Dhaka stares down the barrel of water
6 December 2023, 18:00 PM
Once widely abundant, the freshwater for Dhaka dwellers continues to deplete at a dramatic rate and may disappear far below the ground.
6 December 2023, 18:00 PM
Groundwater not so uncharted anymore
23 November 2023, 18:00 PM
Groundwater is indeed a huge wealth of Bangladesh, but this ample freshwater resource is now at a serious risk of gradual depletion and contamination.
23 November 2023, 18:00 PM
Growth at stake as R&D goes missing / Garment sector sets worst example among industries
12 November 2023, 14:00 PM
The R&D allocation is too meagre for an economy like Bangladesh
12 November 2023, 14:00 PM
Farmers kick-start a freshwater machine
15 October 2022, 02:30 AM
Water is everywhere in and around Bangladesh, yet the lack of freshwater is one of its most pressing concerns.
15 October 2022, 02:30 AM
No hope for the new poor
3 June 2021, 18:00 PM
Money is not a problem, and the government too intends to support the poor in their dire need. What’s the problem then? The government does not know who to help out!
3 June 2021, 18:00 PM
Opinion: Govt shoots a messenger
19 May 2021, 18:00 PM
She wasn’t handcuffed. Yet, she was indeed guarded by hordes of police personnel all the time: from custody to court. Following an overnight stay in custody, she was taken to court with a “guard of dishonour” and then hauled on to a prison van to jail on Tuesday.
19 May 2021, 18:00 PM
Eid is here, joy is not
11 May 2021, 18:00 PM
Eid is in a day or two, no? You have to ask just to be sure.
11 May 2021, 18:00 PM
Opinion: Hiss or boom?
28 February 2021, 18:00 PM
Steam goes off, lid in the handle slides down to be in airtight mode, and pressure starts to mount again within the sealed pot before the next hiss.
28 February 2021, 18:00 PM
Mood vs pressure
The World Cup's tryst with Telstar 18 came to an end Thursday night. The high-tech official football, made by Adidas, proved to be quite exciting as it produced goals in all but one of the 44 matches played with it.
29 June 2018, 18:00 PM
Writing was on the wall
Heartbroken and humiliated, Germany will be haunted by South Korea for years.
28 June 2018, 18:00 PM
Cheers, only for now
Lionel Messi lives on in the World Cup, at least for another match in Russia.
27 June 2018, 18:00 PM
'Penaldo' fails too
Winners won matches and losers the hearts in the early hours Tuesday.
26 June 2018, 18:00 PM
It's game of maths now
It's a game of mathematics now.
The World Cup in Russia has reached an exciting phase. Except for eight teams, the fate of the rest hangs in the balance.
25 June 2018, 18:00 PM
A typical Germany
It was a typical German show of grit and guts: never-say-die till the long whistle.
24 June 2018, 18:00 PM
Nothing goes missing in Brazil's win
Whew! What a relief Friday night offered to fans of two Latin American football powerhouses -- Brazil and Argentina -- in Bangladesh and beyond.
23 June 2018, 18:00 PM
Oh no, ARGENTINA!
What a shocker it was! No football buff, I believe, saw this coming. Argentina, the powerhouse of world football, are on the brink of elimination this early from the World Cup in Russia.
22 June 2018, 18:00 PM
Ronaldo the winner so far
They are the livewires of their clubs -- Real Madrid, Barcelona and Paris Saint-Germain. They are the ones with whom their countries -
21 June 2018, 18:00 PM
'King of Egypt', goodbye
With hands on hips, shoulders slightly slumped, eyes wide shut, he looked into an emptiness from the middle of the stadium. As if time just froze with the long whistle from the referee. And the king was just defeated.
20 June 2018, 18:00 PM
EXIT, reads the second slip-up
Sit tight! Some nail-biting affairs are on the cards as the World Cup has already promised to be quite unpredictable for fans and pundits alike.
19 June 2018, 18:00 PM
Topsy-turvy start for top teams
Bangladeshis celebrated Eid with the World Cup adding a kind of spice they did not quite expect.
18 June 2018, 18:00 PM
One for all
The next month holds many stories, and the beautiful game has narrative thread and needle at the ready to weave a tapestry that its followers will know by heart and harken back to for years to come.
14 June 2018, 18:00 PM
Lots to see in low-key start
The stage is all set in Russia. Time for all eyes to turn to Moscow as the greatest show on Earth is about to get underway at the Luzhniki Stadium today.
13 June 2018, 18:00 PM
O is ready to roll
The most global countdown ticks towards a zero. And, within a few hours, an O-shaped object is set to be kicked around by some fleet-footed magicians on the manicured greens of
12 June 2018, 18:00 PM
Slap of a severed hand
After two weeks in coma, Rajib Hossain drifted off to death yesterday. With this, the struggle he was waging ever since he became parentless at an early age came to an end.
17 April 2018, 18:00 PM
Irregularities are with regulator
It is a brazen example of how a certain job becomes no-holds-barred in the Civil Aviation Authority of Bangladesh (Caab), the regulatory body of the civil airlines.
4 April 2018, 18:00 PM
Guilty, Who? The truth lies in black box
Confusion, buck-passing, and guessing are all what went on yesterday, a day after a US-Bangla aircraft crash-landed in Nepal to claim 51, 28 of them Bangladeshis.
13 March 2018, 18:00 PM
No new gas field, yet it's big news
The gas field in Bhola has the potential to become the largest reserve of natural gas in the country, surpassing Titas in Brahmanbaria, geologists told The Daily Star yesterday.
24 October 2017, 18:00 PM
Graduation in AI
Smart phone, smart watch, smart TV, smart fridge, smart washing machine, and so it goes. All gadgets are getting smart in the age of technological innovation.
16 September 2017, 18:00 PM