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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
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
“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

How data is revolutionising football

Data and sport have never been the most natural of bedfellows. The battle lines have been very clearly drawn by traditional culture –
16 March 2017, 18:00 PM

Zombie apocalypse and how to obtain a driving license in Bangladesh

There are two ways to get a driving license in Bangladesh. One involves roughly seven steps for most people.
16 March 2017, 18:00 PM

About Town

IHF Charity Gala Night 2017
16 March 2017, 18:00 PM

Why should the Vault 7 leaks bother you?

Year Zero, the first part of the Vault 7 dump, introduces the scope and direction of the CIA's global covert hacking programme, its malware arsenal and dozens of 'zero day' weaponised exploits against a wide range of US and European company products.
16 March 2017, 18:00 PM

Through the submerged world of Barisal

I like to think that poet Jibanananda Das derived inspiration for his seminal poem Banalata Sen during his times in Barisal.
16 March 2017, 18:00 PM

Zahid Hasan

In 1929, German mathematician and theoretical physicist Hermann Weyl predicted the existence of a massless quasiparticle that kept physicists puzzled for 86 years.
16 March 2017, 18:00 PM

Over the boundaries

Remember the former British wheelchair racer Tanni Grey-Thompson, who received 16 medals in her Paralympics career, along with 13 world championship medals?
16 March 2017, 18:00 PM

Rape does not end with the incident

Sohagi Jahan Tonu, a student from Comilla's Victoria College, was raped and her dead body was dumped in the bushes on March 20, 2016. The incident happened inside the cantonment area where she lived with her family. Her father discovered her dead body.
16 March 2017, 18:00 PM

THE BENGALI GAZE

A TV commercial by a prominent telecom company was brought to my attention through a Facebook post by a journalist.
16 March 2017, 18:00 PM

A NEW VICTORY ON THE HORIZON

There was a time when animal rights activists like Rubaiya Ahmad, Founder, Obhoyaronno Animal Welfare Foundation, would go to file cases or fight against animal abusers, but in vain.
16 March 2017, 18:00 PM

A Celebration of life

The people of Chunarughat observed something unique on the morning of March 10. Hundreds of activists, musicians and artists...
16 March 2017, 18:00 PM

Keep only the good cops, please

The recent transfer of a police official to the Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT) on February 23 shocked the people of CHT, and those on the plain lands who are aware of the sensitive situation in the region.
9 March 2017, 18:00 PM

American Muslims Must Stop Apologising

I had recently been asked to give a talk about “being an American Muslim in the United States.” Although wary of the uses and abuses of the term, I obliged.
9 March 2017, 18:00 PM

And Still The Man Stays Unscathed

All in a week's work. March has barely started. We already have five men (at least) raping, assaulting and killing the women they thought were below them.
9 March 2017, 18:00 PM

MAILBOX

Bangladesh is an overpopulated country, which is burdened with a huge number of unemployed men and women.
9 March 2017, 18:00 PM

SNAPSHOT

The beautiful and blue Rangamati Kaptai Lake, with blooming flowers on its banks and the green mountains on each side, imbues in one a sense of peace.
9 March 2017, 18:00 PM

If Bangladeshis were a spacefaring nation

As far as improbable ideas go, the thought of humans being a spacefaring race with the possibility of colonisation of other planets...
9 March 2017, 18:00 PM

Hotel with the worst view in the world

Banksy is in the news again - this time because of the Walled Off Hotel that he designed and financed in the city of West Bank, in Bethlehem.
9 March 2017, 18:00 PM

Charulata - The Art of Adaptation

In 1901, after coming back to Shantiniketan from the tiring experience of running a zamindari in Shilaidaha, Rabindranath Tagore wrote the short story Nashtanirh (The Broken Nest), a love triangle set in 19th century Bengal.
9 March 2017, 18:00 PM

The land of tales and tigers

I visited the Sundarbans about four years ago, with a touring company. We lived on the boat, anchored at safe places during the night...
9 March 2017, 18:00 PM