Most of the coronavirus related restrictions in this country were withdrawn from August 19, even though the ongoing wave is still ravaging the population.

Seven Bangladeshis have been living in Afghanistan for decades. Have they experienced any significant socio-economic shift in the war torn country? How has the return of the Taliban after 20 years affected the country?

Seven Bangladeshi engineers, working for a mobile operating company in Kabul, are now stranded in the country. How will they be brought home, and when?

Horrific images are coming from Kabul, as desperate people in thousands were seen swarming Hamid Karzai International Airport. How bad is the situation actually in the capital of Afghanistan?

Swarms of people are desperately trying to leave Afghanistan as the Taliban took over the country. Seven Bangladeshi engineers, working for a mobile operator company, are now stranded in the worn torn country as the flight which was supposed to bring them home got cancelled at the last moment. How are they doing in these trying times?

On this day, 16 years ago, Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh attacked with a violent and deadly series of bombings all over Bangladesh. In the last 16 years, scores of the militant group's members were arrested, many of their top leaders were sentenced. However, has the threat truly been neutralized?

One hundred and forty-five rounds in just thirty seconds, two hundred and fifty-eight rounds in one minute -- this is the Guinness World Record for skipping, and the record holder is an 18-year-old boy from Thakurgaon.

A young man, Shanta Sajeeb Joy, died when he was allegedly shoved under a running lorry at Urdu Road in Old Dhaka.  The father of the deceased claims that their neighbour Riazuddin murdered his son. On the other hand, the accused Riaz filed a case saying that the deceased tried to hijack him and was killed when he was trying to flee. CCTV footage from a nearby shop has revealed many aspects of the fatal moment. On Straight from Star Newsroom, Farhana Ahmed is joined by The Daily Star’s Senior Reporter Mohammad Jamil Khan to analyse and discuss the incident that took a young man’s life.

Teesta river has overflowed and flooded chars and lowlands of Lalmonirhat -- submerging Aman and other crop fields.

Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman -- a leader who brought to fruition a centuries-long quest for freedom and an ideology now inextricable from Bangalee identity -- was assassinated along with most of his family on this day 46 years ago.

Taliban forces have finally taken Kabul and Afghanistan has once again become a stage for the conflict between global politics and extremism. The lives of crores of people are at stake, as is a culture thousands of years old. Similar changes of power were seen in 1994, when Taliban took power back then as well. The Daily Star Editor and Publisher Mahfuz Anam has been a witness to both events.

Manasa Puja is celebrated on the last day of the month of Srabon in the Bengali calendar. The Pala community of Shimuleshwar village of Jhalakathi are busy preparing ghats (water jars or clay pots) of the goddess Manasa in preparation for the occasion.

Watermelon, usually a summer fruit, is now being harvested during monsoon in Patuakhali -- thanks to regionally developed hybrid variants and a farming technique called "mulching".

In the course of merely a month, 4 incidents of ferries hitting the Padma Bridge have occurred -- with multiple cases of injuries and wrecking of vehicles, and visible damage to the pile cap of a pillar of this much-awaited mega project.

The Kali river in Kushtia is better known to locals as a dead river. The history of grabbing this river dates back to the British era, continuing through Pakistan era, and till present days.

The story of Gouranga Saha Roy is one of cruel irony -- of being among the diaspora Bangalees who raised funds for the Liberation War of 1971 only to find his name listed with embezzlers after.

Vehicles are blocked on the Barishal-Kuakata highway, and passengers are forced to pay hefty sums to mahouts riding elephants. People are intimidated with the gentle giants into paying more.

Seventy years ago, the cholera epidemic drove the population of the village of Mangolpur in Jhenaidah to dwindle to insignificant numbers.

Roads in Dhaka and other districts saw severe traffic congestion today as the withdrawal of lockdown took effect.

Toxic, reeking chemical waste floods fields, roads and even houses every monsoon in Tongi and other industrial areas. A BSCIC survey reveals that at least 48 factories all over the country do not have effluent treatment plant (ETP) installed -- disregarding environmental laws and polluting rivers and residential areas.