Dried fish season begins in Kuakata
12 November 2025, 12:37 PM
News
Tobacco cultivation expands in Rangpur, Lalmonirhat amid profit lure
9 November 2025, 13:58 PM
Environment
Govt looks to implement new pay scale in phases
23 October 2025, 18:25 PM
News
State runs on laws, not emotions
23 October 2025, 18:15 PM
News
ACC may get power to probe Bangladeshis abroad
23 October 2025, 18:12 PM
News
RPO amendment: Alliance candidates must use own party symbols
23 October 2025, 18:10 PM
News
Bangladesh Gonotantrik Chhatra Sangsad rebrands as ‘Jatiyo Chhatro Shokti’
23 October 2025, 17:38 PM
News
'Is it really possible to hear 800 cases within 4-5 hours?'
23 October 2025, 16:58 PM
News
Police seek to clear Iresh Zaker, ex-cabinet secretary Mahbub Hossain from July uprising murder case
23 October 2025, 16:51 PM
News
'Time granted to war criminals, but not to a freedom fighter': ZI Khan Panna
23 October 2025, 16:30 PM
News
Another 48 animals rescued
The Wildlife Crime Control Unit of the Forest Department, Dhaka on Tuesday rescued 48 more illegally confined wild animals in the second-phase of drive at Swapnapuri Park in Nawabganj upazila of Dinajpur.
12 February 2025, 18:00 PM
Staff shortage forces 54 station closures
Abu Taleb, 48, a schoolteacher from Chattogram’s Hathazari upazila, used to commute to and from his workplace in the port city by train. However, for the past five years, he has been compelled to travel by bus after the rail station near his residence was closed down.
12 February 2025, 18:00 PM
Lost signals, lost safety
Siddique Majhi, a 55-year-old fisherman from Kuakata, has spent three decades fishing in the deep sea but has never been able to tune into Bangladesh Betar’s Barishal station.
12 February 2025, 18:00 PM
Mohammad Azaz new administrator of DNCC
Mohammad Azaz, chairman of the River and Delta Research Centre, has been appointed as the administrator of Dhaka North City Corporation.
12 February 2025, 18:00 PM
Scuffle, sit-in and strike
Dhaka witnessed three different protests in different parts of the city yesterday, with different demands.
12 February 2025, 18:00 PM
UN report will be used as evidence in ICT trials
The chief prosecutor of the International Crimes Tribunal has said the UN Human Rights Commission’s report on the July massacre will be used as an irrefutable piece of evidence for trials of crimes against humanity.
12 February 2025, 18:00 PM
BR conducts test runs for train
Bangladesh Railway yesterday started operating passengers train through the newly built Jamuna Railway Bridge on trial basis, a month before its formal inauguration.
12 February 2025, 18:00 PM
Freeze 437.85 crore shares of S Alam’s chairman
A Dhaka court yesterday ordered Anti-Corruption Commission to freeze 437.85 crore shares of 42 companies belonging to S Alam Group Chairman Mohammad Saiful Alam and his family in connection with allegations of laundering US $1 billion to Singapore and several other countries.
12 February 2025, 18:00 PM
Families seek justice, oppose ‘early release’ of convicts
Families of army officers killed in the 2009 Pilkhana massacre yesterday demanded that those sentenced to life imprisonment or death in connection with the killings must not be released “prematurely” in the name of justice.
12 February 2025, 18:00 PM
Fake report on Adviser Nahid falsely attributed to Star
This supposed news report, laid out on a copy that resembles The Daily Star's web page, claims that the information adviser's new platform has already made 10,000 Bangladeshis happy and guarantees an income of Tk 12,00,000
12 February 2025, 16:11 PM
‘Serious acts of revenge violence’ targeted AL members, cops: UN
OHCHR says minority communities, indigenous people also faced human rights abuses from early August last year
12 February 2025, 13:09 PM
UN full report on Bangladesh
OHCHR has found evidence of "serious human rights violations and abuses" in Bangladesh between July 15 and August 5
12 February 2025, 12:58 PM
Abu Sayed victim of extrajudicial killing by police: UN report
The report revealed that at least two police officers shot Abu Sayed multiple times with shotguns loaded with lethal metal pellets, targeting his chest
12 February 2025, 12:35 PM
UN fact-finding report: Human rights violations during July uprising
Full version of UN fact-finding report
12 February 2025, 11:33 AM
Every 'Aynaghar' will be located: Shafiqul Alam
"All those involved in killings during the July-August mass uprising and enforced disappearances will be punished," Shafiqul said
12 February 2025, 11:20 AM
UN recommends disbanding RAB and NTMC
It also recommended demilitarize control of paramilitary forces Ansar and VDP
12 February 2025, 11:14 AM
In pictures: Inside the cells of Aynaghar
Photos of Aynaghar cells
12 February 2025, 11:06 AM
Horrified with 'Aynaghar', Yunus says 'never again'
After visiting Aynaghar, Yunus expressed deep concern over the human rights violations that took place under the previous government
12 February 2025, 09:05 AM
Cops use water cannons on protesters demanding reinstatement of sacked BDR men
The protest, being held under the banner of "Justice for BDR," has been organised by families of former BDR (now BGB) members.
12 February 2025, 08:25 AM
UN says former Bangladesh govt behind 'possible crimes against humanity'
UN estimates that "as many as 1,400 people may have been killed" in that 45-day time period, while thousands were injured
12 February 2025, 08:23 AM