‘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
A non-boss level guide to surviving office meetings
Office meetings are dreaded activities especially for people who have nothing to do or too much to do.
13 July 2017, 18:00 PM
My Bollywood love affair
You know that imaginary friend that every child grows up with? Mine was Rahul. Not a storybook character or a person I'd made up at random, but the Rahul of the dimpled smiles and a necklace that spelled 'COOL'.
13 July 2017, 18:00 PM
New AI technologies promise to make travel a little smarter
The Terminator wants to be your next travel agent.
13 July 2017, 18:00 PM
Can business and social change be compatible?
While profit is the only bottom line for businesses, a social and/or environmental mission is paramount for social enterprises.
13 July 2017, 18:00 PM
The school across the river
Every time the weather takes a turn for the worse, school-going children in the haor are among the first to be affected.
13 July 2017, 18:00 PM
A demographic time bomb?
According to the latest figures released by the Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics (BBS), around two million youths of working age are unemployed. Young university graduates are struggling the most to secure employment.
13 July 2017, 18:00 PM
The curious case of the C-section
Ideally, caesareans are a process that should be used only when there's an emergency and when the life of either the baby or the mother is in danger. But in Bangladesh, more than 80 percent of the deliveries in private hospitals are caesarean.
13 July 2017, 18:00 PM
Did UNESCO really “endorse” Rampal coal plant?
A draft resolution adopted as amended by the 41st Session of the UNESCO Heritage Committee contradicts the claim made by the foreign ministry that the Committee “endorsed” the construction of a coal-based power plant at Rampal near the Sundarbans.
13 July 2017, 18:00 PM
MAILBOX
It's time to wake up
13 July 2017, 18:00 PM
SNAPSHOT
“Unexpected intrusions of beauty. This is what life is.”
13 July 2017, 18:00 PM
Gazette for all photographers
An extraordinarily boring general meeting of ALL Facebook Photographers was uselessly convened and held at Your Typical Sketchy Restaurant and Hotel on 07-10-2017 to discuss the issue of Facebook Photographers taking bad pictures and giving terrible captions.
13 July 2017, 18:00 PM
Where the grass is greener
Serving to stay in the tournament at a lung-busting 9-10 in the deciding set of the fourth round on Monday, Rafael Nadal was just two points away from an early exit.
13 July 2017, 18:00 PM
About Town
Tame Your Inner Critic
13 July 2017, 18:00 PM
The deaths could have been prevented
The boiler explosion in a garments factory in Gazipur last Monday once again highlighted the government's inability to monitor the 5000-odd authorised boilers across the country.
6 July 2017, 18:00 PM
"Bhalobashar Shohor"
Do you have 31 minutes? But 31 uninterrupted minutes of no distraction. Go to YouTube and watch “Bhalobashar Shohor” (City of Love).
6 July 2017, 18:00 PM
In whose name then?
Thousands of urban Indians are taking to the streets, and many more on social media to protest against lynchings in the name of protecting cows—the sacred animal of the Hindu religion.
6 July 2017, 18:00 PM
Fashion in Film: A Love Story
My father didn't look like other people's fathers when I was a young child. He was tall and fit and square-chinned and took great care with how he dressed.
6 July 2017, 18:00 PM
Remembering Sudhin Das
Sudhin Das, renowned exponent of Nazrul songs for over half a century, left for his eternal abode on June 27, 2017. A pall of gloom has enveloped the art circuit with his passing.
6 July 2017, 18:00 PM
A pause to breathe
When I started working at the zoo it seemed impossible to relate to it, but in a serendipitous twist of fate, after spending ample time there, I started to develop a bond with the animals.
6 July 2017, 18:00 PM
Finding the superbug, the invincible bacteria
Scientists find invincible bacteria resistant to all antibiotics in city locations
6 July 2017, 18:00 PM