Residents of South Saroatoli Kanjuri village in Boalkhali upazila of Chattogram have been living in fear of snakes for months.

April 4, 1971: Pakistani army, with the aid of Urdu speaking non-Bengalis started killing Bengalis en masse. On April 19, they killed martyred intellectual Mostafa Hassan Ahmed, then assistant teacher of Lalmonirhat Railway CP School.

Three members of parliament have violated polls code and publicly campaigned for the Awami League backed candidate of Natore municipality election.

The United States government has issued an executive order on account of "Serious Human Rights Abuse or Corruption", imposing property and visa sanctions on Benazir Ahmed, former Director General of Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) and current Inspector General of Police, along with six former and current high officials of the force.

Due to conflicts between two ministries, the plan to establish a unified and independent intellectual property (IP) office to provide copyrights, patents, design, and trademark certificates has been stuck in limbo.

Huawei is scheduled to roll out 5G in Bangladesh. The trial will start in Dhaka and they’ve chosen Teletalk as their partner. Huawei Bangladesh’s Chief Technology Officer (CTO) visits The Daily Star to talk to Shariar Rahman of Toggle about the future plans of Huawei in Bangladesh.

Illustrations on the War of Liberation and struggle of Bangladeshis have been portrayed on a 50 feet canvas in Barishal. Barishal City Corporation and Charukola Barishal jointly unveiled this massive artwork, created with the contribution of 50 artists.

Omicron, the new Covid-19 variant of global concern, was detected in two female cricketers who recently returned from Zimbabwe.

Since it started in 1995, Dhaka International Trade Fair has always been held at Sher-E-Bangla Nagar. If everything goes according to plan, the 26th installment of the trade fair is set to be held in 2022. Next year, the fair will be permanently relocated to a new venue.

In December, summer seems to be prevailing in the shuttle train of Chittagong University.

Tropical cyclone Jawad brought two consecutive days of continuous rainfall in the country, which in turn marred the upcoming winter harvest in many districts.

The youngest gallantry award recipient of Bangladesh is Bir Protik Abu Salek. Abu Salek of Hasimpur village in Dharkhar union of Akhaura Upazila of Brahmanbaria was a sixth grader in 1971. Pakistani forces brutally killed 33 people including his father and his uncle. With the intense desire for revenge, Abu Salek left his textbooks and went to Agartala, India to take part in the Liberation War.

Journalism has become one of the most dangerous occupations. Journalists are being murdered both across the country and globally.

Since the start of the pandemic, coronavirus has mutated many times. Delta variant caused a severe panic for the second time recently. Vaccination, adherence to hygiene rules, and awareness-raising have almost eliminated the dangers of Covid-19. Slowly but surely people had started to go back to normal life. But while the world is recovering, we’re facing another Covid-19 outbreak. The new Omicron variant is spreading all over the world. Omicron has been found in the western part of Canada to the eastern part of Australia. The World Health Organisation (WHO) declared Omicron as a “Variant of Concern”.

Ahmed Ali, a young freedom fighter of 20 years, came forward in 1971 to help the freedom fighters. Numerous freedom fighters have been sheltered in his house, and he also gave information about the Pakistan Army and Razakar Al-Badr to freedom fighters. After training in India in August 1971, he joined the front line.

A body of a child, Kamal Uddin, was discovered in Chittagong, 68 hours after he fell in a sewage drain. The first two days were spent searching the Chasma canal and drains connected to it but there were no signs of the child. His body was discovered from Mirza canal of Muradpur, Chittagong.

Airfares to many Middle Eastern countries have increased since last month. As a result, returning to work has become harder for expatriate Bangladeshi workers.

The rise in fuel and scrap steel prices in the international market is having a negative impact on our economy. It has also affected the rod prices. Rod prices have gone up 32 percent (estimated) from last year.

According to a new master plan, 599 old buildings of Dhaka University campus will be demolished, where 97 high rise buildings will be constructed, along with a complete overhaul of roads, arenas and public spaces.

For the first time in history the value of one US dollar has exceeded the 90-taka mark in informal market The moment our economy started to recover from the coronavirus pandemic, the value of taka against the dollar started to go down.