Airport fire sends shockwave across supply chains
Raw materials for peak-season garment shipments, medicine ingredients, and telecom equipment gutted
19 October 2025, 18:06 PM
Mirpur factory fire: Chemical fumes still in the air
The massive fire that swept through a chemical warehouse and an adjacent garment factory in Shialbari of the capital’s Mirpur was brought under control yesterday -- 27 hours after it broke out.
15 October 2025, 19:42 PM
A lie that cost a life
A routine firefighting mission in Tongi’s Sahara Market took a deadly turn, all because of false information.
23 September 2025, 20:03 PM
A life lost for a lie
A routine firefighting mission in Tongi’s Sahara Market took a deadly turn, all because of false information.
23 September 2025, 18:00 PM
Inside Shibir’s Ducsu domination: What the numbers reveal
Liberation war post delivers shock win for Shibir-backed candidate
17 September 2025, 05:09 AM
The disappeared of the July Uprising
The Daily Star found evidence of systematic government efforts to cover up medical records and bodies of the July uprising victims so they can never be found again.
18 March 2025, 04:15 AM
Families want closure, however painful
When we first started visiting Dhaka Medical College Hospital in January for this story, there were seven protest-related unclaimed bodies freezing in its mortuaries.
15 March 2025, 18:00 PM
A systematic cover up of bodies
On the afternoon of August 5, 2024, word spread across the country that Sheikh Hasina fled to India. In Gazipur, like elsewhere in the country, thousands poured into the streets in celebration. But there was also anger.
14 March 2025, 18:00 PM
AL govt sought to hide true extent of massacre
They all had families, desperately searching for them amid a nationwide curfew and internet shutdown at the height of the July uprising. Yet, they were buried as "unclaimed" bodies within one to six days after being shot dead, before their loved ones could find them. Seven months after the July
13 March 2025, 18:00 PM
Hastily buried in unmarked graves
The Daily Star investigates how July uprising protesters were disappeared in unmarked graves
11 March 2025, 18:00 PM