‘Like a morning after a nuclear attack’
24 March 2023, 18:00 PM
Weekend Read
Fear of sexual harassment triggering child marriage: survey
20 February 2022, 18:00 PM
Bangladesh
For the Love of Tea
7 January 2022, 18:00 PM
Star Literature
Court Corner / SC forms committee against sexual harassment
4 November 2021, 18:00 PM
SEXUAL HARASSMENT
UK-listed cybersecurity firm Avast in merger talks with NortonLifeLock
15 July 2021, 18:00 PM
Organisation News
How new autocrats curb press freedom
28 November 2019, 18:00 PM
Star Weekend
(Uncertain) Future of Journalism in Bangladesh
28 November 2019, 18:00 PM
Star Weekend
“The space for in-depth critical journalism is shrinking"
28 November 2019, 18:00 PM
Star Weekend
“Predisposed journalism can never grow and sustain”
28 November 2019, 18:00 PM
Star Weekend
Putting the “news” in our news feeds
28 November 2019, 18:00 PM
Star Weekend
Jhenaidah: A death a day
According to the latest data from the World Health Organisation (WHO), Bangladesh witnesses six incidents of suicide for every
26 September 2019, 18:00 PM
Rana The Dhakaiya Gully Boy
While waiting in front of the central library of the University of Dhaka, a small crowd drew my attention. I was trying to see what was
19 September 2019, 18:00 PM
In the land of pandas and hand-rolled noodles
A fading yellow line separates the growing throng of people behind me from entry into the People’s Republic of China. In front, a
19 September 2019, 18:00 PM
The One About Friends
Seven thirty pm on Star World was when it began for me. I was young—too young to be watching Monica and Chandler kiss, to get
19 September 2019, 18:00 PM
TIFF 2019: Made in Bangladesh, a melodramatic social-realism film relevant to its times
Made in Bangladesh left an impression at the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) where it was selected as part of the
19 September 2019, 18:00 PM
Cinematic in scope, characters pulse with life: Dust Under Her Feet
Bangladeshi writing in English has seen an encouraging surge over the last couple of years. In the arena of South Asian literature,
19 September 2019, 18:00 PM
Was that you Akela?
In Rudyard Kipling’s The Jungle Book, a series of short fables published in 1894, Akela and Raksha were the wolf parents of Mowgli,
19 September 2019, 18:00 PM
How democracy backslides
We are living in a time which can no longer be described as a democratic era. Almost 61 percent of the global population now live
19 September 2019, 18:00 PM
Bangla natok and chill
There are over 40 privately run TV channels in the country, of which four are news channels, one music channel, and one is for
19 September 2019, 18:00 PM
Machines whirring at migratory bird sanctuary
Around halfway through the Jahangirnagar University campus one would notice age-old rusting signboards with caution warnings like
19 September 2019, 18:00 PM
The issue of Kashmir hits close to home
Ahmad Shafi* sensed the unrest in Kashmir before it happened. An MBBS student in Bangladesh, he was in class at Dhaka’s Green Life
12 September 2019, 18:00 PM
REMEMBERING SATHKHIRA, MY ENDLESS SUMMER TORTURE
I had never gotten around to writing about Sathkhira, at least not as a travel destination. Maybe because travelling to this saline land
12 September 2019, 18:00 PM
Aedes-infested hospitals treat dengue patients
A tide of anxiety swept over the medical community when a survey by the disease control division of the Directorate General of Health
12 September 2019, 18:00 PM
Who’s listening?
In December 2015, tea workers from Chandpur and Begum Khan Tea Estates in Habiganj protested the threatened seizure of land they
12 September 2019, 18:00 PM
What men think about #MeToo
The #MeToo movement that burst into the spotlight in Hollywood in 2017 dismantled many perpetrators from their positions of power
12 September 2019, 18:00 PM
Caught Between Life and Traffic
The 17-year-old girl had overdosed herself with multiple drugs. She was first taken to Shaheed Tajuddin Ahmad Medical College in
12 September 2019, 18:00 PM
Primary education in Bangladesh: All exams and no learning
Most of the time, however, one of her parents takes her to school and they carry her schoolbag for her. On the way to school,
12 September 2019, 18:00 PM
About Town
Organiser: National Crafts Council of Bangladesh and Bengal Foundation
5 September 2019, 18:00 PM
How my best friend died and I replaced it with another machine
The loss of a best friend is painful at best and stinky at worst. Especially when you paid good money for one. You see, I made a new
5 September 2019, 18:00 PM
Traitor memories
“They say when you take a picture, you end up saving that moment forever. They are wrong.
5 September 2019, 18:00 PM