Nessima Hakim, widow of late Justice Maksum ul Hakim, died on Sunday. She was 80, says a press release.

According to a recent report by McKinsey & Company, a global management consulting firm, Bangladesh is slated to remain the top sourcing nation for global retail of readymade garments (RMG) for the next five years.

Yet again, we are confronted with the appalling news of 12-year-old boy tied to a tree and beaten mercilessly by more than one person, apparently as 'punishment for theft'.

Every new day the Chhatra League's excess, it seems, takes a new dimension. Last Sunday, some unruly members of the student body assaulted some teachers of Shahjalal University of Science and Technology who were staging a sit-in demanding the resignation of the university's Vice Chancellor.

Today is the 6th death anniversary of former additional secretary of the government Khurshid Alam.

Alhaj Momtaz Uddin Khan, a former police official, died on Sunday, aged 102.

Today is the seventh death anniversary of Quamrul Islam Siddique, a former secretary and LGED chief engineer, said a press release.

Today is the 12th death anniversary of Noorjehan Murshid, a Liberation War organiser and the first state minister for health and social welfare of Bangladesh,

Another 24 Bangladeshis are likely to have met their watery grave off the coast of foreign land thousands of miles away from home.

There has been a growing public opinion building into crescendo demanding that the government reconsider energy regulatory commission's decision to raise gas and power tariff by 26.29 percent and 2.93 percent, respectively.

Mohammad Golam Moula, 72, father of late Shayera Moula, former employee of The Daily Star, died yesterday morning at the capital's Metropolitan Hospital.

Qulkhwani of Laken Murtaza will be held tomorrow at 5:00pm after Asr Prayers at Azad Mosque in the capital's Gulshan.

The 7th death anniversary of Shamsul Hoque Mojumder, a former engineer of PWD Division, was observed yesterday.

A group of village arbitrators ostracised her along with family members just on the basis of a totally unfounded claim that she

In 1992, Nazmul Hassan began to export crushed leather and other leather products in his humble way, with Japan his major buyer. Before long he noticed that the leather he would export would return to Bangladesh in the form of class, expensive footwear.

Ayesha Begum, mother of Capt Golam Robbani Bhuiyan, died of old-age complications in a hospital in Chittagong city on Friday. She was

Parents, teachers and social leaders should carefully listen to adolescents and handle them with patience to ensure their reproductive

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We are deeply concerned about the pathetic plight of the once ebullient River Turag, which has been reduced to a narrow stream over

Anyone who has ever taken a long walk through the streets of Dhaka can vouch that it is unfriendly to pedestrians.