In Focus / What Begum Rokeya knew about changing Bengali Muslims from within
7 December 2025, 18:00 PM
In Focus
A British witness to Bangladesh genocide: Val Harding’s 1971 story
30 November 2025, 18:00 PM
In Focus
Abul Hashim’s Bangalistaan
13 October 2025, 18:00 PM
In Focus
DHAKA, THE CITY OF ELEPHANTS / The lost history of Pilkhana’s elephant depot
5 October 2025, 18:00 PM
In Focus
156th birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi / Gandhi’s search for harmony in Noakhali
28 September 2025, 18:00 PM
In Focus
Sandwip’s forgotten wars
21 September 2025, 18:00 PM
In Focus
Bridging the Partition through Education
17 August 2025, 18:00 PM
In Focus
Satyajit Ray’s ‘Tagore’ Films
11 August 2025, 18:00 PM
In Focus
Sound of the July uprising
3 August 2025, 18:00 PM
In Focus
Sandwip and the collapse of Portuguese ambition
27 July 2025, 18:00 PM
In Focus
Country’s first bomb archive goes online
The country’s first-ever “Bomb Data Centre” is now ready and to provide details of any bomb-like object within moments just analysing its picture.
1 September 2021, 18:00 PM
Editorial
Are things getting back to normal? Do I even dare entertain the thought?
1 September 2021, 18:00 PM
Pakistan asks diplomats to surrender passports
Evidently panic-stricken at the large-scale defection of Bangalee members of its mission staff, the Pakistan government today took an unprecedented step to seize passports of all its diplomatic staff abroad.
1 September 2021, 18:00 PM
How is Perfect Blue Even More Relevant in 2021?
Satoshi Kon’s 1997 film Perfect Blue never intended to predict anything at all. Yet, the unusual themes and storyline seem to be more relevant now than ever before.
1 September 2021, 18:00 PM
Radhika Singha's 'The Coolie's Great War': The forgotten ones of World War I
As of December 31, 1919, a total of 1.4 million Indians were recruited to various theatres of the First World War. Among them, approximately 563,369 were “followers or non-combatants”.
1 September 2021, 18:00 PM
The Generation That Never Sleeps, and Why
The early bird gets the worm. Work the longest hours and the hardest and you’re bound to succeed. We’ve all heard these things from the generations preceding us, or at least seen posts about “grinding 25/8” on social media platforms.
1 September 2021, 18:00 PM
Elif Shafak’s ‘The Island of Missing Trees’: Fragments of an uprooted people
The people we meet in Elif Shafak’s The Island of Missing Trees (Viking, 2021) are haunted by terrible tragedies from several years past, by a beautiful island divided into two.
1 September 2021, 18:00 PM
Are You Doing a Master’s for the Right Reasons?
While the accessibility to higher education, specifically higher education abroad, has definitely increased in the last couple of decades, there are still a few alternate reasons as to why the number of master holders from Bangladesh might be increasing.
1 September 2021, 18:00 PM
New body to campaign for Hindu laws reform
A new organisation was formed yesterday to campaign for necessary reform to the country’s “customary Hindu laws” and formulating relevant new laws.
1 September 2021, 18:00 PM
Do I need to be more like them?
Childhood is fantasised in most cultures. In the West, Mum and Dad read Grimm’s Fairy Tales or Hans Christian Anderson. In Bangladesh, Mum and Dad read Dakshinaranjan Mitra’s Thakurmar Jhuli.
1 September 2021, 18:00 PM
The Bangladeshi Way to Cracking High School
Having been a teacher’s pet and gained nothing out of it, I am probably the perfect person to advise others on how to nail high school. I could stretch this article to an entire self-help book and rip gullible teenagers off in the process, but I’m not famous on social media.
1 September 2021, 18:00 PM
Magic
Abstract paintings are fascinating for many reasons, one of them being the many different opinions various people have about their true meaning.
1 September 2021, 18:00 PM
Tamim left out of T20I central contract; Shakib reinstated in all formats
Bangladesh ODI skipper Tamim Iqbal was left out of the Bangladesh Cricket Board's (BCB) central contract list (from May to December 2021) for T20Is after the left-hander had earlier today announced he will not be available for selection for the upcoming T20 World Cup in Facebook live from his official account.
1 September 2021, 16:54 PM
Message in my palm for two-faced friends: Pori Moni
“I'm still in trauma. I couldn't sleep in last 27 days. The nightmare is not over yet,” film actress Pori Moni told The Daily Star over phone after she returned home from jail this evening.
1 September 2021, 16:06 PM
What Does Sound Look Like?
Your compass for visualizing the general form of a song’s soundscape.
1 September 2021, 13:48 PM
‘Ka’ unit admission test of 7 DU-affiliated colleges rescheduled
Admission test date of “Ka” (science) unit -- for 2020-21 academic session -- of seven Dhaka University-affiliated colleges has been rescheduled due to unavailable circumstances.
1 September 2021, 13:00 PM
Students’ demo comes under attack in Rajshahi
Activists of Chhatra League (BCL) today allegedly attacked students observing a hunger strike, demanding immediate reopening of educational institutions in Rajshahi city.
1 September 2021, 11:04 AM
Pori Moni out on bail, takes selfies with fans
After 27 days of imprisonment, film actress Pori Moni has been released on bail. Pori Moni came out of the jail gate in a white car at 9:36am today (September 1, 2021).
1 September 2021, 10:05 AM
BGB detains 21 at Jhenaidah border for trying to enter India illegally
Border Guard Bangladesh members have detained 21 people, including women and children, while they were trying to cross Bangladesh-India border in Jhenaidah.
1 September 2021, 09:40 AM
Retired army officer, wife sentenced for 10 years for possessing counterfeit currencies
A Dhaka tribunal has sentenced a retired army official and his wife to 10 years’ imprisonment in a case filed for possessing counterfeit currencies of Tk 3 lakh at their residence.
1 September 2021, 07:32 AM