During the 3rd day of the trial, Prof Dr Delwar Hossain of the department of International Relations at Dhaka University, spoke to The Daily Star about the Rohingya crisis. Host: Mohammad Al-Masum Molla

The Keraniganj plastic factory where 11 people died in a massive fire was fined for non-compliance.

Myanmar argues their case today (11th December 2019), in the International Court of Justice. Aung San Suu Kyi Spoke at the city of The Hague, Netherlands where the court is located. She partially agreed to the allegations of the mistreatment of the Rohingya people. She said, if the military is found guilty of war crime allegations they’d be investigated and trailed by Myanmar.

Myanmar has been accused of carrying out ethnic cleansing against Rohingya community since long.

Rohingyas demand Myanmar be held to account at the United Nations’ top court in The Hague, where Myanmar leader and Nobel peace prize laureate Aung San Suu Kyi is set to defend the country against charges of genocide of the minority community.

Amid allegations of meddling in rice procurement process at government warehouses and complaints of low prices of paddy at open markets, villages in the country’s northern districts are abuzz with Nabanno -- a festival of harvest.

Roads and Highways Department (RHD) has demolished over 100 illegal structures on both sides of Dhaka-Aricha highway in Savar in two hours since the eviction drive starts.

Celebrating the release of their new album, ‘Noyon JolerGaan’, the popular folk-fusion band, ‘JolerGaan', seats down with Rafi Hossain for an exclusive interview.

A team of Department of Environment (DoE) demolishes one illegal brick kiln and detained its staff in a drive in Savar.

Education is dropped down the list of priorities when survival tops the list for many children having disabilities from birth.

A physician couple from the US has become the successors to late Dr Edric Sargission Baker, the New Zealander who established the Kailakuri Health Care Center in Madhupur upazila in 1996.

Fahmida, who has been undergoing dialysis for the last two years, now desperately needs a second kidney transplant. Her mother Fatema Zohra had donated her a kidney in 2015, but it got damaged within a year.

Water transport workers call off their countrywide indefinite strike after the authorities agreed to fulfil some of their 11 point demands.

Candy floss or cotton candy, popularly known as “Hawai Mithai” once was a very popular and available sweetmeat among the rural people, as well as the city dwellers. But now-a-days, candy floss hawkers are hardly found except in the village fairs.

Sitting at her home in Narayanganj’s Siddhirganj, a feeble-looking Maksuda Begum stares vacantly into the distance. She mumbles most of the time making her words difficult to catch.

How did one of the most talked about terrorists carry a cap emblazoned with the IS logo to a Dhaka courtroom in and then proceed it put it on for all to see?

The fight for his country did not end with independence for Bir Protik Momin Ullah Patwary. The 70-year-old went on to serve his country in various public and private capacities over the years.

After a Dhaka tribunal delivered the verdict in the Holey Artisan Café attack case today, one of death row convicts reached into his pocket and brought out a prayer cap emblazoned with the emblem of the Islamic State.

Seven militants are sentenced to death for their involvement in 2016 Holey Artisan attack that left 22 people, including 17 foreigners, dead.

As the morning sun flooded the brightly painted room of BLOOMS specialised school, Tanzila Akhter, a teenager with hearing impairment, recited a prayer poem.