We are happy to note that fire fighters had successfully doused the massive fire that broke out on Sunday in the Bashundhara shopping mall without any casualty.

At the fourth Youth Leadership Summit held recently in Bangladesh, dignitaries unanimously concurred that youths were key to achieving the new United Nations sustainable development goals and shaping a bright future.

The recent remark by a visiting British scholar that universities should focus more on developing leadership, adaptability and communication skills opens up an opportunity to address the role universities should play in Bangladesh.

It has been two months since Germany became the third country to slap a ban on shipment of air cargo from Shahjalal International Airport on security grounds.

Bangladesh Railway authorities will begin selling advance train tickets from August 29 to ensure hassle-free journey for holidaymakers ahead of Eid-ul-Azha.

People in Dhaka and most other parts of the country start their day amid fog and rain due to a land depression.

We sympathise with the demand for dormitories by Jagannath University students who are suffering from severe residential problems. And more so because of the on-going militancy issue following the Gulshan attack that is making it particularly difficult for students to rent houses and make arrangements for their accommodation.

When the first flight of Hajj pilgrims left Dhaka for Saudi Arabia on August 4, we were happy hoping that Bangladeshis pilgrims would have a smooth sailing this year in performing their Hajj. Our delight has been very short-lived and our hopes, it seems, were unfounded.

The results of this year's HSC examinations published on Thursday are foremost a matter of pride. The success rate of the examinees rose

According to an assessment made by the Directorate General of Family Planning and USAID, most of the 3,590 Union Health and Family

Information Minister Hasanul Haq Inu alleges that Jamaat-e-Islami and Pakistan’s intelligence agency Inter-Services Intelligence are involved in terrorist activities in Bangladesh.

On the second day of its campus activation programmes, the export idea contest 'Rise High Bangladesh' reached Chittagong University of Engineering and Technology (CUET) on August 18, 2016.

A report published in this paper on August 18 exposed the history of the growth of jihadi groups over the years. Today, the threat posed by militancy brooks no repetition.

The alleged grabbing of several hundred crore worth of government land in Cox's Bazar by influential quarters is unacceptable.

Erosion by the river Kaliganga took a serious turn devouring about 50 dwelling houses at Barta village under Chandahar union in Singair

Bangladeshi expatriate imam Maulana Alauddin Akhonjee, who along with his assistant was shot to death in New York of the US on Saturday, has been laid to eternal rest at Gospara village in Chunarughat upazila.

With the name of Rise High and a promise of doing the same, The Daily Star has joined hands with the flourishing global brand Crown Cement. The objective is to deal with the well-known notion that despite manufacturing various unique items we fail to escalate the goods into exportation. By incentivising youths to think about the issue, not only will out-of-the-box ideas surface but it may also end up being a study on which other countries apart from the already-known ones can be potential importers of our goods.

The country's four maritime ports have been advised to keep hoisted local cautionary signal number 3 as the land depression over Gangetic West Bengal and adjoining area of Bangladesh moved northwestwards further and lies over Jharkhand and adjoining Gangetic West Bengal of India.

It could be a charming feature in a work of literature: a bamboo bridge that has for 50 years been the primary connection for thousands of villagers to the outside world. But in Mymensingh's Bhaluka upazila, for the residents of 15 villages such a bridge is not charming. It's an obstacle to modern living.

Though Bangladesh is often cited as a role model for the impressive achievements in maternal and child health and gender parity at primary education...