"Dhaka, one of the most densely populated cities in the world, has turned into a ghost town since the COVID-19 outbreak. The city has become almost unrecognisable with roads empty and eerily silent . For residents accustomed to dealing with hour-long traffic, what they're witnessing was unimaginable once upon a time."

Nearly 4,000 cleaners under the employment of the Chattogram City Council are working with the risk of contracting coronavirus looming over their hands. The Chattogram City Council informed The Daily Star that almost 10 tonnes of waste from the clinics and hospitals in the city are sifted through by these workers without any protection.

The only thing we know for sure about COVID-19 is that we don’t know enough about it yet.

Three Bangladeshis have been infected with the coronavirus inside the country so far. Health experts, however, say it is still far from an outbreak in the country.

Kohinoor Begum's foodbank initiative is an inspiring lesson in community leadership. She is one of the nine "Unsung Women" awarded by The Daily Star this year.

'In Loving Memory of My Husband', wrote British citizen JCG on one of the five nameless gravestones at the Dunstone Cemetery, located 16 kilometers from Sreemangal, Moulvibazar.

On the night of Feb 20, 2019, old Dhaka experienced one of the deadliest fire incidents in the country’s history. Old Dhaka still has hazardous stocks of flammable chemicals and other risky factories and there are no visible efforts to relocate chemical warehouses and stores from Old Dhaka.

Bangladesh experiences both positive and negative developments in the case of rivers. Good developments include the High Court’s judgement declaring rivers as a “legal entity”; new energy that the government displayed in freeing rivers from encroachment; combating pollution.

People generally go to libraries seeking information and knowledge, and sometimes for leisure. But what if you could catch up on reading while waiting for a haircut?

In just around forty years, ASM Khalequzzaman Saju of Manikganj has planted nearly 70,000 trees turning his little village home into a veritable mini forest.

Voting began at 8:00am and ended at 4:00pm. We have Golam Mortaza with us providing a third quick analysis of what happened so far.

Poverty could not stop Rabeya Sultana Rabbi from becoming an expert automobile mechanic, in a society where women are stereotyped in every aspect of life.

National Register of Citizens-Citizen Amendment Act (NRC-CAA) that takes centre stage at Kolkata derby football match.

Beekeepers and farmers are passing a busy time setting up bee boxes beside their mustard plantations for collecting honey from the mustard flowers in full bloom in a vast area of Manikganj.

This is the story of a youth from Jhenidah district of Bangladesh who has achieved success by cultivating and selling oranges of Darjeeling variety.

Plastic was invented to make daily life easy. But over the time it has become a big threat to human and environment. BD Clean, a youth organisation, is working on cleaning plastic wastes in different cities of the country and making people aware about it.

Today is the last day for submission of nomination papers for Dhaka North and South City Corporations elections.

Bholaganj Sada Pathor, around 35 kilometres away from the Sylhet city, has turned into a new destination for the tourists. The beautiful place located at the end of Sylhet-Companiganj-Bholaganj highway attracts hundreds of tourists a day.

Mir Umaima Hoque, a seventh grader of Nalanda High School and Abrar Shahid, a sixth grader of Chattogram Cantonment Public College won gold medal at this year’s International Robot Olympiad in Thailand.

The International Migrants Day was celebrated worldwide on Wednesday, December 18. Bangladesh government, UN agencies and NGOs have chalked out a three-day elaborate programme in Dhaka and elsewhere marking the day. On the occasion, The Daily Star has arranged a special talk show to discuss the situation of the Bangladeshi migrants, challenges and prospects. Today's guest is migration expert Shariful Hasan, head of BRAC Migration Programme.