Lack of awareness worsening situation
People in rural areas of Chattogram are seemingly reluctant to go for Covid-19 testing even after suffering from fever for six to seven days, increasing the risk of further worsening the situation...
28 Axle Load Control Centres: Crucial RHD project runs into snag
Roads and Highways Department (RHD) has failed to start the physical work of a project taken up two years ago for installing 28 axle load control centres despite a call by one of its wings for...
9 prison doctors for 90,000 inmates
Over 23 inmates are dying every month, amid a shortage of doctors, nurses, and ambulances, and poor medical facilities in 68 prisons of the country.
YABA, CHARITY hand in glove?
The other side of Abdur Rahman Bodi, widely known as a yaba godfather, is quite intriguing. ...
Yaba Invasion-3: Living in DRUG ZONE
Millions are now addicted to the pink pills. They take it as stimulant and end up with organ damage and mental derangement. The Daily Star has prepared a three-part series on the invasion of yaba...
Yaba Invasion-2: An open affair with death
It was like wooing customers to have kebab and biriyani at popular Bihari restaurants. Only a few steps into the Camper Bazar, youths in small groups were looking for potential customers, holding...
Yaba invasion -1: Hostage to Myanmar
It's called crazy medicine. Produced in Myanmar, the dangerous drug very easily crosses the border and reaches cities, towns and villages of Bangladesh through various channels -- sometimes in...
Watch out!
The figures are alarming. Every year, an estimated Tk 6,000 crore worth of yaba is sold in the country, which would come to 30 crore pieces of the drug. It is a back-of-the-envelope calculation....
A devil's design
An unprecedented hate campaign against the Buddhist community raged through Ramu, a region known for its communal harmony for centuries until the night of September 29. Eighteen pagodas were...