The government's Ashrayan project has been lauded for rehabilitating hundreds of destitute people in different districts. But oftentimes the commendable effort has been tainted by allegations of corruption by a handful of dishonest individuals.

More than half of the 45 bridges, built in two Natore upazilas a couple of years ago, are not bringing much benefit to the local people.

Male students of different departments of Dhaka University bring out a procession on the university campus wearing Bangladeshi traditional dress Lungi, demanding wider acceptance for it. Watch the Star Live video to know more.

Green Line Paribahan gives Tk five lakh to Russel Sarkar who lost his left leg after a bus of the paribahan ran over him in April last year. The High Court bench of Justice FRM Nazmul Ahsan and Justice KM Kamrul Kader asks the Green Line Paribahan owner to pay the rest of the Tk 45 lakh to Russel in next one month.

Pledge Harbour International School in Dhaka recently includes the reading of The Daily Star newspaper in its curriculum for the students.

Talented young actor, Taskeen Rahman has already managed to win the hearts of the audience with only three of his films. Brought into stardom with 'Dhaka Attack', Taskeen has wowed the crowd with his acting prowess and undeniable charisma. In this interview with Rafi Hossain, he spills the beans on his personal and work life.

One of the survivors of the tragic fire incident at FR Tower in Dhaka’s Banani, Ripon shares his story to The Daily Star as he came in front of the building today, three days after the incident in which 26 people lost their lives and scores of others sustained injuries. Watch the Star Live video to know more.

A passionate cricket lover, Mohammad Mohasin always wanted to be cricketer. However, since his mobility has been compromised and limited to using wheelchair for movement, his journey to fulfilling his ambition was a bumpy ride.

The separate government probe bodies formed to investigate Thursday’s Banani FR Tower fire are hearing the accounts of those survived the inferno.

Vendors at Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) kitchen market sell off salvaged goods after a fire gutted over 200 shops there on Saturday, March 30, 2019.

None of the recommendations made by the Fire Service and Civil Defence after the 2017 DNCC market fire were implemented by the market authorities, a fire service official says.

A five-member body is formed by Fire Service and Civil Defence authority to investigate the fire that broke out at Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) kitchen market in the capital's Gulshan-1 early on March 30.

One of the survivors of the FR Tower fire incident in Dhaka's Banani recounts the horrific experience she went through as she managed to make it out of the fiery chamber. Watch the Star Live video to know more.

The death toll in the deadly fire that ripped through 22-storey FR Tower in Dhaka’s Banani area has reached 25, police say.

A horse racing competition is arranged in Daulatpur upazila of Manikganj on the occasion of the country’s Independence Day.

On the black night of March 25, 1971, known as the genocide day, the Pakistani Army launched an operation against the innocent Bangalees in Dhaka and many other places.

The resistance during the 1971 Liberation War began in Rangpur early March and it was a full-on war even before the black night of March 25.

Ekatturer Ghatak Dalal Nirmul Committee urges the government to take an effective initiative for international recognition to the night of March 25 as “International Black Night of Genocide”.

Several hundred students of Sylhet Agricultural University (SAU) stage demonstration, demanding justice for one of their fellows, who was pushed off a running bus and killed yesterday evening.

Five people including a policeman suffers bullet injuries in separate clashes centering upazila parishad elections in Chattogram and Cox’s Bazar districts.