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

A school student is killed and another injured in a crude bomb blast in Kushtia Sadar upazila.

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.

Owners and drivers of diesel-run three-wheelers and battery-run auto-rickshaws, with their vehicles, besieged Thakurgaon Municipality

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

Medical technologists and pharmacists of the district observed a two-hour work abstention for the last two days in their respective work

After battering the Indian coast for last two days, the first cyclone of the monsoon is heading north to Bangladesh.

Three officials of the education ministry have been withdrawn and punitively made officer on special duty (OSD) today.

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.

A college student was killed and a number of houses and vast croplands were damaged as storms lashed Panchagarh and Jhenidah districts on Tuesday.

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).

Three cows were killed by lighting in Dhamoirhat upazila of Naogaon district on Monday evening. Locals said a thunderbolt struck the

Erosion by the Jamuna River has rendered over 200 hundred families under five unions of two upazilas homeless in the last five days.

Five more anthrax infected patients have been identified in Koira Soratol village under Ullapara upazila of Sirajganj district, bringing the

Transport owners and workers withdraw their 48-hour strike in 21 districts of the country's south western region.

Mobile phone operators will give free minutes to its users as compensation for every case of call drop and network failure from June 1.

Commuters are facing untold sufferings as transport owners and workers enforced a 48-hour strike in 10 districts of Khulna division.

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’.

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.

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.