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The agonising wait

With dazed eyes on a blank face, five-year-old Sanin lay nestled in the arms of her father Suman, who was standing just yards off the Dhaka Medical College morgue yesterday.
22 February 2019

AL must repay people for their trust, says Hasina

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina says Awami League will have to repay the trust and confidence the people placed in it through continuing the development spree in the country and advancing it further.
22 February 2019

STAR Day at a Glance | Friday, February 22, 2019

Hello readers! How are you doing today? Here are the headlines on February 22, 2019
22 February 2019

Tyrant tees: Vietnam T-shirt designer earns bread from Trump-Kim mania

A T-shirt bearing the face of one of the world's most infamous dictators would normally be a tough sell, one would think.
22 February 2019

Kim and Trump lookalikes draw the crowds in Hanoi

Cars stop and tourists gawk at what appeared to be North Korean leader Kim Jong Un wandering the streets of Hanoi.
22 February 2019

Of deaths, the unexpected and unacceptable ones

The air around the Azimpur Graveyard is particularly heavy with wailing of people who come to bury their loved ones after losing them in the tragic incident of Chawkbazar fire.
22 February 2019

Midday Brief, Friday, February 22, 2019

Hello readers! How are you doing today? Here are the headlines so far on February 22, 2019.
22 February 2019

2 ‘JeM militants’ held in India

Two alleged members of Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM) arrested by police in India’s Uttar Pradesh, the state's top police official says.
22 February 2019

Prayer at nat’l mosque for Chawkbazar victims

A gayebana janaza is held at Baitul Mukarram National Mosque for the victims of the ghastly Chawkbazar fire.
22 February 2019

North Carolina orders new US House election after 'tainted' vote

North Carolina's elections board orders a new election for a US House seat after officials say corruption surrounding absentee ballots tainted the results of a 2018 vote that has embarrassed the Republican Party.
22 February 2019

Suu Kyi woos investors to crisis-hit Rakhine, decries "negative" focus

Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi calls for investment in the crisis-hit western state of Rakhine, saying the world had "focused narrowly on negative aspects" in the state from which some 730,000 Rohingya Muslims have fled since 2017.
22 February 2019

Venezuela to close border with Brazil

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro says the government was considering closing the border with Colombia and would close the border with Brazil ahead of opposition plans to bring in humanitarian aid despite his objection.
22 February 2019

CID to match DNA of Chawkbazar victims today, tomorrow

Criminal Investigation Department (CID) will be profiling the DNA of the unidentified victims of Chawkbazar fire for handing over the bodies.
22 February 2019

Uncensored with Rafi Hossain: Heera Shining Bright

​Heera has been an iconic figure in the modeling industry ever since she made her big-time debut in the 2008 edition of ‘Lux Channel i Superstar’. In this interview with Rafi Hossain, she talks about her illustrious career spanning over a decade.
22 February 2019

Chawkbazar fire: 46 bodies handed over

Authorities have handed over bodies of 46 victims of the devastating Chawkbazar fire to their families, district administration says.
22 February 2019

Dhaka fire: Info centre opened at DMCH

An information centre has been opened at Dhaka Medical College Hospital to convey updated information about the victims of Chawkbazar fire.
22 February 2019

12 held with over one lakh yaba pills in Cox's Bazar

Bangladesh Coast Guard yesterday detained 11 Rohingya men with 100,000 yaba pills from a fishing trawler on the Bay of Bengal in Teknaf upazila of Cox's Bazar.
21 February 2019

Trump bars IS woman from returning to US

President Donald Trump said Wednesday he is barring a US-born former Islamic State propagandist from returning home, making the highly unusual case that she is not a US citizen.
21 February 2019

How the fire began?

Multiple accounts of what caused Wednesday's fire at Chawkbazar have been put forth by different quarters.
21 February 2019

Condolences pour in for victim families

Condolences poured in to the bereaved families of those killed in the deadly blaze at Old Dhaka's Chawkbazar on Wednesday night.
21 February 2019