Wait for TCB essentials ends in tragedy
29 July 2026
Forty-five-year-old Nasima Begum, a cleaner, had just sat down for lunch at home during her break when word spread through the neighbourhood that a Trading Corporation of Bangladesh (TCB) truck had arrived. She left her food on the plate and went out.
29 July 2026
Data Story / What being a Messi or Ronaldo fan says about you
14 July 2026
A new study spanning 26 countries and more than 10,000 people, conducted by researchers at Nanyang Technological University (NTU) in Singapore, suggests there's a correlation between your political ideology, your media habits, and which of these two mega-stars you back.
14 July 2026
When a notification brings a child home
6 June 2026
A nine-year-old boy with special needs was rescued in the capital’s Mirpur last Sunday after a local pharmacy employee recognised him from a missing child alert on Facebook, a Meta platform.
6 June 2026
13th National Parliamentary Election / Postal ballots swing in Jamaat’s favour
13 March 2026
Though the BNP won the February 12 national polls decisively, the main opposition Jamaat-e-Islami performed stronger in postal ballots.
13 March 2026
‘Tricked into war’
4 March 2026
Bangladeshi men are being flown out of Dhaka, routed through Saudi Arabia and the UAE, before being taken to Moscow and forced onto the frontlines of Russia’s war in Ukraine.
4 March 2026
‘Everything’s gone, except the clothes I’m wearing’
17 December 2025
A fire that broke out at a plastic factory at Islambagh in Old Dhaka was brought under control after nearly two and a half hours of efforts yesterday.
17 December 2025
A ‘third force’ taking shape?
29 October 2025
Discussions are underway to form a new nine-party alliance as a potential “third force” ahead of the upcoming national election, with talks reportedly involving the National Citizen Party (NCP), Gono Odhikar Parishad, Amar Bangladesh Party (AB Party), and the Gonotontro Moncho.
29 October 2025
Airport fire sends shockwave across supply chains
19 October 2025
Raw materials for peak-season garment shipments, medicine ingredients, and telecom equipment gutted
19 October 2025
Mirpur factory fire: Chemical fumes still in the air
The massive fire that swept through a chemical warehouse and an adjacent garment factory in Shialbari of the capital’s Mirpur was brought under control yesterday -- 27 hours after it broke out.
15 October 2025
A lie that cost a life
A routine firefighting mission in Tongi’s Sahara Market took a deadly turn, all because of false information.
23 September 2025
A life lost for a lie
A routine firefighting mission in Tongi’s Sahara Market took a deadly turn, all because of false information.
23 September 2025
Inside Shibir’s Ducsu domination: What the numbers reveal
Liberation war post delivers shock win for Shibir-backed candidate
17 September 2025
The disappeared of the July Uprising
The Daily Star found evidence of systematic government efforts to cover up medical records and bodies of the July uprising victims so they can never be found again.
18 March 2025
Families want closure, however painful
When we first started visiting Dhaka Medical College Hospital in January for this story, there were seven protest-related unclaimed bodies freezing in its mortuaries.
15 March 2025
A systematic cover up of bodies
On the afternoon of August 5, 2024, word spread across the country that Sheikh Hasina fled to India. In Gazipur, like elsewhere in the country, thousands poured into the streets in celebration. But there was also anger.
14 March 2025
AL govt sought to hide true extent of massacre
They all had families, desperately searching for them amid a nationwide curfew and internet shutdown at the height of the July uprising. Yet, they were buried as "unclaimed" bodies within one to six days after being shot dead, before their loved ones could find them. Seven months after the July
13 March 2025
Hastily buried in unmarked graves
The Daily Star investigates how July uprising protesters were disappeared in unmarked graves
11 March 2025