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
Rab in for reckoning
Rab will neither be allowed to own properties in the US nor engage in transactions with anyone in the US because of the sanctions.
11 December 2021, 18:00 PM
icddr,b's 61 years of glorious service: From cholera to Covid
The birth of icddr,b almost coincided with the seventh cholera pandemic that according to the World Health Organisation began in South Asia in 1961.
4 December 2021, 18:00 PM
Justice for Human Trafficking: A privilege now gets in the way
When migrant workers fell victim to labour trafficking and filed cases with the police, the law enforcers prosecuted or arrested the recruiting agents responsible for sending the workers abroad.
1 December 2021, 18:00 PM
Draft policy on ecommerce firms: Strict watch thru’ central platform
All e-commerce companies will soon have to come under one digital platform monitored by multiple state agencies, as the government looks to increase oversight on the sector that has become a hotbed for irregularities in recent months.
15 November 2021, 18:00 PM
Killings of Journalists: Justice a mirage as impunity prevails
Some of them were murdered a decade ago, some in the early 2000s or even earlier. There is, however, a striking similarity: justice has not been done to them as impunity prevails.
1 November 2021, 18:00 PM
Compensations for Rape Victims: A scheme ever elusive
As she sits on her wheelchair, eleven-year-old Setu (real name withheld) can feel the discomfort of her extra-large baby diapers and a urinary catheter leading to a collection bag.
29 October 2021, 18:00 PM
DSA Case Over Facebook Post: A price too steep for a minor
A 17-year-old girl has been languishing in a juvenile correction centre for a whole year because of a Facebook post that she allegedly made demeaning the Quran and hurting religious sentiment.
28 October 2021, 18:00 PM
UAE Visit Visas: Only ‘real’ tourists to fly
Twenty-year-old Md Bijoy has already paid Tk 2 lakh for taking a cleaner’s job in Dubai and has even got a visa to the Gulf emirate.
7 October 2021, 18:00 PM
Evaly Debt: Only a part peeled
Evaly owes at least Tk 408 crore to 1,026 sellers, according to its own data obtained by The Daily Star.
2 October 2021, 18:00 PM
DSA Cases Studied in last 20 months: Only two out of 668 disposed of
Think-tank Centre for Governance Studies says it tracked details of 668 out of more than 1,500 cases filed under the controversial Digital Security Act in the last 20 months or so, and found that only two of the cases have been disposed of.
30 September 2021, 18:00 PM
Rogue IPTVs on the prowl
Right opposite the Gabtoli bus terminal, there is a blue building squeezed between bus counters -- a hotel as seedy as it gets. A narrow flight of stairs takes customers up to the bare-bones rooms.
21 September 2021, 18:00 PM
Personal Data Protection Law: Door ajar for misuse
In a forward-looking move, the government has set out to form a law for personal data protection fashioned on the EU’s momentous General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) as it looks to make Bangladesh fit for the digital age.
12 September 2021, 18:00 PM
Compensating N’ganj Fire Victims: Company buys ‘legal immunity’
For a sum of Tk 2 lakh per deceased worker, Hashem Foods Ltd bought legal immunity from being prosecuted further.
6 September 2021, 18:00 PM
Enforced Disappearances: Days in custody unaccounted for
There is a kind of enforced disappearance where a person is picked up or abducted, vanishes into thin air and is never heard from again.
29 August 2021, 18:00 PM
No baby count in Cox’s Bazar in 4yrs
In 2017, a month after the Rohingya refugee influx, the Cox’s Bazar district administration suspended birth registration in the area.
25 August 2021, 18:00 PM
Data sovereignty or data control?
The government is drafting a bill to make social media surveillance stricter and legal.
18 August 2021, 18:00 PM
N’ganj Factory Fire: All hope lost for 24 families
The bodies of 24 of the workers who died in the Hashem Foods factory fire last month were handed over to their families yesterday.
4 August 2021, 18:00 PM
Red tape stymieing biomed inventions
As the pandemic raged on for the last year and a half, the inventor’s wheels also kept turning.
29 July 2021, 18:00 PM
World Day Against Trafficking in Persons: Trapped in Kurdistan
The horrifying tales of Bangladeshi women being trafficked, more often than not, take place in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
29 July 2021, 18:00 PM
Hospitals stare at tougher time
The Covid pandemic has entered a phase where hospitals across the country are being pushed to their limits.
25 July 2021, 18:00 PM