"As an art form, bonsai requires a personal artistic expression. Sometimes it is really difficult for me to follow someone else's rules,” says Borhan Hossain, office secretary of Bangladesh Bonsai Society, expressing the essence of making a bonsai. He loves to do bonsai for his own satisfaction and he exhibits his bonsai to show people that a beautiful work of art can be created through imagination.

“Oh my God, I ate way too much this Eid.” ”You think you ate too much? I can still taste the chicken biryani in my belches!”

On July 7, 2015, a historic act took place that can change the way people in Bangladesh treat animals forever. On the Tuesday before last, the police arrested three youths for abusing a street dog brutally last month, in the capital's Rampura area.

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Thanks a lot Star Weekend for publishing such a timely spotlight (published on July 10, 2015) on the holiday destinations near Dhaka.

When we say we are going home for Eid, it simply does not mean buying a ticket, boarding a train and reaching the destination.

While throughout the world online shopping has grown exponentially, in Bangladesh too it is projected that e-traders would experience sales of around tk 50 crore during this Eid, informs Shameem Ahsan, President of Bangladesh Association of Software and Information

I faced the camera for the first time when I was only two and a half years old! I do not remember anything, but my mother says that I had delivered a memorised script. The super brain of the child indeed!

Scientists have discovered a striking new species of horned dinosaur (ceratopsian) based on fossils collected from a bone bed in southern Alberta, Canada.

Gamma-ray bursts are one of the outcomes associated with the biggest explosions to have taken place since the Big Bang.

I have only heard about on watched on TV the empty roads in Dhaka during Eid; I have never experienced a congestion-free Dhaka myself.

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Over the years we have seen many amusement parks open and even close down in Dhaka.

Teach For Bangladesh (TFB) is a non-profit organisation that is focused on reducing educational disparity in Bangladesh through building a generation of highly-effective, principle-oriented leaders.

”It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy,

The darkness of a grievous tragedy fell over the nation as a young boy of only thirteen years was beaten to death by a gang of men on July 8, 2015.

Laily, a ten- year-old girl was sharing something with her younger sister Moina near Malibag intersection last evening while I was passing by them. Suddenly Moina started crying, but Laily remained silent. When I took a close look at them, I found a middle aged woman hitting Moina demanding her money back. Once the woman left, I decided to go to them and ask their whereabouts.

The Sufi is born out of impatience. Indeed, impatience is the Sufi's greatest virtue and the inner fire that fuels his quest for God.

As soon as the last rings of the bells are heard in the schools located in Tejgaon, Dhaka, 35-year-old Mosammat Aalo prepares for her peak hours of business with her basket full of fancy ornaments such as beaded earrings, necklaces, bangles etc.

Sumaya Sarah has enrolled in an MBA programme in a private university. The tuition fee of the one-year-long MBA programme costs 300,000 takas. Sumaya, the daughter of a retired government officer does not want to impose this burden of tuition fee on her