Agriculture production in the Rajshahi area has gone up by 30 percent because of rising diesel prices.

Prachyanat, one of the leading theatre troupes of the country, staged a play based on Akhtaruzzaman Elias’s internationally acclaimed novel Khowabnama on November 8, at the Jatiya Natyashala.

Diesel price was increased by Tk 15 per liter, in response to which transport owners observed three days of nationwide strike resulting in substantial economic loss and severe public suffering, and ultimately the solution was to put the burden on the public -- by raising public transport fare.

Long queues, mismanagement at the vaccination centres and difficulties in registrations make the Covid-19 vaccination programme for schoolchildren complicated and risky.

Gun in hand, uniform on his body – this is how we see police constables everyday.

After a long 11 years Salauddin Lavlu, Chanchal Chowdhury and Brindabon Das are returning to small screen. Chanchal Chowdhury, Shahnaz Khushi, A K M Hasan, Masum Bashar and many others are acting in the drama “Shanda-Panda” written by Brindabon Das. Let’s hear the story from the actors and the director at “Star Shooting Spot”.

The disastrous performance of the Bangladesh team in the T20 World Cup has left everyone disappointed -- from fans to journalists, from cricketers to cricket officials.

BRTA runs mobile courts to stop charging extra bus fares Star Newsbytes Today, the BRTA conducted mobile courts at the various streets in the capital following allegations of overcharging passengers on CNG-powered buses.

Due to the occupation of influential locals, Chittagong’s Manoharkhali canal has now turned into a sewerage. Up until 15 years ago, Sampan Boats used to use the canal as a travel route.

To ease the protest against increased diesel prices, the government has agreed to raise fare of public buses by 27%. However, on the first day after the public bus services resumed operation, passengers are complaining that bus conductors are demanding even more than the increased prices -- leading to tension and verbal abuse between passengers and the bus staff.

On November 4, the price of diesel and kerosene rose by 15 tk per litre. The decision came at a time when the economy of the country is struggling to recover from the severe depression caused by the pandemic.

A cattle farm owner of Rajshahi has collected a Bhutanese dwarf cow, popularly known as Bhutti, which he claims to be the smallest living cow of the world.

On Sunday, 12 trucks -- waiting in a parking lot near Petrapole Port -- were burnt to the ground after a fire broke out. These trucks were carrying cotton bound for Bangladesh. According to local sources, no one got injured in the incident.

Organized robber gangs were once perhaps more feared than the Royal Bengal Tigers by the local residents, forest officers, and tourists throughout the mangrove forest of Sundarbans. However, with strong incentives of the law enforcement agencies, between 2016 and 2018 at least 328 robbers of 32 groups surrendered, and the government announced the Sundarbans as robber-free in 2018.

Dhaka's Kamalapur Railway Station is seeing rush of passengers -- trying to reach their destinations -- as buses stay off the roads for the third consecutive day, protesting the recent fuel price hike.

CU authorities took 5,000 candidates’ admission test in an unsafe under-construction building.

Tolls to use Bangabandhu and Muktarpur bridges, currently the two largest and busiest in the country, are being raised 10 to 50 percent, according to the Bangladesh Bridge Authority, to manage maintenance and repair costs. But why is this being done now? What are the new tolls for different types of vehicles? Have the authorities followed proper procedure and contacted other stakeholders before deciding this raise in toll?

The government raised the prices of kerosene and diesel by Tk 15 a litre to Tk 80 on November 4. And at the same time it has increased the price of 12-kg cylinder of LP gas by Tk 54 to Tk 1,313. The prices have been hiked at a time when the general mass have been struggling to recover from the pandemic induced economic downfall. In today’s Star Connects, Khondoker Md Shoyeb along with M Tamim, professor of the petroleum engineering department and dean of engineering of Buet, and Dr Khondaker Golam Moazzem, research director of CPD, tries to find out why the government has to increase the prices of kerosene and diesel and what could be done other than rising the prices now.

Five people have been killed in a fire at a tin-shed shoe factory in the capital's Soarighat. The victims were sleeping in the factory and could not get out once the fire broke out.

Due to increasing global temperature, sea levels are rising, as ice is melting in the earth’s Polar Regions.