3 children die after father allegedly poisons them, tries to kill himself
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Father also hospitalised in critical condition
Kane's 100: The numbers behind a Bundesliga record 49 years in the making
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Kane became the fastest player in Bundesliga history to reach 100 goals when he converted from the spot against Union Berlin on Friday. Dieter Muller had needed 129 games for Cologne in 1977.
Anu Muhammad speaks / Why Bangladesh’s energy crisis keeps coming back
Big Picture
Economist and energy activist Anu Muhammad speaks to The Daily Star about the policy choices behind the crisis
Abdur Razzaq’s memoir: Jamaat’s internal conflict for a 1971 apology
Barrister Abdur Razzaq, in his posthumous memoir on 33 years in the Jamaat-e-Islami, titled “Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami: Its History and Politics,”does not pull his punches.

Sundarbans: The forest that protects, feeds and sustains

19 September 2026 Weekend Read
The first thing one notices at dawn in the Sundarbans is not the green forest cover, the muddy riverbank or the waves breaking on the shore.

The songs that keep Salman-Shabnur’s ’90s romance alive

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Whenever Salman and Shabnur appeared together in a song, their chemistry made it feel as though they were not simply acting—they were genuinely in love.

‘Everything is gone’: Nepal’s thriving river town buried in mud and grief

16 September 2026 Natural Disaster
A catastrophic river surge has erased thriving commercial hubs near the China-Nepal border, leaving behind suffocating mud skeletal ruins, and a $4.77 billion recovery bill
A road to ruin Maheshkhali forest
17 September 2026 Bangladesh
Despite repeated objections from Forest Department, construction of a 4.8km paved road through the protected forest continues
Hospitals stretched by twin outbreaks
18 September 2026 Bangladesh
When Shahidul Islam, a 55-year-old driver from Dhaka’s Mohammadpur, went to Shaheed Suhrawardy Medical College Hospital for dengue treatment on September 12, he found the facility packed with patients and stretched beyond capacity.