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Zyma Islam

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NCP weighing its paths to JS

Nearly half of the NCP’s central leaders favour forging an alliance with the BNP ahead of the 13th national election in February.
11 October 2025, 18:00 PM
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Govt plans to form paramilitary force for airports

Named Aviation Guard Bangladesh (AGB), the force would comprise 7,650 personnel
29 September 2025, 18:02 PM
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Govt plans sweeping overhaul of NHRC

The government has drafted an ordinance to unshackle the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) from a 15-year bar on probing members of the security forces.
20 September 2025, 18:21 PM
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AL govt’s secret surveillance state

From snooping devices carried in backpacks to locate people through their phones to a massive infrastructure that can intercept even end-to-end encryption from a central command centre, the Awami League government had been on an increasingly aggressive trajectory towards building a powerful surveillance state. 
10 August 2025, 18:00 PM
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Bangladesh Police: Equipped to inflict heavy casualties

Police arms records show the brutal truth behind the July killings; the force bought 7 times more lethal weapons than non-lethal ones in 2021-23
9 August 2025, 18:00 PM
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Hasina’s final days before the fall

A desire for power, intolerance for dissent, and failure to see the writing on the wall undid Hasina's iron-fisted rule
4 August 2025, 18:11 PM
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Experts question training flights above mega city

Aviation experts and pilots, both military and civilian, yesterday questioned the rationale behind allowing military aircraft to conduct training exercises over a densely populated area like Dhaka.
21 July 2025, 18:24 PM
DGFI involvement in enforced disappearances

2 years lost, life shattered

He was around 15 when he was picked up, a ninth grader.
15 June 2025, 19:20 PM
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‘Govt meddling in airlines monitoring’

The inspection and monitoring of flight operations of carriers, especially Biman, is hindered by “government involvement”, the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) has found during a recent inspection.
11 May 2024, 18:00 PM
8 Bangladeshis died in the Mediterranean boat accident

Stuck inside the boat hull, they suffocated

“We could hear them struggling to breathe and dying slowly and there was nothing we could do,” said 45-year-old Gurudas Mondol, who had survived the horrifying boat accident in the Mediterranean Sea on February 14.
2 May 2024, 18:00 PM
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Rights violations: Home ministry snubs two-thirds of NHRC enquiry requests

Nearly two-thirds of the enquiry requests made by the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) to the home ministry regarding cases of human rights violations by law enforcement agencies have gone unheeded.
4 April 2024, 18:00 PM
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20 plates of rice, 118 plates of curries for a lunch of 4!

NRBC Bank’s top managers have great appetites. 
22 March 2024, 18:00 PM
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Dubious reward for a select few

Only a select 27 employees of NRBC Bank were given salary hikes, and that too astonishingly, in 2022 in violation of banking rules as well as NRBC’s own human resources policy
22 March 2024, 18:00 PM
The Daily Star's Investigation on NRBC Bank

NRBC branch covered up capital flight

Export proceeds worth at least $3.45 million (Tk 34.41 crore) were not repatriated by six customers of NRB Commercial Bank’s Uttara branch, and the bank concealed the trail of the capital flight, according to the bank’s internal audit and case documents.
21 March 2024, 18:00 PM
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Gun in NRBC Bank boardroom

During the 40th board meeting of NRBC Bank on February 7, 2016, current Chairman Tamal Parvez and Director Adnan Imam entered the boardroom accompanied by a man carrying a large gun. Both Tamal and Adnan were board directors back then.
20 March 2024, 18:00 PM
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A close call for US-Bangla

Disregarding instructions from the air traffic control, a US-Bangla plane got on the runway in Chattogram less than a minute before another aircraft was about to land, yet no probe was initiated about the close shave
11 March 2024, 18:00 PM
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Some user info of Nagad, other entities in public domain

User information of those seemingly having Nagad accounts was being found across several platforms, including Telegram bots, until last week, raising questions about personal data protection.
11 March 2024, 18:00 PM
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Death came draped in smoke

Around 11:30pm, there were murmurs of one death. By then, the fire had been burning for over an hour.
1 March 2024, 18:00 PM
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To Europe via Libya: A voyage fraught with peril

An undocumented Bangladeshi migrant worker choosing to enter Europe from Libya, will almost certainly be held captive by armed militias, tortured, and their families extorted for lakhs of taka.
22 February 2024, 18:00 PM
Dumping ground for toxic ships

Bangladesh Dumping ground for toxic ships

Out of 446 ships scrapped worldwide, 170 ended up in Chattogram beaches, making Bangladesh the biggest dumping yard for end-of-life vessels in the world last year.
1 February 2024, 18:00 PM
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Biman ignored its board in hiring pilots

Minutes of Biman’s 269th board meeting held on January 18, 2022, show the board approved recruitment of three captains for its Boeing 777s but the carrier hired eight.
23 January 2024, 18:00 PM
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Turnout swung between the two extremes

Two polling centres posted a hundred percent voter turnout each in Sunday’s election, while two others recorded a 98 percent turnout, according to Election Commission’s centre-wise data.
11 January 2024, 18:00 PM
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Dhaka saw lowest voter turnout

Dhaka district had the lowest voter turnout in Sunday’s election, with only 25 percent vote cast, according to Election Commission data.
8 January 2024, 18:00 PM
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Land Minister Javed owns at least 260 properties in the UK

Land Minister Saifuzzaman Chowdhury Javed has at least 260 properties in the United Kingdom for which he has paid at least GBP 134.76 million or Tk 1,888 crore, according to The Daily Star’s calculation from company filings publicly available on UK government websites.
28 December 2023, 18:00 PM
Candidates' total wealth in national election 2024

Candidates’ Affidavits: Asset values that don’t fail to amuse

One hundred forty-eight bhoris (1.72kgs) of gold worth Tk 40,000! Twenty bighas of land worth Tk 2,000! A five-katha plot in Barishal worth Tk 400! And a Baridhara flat worth Tk 1.3 lakh!
19 December 2023, 18:00 PM
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Biman short of cash, yet reaches for pricey Airbus

Biman is looking at a Tk 4,000 crore cash shortfall since it has agreed in principle to purchase two Airbus planes for Tk 8,000 crore, without a prior monetisation plan, a board meeting of the national flag carrier revealed.
14 December 2023, 18:00 PM
JnU student Khadija released from jail

Cases under DSA: ‘It feels unreal to be free’

The phone number of Sirajum Munira, the elder sister of Khadijatul Kubra, a Jagannath University student who was in jail for over 14 months in DSA cases, flashed on the screen of this correspondent’s mobile.
20 November 2023, 18:00 PM
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‘It feels unreal to be out’

Khadijatul Kubra says after walking out of jail on bail
20 November 2023, 12:32 PM

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