A hospital for poor
The Sarkari Karmachari Hospital could be an inspiration for our policymakers in designing healthcare services for our garment and expatriate workers and their families.
11 April 2016, 18:00 PM
Who to blame for 'lapses' in first autopsy?
The necessity for exhuming the body of Sohagi Jahan Tonu for a fresh autopsy has raised questions over the investigators' sincerity in probing the murder.
29 March 2016, 18:00 PM
Heavy vehicles still using risky bridge in Savar
It was around 3:30pm. A brick-laden truck was crossing the squeaking and rattling Bhakurta Steel Bridge over the Turag river in Savar.
13 March 2016, 18:00 PM
No charges pressed yet
Three years have passed since Tanwir Muhammad Taqi, a bright teenage boy, was brutally murdered in Narayanganj, but investigators
5 March 2016, 18:00 PM
Happiness In Sharing
Imagine that you are at work, and right through your window you see the sun setting far away, shedding orange light on the world's third highest mountain, Kangchenjunga.
17 December 2015, 18:00 PM
It's Pak carnage with US supply
Less than two weeks before Bangladesh's Independence, the then US President Richard Nixon had called Henry A Kissinger twice on December 4, 1971, asking if warplanes had been sent to Pakistan.
15 December 2015, 18:00 PM
Bangladesh’s Liberation War: The night of horror
A heavy rain on the night of March 29, 1971 uncovered parts of two mass graves on the Dhaka University campus, according to a US diplomatic cable sent from the erstwhile East Pakistan.
11 December 2015, 18:00 PM
Killers of Japanese national ‘used a bus as cover’
Killers of Japanese national Kunio Hoshi, who was shot dead in Rangpur's Alutari village on October 3, appeared to have used a bus as a
16 October 2015, 18:00 PM
Slave Trade Booms In Dark Triangle
Promising jobs in Malaysia, transnational human traffickers held about 2.5 lakh Bangladeshis captive in Thailand...
3 May 2015, 18:00 PM
of CCTV cameras installed to keep watch on Baishakh celebration in Bangladesh
Varying accounts on the number of CCTV cameras installed for keeping the Pahela Baishakh celebrations under watch have caused confusion over the actual police surveillance.
23 April 2015, 18:00 PM
Twelve threats from Farabi since 2012
Prof Ajoy Roy, father of slain writer Avijit Roy, failed to elicit any positive response from police when he had lodged a complaint a year
20 March 2015, 18:00 PM
Of a 'crazy'man, 2.5 katha land
Habibur Rahman Jewel, 45, has developed a symbiotic relationship with his birthplace. It is a small 2.5 katha plot in the capital's Gendaria where an old, tin-shed house once stood. What remains of it now are piles of dust, brick chunks and rubble all around.
4 March 2015, 20:42 PM
Drug admin official couldn't care less
Abul Khair Chowdhury is a government official now serving as an assistant director of the Directorate General of Drug Administration (DGDA). Intriguingly, police failed to get hold of him despite summon and arrest orders in the last two years.
6 August 2014, 18:02 PM
JUSTICE DELAYED, NOT DENIED
Adflame's Paracetamol syrup Flammadol containing toxic chemical diethylene glycol was responsible for the deaths of a number of children between 1982 and 1992.
22 July 2014, 18:01 PM
All records 'lost' from drug office
Documents available in court indicate clearly that the DGDA deliberately destroyed the cases. Meanwhile, people present during the 1992 drugs test recalled how proper steps regarding the matter had been bypassed since the very beginning.
18 October 2011, 18:00 PM
Justice delayed, justice denied
The tests on the drugs were above suspicion; using newly installed gas chromatography equipment, they were conducted by the government's own drug testing laboratory under direct supervision of an expert consultant from the World Health Organisation (WHO). The results of subsequent independent testing -- undertaken in laboratories in the US and obtained by The Daily Star -- confirmed the results.
10 November 2009, 17:00 PM
Another war around corner, 37 years after
These four political parties are Muslim League and all its factions, Pakistan Democratic Party, Nezam-e-Islam and Jamat-e-Islami. In addition to these the government has also banned the Pakistan People's Party. The announcement was made by the Bangla Desh government in a radio broadcast.
15 December 2008, 18:00 PM