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Metro rail / Uttara Centre Station to open Feb 18, Mirpur-10 on Mar 1
9 February 2023
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Transport
Metro rail transported 3.35 lakh commuters since opening
31 January 2023
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Transport
PM Sheikh Hasina reaches Rajshahi’s Sardah
29 January 2023
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Bangladesh
'15th NDF BD National Debate Carnival 23' set to begin on Feb 24
17 January 2023
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Masum elected president, Nannu GS of Bangladesh Jubo Union
14 January 2023
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Politics
Russian ship with Rooppur power plant materials docks at Indian port
10 January 2023
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Diplomacy
The Daily Star reporter wins Asia Foundation-IED Media fellowship
22 December 2022
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Malaysia-bound trawler capsizes; bodies of 3 Rohingyas recovered, 46 rescued
4 October 2022
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Rohingya Influx
Bangabandhu is ultimate history: B Chy
President of Bikalpa Dhara Bangladesh (BDB) Dr AQM Badruddoza Chowdhury says those who deny Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman they ultimately deny the Liberation War and the map and existence of the country.
20 August 2019
Be careful while constructing roads: PM to authorities
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina directs the authorities concerned to be careful while constructing roads so that natural flow of water during rainy season are not blocked by those structures.
20 August 2019
Inflation rises to 5.62% in July
The country’s inflation has increased 10 basis points to 5.62 percent in the first month of the current fiscal as both food and non-food price increased in July.
20 August 2019
Star Day at a Glance, Tuesday, August 20, 2019
Hello dear readers! How are you doing today? Here are the news headlines so far on August 20, 2019
20 August 2019
KOICA urged to provide tech education support to Bangladesh
Finance Minister AHM Kamal has urged Korea International Cooperation Agency (KOICA) to provide technological education support to Bangladesh in areas like robotics, artificial intelligence, block chain, and energy storage.
20 August 2019
Primary education officials asked to monitor their school areas
Field-level officials of Directorate of Primary Education (DPE) have been asked to monitor the areas of government primary schools so that no-primary level educational institutions would be established there.
20 August 2019
Bangabandhu and Bangladesh are not separate: IGP
One needs to know Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman first if he/she wants to know Bangladesh, Inspector General of Police (IGP) Mohammad Javed Patwary says.
20 August 2019
‘Exclusion from NRC doesn't mean declared foreigner’
Seeking to assuage mounting anxieties in Assam over exclusion of names in the final National Register of Citizens (NRC) to be published on August 31, the Indian government has said non-inclusion of a person’s name in the document does not by itself amount to him or her being declared as a foreigner.
20 August 2019
Attack on Hasina’s train: HC accepts appeals of 43 convicts
The High Court (HC) accepts three separate appeals filed by 43 convicts in a case over attack on a train carrying the then opposition leader Sheikh Hasina in Pabna's Ishwardi 25 years ago.
20 August 2019
MDs of Sonali Bank, Rupali Bank swapped
The managing directors of Sonali Bank and Rupali Bank swaps seats for the next three years, in what can be viewed as a baffling round of musical chairs.
20 August 2019
Modi invites Sheikh Hasina to visit India
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has formally invited his Bangladesh counterpart Sheikh Hasina for a bilateral official visit to India in the first week of October next.
20 August 2019
HC extends Khaleda's bail for 1yr in Cumilla murder case
The High Court extends for one year its earlier order that granted bail to BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia in a case filed for killing seven people by setting fire on a bus in Cumilla in 2015.
20 August 2019
‘Robber’ killed in Cox’s Bazar ‘gunfight’
A suspected robber has been killed in a reported gunfight with Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) in Pekua upazila of Cox’s Bazar.
20 August 2019
‘Girl found at Kamalapur station was raped before murder’
The 18-year-old girl, who was found dead at a toilet of an abandoned carriage at Kamalapur Railway Station yesterday morning, was raped before murder, doctor says.
20 August 2019
IAEA, FAO, WHO joint team to help Bangladesh to control Aedes mosquitoes
A joint expert team of International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and World Health Organization (WHO) of the United Nations will assess the feasibility of Sterile Insect Technique (SIT) in controlling Aedes mosquitoes in Bangladesh.
20 August 2019
FR Tower land owner Faruque gets bail
A Dhaka court grants bail to land owner of FR Tower SMHI Faruque considering his illness and old age in two separate cases filed for illegal extension of the high rise building in the capital’s Banani.
20 August 2019
DSCC giving all efforts to control dengue outbreak by first week of Sept: Khokon
Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC) is giving its all efforts to control the dengue outbreak by the first week of September, its Mayor Sayeed Khokon expresses hope.
20 August 2019
Why Minni should not be granted bail: HC
The High Court issues a rule asking the government to explain in a week why Aysha Siddika Minni should not be granted bail in her husband Rifat Sharif’s murder case.
20 August 2019
Not proud as an Indian: Amartya Sen
Nobel laureate Dr Amartya Sen came down heavily on Indian government's recent move on Kashmir, saying it not only emphasised majority rule "as opposed to it sustaining the rights of all human beings".
20 August 2019
Midday Brief, Tuesday, August 20, 2019
Hello dear readers! How are you doing today?
Here are the news headlines so far on August 20, 2019
20 August 2019