Lychee farmers worried despite expected bumper harvest (video)

Lychee farmers and traders in Dinajpur expect a bumper harvest of lychee this year. However, they are worried about incurring loss due to the present political unrest in the country.
29 April 2015, 16:45 PM

Risky living in Rampura slum (video)

In Rampura slum, the dwellers are not aware even after a recent disaster. It is the area, where a two-storey tin structure housing around 20 families, collapsed into a marshland on April 15, killing 12 people.
24 April 2015, 15:28 PM

Sexual assault: Resistance ideas pour on social media (video)

Social networking platforms Facebook, Twitter witness users exchange ideas of resisting harassment to women as protests against the Pahela Baishakh assault continue.
23 April 2015, 15:28 PM

Sexual assault: Allegations, authorities' response need probe, says DU VC (video)

The adminstration’s underplaying and protesters’ accusations on sexual assault during Pahela Baishakh celebration should thoroughly be probed, opines Dhaka University Vice-Chancellor Professor AAMS Arefin Siddique.
23 April 2015, 14:43 PM

Hilsa: Killed by gill nets (video)

Banned in the country for its consequences, gill nets are still aplenty in Bangladesh.
21 April 2015, 08:46 AM

The dying Shahjahanpur Jheel (video)

A deltaic country, the plains of Bangladesh are crisscrossed with a million water bodies. The canals, marshlands and the rivers make the quintessential image that Rural Bengal conjures up.
20 April 2015, 13:59 PM

[WATCH] How Pahela Baishakh came to be

Muntasir Mamun, Professor of History at University of Dhaka, and Hashem Sufi, Researcher of History, tell us the facts behind how Bengali New Year celebration on Pahela Baishakh came to be.
19 April 2015, 14:53 PM

Liton Nandi talks about Pahela Baishakh sexual assault (Video)

Protest outbursts in the wake of heinous sexual assault during Pahela Baishakh celebration at Dhaka University on 14th April. Liton Nandi, president of leftist student body, Bangladesh Chhatra Union of the university unit was the youth who first apparently came to resist the rowdy mob at TSC area.
19 April 2015, 03:40 AM

Call to resist sexual abuse (Video)

Through social media popularly in facebook, people from different walks of lives come down heavily to protest the incidents demanding exemplary punishment of the assaulters.
19 April 2015, 03:39 AM

Bangalees celebrate Pahela Baishakh 1422

Thousands of people gathered at Ramna Park and on Dhaka University campus to welcome the Bengali New Year 1422. Authorities concerned chalked out several traditional programmes to celebrate the occasion.
15 April 2015, 16:07 PM

Sexual assault: BCL’s mysterious silence (Video)

In the wake of mass outrage against sexual assault on women during Pahela Baishakh celebrations on Dhaka University campus, the ruling Awami League’s student wing Bangladesh Chhatra League keeps itself aloof from any protest.
13 April 2015, 18:00 PM

Pahela Baishakh 1422: Shopping Spree (Video)

People are thronging the boutiques and fashion houses in Dhaka to complete the last-minute shopping spree for celebrating Pahela Baishakh, the first day of Bangla New Year.
13 April 2015, 17:23 PM

Welcoming Pahela Baishakh: A gastronomic guide (Video)

Poetry in a plate. This Pohela Baishkah do something different, explore your city its heritage, savoring the eccentric and rich variety of food of Old Dhaka and the street food of Dhaka University.
13 April 2015, 17:00 PM

Pahela Baishakh 1422: Horse cart ride (Video)

Just keeping away the day-to-day vehicles, riding on traditional horse carts can make your moments more eventful on this very first day of Bangla Calendar.
13 April 2015, 16:50 PM

All set for Pahela Baishakh celebration (Video)

Pahela Baishakh, the first day of the first month of Bangla calendar now is at doorstep. People from all walks of life are ready to celebrate the first day of the new year with much festivity.
13 April 2015, 10:48 AM

Analysis: War Criminal Kamaruzzaman's death sentence

The Supreme Court upholds War Criminal Muhammad Kamaruzzaman's death sentence denying his review petition. The Daily Star's War Crime specialist Tuhin Shubhra Adhikary speaks about the convict, the charges against him and the analysis.
11 April 2015, 14:46 PM

Shabby upkeep of Dhaka public hospitals (video)

Despite several marked improvements in the public health sector, authorities are yet to make public hospitals to host a warm welcome to the commoners.
8 April 2015, 14:50 PM

Illegal kitchen market at Purba Razabazar (video)

The road of Purba Rajabazar beside IBA Hostel. Hundreds of people are using this road everyday facing a few problems regularly.
7 April 2015, 10:50 AM

Anxious beef market in Dhaka

Reactions of the meat vendors in Karwan Bazaar kitchen market in Dhaka as beef price unbelievably goes high due to 'political turmoil and scarcity of imported cattle'.
5 April 2015, 04:56 AM

Illegal posterings before Dhaka city polls (Video)

Breaching the electoral code of conduct, many mayor and councilor aspirants have yet to remove their posters from different parts of the two Dhaka city corporations.
5 April 2015, 04:54 AM