Dhaka University: Can it still lead us?

Professor Dr. A A M S Arefin Siddique, Vice Chancellor, University of Dhaka, talks to Amitava Kar about how the spirit of Dhaka University remains intact despite many limitations
20 May 2016, 18:00 PM

School student killed in Kushtia bomb blast

A school student is killed and another injured in a crude bomb blast in Kushtia Sadar upazila.
20 May 2016, 06:48 AM

Water transport shut as cyclone Roanu gets closer

As cyclone Roanu moved inside a thousand kilometres near Bangladesh’s coast, authorities have suspended water transport through the country until further notice. Met office is optimistic the cyclone will lose steam with rainfall as it makes landfall tomorrow along Chittagong-Noakhali coast.
20 May 2016, 05:30 AM

Auto-owners besiege Thakurgaon municipality

Owners and drivers of diesel-run three-wheelers and battery-run auto-rickshaws, with their vehicles, besieged Thakurgaon Municipality
19 May 2016, 18:00 PM

4 missing in Pabna

Four people, including three of a family, have been missing for the last ten days since May 10 in Pabna as plainclothes men
19 May 2016, 18:00 PM

Patients suffer in Bogra clinics, hospitals

Medical technologists and pharmacists of the district observed a two-hour work abstention for the last two days in their respective work
19 May 2016, 18:00 PM

Cyclone Roanu heads towards Bangladesh

After battering the Indian coast for last two days, the first cyclone of the monsoon is heading north to Bangladesh.
19 May 2016, 12:57 PM

3 high-ups of edu ministry made OSD

Three officials of the education ministry have been withdrawn and punitively made officer on special duty (OSD) today.
19 May 2016, 12:05 PM

138 children raped in last 4 months: Report

A total of 138 children were raped during the first four months of the current year, according to a report revealed by Bangladesh Shishu Adhikar Forum.
19 May 2016, 06:12 AM

Crops, houses damaged as storm hits different areas

A college student was killed and a number of houses and vast croplands were damaged as storms lashed Panchagarh and Jhenidah districts on Tuesday.
18 May 2016, 18:00 PM

Digital driving licence to be costlier by 50%

The cost of digital smart card driving licence is likely to go up by about 50 percent following Cabinet Purchase Committee's approval of a tender proposed by the Bangladesh Road Transport Authority (BRTA).
18 May 2016, 14:11 PM

Lightning kills 3 cows

Three cows were killed by lighting in Dhamoirhat upazila of Naogaon district on Monday evening. Locals said a thunderbolt struck the
17 May 2016, 18:00 PM

200 families homeless as Jamuna erosion serious

Erosion by the Jamuna River has rendered over 200 hundred families under five unions of two upazilas homeless in the last five days.
17 May 2016, 18:00 PM

5 more anthrax infected, IEDCR team visits spot

Five more anthrax infected patients have been identified in Koira Soratol village under Ullapara upazila of Sirajganj district, bringing the
17 May 2016, 18:00 PM

Transport strike in 21 districts withdrawn

Transport owners and workers withdraw their 48-hour strike in 21 districts of the country's south western region.
16 May 2016, 13:03 PM

Mobile phone users to get call drop compensation from June

Mobile phone operators will give free minutes to its users as compensation for every case of call drop and network failure from June 1.
15 May 2016, 09:04 AM

Khulna div transport strike causes public suffering

Commuters are facing untold sufferings as transport owners and workers enforced a 48-hour strike in 10 districts of Khulna division.
15 May 2016, 05:10 AM

48-hr transport strike in Khulna from tomorrow

Transport owners and workers calls a 48-hour strike in 10 districts under Khulna division tomorrow demanding the withdrawal of two compensation cases filed against the owners of Chuadanga ‘Deluxe Paribahan’ and ‘Green line Paribahan’.
14 May 2016, 11:51 AM

35 sued over Cox's Bazar Ansar camp attack

Thirty five unknown persons are sued in connection with the killing of an Ansar member who was gunned down allegedly by robbers inside Rohingya refugee camp in Teknaf upazila of Cox’s Bazar.
14 May 2016, 06:37 AM

Anwara Bahar Choudhury - Breaking traditional shackles

The Daily Star looks at the life of a great Bengali Muslim educationist who dedicated her whole life for the education and empowerment of women.
13 May 2016, 18:00 PM