The vast bulk of US immigrants are hard working, law-abiding people who make a critical contribution to the nation. Yet, suddenly it is open season on them.

I was informed one morning that Takia road, a local wholesale market in Feni, was flooded with palm and super edible oil labelled under the name of soybean oil.

Bangladesh is a lower middle-income country with a promising and stable economy. The economy of Bangladesh continues to maintain its sustainable growth momentum with a healthy 7 percent-plus growth rate in FY 2015-16.

The Bangladesh-India border has been labelled as one of the most securitised borders of Asia, if not of the world. During 2010 to

The opening words of an education blog posted under the auspices of UNESCO Global Education Monitoring report concludes that the

The World Bank is a major post-war financial institution providing conditional loans to its members.

It has been seven long years since water resources ministers of Bangladesh and India last met to talk about Teesta at the platform of Joint Rivers Commission (JRC). Since then Bangladesh has been more than ready about holding a meeting of the JRC, an official instrument devised jointly by Bangladesh and India back in 1972, to resolve water disputes and harness common water resources for mutual and regional benefits.

Congratulations to The Daily Star on its 26th birthday. Every year on this day, I rejoice, along with its readers and staff, at the accomplishments of this newspaper not only in the past year but also since its very first day, in 1991.

There is no doubt that the “language issue” did not prominently manifest in Bengal province before, during, after the general elections

I have been speaking to you for the past couple of days. I have been visiting you repeatedly in different sites, going back to your

There are shortages of skilled and highly skilled workforce in Bangladesh, a fact confirmed by a large number of expatriates being employed in top positions of private businesses.

Life without a sustainable supply of energy is almost unimaginable. The importance of energy is even more supplementary in the

A few minutes into Molla Sagar's dark, hallucinatory new film The River Titash, I started noticing the words on screen.

Three business executives have been acquitted on February 9 in a major foreign corruption case involving SNC-Lavalin Group Inc., known otherwise as the Padma Bridge scam, after an Ontario judge threw out wiretap evidence key to the case, saying the wiretap applications were based on gossip and rumour.

Oxfam's latest estimate that just eight super-rich people – down from 62 last year and 388 just six years ago – own more wealth than the poorest half of the world population is a clarion call to change the way we think about and try to tackle inequality.

We rarely talk about smaller cats like the ones mentioned here, which add to our precious biodiversity. With continuing habitat loss, these beautiful creatures are getting closer and closer to extinction every day.

What makes a young girl believe she is less intelligent and capable than a boy? And what happens when those children face the "hard" subjects like science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM)?

Donald Trump's declared principle of “America first” implies that under him the US would pursue ultra-nationalist, protectionist and isolationist foreign policies.

As we watched in horror the sea of red unfolding over the map of America, a place I had called home for the last 37 years, and the reality began to sink in that the unthinkable had happened—Donald Trump had been elected President of the United States—we had still not grasped what that would mean to those of us who were Muslims living in this country.

As we watched in horror the sea of red unfolding over the map of America, a place I had called home for the last 37 years, and the reality began to sink in that the unthinkable had happened—Donald Trump had been elected President of the United States—we had still not grasped what that would mean to those of us who were Muslims living in this country.