“I'm not interested in having battles that frankly started before I was born."

Environment experts and activists yesterday demanded that the government halt construction of the coal-fired Rampal power plant in

APPROXIMATELY 30 to 45 percent of slum dwellers are ill and 60 percent of their children chronically malnourished.

THIS is the first high level meeting between two chief diplomats of the United States (US) and Cuba since 1958.

“We consider it [the execution] a victory because my father dies a martyr's death. That's why we flashed the V-sign.”

Shahidul Islam, former additional deputy inspector general of police, died from cancer in St Catherine's Hospital of Stuttgart, Germany on

Today is the 18th death anniversary of Mohiuddin Ahmed, a Language Movement veteran, and a Liberation War organiser, says a press

25 individuals killed and a further 23 injured in a single bus accident as it swerved off the road and hit a tree on the Dhaka-Barisal highway on April 9.

IT is indeed heartening to see 1500 MW of electricity being added in the next three months to the country's power-starved national grid, as we hope that the newest addition will give the much-needed impetus to the country's economic growth.

WE are heartened to learn that the government plans to set up three new economic zones that will cater specifically for Japanese, Chinese and Indian firms intending to invest in Bangladesh.

ALMOST a year after the gruesome murders of seven men in Narayanganj, police have charged 35 individuals.

Twenty-five people were killed and 23 injured as a bus crashed onto a roadside tree on Dhaka-Barisal highway in Bhanga upazila of Faridpur early yesterday.

A preliminary report made public by the World Health Organisation (WHO) paints a bleak picture where 2 million people die of food-borne diseases globally.

THE wholesale promotion of 873 senior civil bureaucrats for no apparent reason is a bewildering move of the government.

“Jamaat-BNP men are killers. Khaleda Zia is a murderer. These killers will not be given any chance to take to the streets [to carry out

One of the two Bangladeshi returnees who were abducted by unidentified terrorists in Libya talks to The Daily Star about their ordeal.

The education ministry yesterday issued a circular making swimming training and practice compulsory for the students of higher

The education ministry yesterday issued a circular making swimming training and practice compulsory for the students of higher

A discussion on a book titled "Foundation of Human Communication" written by Assistant Professor Sheikh Shafiul Islam and Associate

Anzuman Ara Begum; wife of Kazi Shamsul Huda, former forest officer; died on Monday midnight. She was 81.