Investigative Stories

Investigative Stories

Investigation / Licence to fly: Pilots faked flying records

CAAB inquiry finds, regulator yet to take action

2d ago

Investigation / Licence to fly: Regulator repeatedly ignored red flags

CAAB’s own inquiry finds irregularities by training academies, raising questions about aviation safety

3d ago

The disappeared of the July Uprising

The Daily Star found evidence of systematic government efforts to cover up medical records and bodies of the July uprising victims so they can never be found again.

1m ago

The disappeared of the July Uprising: Part 4 / Families want closure, however painful

When we first started visiting Dhaka Medical College Hospital in January for this story, there were seven protest-related unclaimed bodies freezing in its mortuaries.

1m ago

The disappeared of the July Uprising: Part 1 / Hastily buried in unmarked graves

The Daily Star investigates how July uprising protesters were disappeared in unmarked graves

2m ago

Parking wealth under the Dubai sun

The city’s booming real estate has also been used by Bangladeshis as an offshore haven to park wealth for a big reason

4m ago

How Hasina’s flight was kept off radar

When the air force transporter plane carrying Sheikh Hasina left Dhaka on August 5, it took off as a training flight and turned off its transponders to blur its flightpath and location..The transponders, which transmit location, heading

8m ago

The Daily Star Investigation / A councillor and his illicit tobacco trade

A significant share of Bangladesh’s illegal cigarette market is controlled by two companies where Chattogram City Corporation (CCC) Councillor Abdus Sabur Liton and his brother have the majority stakes, an investigation by The Daily Star has found.

11m ago

Traffickers target slum women

Transnational human trafficking syndicates are now targeting women in city slums and selling them to brothels in India after promising them lucrative jobs.

3y ago

A principal mired in corruption

With each passing day, his irregularities became more unbridled and brazen.

3y ago

Human Trafficking: Victims still stranded in India

Some of the girls trafficked to India and forced into prostitution by a transnational racket are still stranded in the neighbouring country, while a few, including a minor, are yet to be traced.

3y ago

World Day Against Trafficking in Persons: Trapped in Kurdistan

The horrifying tales of Bangladeshi women being trafficked, more often than not, take place in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.

3y ago

Built to crumble

It began with two things -- good intentions and a plan flawed to the core.

3y ago

Crimes behind Brahman cows

Import ban, so what? There are ways to sneak those in, through the country’s main airport even.

3y ago

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 implementing axle load control on highways ungently to reduce road damages.

3y ago

Scars of torture all over him

“If you come close to me you will smell the pus.”

4y ago

Satchhari Forest: BGB recovers 18 rocket shells

Members of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) recovered 18 rocket shells during a drive at Satchhari forest in Chunarughat upazila of Habiganj.

4y ago

Narcotics Case: Trial of Papia, her husband begins

The trial of a narcotics case, filed against expelled Jubo Mohila League leader Shamima Nur Papia and her husband Mofizur Rahman Sumon, began at a Dhaka tribunal yesterday with deposition of the complainant.

4y ago