Would you believe that the famous Bangladeshi musician Habib Wahid’s main revenue from his music comes from mobile phone ringtones?

At least 24 people are killed and 74 injured in a huge fire triggered by a boiler explosion at plastic packaging factory in Tongi industrial area of Gazipur.

It is a 300-foot by 50-foot three-storey behemoth with a lift and a coronary care unit (CCU). Yes, we are talking about none other than the biggest and most luxurious launch on Dhaka-Barisal route in Bangladesh -- the Sundarban 10.

Mir Quasem Ali, who led ruthless militia Al-Badr in Chittagong to commit crimes against humanity in 1971, is hanged at Kashimpur Central Jail.

Arshi Nagar Bangladesh, a volunteer organisation located in Lalmonirhat has been providing a platform for folk artistes of two districts--Lalmonirhat and Kurigram--to practice and preserve this age-old art form.

To understand the significance of US Secretary of State John Kerry’s recent Dhaka visit, The Daily Star stages its first Online Talk Show with M Humayun Kabir, former Bangladesh Ambassador to the US, and Mahfuz Anam, editor of The Daily Star.

One of the most iconic and historic places in Bangladesh is the 1600-year-old city-“Mahasthangarh”- situated 13kilometre north to Bogra town.

The fire that broke out at Bashundhara City shopping complex in Dhaka’s Panthapath area this morning has been brought under control after six hours of their frantic efforts.

The government has set in motion the process to revoke Citycell's licence after the operator failed to pay its dues amounting to Tk 477.51 crore.

Plants were never before this popular with Dhaka dwellers as it is this year. According to nursery owners who are participating in the on-going national plant fair “Jatiya Brikkho Mela” at Agargaon in Dhaka, the sale of plants this year has surpassed that of any previous years.

Around 125 years ago, one Purno Mondal from Atgar-Kuriyana union in Nesarabad upazila of Pirojpur went to Goya, a sacred place of the Hindu community in India for religious purpose. He collected some guava seeds from there and eventually planted them in his village home.

Sabina Yasmin, a living legend in music who grabbed 13 national awards and innumerable other national and international awards with her voice in a career that has spanned over four decades, keeps mesmerising Bangla music lovers.

With the advent of the digital printing press, Riskshaw painting a previously well known art form is on the verge of extinction. Many painters had to switch their profession to survive the "digital revolution".

Some 22 floating schools locally known as “Nouka School” moved in to the submerged Chalanbeel area spanning over three districts providing academic facilities to more than 2,000 underprivileged children in the last few years.

The militants who were killed in gunfight with the law enforcers early morning Tuesday changed their dress after the Fazr prayers and wore black punjabis, said a neighbour who observed the militants time to time from around midnight till dawn from an adjacent building.

In our country there are many entrepreneurs who want to be fish farmers but don't know how to start their own business. Mohammed Zakir Hossain, project manager of USAID Aquaculture for Income and Nutrition shares his experience with Star Live and explains the "Do's and Don'ts" about fish farming. If you are planning to take up this venture then this video is a must-watch for you.

The use of traditional boats may be disappearing fast, but there is one place in Nesarabad upazila (formerly Swarupkathi) in Pirojpur, where you can still buy newly made boats for a trifle amount.

Farmers of the marshland in Nazirpur upazila of Pirojpur are busy in growing vegetable saplings on water bed, locally known as ‘Dhap’.

Bangladesh is the second largest apparel exporter in the world, after China. The market share of Bangladesh, in the $503 billion global garment items is 5.1 percent, according to data from the International Trade Statistics of the World Bank in 2014.

A rich and unique collection of antiquities, sculptures Islamic art, traditional-art and contemporary art, the Chittagong University Museum-the only university-run specialised museum in the country is definitely worth a visit.