This is apparently the longest holiday that journalists have ever gotten in the history of Bangladesh’s newspaper industry.
If the government really wants to control or bring down prices during Ramadan and afterwards, it must be willing to go after its 'own people.'
In the end, love is a personal matter and it should remain so, regardless of how it comes out on February 14 and in the days that follow.
Politicians provided a steady supply of obnoxious, potentially title-winning examples
BNP's retreat to the back foot amid mass arrests and convictions was as remarkable as it was rapid.
You’ve already met the dummy candidates, aka independents. Now, meet dummy voters.
Without political reconciliations, we're headed for another violent, one-sided election
These attacks are at once a political issue, a law enforcement issue, and a human rights issue.
In his first media briefing on February 28, 2022, the newly sworn-in Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Kazi Habibul Awal ticked almost all the right boxes.
Let me begin with the story of a thought experiment. I did this experiment with a concept known as perspective-taking.
For the government, the timing of the Sinha murder verdict on January 31 couldn’t have been worse, with increasing global scrutiny following a US sanction on RAB over allegations of human rights violations, including extrajudicial killings.
What is the picture that flashes through your mind when someone talks of social classes? A reader of The Guardian newspaper once made an interesting albeit highly generalised observation.
A dramatic turn of events since the March 17 attack on Hindu villagers in Sunamganj’s Shalla Upazila has been reshaping the narrative on the culpability of potential actors and, by extension, the politics of communal violence in Bangladesh.
How well do you follow the headlines of your newspapers? If one were to run a quiz to see how well the readers of The Daily Star stack up against each other, the question that is most likely to be at the top of the list would be about the name that appeared most in the headlines of our central pages over the last week.
What is the first image that comes to your mind when you think of the word “development”? I see an image of a signboard, and it’s about the Metro Rail (MRT Line-6) being constructed in Mirpur, connecting different parts of the metropolis.
I remember there was a time when, owing to my youthful naiveté, I would think that living is more than surviving.
On Friday, November 6, the first madrasa for transgender Muslims in Bangladesh was opened in Dhaka through a private initiative.
Late in the evening on November 1, 2020, journalist Golam Sarwar, who went missing on October 29, was found unconscious near a canal at Sitakunda, Chattogram.