It has been three years since the Tazreen fire incident which left some 112 dead and hundreds more injured due to smoke inhalation and fire.

The picture published in yesterday's paper portrays a menace we are all too familiar with: canals blocked by garbage. The inevitable waterlogging...

ABM Abul Kashem, former lawmaker and Chittagong (north) district unit vice-president of Awami League, died of old-age complications

The International Civil Aviation Organization's (ICAO) deadline on Machine Readable Passport (MRP) passes today, and 1.1 million expatriate...

We are outraged by Pakistan foreign ministry's statement expressing 'deep concern and anguish' over the execution of two war criminals who...

Politician and social worker Golam Akbar Chowdhury died of old-age ailments at Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University in the capital yesterday. He was 86.

Terming it a brazen interference in Bangladesh's internal affairs, Dhaka yesterday strongly protested Islamabad's statement on Sunday's execution of two war criminals.

A two-day national knowledge fair on “Disaster Risk Reduction and Climate Change Adaptation in Bangladesh” will begin at the Department of Agricultural Extension (DAE) in Dhaka tomorrow, said a press release.

Today is the 31st death anniversary of Moqbul Hossain, former deputy director of Bangladesh Power Development Board, says a press release.

We unequivocally welcome the unanimous adoption of a UN Security Council resolution urging the world to unite to defeat IS. The move follows the recent ghastly terrorist attacks in Beirut...

M Afzal Khan, former managing director of Bangladesh Shipping Corporation, died at his city residence yesterday. He was 86.

SQ Choudhury and Ali Ahsan Mojaheed have got their comeuppance. And we express our satisfaction at the conclusion of the process of justice for which the nation has been waiting for the last 44 years.

Salauddin Quader Chowdhury and Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mojaheed were hanged early today for committing crimes against humanity during the country's Liberation War. The two walked the gallows around 12:55am together at Dhaka Central Jail amid tight security, Brig Gen Syed Iftekhar Uddin, inspector general (prisons), told The Daily Star.

Abul Kashem; a freedom fighter, and a leader of the 1969 mass upsurge, also a presidium member of Gono Forum;

Today is the 17th death anniversary of Zebunnisa Jahangir Suraiya; wife of Lt Col NAM Jahangir, a Liberation War

Although workplace fatalities and injuries are prevalent in Bangladesh, the country lacks official statistics on the

Green activists and residents of Golapbagh area recently formed a “citizens' rally” to demand the return of their beloved Golapbagh

Once a swamp, it is now an innovative fish enclosure and vegetable farm run by thirty enterprising locals, including ten women, of

A mobile court of the Chittagong district administration fined two pharmacies Tk 1 lakh in Lalkhanbazar area of the

That Bangladesh would be among the worst hit countries in the world for climate change has been a severe cause for concern for environmentalists and policymakers in the country.