Zaid Kalam

The horrific well of Jalladkhana Killing Field Memorial in Mirpur still bears the marks of butchery that took place 45 years back.

You are wrong if you think that Mongol Shobhajatra began long ago. A group of students of Fine Arts Institute of Dhaka University (DU) brought out the first colourful procession marking Pahela Baishakh in 1989.

The summer is here and the heat of the sun is becoming unbearable. Thanks to the Equinox phenomenon (sun's direct position above the equator line), people get heatstroke, fall sick in this season. And children and elder people suffer the most.

Pahela Baisakh in Dhaka at the Suhrawardi Udyan fare with Hilsa and panta bhat. A writer-poet, now living in Canada, made the claim sometime back that it was he and his group of friends who started the fad.

No one is above the law and the traffic police in Dhaka’s Farmgate area has made the exemplary move by translating the words into action. Though the Farmgate point has been an example of rampant traffic violation, not sparing unruly state-run BRTC buses prove that they are trying their best.

Let us walk down the memory lane to look back at the events in the year 2015 that are etched in our memories and would remain so no matter how much we would want to forget them.

A draft guideline proposes banning all kinds of billboards at turning points of major roads in Dhaka to make the city safe and beautiful.

With the fifth murder of a blogger spreading a wave of frustration among the general public, The Daily Star talked to people on the Dhaka University campus today to know what they were thinking about the situation.

Does 50% profit on your investment in a short time sound too good to be true? It’s both. It’s good and it’s true. You can get the 50% profit by farming fish in your pond after five months.

A promising cereal formula has been invented by Bangladesh experts to fight deadly acute malnutrition in children. The ready-to-use therapeutic food (RUTF) is made of locally available ingredients.

These are the words of a song titled “Freedom fighters” by Lee Brennan, a folk singer and poet of Liverpool, England. Following the March 1971 crackdown by Pakistan army on innocent Banglaees, Brennan rushed to the members of the Bangladeshi community living in Liverpool that time to find a way how he can support the victims.

Major General (retd) KM Shafiullah, who was the Second in Command of Second East Bengal Regiment that revolted on the night of March 25, 1971, talks about the contribution of the armed forces to our Liberation War.

Guerrilla Commander Nasiruddin Yusuf Bachchu gives an account of the last battles of freedom fighters who were under his command against the Pakistani army just days before December 16 in 1971.

Guerrilla Commander Nasiruddin Yusuf Bachchu gives an account of the last battles of freedom fighters who were under his command against the Pakistani army just days before December 16 in 1971.

Writer, historian and war crimes researcher Shahriar Kabir talks about...

Shahzaman Mozumder Bir Protik goes back to the heroic days of our 1971 Liberation War and tells the story of the battle of Ashuganj and the Muktibahini's march towards Dhaka.

Muktijoddha (Freedom Fighter) and renowned actor Raisul Islam Asad tells his stories of dangerous guerrilla missions he took part in Dhaka city during the Liberation War in 1971.

With such ordinary equipment they made so many extraordinary programmes, wonders Nasreen Ahamad, an English news caster and singer of Swadhin Bangla Betar Kendra.

Muktijoddha (Freedom Fighter) and renowned actor Raisul Islam Asad tells his stories of dangerous guerrilla missions he took part in Dhaka city during the Liberation War in 1971.

Freedom Fighter Md Haris and and his team members used to conduct operations against Pakistani army and their local collaborators under joint command in Chittagong city during the Liberation War in 1971.