A car of a ride-sharing service catches fire in Dhaka’s Farmgate area.

Around 50 shanties are gutted in a fire that ripped through a slum during an eviction drive was in progress in Dhaka’s Tejgaon industrial area.

The authorities on several occasions after 2010 Nimtoli fire urged the traders of Old Dhaka to relocate their chemical factories and warehouses from residential areas. But they did not pay heed to the repeated requests.

48-year-old Rayhan Bulu has been voluntarily giving football and physical education to primary school kids of class I through X in the suburbs of Bogura's Gabtoli upazila for the last 26 years, while bearing expenses from his own pocket.

​As a single parent, model and actor Doyel has to face new challenges every day. In this interview with Rafi Hossain, she opens up about parenthood, her career and her future plans.

The Tigers have lost all seven Test matches they played in New Zealand and it will be a tough ask yet again for the visitors

In the Central African country of Democratic Republic of the Congo, a Bangladeshi will be pleasantly surprised to hear sweet Bangla songs, drifting in from somewhere.

Bangladesh reached Hamilton today after the conclusion of the two-day practice match at Lincoln a day before.

A man who allegedly tried to storm the cockpit of a Biman flight was killed in a commando operation at Shah Amanat International Airport in Chattogram yesterday evening after all passengers were evacuated safely.

A footage obtained by The Daily Star shows the exact moment when the fire broke out at Chawkbazar in Old Dhaka. As the clock strikes 10:32pm, the fire rips through the premises completely destroying the front portion of the hotel. Bricks and bottles fall inside, and a portion of the wall caves in as mayhem ensues.

There is a "standing directive" from the prime minister to remove all chemical establishments from Old Dhaka immediately, Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader says.

​Heera has been an iconic figure in the modeling industry ever since she made her big-time debut in the 2008 edition of ‘Lux Channel i Superstar’. In this interview with Rafi Hossain, she talks about her illustrious career spanning over a decade.

Condolences poured in to the bereaved families of those killed in the deadly blaze at Old Dhaka's Chawkbazar on Wednesday night.

Remember “dheki chhata chal”?

Barely a day after his birth, he found himself in the midst of rumbling bulldozers destroying the little world around him. The next day, the baby, who was yet to be named, and his mother Tanjila Begum, 24, were homeless.

At least nine people, including four of a family, are burnt to death and several others injured as a fire broke out at a slum in Chattogram city. All the victims were sleeping when the fire ripped through the slum.

Police recover a border pillar dated back to the British period and arrested five people for their connection in selling it illegally in Nesarabad upzila of Pirojpur.

Some students of Pabna Medical College Hospital block Dhaka-Pabna highway for two hours protesting the death of their fellow in a road crash on February 13.

The heavy rains have taken a massive toll on the book stalls and also damaged thousands of books at the Ekushey book fair.

Gas supply to tens of thousands of households, factories and other establishments in the capital and its adjoining areas came to a complete or partial halt in the morning yesterday because of a technical glitch in the gas network, inflicting untold sufferings on the city dwellers.