With the start of the holy month of Ramadan, prices of essentials go up in a long-standing tendency in Bangladesh.

On April 18, another haor, Huramandira, in Sunamganj was inundated, flooding vast farmlands. Within just this month, thousands of hectares of farmlands have been flooded in Sunamganj and adjacent haor areas.

Vultures and other birds migrate in search of food during winter. Sometimes they fall sick due to lack of food while travelling such long distances.

How will the Dhaka Metro Rail services ensure safety? In an event of emergency, how will the passengers notify the rail operator?

Bangladesh will lose all its benefits of being an underdeveloped country when it graduates to a developing country -- with the garments sector being hit one of the hardest.

Police today arrested a moneylender on charges of selling the newborn baby boy of a woman to earn interest, as her husband failed to repay the interest on a loan in Sadar upazila of Narayanganj.

Vice Chancellor - a guardian, a lighthouse for the most talented minds studying in the highest institutes of education. They are among the most respected people in our country. Or are they, nowadays?

On April 17, 2022 morning, residents of Gaibandha Sadar upazila's Tinmail witnessed a very strange incident.

Haji Shariatullah was a prominent leader of the Faraizi movement. He was also a social activist and Islamic scholar of the then Bengal.

The Roads and Highways Department is going to establish a dedicated Road Operation Unit (ROU) to manage and monitor the Joydebpur-Rangpur highway efficiently.

Hoisting the apron of the Chef de Cuisine of Raffinato Ristorante Italiano, Aziz is one such individual who has donned many hats in his three-decade-long career.

Dhaka has been experiencing huge traffic congestion for the last few weeks. What are the causes behind it? Is there a solution to this problem? In today's episode of Public Speaks.

What is the possibility of Bangladesh ending up in an economic disaster like that of Sri Lanka? This has been the topic of discussion on social media of late. ADB economists have advised Bangladesh to build a more robust macroeconomic management, internal revenue collection, as well as credit management policies.

Despite the less than adequate quality of treatment, most people in our country depend on government hospitals for treatment. Being an overpopulated country, Bangladesh still lacks enough government hospitals to serve all its people. Criminal gangs posing as brokers are taking the opportunity of such circumstances. While seeking treatment, ordinary people are falling into the traps of these brokers.

The Hindi film “Jalsa” directed by Suresh Triveni was released last month. The two main characters in the film are "Maya Menon" and "Rokhsana" played by Vidya Balan and Shefali Shah respectively. The story of the film with these two powerful actors is centred around an accident.

This is the year 1429 in the Bengali calendar. However, since many argue that if Emperor Akbar introduced the Bengali calendar 438 years ago, why is it the year 1429 in the calendar?

After two years of Covid-19 pandemic related restrictions, the welcoming ceremony of Bangla New Year began this morning (April 14) with numerous shades and colours.

For the second episode of “Star Lifestyle Recipes” sponsored by Fresh Spices, we show you how to make the delicious Shundhi Daal Bhuna, something that can be paired with rice or bread like naan, like we have, or paratha.

Shafiqul Islam, a Gaibandha engineer, has been working to develop an electric version of the traditional rice grinding tool "Dheki".

Prof Abul Kashem Fazlul Haq of the Bangla department of Dhaka University was a colleague of Prof Humayun Azad. He spoke to The Daily Star about his late friend. He also spoke about how a universal democratic system could widen the path to free-thinking.