Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi is likely to make his first official visit to Bangladesh in the first week of June, a highly placed diplomatic source in New Delhi told The Daily Star yesterday.

Adult illiteracy in Indonesia is dropping, but one region has almost a million adults who cannot read. In central Java, one man and his horse are helping improve access to books.

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A flock of Bollywood celebrities swarms actor Salman Khan’s Galaxy Apartments in Mumbai to show support after he was convicted of culpable homicide not amounting to murder and given five years in jail on May 6.

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In a rare display of unanimity, India's Rajya Sabha yesterday passed the landmark constitution amendment bill to ratify the long-pending Land Boundary Agreement with Bangladesh.

An artwork that gets your feet wet is about to be unveiled in Venice at the 56th International Biennale.

Bihar's conjoined twins Saba and Farah who are 'Rakhi-sisters' of Bollywood actor Salman Khan begins a fast to express their solidarity with the actor who is sentenced to five years' jail in a 2002 hit-and-run case.

The Bollywood family stands by Salman offering support and consolation after the superstar was placed to 5 years in jail in a hit-and-run case.

An Indian court today sentenced Bollywood superstar Salman Khan to five years in jail for running over a man in Mumbai 13 years ago.

Emran Hossain and Mohammad Ali Zinnat did an extensive investigation into human trafficking from Bangladesh to Malaysia. For over three months, they carried out a thorough research, interviewed trafficking victims, brokers and rights groups, and travelled to the southeastern coastal areas before reporting on the clandestine crime that brings to mind the horror of slave trade of the past.

Promising jobs in Malaysia, transnational human traffickers held about 2.5 lakh Bangladeshis captive in Thailand...

Nearly 3,700 migrants were rescued from boats near the coast of Libya on Saturday and early yesterday, the Italian coastguard said.

Tamim Iqbal smashed his way into the record books with the highest score for Bangladesh in test matches with his superb knock of 206 runs from 278 balls in the first test match against Pakistan at Khulna Stadium.

Bollywood actress and former Miss Universe Sushmita Sen, who makes her debut in a Bengali movie which hits the screens today, says the film is a fulfillment of her father Shuber Sen's dream.

With new positions in organisational/industrial psychology with the growth of corporate culture, and wider awareness of mental illnesses, the demand for psychologists in Bangladesh is greater than ever.

Women entrepreneurs should focus on innovative food businesses, like diabetic confectionary items, due to its immense potential in

The Bangladesh cricket fraternity suddenly embraced the good news yesterday that Bangladesh had jumped above Pakistan to the

Though not happy with the irregularities and vote rigging during the just held city corporation elections, commoners in Dhaka city want to see their city clean, free of traffic-jam and developed.

Employees at different hotels and restaurants in Pabna are forced to work 12 to 15 hours a day. And despite this long hours of work, they are poorly paid.