The traffic authorities must play a more active role in identifying and holding accountable reckless driving, speeding and unfit and overloaded vehicles.

The world does not look away when Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi speaks. As an early score, Modi cuts an impressive figure on the global stage.

Today is the first death anniversary of Mahbubul Alam, a former caretaker government adviser and ex-editor of English daily The

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi during his around 34-hour whirlwind visit to Bangladesh beginning today is going to spend a busy time with official talks, meeting political leadership, ministers, businesspeople and people.

Just when we had started to feel a sense of relief, that the horrific incidents of arson attacks during the BNP led opposition hartal-

The finance minister has presented the 44th annual budget of a record size in parliament. We are giving our preliminary reactions to it at

The qulkhwani of Anwara Sofia Islam, wife of former Information Minister and BNP Standing Committee Member M Shamsul Islam, will be

Today is the 15th death anniversary of Begum Lutfunnessa Ibrahim, wife of late Justice Mohammed Ibrahim, said a press release.

Bought nine months ago, the textbooks still look new. Noor Jahan stowed them in a polythene bag. Her son Sanjid Hossain Ovi used to read the books mostly in the bed that is now folded up in a corner of the tiny room.

Anwara Sofia Islam, wife of former Information Minister and BNP standing committee member M Shamsul Islam, died from kidney failure

Today is the 90th birthday of Nurjahan Begum, one of the most senior female editors of the sub-continent, says a press release.

The recent tragedy of hundreds of boat people floating in the wilderness of the sea without food and other basic amenities has drawn the world's attention to the protracted suffering of the Rohingyas.

The two Dhaka city corporations are set to clear footpaths from July 1. That the small-scale eviction drive in Gulistan on June 2 fizzled out was a foregone conclusion.

Banker Rafiqul Islam saw off his wife at Shahjalal International Airport and was still on his way back home to Dhanmondi when he got the call from Kolkata. I have arrived safely, his wife said. But Rafiqul was nowhere near his home.

It is with dismay that we are informed by a Daily Star exclusive, that although the government formed over 5,000 committees, in all 64

An investigative report in this paper on Monday made a shocking revelation of the BRTC's poor maintenance of its relatively new fleet of

The prosecution yesterday sought capital punishment for Forkan Mallik, 64, an alleged Razakar who was active in Patuakhali's Mirzaganj upazila during the 1971 Liberation War,

"Making money is happiness; making other people happy is super-happiness." Nobel laureate Prof Muhammad Yunus made the simple statement when explaining the concept of social business, his brainchild, to a dominantly young audience in the capital yesterday.

Today is the first death anniversary of M Nurun Nabi, a secretary of the government and member of the Bangladesh Public Service Commission.

Mohammad Aminul Haque Moni, former managing director of Bangla -vision, died of cancer at the capital's United Hospital on Sunday night. He was 66, said a press release.