Veteran journalist M Obaidul Haque died due to old-age complications at a private hospital in Chittagong city early yesterday. He was 87.

Language Movement veteran advocate Abdur Razzak died of cardiac arrest in the capital on Sunday morning.

Former US president Richard Nixon “didn't give a fig for the genocide that was being committed in present-day Bangladesh”, says a Pulitzer winning New York Times journalist.

The Hindu community celebrate one of their traditional festivals, Rathajatra (Chariot Procession) in Dhaka.

Memorial services are being held to mark the first anniversary of the MH17 air disaster, in which 298 people died.

The Daily Star and Midland Bank are jointly initiating a project to promote education and knowledge among meritorious and financially

As the most joyful festival for Muslims is about to begin, it is important to engage in some spiritual stocktaking.

First it was Pakistan and then India and on Wednesday, it was South Africa that the Tigers snatched series wins in a very convincing manner.

After the marathon 18-day Vienna talks a historic deal was signed on Tuesday between Iran and six global powers -- the US, Russia, China, Britain, France and Germany.

The Daily Star's report on illegal toll collection by a gang of extortionists in collusion with DNCC staff highlights an undeniable fact.

Maj Gen (retd) Amjad Khan Chowdhury, chief executive officer of PRAN-RFL Group, who died in the USA on July 8, was laid to eternal rest

Sultana Shaheed Khuku; wife of Shahidur Rahman Shaheed, former chief administrative officer of defence ministry; died of a heart attack

At age four, Farhan Tanvir Tipto did not know how to run. When his father Shahed Siddique noticed it one day, he got scared and immediately took the kid to hospital but the doctor found nothing wrong. He just advised him to let his son run in open spaces.

Do you have only Tk 1000 in hand but you still have Eid shopping left for your family? Sounds impossible, right? The Daily Star Online has the perfect solution for a person in need of Eid shopping in a tight budget.

There has been a noticeable bounce-back of confidence among the US retailers in Bangladeshi garments.

The number of incidents of abduction carried out by criminals posing as DB Police, have apparently gone up in the capital prompting the Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) to ask the public to help catch the imposters.

Extortionists, allegedly backed by some city corporation officials, have been collecting about Tk 1.5 lakh daily in illegal toll as “parking fees” from goods-laden vehicles entering Karwan Bazaar.

Scourge Spreading

Four-year-old Tahia and her sister Tathoi, 2, were repeatedly asking their parents how long it was to reach their grandfather's house. They asked their parents to wake them up after they get there and went to sleep, but never got a chance to wake up.

Today, as a nation, we are ashamed of what we have become; we are ashamed of the barbarians amongst us, who find perverse pleasure in the torture and death of a child, so much so that they record the act and share it gleefully on Facebook.