Dried fish season begins in Kuakata
12 November 2025, 12:37 PM
Tobacco cultivation expands in Rangpur, Lalmonirhat amid profit lure
9 November 2025, 13:58 PM
Govt looks to implement new pay scale in phases
23 October 2025, 18:25 PM
State runs on laws, not emotions
23 October 2025, 18:15 PM
ACC may get power to probe Bangladeshis abroad
23 October 2025, 18:12 PM
RPO amendment: Alliance candidates must use own party symbols
23 October 2025, 18:10 PM
Bangladesh Gonotantrik Chhatra Sangsad rebrands as ‘Jatiyo Chhatro Shokti’
23 October 2025, 17:38 PM
'Is it really possible to hear 800 cases within 4-5 hours?'
23 October 2025, 16:58 PM
Police seek to clear Iresh Zaker, ex-cabinet secretary Mahbub Hossain from July uprising murder case
23 October 2025, 16:51 PM
'Time granted to war criminals, but not to a freedom fighter': ZI Khan Panna
23 October 2025, 16:30 PM
Jumping into the river a day after her birthday: Body of Gazipur teen recovered
A diving team from Tongi Fire Service and Civil Defence retrieved the body from the same spot around 1:00pm
14 August 2025, 09:02 AM
Rabindra University students block Jamuna bridge toll plaza
Vehicular movement through the Jamuna bridge came to a standstill, leaving a huge number of vehicles stranded on both sides
14 August 2025, 07:43 AM
Dhaka rejects Global Plastics Treaty draft, demands stronger measures against pollution
Bangladesh has categorically rejected the latest chair's draft of the proposed Global Plastics Treaty, calling for stronger measures to combat plastic pollution
14 August 2025, 07:10 AM
Council of Advisers holds meeting
The meeting was held at Chief Adviser's Office (CAO) in Tejgaon with Professor Muhammad Yunus in the chair
14 August 2025, 06:31 AM
Tulip calls graft trial against her a ‘farce’ motivated by ‘political vendetta’
As the trial began in Bangladesh yesterday, Tulip launched a fresh attack on the interim government
14 August 2025, 05:30 AM
Election readiness: Fault lines exposed after NCP leader’s comments
As the nation looks toward a smooth transfer of power to elected representatives, National Citizen Party leader Nasiruddin Patwary’s remarks that the polls cannot be held in February 2026 without reforms have ignited a political debate.
13 August 2025, 21:28 PM
EDCL reduces prices of 33 medicines
Essential Drugs Company Limited (EDCL), the state-owned pharmaceutical manufacturer, has announced price reduction on 33 essential medicines.
13 August 2025, 21:26 PM
Twenty collect nomination forms for Ducsu polls
A total of 20 candidates have collected nomination papers for the Dhaka University Central Students' Union (Ducsu) election over the past two days.
13 August 2025, 20:01 PM
We will hand over power to people thru free, fair polls
The interim government is working hard to hold a free, fair, and transparent election in February next year so that power is handed over to the people, Chief Adviser Prof Muhammad Yunus has said.
13 August 2025, 18:13 PM
‘We reject such sweeping statements’
The Editors’ Council yesterday strongly protested the “unwanted” allegations against the media made by the National Citizen Party’s youth wing Jatiya Juboshakti at a programme on Sunday.
13 August 2025, 18:11 PM
Sada Pathor stripped bare
Bholaganj’s Sada Pathor, a broad, shallow stretch of the Dholai River where smooth white stones once lay against the backdrop of Meghalaya’s hills, has long been one of Sylhet’s top tourist attractions.
13 August 2025, 18:06 PM
Promises on paper, pollution in reality
Environment Adviser Syeda Rizwana Hasan’s admission of failure to stop rampant stone extraction in Sylhet’s Jaflong may be honest, but it highlights her glaring limitations as an administrator.
13 August 2025, 18:04 PM
Forty more pushed into country: BGB
Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) detained 40 individuals from the border areas in three districts early yesterday after they were allegedly pushed into Bangladesh by India’s Border Security Force (BSF).
13 August 2025, 18:03 PM
ICT-1 records testimony of witness on Chankharpul shooting
A prosecution witness told the International Crimes Tribunal-1 yesterday that he heard men in police uniforms speaking Hindi when thousands of protesters gathered at Chankharpul on August 5 last year.
13 August 2025, 18:00 PM
Tk 519cr campus project set to be placed for Ecnec approval
Prioritising literature, music, fine arts, theatre, agriculture, livestock and fisheries, and environmental sciences, the permanent campus project of Rabindra University in Sirajganj is set to be placed for approval at next week’s Executive Committee of the National Economic Council (Ecnec) meeting.
13 August 2025, 18:00 PM
DSCC misses revenue goals for 5th straight year
For five consecutive fiscal years, Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC) has failed to meet its revenue collection targets, with the shortfall in 2024-25 being the largest in recent years.
13 August 2025, 18:00 PM
Illegal sand extraction poses landslide risk
Illegal sand extraction in Maheshkhali, a coastal island upazila in Cox’s Bazar, is putting hundreds of hillside residents at risk of landslides, alleged locals.
13 August 2025, 18:00 PM
Sutia riverbank turns into garbage site
For decades, garbage was dumped openly in the Naudhar area of Trishal municipality. With no official dumping station, waste piled up in the open, causing widespread public suffering.
13 August 2025, 18:00 PM
Narrow, damaged road puts traffic at risk
A 20-kilometre stretch along the Pirojpur–Nazirpur–Gopalganj road is so narrow that vehicles face severe difficulties navigating it. The stretch is too tight to allow two fast-moving vehicles to pass each other simultaneously.
13 August 2025, 18:00 PM
Apurba Lal Dey passes away
Apurba Lal Dey, a senior lawyer and father of Arun Bikash Dey, staff reporter of The Daily Star’s Chattogram Bureau, passed away yesterday afternoon. He was 80.
13 August 2025, 18:00 PM