The first significant cold wave of this winter season has hit north Bengal the strongest. Today mercury level fell at 11 degrees Celsius in Kurigram and Lalmonirhat, with thick fog and piercing cold wind throughout the night and almost the entire day.

Seventy-three year old Shona Ullah is a volunteer traffic controller. Even though he has been looking after people on the road, no one took notice of his living conditions. The house he lived in with his wife was dilapidated. The elderly couple was desperately in need of a new house. The volunteer traffic controller from Kurigram was overwhelmed emotionally after he received a new house.

Manowara Begum can’t recall the year she was born but she remembers 1971 very well, when she was a student of class 7. She was tortured by the Pakistani army during the war. She revisited Wapda Quarters where she was tortured during the Liberation War.

After 3 years of discontinuation, Malaysia has opened its market for Bangladeshi workers. But concerns remain that a powerful international lobby is there to monopolise migration agencies -- resulting in mismanagement, corruption and a high migration cost.

Bangladesh Railway has taken up several projects to bring the entire country under the rail network. As a part of this, construction of about 101km rail lines from Dohazari to Cox’s Bazar via Ramu began in 2018.

What Bhabna regrets, and what she hopes for Ashna Habib Bhabna, one of the most prominent actors of our time, is also an author, dancer and model. Her film, the Nurul Alam Atique directorial 'Laal Moroger Jhuti', is garnering positive responses from the audience.

April 2, 1971. There was curfew all over the country. By 11:30 pm, a military jeep arrived at Suresh Kumar Pande’s place in Rajshahi. Suresh came out hearing knocks on the door. A Pakistani soldier shot him while leaving after the conversation. Suresh was martyred.

The age-old tradition of handing out free books to school students is facing obstacles this year. Publisher and affiliated officials are saying that they will be able to deliver books to primary school students on the 1st of January. Students of pre-primary and secondary students might not be as lucky as they’re facing uncertainty.

Production of “Rong Dhong” starring Mosharraf Karim is under way in Pubail of Gazipur. The concept of the drama is by Ibne Hasan. It is directed by Sohail Hasan, and written by Yusuf Ali Khokon. We will see Mosharraf Karim as a rebel in the play.

Buying and using gold jewellery is a cultural phenomenon. People also buy gold as financial security or a rainy day fund. However, buying gold is only the first step. How would you get a fair price selling it? Todays’ Star Explains brings various aspects of selling used gold jewellery.

A 17-year-old girl named Ruby is the only person in her family who can hear or speak.

The mother of a freedom fighter has been waiting for her son for 50 years in an old house adjacent to Government Women's College in Pirojpur city.

Today (December 16) marks the golden jubilee of Bangladesh's victory in the Liberation War. On this day in 1971, freedom fighters of the nation snatched victory from the Pakistani army. People gathered at the Jatiya Smriti Shoudho today to pay tributes to the martyrs.

June 13, 1971. It was midnight, when they began bringing hundreds of Marwari families to Saidpur Railway Station.

Medical technologist Prokash Kumar Das, lab-in-charge of Khulna General Hospital, managed to embezzle Tk 2.58 crores of the Covid testing fees collected at the hospital.

For a decade, children have started their new school year with the smell of freshly printed textbooks, but it may not happen for all pre-primary and secondary students this year.

Bangladesh has entered the era of 5G mobile network. On December 12, 2021, the new infrastructure was experimentally launched at Radisson Blu Water Garden Hotel in Dhaka. Only Teletalk will offer this service in certain places on an experimental basis.

Today is the 50th anniversary of Bir Shreshtha Captain Mohiuddin Jahangir's martyrdom. He was martyred on December 14, 1971 during a frontline battle in Chapainawabganj. His comrades still bear the tragedy of his death only two days before the liberation.

“Call Drop” is a technical term used for describing calls that drop due to technical errors of mobile service providers. The main cause behind this is poor signal. According to a recent report by the Bangladesh Telecommunications Regulatory Commission (BTRC), mobile phone users in Bangladesh have received only 22 minutes of compensation for every 100 minutes of call drop in the fiscal year 2020-21. This led to a loss of Tk 16.5 crore for mobile phone users. What are the main reasons for call drops?

Three members of a family were burnt in an explosion in Old Dhaka. The explosion, believed to be caused by gas line leakage, also injured seven more. The injured are being treated in a hospital. Some parts of the building collapsed following the explosion.