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Front Page

Tigers reach new peak in SL demolition

The Bangladesh cricketers may not speak openly about their...
Ivy 'stable'

Narayanganj City Corporation Mayor Selina Hayat Ivy suffered a...

Rohingya Influx, Settlements: Forests, hills in peril: UN

The Rohingya influx has caused a critical impact on the forest...
Rohingya leaders draw up demands for repatriation

Rohingya leaders in a Bangladesh refugee camp have drawn up a list...

Back Page

Ban Jamaat for role in 1971

War crimes trial campaigners yesterday reiterated their demand that...
Target bigger fair, quality publications

This year the Amar Ekushey Boi Mela will be bigger in terms of...
Putin takes icy plunge

Russian President Vladimir Putin along with millions of Orthodox...
Mugger stabs college student to death

A mugger stabbed a college student to death at Bolashpur of...
German IS rapper killed in airstrike in Syria

A German rapper turned Islamic State fighter who reportedly married...

DNCC Mayoral By-Polls: BNP slams govt's 'inaction' over HC stay

The government's inaction over the High Court's stay...
World order strained but not broken

Donald Trump came to office threatening to tear up trade deals,...
Elderly man dies after assault

An elderly man died after being assaulted by his neighbours...
US to overtake Saudi as crude oil producer: IEA

The United States are set to overtake Saudi Arabia as the world&...
Microwave ovens are cooking the environment: study

Small electrical appliances such as microwave ovens, kettles and...

Second phase of Biswa Ijtema underway

Prayers and sermons marked the first day of Biswa Ijtema, one of...
Religious, Ethnic Minorities: Rise in attacks due to culture of impunity

A culture of impunity and delay in trials for attacks on religious...
Cold Spell: 4 more killed by open fire

Four more people, including three women, who had suffered burn...
China sees births fall despite push for second child

The number of births in China fell last year even though the world&...
Firth rebukes Woody Allen over daughter's molestation claims

Woody Allen faced widening isolation yesterday over allegations...

Sports

Griezmann 'to join Barcelona after World Cup' - report

Barcelona and Antoine Griezmann have reached an agreement for the...
Kiwis complete Pak whitewash

New Zealand inflicted a rare 5-0 one-day international series...
Imrul left out

The Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) yesterday announced a 15-member...
Siddikur jeopardises Open chances

Siddikur Rahman jeopardised his chances of a first qualification...
DPL players' draft today

The Dhaka Premier League players' draft will take place at a...

Tigers ace battle of inside knowledge

Leading up to what has virtually become a grudge match in the eyes...
MOMENTS

ONE BALL, TWO REPRIEVES, BUT STILL NOT ENOUGH
Kyrgios ousts Tsonga

Rafael Nadal stormed into the round of 16 at the Australian Open...
Neymar cost Barca over 200m euros

FC Barcelona shelled out more than 200 million euros ($245 million)...
Ronaldinho thanks ball

World Cup winner Ronaldinho took the unusual step of thanking his...

'Making our own decisions'

It was an open secret that during the tenure of former head coach...
'One of the best wins'

Bangladesh ODI captain Mashrafe Bin Mortaza termed yesterday's...
Sk Russel, Abahani into quarters

Former champions Sheikh Russel KC moved into the quarterfinals of...
England make it 2-0

England turned in an impressive all-round team performance to beat...

Editorial

Is there no end to traffic violations?

A collage of pictures in The Daily Star on Thursday shows how...

Destroying in order to build!

We welcome the High Court directive on the authorities to maintain...

Opinion

Why rubbish anything critical?

In what resembled a now-familiar Trumpian outburst, the finance...
Raising doubts

Remarkable as it may sound, they have made a science out of fooling...

Under an open sky

Last Sunday, the front page of The Daily Star displayed an image of...

Rise and fall of the Osman family

The saga of the Osman family reminds us of a basic universal rule:...

Letters

Tightening family grip on private banks

The Daily Star published a news report titled “Family grip on...

City

20 AL, BCL men hurt as car hits them in Sylhet

At least 20 leaders and activists of local Awami League and...
Why cultural events curtailed on DC Hill premises

The parliamentary standing committee on cultural affairs ministry...
MPO teachers to boycott classes tomorrow

Teachers and employees of MPO-enlisted educational institutions,...
Ministry employee goes missing

An employee of the education ministry has remained missing since...
HC set to hear petition on CJ post vacancy

The High Court is scheduled to hear tomorrow a writ petition that...
Child bride found dead in Faridpur

A child bride was found hanging in her Dumain house in Madhukhali...
Youth held with arms, ammo

The Detective Branch (DB) of police arrested a youth with a foreign...

