for hilsa skyrockets

Riyad Hossain, who sustained severe injuries in an alleged mob beating, was taken to Kurmitola General Hospital by law enforcers on Sunday morning.

Samata Begum, 55, stood by the roadside, tears streaming down her weathered face.

Prices of different varieties of chicken have increased by Tk 30 to Tk 50 per kilogrammes in Dhaka's kitchen markets

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.

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.

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.

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

The Daily Star investigates how July uprising protesters were disappeared in unmarked graves

Fire guts 35 shanties in Dhaka’s Bhasantek slum

Mob violence has been occurring in the country for years. But the recent spate of mugging and robbery has apparently caused a surge in such incidences.