A man in the central Indian state of Madhya Pradesh has bequeathed half of his 18-acre landed property to his dog and the remaining to his wife.

To honour the most loved brands of Bangladesh, the 12th edition of Best Brand Award Bangladesh was held yesterday. Bangladesh Brand Forum (BBF) powered by AIUB, in partnership with Nielsen Bangladesh and in association with The Daily Star, for the first time has put together the event virtually.

The prospect of spending hours in a queue at the diagnostic lab or the hospital deters many or at least prompts them to defer stepping out for diagnostic tests. For many people, the idea of spending hours in a lab or hospital may sound demotivating.

Green Delta Insurance Company (GDIC) has introduced an artificial intelligence (AI)-based mobile application which is the first of its kind in the non-life insurance segment featured with instant account opening and policy purchase tool online.

To accelerate concrete policy response and promote zero tolerance to gender-based violence across all spheres of society, the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) and its partners: Department of Women Affairs, ActionAid Bangladesh, Ain o Salish Kendra, and CARE Bangladesh with support from the Canadian Embassy and Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands have observed the 16 days of activism against gender-based violence campaign through organising an online live event recently titled ‘Preventing and Responding to Gender-Based Violence: Everyone has a Role to Play’.

Value Added Tax professionals in the country have formed an organisation -- Bangladesh VAT Bar Association.

The Daily Star has won a gold and a bronze at the South Asian Digital Media Awards 2020, presented by WAN-IFRA (the World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers).

In these testing times of a global pandemic, many government & private hospitals small and big, NGOs and philanthropists alike have come forward to help strengthen the fight against Covid-19.

The Zonta Club of Greater Dhaka has chalked out plans to celebrate 16 Days of Activism campaign from November 25 to December 10, with a goal to globally develop advocacy actions with a focus on preventing violence, protecting victims and prosecuting perpetrators.

The first-year honours admission test under 2020-21 academic session of Dhaka University (DU) will be held in divisional cities.

Super Fresh Drinking Water and Bangladesh Cancer Aid Trust - BANCAT have signed a MoU yesterday at the MGI Head Office in Gulshan. Under the agreement, Super Fresh Drinking Water will support BANCAT as Sustainability Partner for a year. The Daily Star is the media partner for this partnership.

Tashnuva Anan Shishir, an actor at BotTala, and a trans-woman, has been awarded the ‘Hero Award-2020’ for providing food assistance to poor and the needy, minorities and vulnerable groups, including sex workers, during the country-wide shut down due to the outbreak of Covid-19.

Parliament today passed “Bangladesh Madrasah Education Board Bill-2020″ to replace a 1978 ordinance in this regard.

The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs today approved a proposal in principle for procuring 40 lakh machine readable passport (MRP) booklets and 40 lakh lamination foils to meet the growing demand.

Government today asked all non-government secondary schools not to collect readmission, development, assignment, tiffin, laboratory, library and magazine fees from students during the coronavirus pandemic.

Decision taken as they demanded 50% waiver of tuition fees, claim students; defamed university through falsehood, say authorities

Guardian Life Insurance Limited has paid the first insurance claim under their microinsurance agreement.

The use of quality materials, appropriate site selection and compliance with the national building codes could ensure quality construction and sustainable buildings in Bangladesh, according to experts.

With a vision to prepare the youth against any and every kind of crisis, BYLC is organising a month-long Career Bootcamp from November 21 to December 19, 2020.

For a history worm, 45 years may appear as the blink of an eye, with the vast time-space of human heritage taken into account, since they can time-travel any crucial juncture of socio-political evolution and pen that down with a flair for history-telling. But, for a man with the syndrome of historical amnesia, traveling down 45 years may be tantamount to slipping back into the last ice age and our country is most likely to be diagnosed with that syndrome. If you inquire youths, or even people in their sixties, about what stepping stones the Father of the Nation laid to advance the country’s economy and growth following the independence, you will realize the kind of historical amnesia that we as a nation collectively put ourselves into. To make it worse, some don’t even keep mum but carry forward the twisted lies churned out by the very assassins of Bangabandhu, claiming that what he did till the independence was a masterstroke but what he did in the post-independence period was a fiasco. But, reality puts it the other way round and a closer look at that time reveals that Mujib channelized as much effort towards hoisting the red and green flag before the independence as much towards feeding 7 crore people, rebuilding a war-ravaged country, changing the lives of peasants and workers, and giving the entire nation a roadmap for progress in the post-independence time.