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Osama Rahman

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#JournalismIsDead / Government offers information streaming service Proper Gander for only 300 BDT per month

The government yesterday declared that not all citizens had the right to information, but they could get it by paying a modest amount.
21 May 2021, 18:00 PM
21 May 2021, 18:00 PM
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THE BIG DIVORCE / Bill to open up to sympathetic Bangladeshi online media instead of Oprah

“She forced me to take weeklong vacations with an ex-girlfriend. She forced me to spend days on the beach with my ex.”
7 May 2021, 18:00 PM
7 May 2021, 18:00 PM
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Morally upstanding preacher loves wife so much, he wants two of them

A morally upstanding preacher, who made a name for himself by spewing violent vitriol against more liberal members of his community on a daily basis, yesterday disclosed to the media that he had a side-wife as well.
9 April 2021, 18:00 PM
9 April 2021, 18:00 PM
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‘Homelessness a great excuse to work harder’

Is it better to stay in a toilet for seven months with four others or is it better to work 10-hour shifts with no toilet breaks?
2 April 2021, 18:00 PM
2 April 2021, 18:00 PM
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People who ‘managed’ crucial vaccine despite not meeting criteria still proud of themselves

Of all the people who inundated the country’s social media feed with pictures of them getting vaccinated, more than half had not met the criteria, data from a public health watchdog shows.
26 March 2021, 18:00 PM
26 March 2021, 18:00 PM
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Government employees donate 25% of salary for city’s decorations

Red lights. Green light. Then blue lights. And some yellow lights. It doesn’t matter when the colours stop representing what they are meant to because we don’t have enough of those colours.
19 March 2021, 18:00 PM
19 March 2021, 18:00 PM
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Country’s image more fragile than male ego? One country finally opens up

Osama Rahman [OR]: We all want to know one thing and I want to get right to the point. Why is your image being tarnished so easily? Do critical words really take away from how far you have come since you were declared a basket case by a racist, mass murderer?
12 March 2021, 18:00 PM
12 March 2021, 18:00 PM
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Government officially launches The Snitches Club

The Government of Chapasthan officially launched The Snitches Club earlier yesterday. An initiative of the Ministry of Misinformation, the club was inaugurated by the country’s leader, who attended virtually from their official residence.
5 March 2021, 18:00 PM
5 March 2021, 18:00 PM
The Great Wall

The Great Wall

“We are gonna build a wall. And we are gonna make the terrorists pay for it,” Debaish Taran, Builder of Cities.
4 August 2016, 18:00 PM
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Naushad Noori Bangladesh's Greatest Urdu Poet

There are two kinds of people in this world: those that love to read and those that love to write. Snuggled between these two groups, smack-dab in the middle of the dividing line, are those who are simply enchanted with words.
21 July 2016, 18:00 PM
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Keep on rolling

Wahidul Islam Shuvrow carries an unseen burden with him. With a directorial debut at a very young age, Shuvrow has climbed
1 July 2016, 18:00 PM
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Artcell returns with a big bang after 10 years

The Metallica-cover band transformed overnight and hence was the birth of Artcell, one of Bangladesh's most iconic and well known progressive metal bands.
1 July 2016, 07:07 AM
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Maya apa knows it all

The Maya App is perhaps one of the biggest initiatives undertaken to create a virtual safe space for people from all walks of
24 June 2016, 18:06 PM
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The #RealTalk© Annual Fasting Person Awards

The #RealTalk Annual Fasting Persons Award, the most prestigious awards of its kind, is here to celebrate the annoying people in your life. Sit with your jerk friends and see which person in your circle deserves the following awards.
23 June 2016, 18:00 PM
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The Beef with the Budget

"The second group of haters is of course the rich who believe that paying higher taxes would mean they would literally starve. Thank God for offshore accounts, right rich guys?" We dissect the 2016 budget this week.
9 June 2016, 18:00 PM
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Semifinal battles begin tonight

Last week, The Super Chef kitchen witnessed its biggest upset. As the judges uttered the name of the candidate to be
28 May 2016, 18:00 PM
Guide to surviving Dhaka

A Foreigner's Guide to Dhaka

This week, as a special treat to the foreigner-loving Bangladeshis, this column will be written by Billy Steve Sam, reflecting on his first visit to Dhaka, Bangladesh.
26 May 2016, 18:00 PM
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Mehzabien enthralls the Super Chef kitchen

Yesterday, Rupchanda-The Daily Star Super Chef saw the presence of TV Celebrity Mehzabien as a special guest star on the
21 May 2016, 18:00 PM
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The challenge never seen before

A revolutionary idea, one that had never been seen in television before was about to be unveiled.
16 May 2016, 18:00 PM
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Did You Take my dustbin?

As part of the Clean Dhaka 2016 campaign, an initiative undertaken by the Mayor to make Dhaka a more liveable city, around 5000 dustbins are recently installed at numerous key points in the capital.
12 May 2016, 18:00 PM
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Masum bids farewell

On the rickety ride back to the hotel from the studio, Shaheda Yesmin, one of the judges, finally broke the enveloping silence. “He could have made a sushi out of it,” she said, her voice seemingly burdened with emotions. Masum's depature had put the
7 May 2016, 18:00 PM

Rupchanda-The Daily Star Super Chef

Leslie Gilliams, one of the most polarising chefs in the 5th Season of Masterchef US, brings his artistic flair and temperament to the Super Chef kitchen tonight.
29 April 2016, 18:00 PM
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American Politics and World Wrestling Entertainment: One and the Same

On April 1st, 2007, at the famous Ford Field in Detroit, Michigan, Donald Trump would, perhaps for the first time in his life, be
28 April 2016, 18:00 PM
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Displaced in Dystopia

Shahzadi Begum sat on her bed, her eyes firmly on the recording device set before her. She wore a smile across her face, belying the apprehension evident in her eyes. “When they were asking people if they wanted to go to Pakistan, I wanted to go too.
31 March 2016, 18:00 PM
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Welcome to the Super Chef kitchen

It was with baited breaths that the participants took their first timid steps into the grand Super Chef kitchen. As if in a trance, they looked around, taking it all in; it wasn't just the sight of the grandest arena they had ever seen but also the fact they had finally made it till here. Of the thousands who undertook the trail, only the 18 now remained. Glory was no longer a faint whisper of a promise. It was a reverberating cry for war. The games had begun.
25 March 2016, 18:00 PM
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Why I don't care about Rampal and other things

Man wanted freedom. Man got war. Man won life. That basically sums up my understanding of how this world really works.
24 March 2016, 18:00 PM
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Foodee: Food, Flavours and Friends

A little over a month ago, Dhaka saw the debut of a brand new restaurant, Foodee. In a span of a few weeks only, this little eatery has
21 March 2016, 18:00 PM
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Haiku'd You

You can literally die for saying mundane things these days. But since man insists on his freedom of speech, they must find a way to negotiate the tricky controversial waters of expression.
10 March 2016, 18:00 PM

Pagination

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