The Daily Star is the largest circulating daily English-language newspaper in Bangladesh. Founded by Syed Mohammed Ali on 14 January 1991, as Bangladesh transitioned and restored parliamentary democracy, The Daily Star emerged as a leading and influential national newspaper of record. Its motto, "Committed to People's Right to Know", appears on the above the fold middle section of the front page. The newspaper is led by Mahfuz Anam, a member of Mukti Bahini, and former United Nations official. Its principal bureaus are located in Dhaka and Chittagong, with several representatives abroad. It is organized into sections: News, Opinion and Editorial, Star Business, Star Sports, Arts and Entertainment, National and Metropolitan. Its major supplements include The Star, Forum, Lifestyle, Star Literature, Law & Our Rights, Shout, Star Insight and Science and Life. The Daily Star is owned by Mediaworld, in which a major share is held by Latifur Rahman's Transcom Group. The Transcom Group also owns Prothom Alo, one of the most widely read Bengali newspapers in the world.
Management
, editor and publisher of The Daily Star, is also on its six-member board of directors, of which Rokeya Afzal Rahman is chairman. The board deals with financial matters. The general section of the newspaper is headed by Salehuddin Ahmed, its managing editor, while the news team is led by Syed Ashfaqul Haque, chief news editor. Ahmed Ali is in charge of the Metro. Other leaders are AFM Jamaluddin, Mizanur Rahman, Selim S.H. Chowdhury, and Sher Ali.
Online version
The online version of The Daily Star as a leading English daily newspaper of Bangladesh is updating 24/7 with latest, breaking, politics, business, technology, world, entertainment, sports, lifestyle and crime news.
Pages, magazines and supplements
The Daily Star publishes a number of supplements along with its 24-page main publication.
The Star, a magazine-size weekly, is published every Friday.
Lifestyle, a weekly fashion and lifestyle tabloid, is published every Tuesday.
Star Showbiz, Weekly entertainment tabloid, focused on local international movie, music and TV.
Shout, a weekly tabloid-size supplement for teenagers, is published every week.
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Law and Our Rights, a weekly supplement on legal issues, published every Saturday.
Previous publications
RisingStars, a weekly tabloid-size supplement for teenagers, was published every Thursday.
Star Campus was a university-based supplement of the paper. It was published every Sunday. Now publication closed. .
Forum, a monthly magazine, edited by Shah Husain Imam, is published with the newspaper on the first Monday of the month .
Star Insight, page 12, was published every Wednesday.
The online website was blocked on 1 June 2018 without any notice by Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission. It was unblocked after 18 hours. BTRC didn't explain why it took the action, but the media and public of Bangladesh thought that as the media ran a story regarding alleged killing of Teknaf municipal councillor Akramul Haque the authority had taken the steps.
