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.

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.

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

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.

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.

Megh's pain of not knowing why his parents were so cruelly snatched away from him is something we can only imagine.

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.

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.

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

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.

The Hon'ble President has appointed a new Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) and four Commissioners; the reaction of some political parties is predictable.

The news of inhuman treatment of a girl or woman at the hands of her husband and in laws has become a regular phenomenon.

We are deeply disturbed by an Ain o Salish Kendra report, according to which as many as 59 members of Awami League (AL) were killed in factional feuds in the last two years.

The running of hospitals without doctors is worryingly becoming a new trend. The latest to join the growing list is the Pirojpur Mother and Child Welfare Centre (MCWC) which, since December last year, has been running without a single doctor.

Community-based mediation can make justice more accessible to rural people as it can solve local problems locally saving both time and money, legal experts said at a conference in the capital recently.

The authorities have dragged their feet on the issue for years, and for years Dhaka residents have paid the price as the principal river feeding the city, the Buriganga, went on being polluted to the point that marine life became largely extinct. Pollution levels have reached critical levels and the toxicity of the water has risen so much that it can no longer be treated effectively by WASA.

That a personal animosity between members of the Awami League should result in the death of a journalist is outrageous.

That two officials of a Chinese company can be held at gunpoint, and that too inside the Rail Bhaban (head office) is quite unthinkable. These two individuals had gone to submit tender documents and they were literally hijacked by a gang who brandished firearms and took them to the 8th floor of the building which is apparently more secluded than the rest.

Aphotograph published on the front page of this newspaper on Wednesday, showing a bent and dented battery run

There is only one way to have described the picture that appeared in page two of this paper on yesterday and in almost all newspaper in