Govt to import 2 lakh tonnes of urea
18 March 2026, 02:40 AM
Bangladesh
Khrushchev’s Secret Speech: The 4 hours that shattered Stalin’s empire
25 February 2026, 19:08 PM
Historical
Man stabbed to death in Jashore
20 February 2026, 23:03 PM
Crime
Shafiqul Alam returns to journalism, joins 'The Daily Waadaa' as editor
18 February 2026, 16:13 PM
Bangladesh
How to spot disinformation on social media
10 February 2026, 17:48 PM
Tech & Startup
NCP to launch election campaign from Tin Netar Mazar in Dhaka tomorrow
21 January 2026, 18:59 PM
Elections
Left-aligned platform NPA launched at Central Shaheed Minar
16 January 2026, 17:54 PM
Politics
Disturbing accounts of ‘police abuse’
11 February 2025, 18:00 PM
Bangladesh
Crown jewels of Bengal
13 December 2024, 18:00 PM
Weekend Read
Hasina’s ouster grabs global headlines
5 August 2024, 13:49 PM
Hasina's Fall
Woman harassed at railway station ‘for her outfit’
Unidentified people assaulted a woman and her two friends at the Narsingdi Railway Station on Wednesday morning because of the clothes she was wearing, which the attackers had termed “indecent”.
20 May 2022, 18:00 PM
SP fired over covering up gold recovery
The Superintendent of Tourist Police in Sylhet Region, Altaf Hossain, has been terminated for his role in concealing 1.4kg of gold recovered in Satkhira in 2016, when he was the Satkhira SP.
20 May 2022, 18:00 PM
It’s harvest time
Farming families across the country are in different stages of Boro harvesting. In the low-lying plains, known as the haor region, farmers start harvesting paddy
20 May 2022, 18:00 PM
Ex-MP jailed for 7yrs in graft case
BNP leader and former MP Noor Afroz Begum Jyoti was awarded with seven-year imprisonment in a graft case yesterday.
19 May 2022, 18:00 PM
Man kills child, then self
A man hacked to death a nine-year-old son of the Dheukhali Union Parishad chairman in Faridpur’s Sadarpur in the latter’s house yesterday.
18 May 2022, 18:00 PM
Russia lost a third of its forces in Ukraine
Russia has lost around a third of the ground forces it deployed to Ukraine and its offensive in the Donbas region “has lost momentum and fallen significantly behind schedule”, British military intelligence said yesterday.
15 May 2022, 18:00 PM
Importing wheat from India: Govt prepping for G2G deal
Bangladesh is preparing to strike a deal to import wheat from India, said food ministry Secretary Mosammat Nazmunara Khanum.
15 May 2022, 18:00 PM
Dhaka College, Ideal College students clash
Two groups of higher secondary students at Dhaka College and Ideal College were caught in a clash in the capital’s Science Laboratory intersection around 11:00am yesterday.
14 May 2022, 18:00 PM
Rejoinder, our reply
The law, justice and parliamentary affairs ministry has sent a rejoinder to a report run by The Daily Star on April 10 under the headline “The ‘harasser’ doubles down on his act”.
13 May 2022, 18:00 PM
G7 allies vow to support Ukraine ‘until victory’
Leading democracies yesterday pledged unwavering support for Ukraine in its war with Russia while the European Union promised to hike military support for Kyiv by more than half a billion dollars.
13 May 2022, 18:00 PM
Budget carrier Flynas to ferry hajj pilgrims
After 10 long years, a third airlines -- Saudi Arabian budget carrier Flynas -- has been granted permission to transport Bangladeshi hajj pilgrims to and from the kingdom.
9 May 2022, 18:00 PM
Supreme Court stays Golden Monir’s bail
The Supreme Court’s chamber judge yesterday stayed a High Court order that granted bail to Monir Hossain, known as Golden Monir, in a money laundering case.
9 May 2022, 18:00 PM
Man killed over land dispute
A man was killed after being caught in a dispute over land between two stepbrothers in Tangail’s Nagarpur upazila yesterday.
9 May 2022, 18:00 PM
Trusting the businesspeople was a mistake
With the government still struggling to bring stability to the volatile edible oil market, Commerce Minister Tipu Munshi yesterday said it was a mistake on his part to trust the businesspeople as they hoarded edible oil and hiked prices abnormally after the Eid-ul-Fitr.
9 May 2022, 18:00 PM
Sri Lanka economic crisis: PM quits after violent clashes
Sri Lankan Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa quit yesterday, as an outbreak of political violence killed five people including an MP and wounded almost 200.
9 May 2022, 18:00 PM
Bangladesh's debt situation may become tricky from 2024-25
The debt situation may become tricky from 2024-25 if the government does not ramp up its revenue base now as the repayment schedule for many of the costly loans taken recently would begin then, said eminent economist Debapriya Bhattacharya yesterday.
9 May 2022, 18:00 PM
Trial drags on for 24 years: Man has no strength left for legal battle
As his name was called out, Ahad Ali stepped inside the courtroom and stood in the dock with both hands pressed together in a gesture of mercy, staring at the judge with pleading eyes.
9 May 2022, 18:00 PM
Don’t ask govt to absorb contractual staffers
The Supreme Court has prohibited all courts from directing the government to absorb contractual employees or officers of projects as permanent employees unless there is a statutory provision to this effect.
9 May 2022, 18:00 PM
Two AL men shot in clash with LDP
Two ruling Awami League men were shot allegedly by Liberal Democratic Party’s General Secretary Redwan Ahmed in Cumilla’s Chandina upazila yesterday.
9 May 2022, 18:00 PM
TIB on draft data protection act: Law may enable govt actors to control data
The draft data protection act empowers certain government actors with unbridled power to control the personal data of citizens, said TIB.
9 May 2022, 18:00 PM