The BADC officers and employees in the district have been working in a very old and dilapidated office building risking their lives as it can collapse any time.

It is inexcusable that underprivileged people are forced to pay bribes or lobby with local influential people to get government services related to the food and agricultural sector.

It is unthinkable that 1,018 out of 1,539 buses of Bangladesh Road and Transport Corporation (BRTC) earned Tk 226.93 crore in profit while Tk 220.36 crore was spent for operation and maintenance, even more so when one considers the price of each of the buses.

Large cities of Bangladesh now experience more female migration than those of the male, according to a new study by the UN Population Fund.

Rail communication of Khulna with the rest of the country has been restored five hours following derailment of a freight train at Singia Railway Station in Jessore Sadar upazila.

It is indeed unsettling to note that one-third of Bangladeshi migrant workers resort to illegal channels to go abroad.

The visiting World Bank (WB) chief has stated that Bangladesh has made “great progress in reducing child malnutrition and stunting” and committed to provide US$1billion over the next three years to that effect.

Housewife Mira Yangyung, 45, from Jaintapur Khasi Para village in Sylhet's Jaintapur upazila used to be bound to

Several hundred students of different schools in the Teesta river basin area of Hatibandha upazila are now attending

Our attention is drawn by two reports, one pictorial, showing a young man walking on the rail-lines with a phone held to his ear in the capital's Nakhalpara area, completely oblivious to the danger he is exposing himself to, and the other a report of three children run over by a train in Brahmanbaria, while they were shooting a video of another train with a mobile phone.

PM'S call at the BIMSTEC summit to fight terrorism reflects the reality that the phenomenon, being multidimensional, is straddling international borders.

The accident caused by an ambulance owned, reportedly, by a staff of the Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH) reveals more than

The old adage 'measure twice, cut once' may sound clichéd but assumes a critical meaning in any project implementation. It seems that

Sixteen fishermen were jailed in Chandpur and Faidpur yesterday on charge of hilsa fishing defying a 22-day ban imposed by the

At least 735 roadside trees, worth about Tk 30 lakh, have been felled 'illegally' in Kalyani union under Pirgachha upazila of Rangpur

Transparency International Bangladesh (TIB) accords awards to nine journalists for their significant role in investigative reporting on corruption.

After making a big splash on international media including the likes of National Geographic and LA Times Bangladeshi surfer girls have now made it to CBC, Canada’s largest news organization.

Documents obtained by The Daily Star regarding fertiliser imported from Saudi Arabia have highlighted negligence on part of both the state-run organisation which imports the sacks and the company exporting them.

We think we reflect the sentiment of every section of our people, when we say the just concluded visit of the Chinese President has been extremely fruitful for both countries, liking our relationship to a strategic level, mainly for our commercial and economic development.

A grocer started travelling to Dhaka from Rangpur on foot to raise public awareness about road safety across the country.