School Memories

My school life was divided into two parts. The first part, from...
1969 mass upsurge hero Asad to be recalled today

Shaheed Asad Day will be observed today, commemorating the supreme...
Save the birds

Bird lovers flocked to Jahangirnagar University campus to enjoy a...
Rajshahi city to get flyover for first time

Rajshahi City Corporation is going to construct a flyover for the...
Padma Bridge to be completed by December 2018 Says Quader

Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader on Thursday told...
50 children of journalists given scholarships in Jessore

Fifty children of local journalists were given scholarships in...

I'm a vandal. Arrest me.

“I'm a demonstrator. Arrest me.” “I'm a vandal. Arrest me.”
Maintain pressure on Myanmar

Foreign Minister AH Mahmood Ali urged India and the international...
Hefajat a reality: Quader

The alliance the Awami League is forming is strategic, but it never...
Amid policy vacuum, people paying extra

It has been three years since the government decided to set the LPG...
Wild elephants kill Rohingya

A Rohingya refugee was killed in an attack by two wild elephants in...
Two robbers held with 30 gold bars in Jhenidah

Police arrested two robbers with 30 gold bars, which they earlier...

World

Last 3 years hottest on record: UN

The last three years were the hottest on record, the United Nations...
'Unexpected but exciting'

New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern yesterday announced she...
May, Macron strike border security deal

Prime Minister Theresa May and her French counterpart Emmanuel...

Mattis unveils US defence strategy

Defense Secretary Jim Mattis yesterday said that America is facing ...
Battle moves to Senate

A last-ditch battle to avert a looming US government shutdown moved...
Chinese county bans schoolchildren from mosques

Authorities in a Muslim-majority county in northwest China have...

Xi's thought to be enshrined into China constitution

China's ruling Communist Party will enshrine President Xi...
Governing Catalonia from Belgium!

Catalonia's former leader Carles Puigdemont, who was sacked by...

Arts & Entertainment

Amin Khan gearing up for new films

Amin Khan, one of the popular film actors of the '90s, has...
Lakshyapar's Classical Music Conference held

Like previous years, Lakshyapar's ninth Classical Music...

Nabila-Apurbo and on-screen marital bliss

Masuma Rahman Nabila kept a relatively low profile following the...
“Secret Superstar” poised to top China box office

“Superstar” clocked up $3.5 million by 3pm on Friday, its opening...

“Hridoye Mati O Manush” on Channel i

Popular TV show “Hridoye Mati O Manush” - planned, directed and...
Motley Crue biopic casts MGK

Colson Baker, better known as pop-rapper Machine Gun Kelly, has...

Showbiz

Abul Khair Litu - The man who thought of it all

Even though we hosted the first Bengal Classical Music Festival in...
An Interview with Zeenat Chowdhury

According to me, there are two rather prominent achievements; one...
What a team work!

Bengal Foundation has, once again, treated us to a magnificent...

Luva Nahid Choudhury

The Chairman had said in his speech in 2012 that the Festival would...
Tahmida Afroze

Bengal Foundation has been hosting the classical music festival at...
International Stars Aligned at Bengal Classical Music Festival 2017!

In the 6th iteration of Bengal Classical Music Festival, renowned...

In a Conversation with The Finance Minister AMA Muhith

I had interest in music and cultural arts since my younger days. I...
Bengal Classical Music Festival 2017 Captured in Frames

Held from 26 to 30 December at Abahani Grounds, Dhanmondi, Bengal...

Book Reviews

Through Time and Tide

Boats: A Treasure of Bangladesh acts as a paean to the ancient, yet...

Two Poems by Maruful Islam

The last traces of water evaporate from the beak of the wind

Of Jean Paul Sartre and Imposture

In October 1964, Jean Paul Charles Aymard Sartre, a French...

Literature

Syed Manzoorul Islam: “A Veritable Man of Letters”

Dr. Syed Manzoorul Islam – or SMI sir, as he is popularly known to...

From an untitled,unfinished, unpublished 1971 story

I knew it was Tipu, without even looking at the blanket-wrapped...