Slender, small-built and soft-spoken, Sumit Sarkar, who passed away on August 13, was a towering historian, one of the very ...

I’d have been a better writer if I weren’t so self-obsessed,” mused the elderly Jan Morris from her windswept Welsh home.

At least five dengue patients died and 1,920 others were hospitalised in the 24 hours till 8:00am yesterday, according to the ...

Seven more patients died with measles-like symptoms in the 24 hours until 8:00am yesterday, bringing the combined tally of ...

The government yesterday distributed around Tk 5 crore in financial assistance among 583 workers’ families from Dhaka, Gazipur, Manikganj, Munshiganj, Tangail and Narayanganj.

Chittagong University of Engineering and Technology Vice-Chancellor Prof Dr Sheikh Shariful Alam has denied reports that he ...

Bangladesh’s permanent representative to the United Nations, Irene Khan, speaks to The Daily Star about Prime Minister ...

Eighteen of the 30 locomotives purchased by Bangladesh Railway from South Korean company Hyundai Rotem for about Tk 972 crore ...

The National Pay Commission recommended reducing subsidies, phasing out export cash incentives and cutting government expenditure to ease the cost of implementing the new pay scale for government ...

The parliamentary standing committee on the public administration ministry has recommended identifying officials responsible for non-cooperation or negligence in implementing government work.

A 30-year-old man was beaten to death by a mob in Satkhira’s Debhata on Tuesday night over allegations that he had hurt religious sentiments, police said yesterday.

Turkish authorities appointed a government trustee to run pro-opposition broadcaster Halk TV, prosecutors said yesterday as police raided its Istanbul office, extending a crackdown on the opposition ...