Millions mourn
The entire city stood in solemn tribute to Bangladesh’s first female prime minister yesterday.
31 December 2025, 21:00 PM
31 December 2025, 21:00 PM
Political parties must tolerate dissent and embrace diversity
Justice and accountability for the egregious human rights violations of the past is crucial, but the challenge lies in ensuring this is not done by repeating patterns of reprisal and retaliation, warned Sara Hossain, a senior lawyer at the Supreme Court, as she spoke about the role of political parties in protecting human rights.
9 December 2025, 18:00 PM
9 December 2025, 18:00 PM
Unsafe storage, system failure behind airport fire: probe
Automatic fire detection, suppression systems recommended
8 November 2025, 18:10 PM
8 November 2025, 18:10 PM
Journalists trapped in legal maze
More than a year since July uprising, at least 296 journalists and media managers remain entangled in cases linked to deaths and violence
1 November 2025, 18:00 PM
1 November 2025, 18:00 PM
Ministry drops independent commission from journo protection law
A draft ordinance prepared by the information ministry has omitted any reference to an independent media commission as proposed by the body tasked with media reforms.
28 October 2025, 18:11 PM
28 October 2025, 18:11 PM
NCP weighing its paths to JS
Nearly half of the NCP’s central leaders favour forging an alliance with the BNP ahead of the 13th national election in February.
11 October 2025, 18:00 PM
11 October 2025, 18:00 PM
Govt plans to form paramilitary force for airports
Named Aviation Guard Bangladesh (AGB), the force would comprise 7,650 personnel
29 September 2025, 18:02 PM
29 September 2025, 18:02 PM
Govt plans sweeping overhaul of NHRC
The government has drafted an ordinance to unshackle the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) from a 15-year bar on probing members of the security forces.
20 September 2025, 18:21 PM
20 September 2025, 18:21 PM
BSMMU Trial of Gonoshasthya Kit: Report justifies its usefulness
While Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman University Vice-Chancellor Prof Kanak Kanti Barua verbally spurned the Rapid Dot-Blot test developed by Gonoshasthaya Kendra last Wednesday, calling it “ineffective in detecting Covid-19”, the full report justifies and recommends its use as an antibody test.
22 June 2020, 18:00 PM
Health Sector: When critiquing courts danger
Has asking questions about, commenting on, or critiquing the health sector, and the agents responsible for it, become tantamount to an activity for which one can be punished and even arrested?
18 June 2020, 18:00 PM
Denied treatment by her hospital, young nurse dies
A 22-year-old nurse of the capital’s Ibn Sina Hospital died in front of its emergency unit allegedly after being refused admission yesterday.
14 June 2020, 18:00 PM
Ibn Sina hesitates to treat one of their own, nurse dies
A nurse from Ibn Sina Hospital died without admission at the same hospital’s emergency yesterday, after allegedly being refused on grounds of her not having a Covid-19 clearance certificate.
14 June 2020, 14:08 PM
No break for middle class
Save for a slash in income tax, there is no respite in this year’s budget for the penny-pinching middle class. Their expenditures will continue going up even as the global pandemic and resulting recession hits their incomes and slashes their jobs.
11 June 2020, 18:00 PM
Whitening black money now more lucrative than ever
With the opportunity offered to money launderers by the government to whiten black money failing to draw a significant response, the new budget has made a new, lucrative proposition -- invest the money and no one, not even the income tax authority, will be able to question its source.
11 June 2020, 14:30 PM
Budget 2020-21: Middle class left out as always
Save for a slash in the income tax, there is no respite in this year’s budget for penny-pinching middle class families.
11 June 2020, 13:32 PM
Public Transport in Pandemic: Commuters’ new fear
For two months, the concept publicised over and over again was that staying home was the key to combating the spread of coronavirus.
31 May 2020, 18:00 PM
Flattening the curve a far cry now
On the same day the Cabinet Division issued a circular on relaxing the shutdown, the government’s very own National Technical Advisory Committee on May 28 warned of an explosion of cases if health and safety measures were not implemented strictly.
30 May 2020, 18:00 PM
‘Watched helplessly as United’s corona isolation unit burned, with my father inside’
Vernon Anthony Paul was one of the five patients who died in the fire at United Hospital. Choked in anguish, his son narrates his harrowing experience.
28 May 2020, 10:43 AM
In remembrance: Niloufer Manzur
Three former students of the principal and founder of Sunbeams school remembers the pioneering educationist,
26 May 2020, 11:06 AM
Chapasthan removed from world map after cartoon ruins its national image
The League of Nations -- the body which pretends to have a mighty, big say in global affairs -- yesterday removed Chapasthan from the world map following a really funny cartoon drawn about it.
22 May 2020, 18:00 PM
Burden now HEAVIER
As the lockdown to curb the spread of coronavirus continues to have an impact on people from all walks of life, a generation of working women is learning that their “work-from-home” is not quite the same as that of men.
19 May 2020, 18:00 PM
Bangladeshi scientists crack virus genome
A team from Child Health Research Foundation (CHRF) yesterday successfully completed the genome sequencing of the SARS-CoV-2 virus in Bangladesh.
13 May 2020, 18:00 PM
Bangladeshi scientists complete genome sequencing of virus causing Covid-19
A team from Child Health Research Foundation (CHRF) successfully completes the genome sequencing of the SARS Cov-2 virus in Bangladesh.
13 May 2020, 07:38 AM
Little care for the living and the dead
Time is of the utmost essence in emergency care. But in this pandemic, as hospitals take on the challenge of a rising number of patients, emergency care is denied to many, resulting in fatal consequences.
10 May 2020, 18:00 PM
Case Against 11 Under dsa: Charges appear to be puzzling
The charges under Digital Security Act brought against 11 people, including two journalists, on May 6 are broadly described as “knowingly posting rumours against the Father of the Nation, the Liberation
8 May 2020, 18:00 PM
Digital Security Act: 11 sued, two sent to jail
Eleven people, including a cartoonist, a journalist and a writer, were charged with “spreading rumours and carrying out anti-government activities” under the Digital Security Act yesterday.
6 May 2020, 18:00 PM
Mugda hospital now at capacity
Coronavirus patients seeking admission had to be sent back from the gate of Mugda General Hospital yesterday as the public hospital in the capital was bursting at the seams.
29 April 2020, 18:00 PM
Wobbling as the going gets tough
On April 14, a doctor at the surgery department of Sir Salimullah Medical College Hospital sent The Daily Star a list of protective gear they were supplied that day.
25 April 2020, 18:00 PM