Timely election must for economic stability
23 October 2025, 15:00 PM
Zero pass rate a sign of bigger problems
23 October 2025, 05:00 AM
Reduce preventable deaths and injuries
22 October 2025, 07:00 AM
Persistent rights concerns demand scrutiny
21 October 2025, 14:00 PM
Legal labour migration for all workers is crucial
21 October 2025, 05:00 AM
After airport fire, the government must rebuild confidence
20 October 2025, 14:00 PM
A tariff schedule that hurts businesses
20 October 2025, 06:58 AM
Sabotage or not, the government must account for the recent fires
19 October 2025, 14:00 PM
Mirpur at risk as illegal chemical businesses mushroom
19 October 2025, 07:00 AM
Tripura mob killing of Bangladeshis exposes the accountability gap
19 October 2025, 05:00 AM
Attack on a Sufi shrine in Pakistan
We are deeply saddened by the news of yet another suicide bombing in a Sufi shrine in Pakistan that has left 70 people dead and over
17 February 2017, 18:00 PM
Breathing the worst polluted air
The people in Dhaka breathe the most polluted air risking their lives to fatal health hazards. This has been revealed by the 'State of
16 February 2017, 18:00 PM
Drive against unfit vehicles and illegal drivers
It is heartening to note that the Dhaka South City Corporation and the relevant agencies will launch a joint drive against over 20-year-old
16 February 2017, 18:00 PM
Khasis under eviction threat
Reportedly, the life of the Khasi people living in Meghatila village in Kulaura upazila is getting harder as they are constantly threatened of
15 February 2017, 18:00 PM
New EC takes charge
The new Election Commission (EC) has taken over on February 15. We wish the new team good luck. The new CEC had expressed his
15 February 2017, 18:00 PM
Padma bridge case
The case against former senior executives of SNC-Lavalin Group in Canada has been dismissed by the Ontario Superior Court.
14 February 2017, 18:00 PM
Yet another question paper leak
We are deeply disturbed by the recent leak of the Math question paper of the SSC Exams, which adds to a long list of such scandals.
14 February 2017, 18:00 PM
No paediatric intensive care unit at DMCH!
As if the tragedy of an infant losing most of his family members in a terrifying accident was not enough. One and a half year old Tasfir
13 February 2017, 18:00 PM
Rising road crash casualties
Death and injury in the road are a disturbingly regular phenomenon. Despite this, we are shocked to read a report published in this paper
13 February 2017, 18:00 PM
Address boro growers' concern
Hundreds of farmers from three villages under Mauha union in Gouripur upazila demonstrated on Saturday, for the restoration of power supply to a deep tube-well used for boro cultivation in the area.
12 February 2017, 18:00 PM
Benevolence of a Japanese woman
We wholeheartedly thank Hiroko Kobayashi, an 88-year-old Japanese woman who has been financially supporting secondary and higher education of about a hundred impoverished girls in Jheniadah and Panchagarh.
12 February 2017, 18:00 PM
Vandalism at Taqi Mancha
On the fourth anniversary of his murder, masked men vandalised the “Santrash Nirmul Taqi Mancha” in Narayanganj and injured at least one of the organisers.
11 February 2017, 18:00 PM
CNG-driven vehicle explodes!
It was a tragic day for the families of the thirteen people who were killed on February 10 when a CNG-driven covered van exploded as it
11 February 2017, 18:00 PM
The reality of teenage gangs
The Rapid Action Battalion has arrested eight teenage gang members responsible for the sensational killing of ninth-grader Adnan Kabir in the capital's Uttara last month.
10 February 2017, 18:00 PM
Keeping the city clean
That well-intentioned actions can lose their purpose without active participation of the people is highlighted by the three pictures carried in Thursday's The Daily Star.
10 February 2017, 18:00 PM
No justice for Sagar, Runi
Megh's pain of not knowing why his parents were so cruelly snatched away from him is something we can only imagine.
9 February 2017, 18:00 PM
The hawker headache
Street vendors—no one knows how many in this mega city's vast informal economy—have taken over the pavements, and in some cases the roads of the capital.
9 February 2017, 18:00 PM
Burning of Santal houses
On Tuesday, the High Court ordered the withdrawal of the superintendent of Gaibandha police and all policemen who were on duty on November 6 of last year in Chamgari Beel where Santal houses were torched during an eviction drive that left three people dead.
8 February 2017, 18:00 PM
Inordinately lengthy trials!
We have highlighted the plight of the accused in this country before; how many of them languish for years on end in prison because the
8 February 2017, 18:00 PM
Violence by Myanmar security forces on Rohingyas
First the UN accused Myanmar of ethnic cleansing and now the Human Rights Watchhas accused it of inciting systematic sexual violence against Rohingya women and girls during security operations in northern Rakhine State in 2016.
7 February 2017, 18:00 PM