Meet Zareen Tasneem Sharif, the first Bangladeshi winner of the Global Undergrad Awards

Zareen Tasneem Sharif is one of 25 global winners of the award.
9 October 2022, 02:00 AM

15 Questions with Joyeeta Trisha

Joyeeta Trisha shares her journey as a photographer along with her take on life on how to live to the fullest.
30 September 2022, 13:00 PM

Operation Sundarbans: A thrill-packed flick

Once pirates roamed freely in the Sundarbans and fishermen feared their brutality. Abduction, murder, and violence were the form of life in the deep forest. But Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) cleared the mangrove forest from that. Operation Sundarbans is the story of Rab's thrilling operations.
30 September 2022, 05:28 AM

Breeding mice for snake food

Mice are carefully bred and fed on shelves to become food for 60 venomous snakes. In today's Inside Bangladesh, watch how mice are bred.
16 September 2022, 05:24 AM

What exactly is going on in the name of student politics?

Recently, Bangladesh Chhatra League formed committees at 39 private universities. The authorities at these universities, teachers, students and their parents are all concerned about this.
8 September 2022, 13:19 PM

Passion for pigeons

Pigeons have historically been popular as pets. Watch the story of modern-day pigeon lovers of Dhaka in today’s Inside Bangladesh.
5 September 2022, 06:47 AM

Will the amended Press Council Act further restrain free press?

Another law is being prepared to throttle press freedom and the freedom of expression. Again, vague terms like “harming public harmony” and “state security” are being inserted into a law to be interpreted subjectively, and used recklessly, only to harass and intimidate journalists and punish dissenting voices.
25 August 2022, 15:00 PM

Rohingya crisis: Five years on, home still beckons

Has anything changed in these five years since the Rohingya influx in Bangladesh? How is life now for those living in the camps? The Daily Star Deputy Chief Reporter Mohammad Al-Masum Molla is in Kutupalong Refugee Camp.
25 August 2022, 11:15 AM

Where can the ailing get medicine late at night?

The Dhaka South City Corporation has decided that general drug stores will close by midnight. Medicine shops attached to hospitals must close by 2am. But what happens if someone needs medicine urgently after 2am?
23 August 2022, 11:07 AM

Handicrafts worth crores of taka exported from Gazipur

Mehdi Hasan, a young businessman from Gazipur, transforms trash into a variety of artifacts.
22 August 2022, 06:10 AM

Bhai Girish Chandra Sen Museum still incomplete after 6 years

Bhai Girish Chandra Sen was a polymath, and the first person to translate the Holy Quran in Bangla.
21 August 2022, 02:54 AM

Why must the public bear the burden of power sector subsidies?

Speaking to us about this issue is Anu Muhammad, professor of economics at Jahangirnagar University. 
17 August 2022, 12:24 PM

How has rural Bangladesh transformed in the last 20 years?

Ever since the 1980s-90s, our typical perception of a rural village has been changing.
16 August 2022, 10:53 AM

STAR BOOK TALK: The books that made Kaiser  

Based heavily on Rakib Hasan’s series of detective novels called Teen Goyenda, Hoichoi’s Kaiser is part tribute to the genre of detective novels and part beckoning call for viewers to return to the excitement of reading books.
11 August 2022, 10:56 AM

Why are our roads still so unsafe? Road safety activists speak

Between July 28 and August 4, 2018, school and college students across the country protested to ensure road safety for all.
9 August 2022, 08:58 AM

Why are nonbanks’ profits falling?

The non-bank financial institutions (NBFIs) experienced a fall in their profits in 2020 because of the Covid-19 pandemic. The next year they managed a handsome comeback. But in the first half of 2022, the NBFIs’ profits fell again.
4 August 2022, 14:14 PM

How did a bike accident become an extortion case?

An elderly person was injured in a motorbike accident in Dhaka's Mirpur. The rider was a teenager. However, an extortion case was filed against 8 students including the teenage son of a missing person over this accident. How did this happen?
26 July 2022, 13:00 PM

15 Questions with Shirin Akter Shila

Shirin Akter Shila was the winner of Miss Universe Bangladesh 2019. Learn about the aspirations of this beauty queen in this video.
19 July 2022, 12:36 PM

Fire in the hills; locals surviving on leaves, wild herbs

Locals are claiming that a fire caused by the LAMA Rubber Industries on land used for jhum farming in Bandarban is now causing food and water shortage in the remote areas of Lama upazila.
5 May 2022, 11:20 AM

How much do private sector workers know about labour laws?

Do the people, who work in the private sectors of Bangladesh, know about the labour laws of the country? How much do they know?
1 May 2022, 15:20 PM