The tidal river Halda of Chittagong is one of the most unique natural carp breeding grounds in the whole world. Carp fish (Catla, Ruhi, Calbaus and Mrigayel) arrive here from different channels to release eggs.

Nazia Haque Orsha is a household name when it comes to television series' and dedicated work.

The prisoners were in a bus, on their way to the court. They were accused of a very serious crime: sedition.

Astronomers have uncovered a unique process for how the universe's largest elliptical galaxies continue making stars long after their peak years of star birth.

Edited by Emran Mahfuz, this voluminous book reflects on the life and works of one of our nation's great thought leaders.

Gravity, one of the four fundamental forces of nature, appears reassuringly constant across the Universe, according to a decades-long study of a distant pulsar.

For us humans to see, to hear and to feel can never be enough, for experience is meaningless without expression. It is the primeval, instinctive impulse to share one's inner visions, emotions and inspirations, our sense of wonder that is at the root of our reverence for art and our regard for the dramatic.

August 1, 2015 started differently for the children of Distressed Children & Infants International's (DCI) Sun Child Home orphanage as they greeted Sabina Yasmin, the internationally acclaimed Bangladeshi singer with bright smiles to an eye screening camp in Kallyanpur, Dhaka.

The world is going through speedy urbanisation and Bangladesh is not an exception from this.

Contact lenses have become very popular in our country over the past 10 years or so.

Today, concrete structures are rising up, as if conscious of their aggressive contest to outgrow their neighbours, ever inclined to reach the highest skies while casting their grey gloom on the forgotten earth below.

Every two years the Asia and Oceania Federation of Obstetrics and Gynaecology (AOFOG) holds the SS Ratnam- Young Gynaecologist Award (SSR-YGA) to honour gynaecologists from all over the world.

The lack of playing fields in our city has been a major reason for concern among Dhakaites, especially for parents and children.

Almeer Ahsan Asif, a graduate in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from American International University, Bangladesh (AIUB), always wanted to do something for those in need.

Monir Hossain, 35, works as a senior executive in a firm. He used to travel to and from office in private cars.

I am really grateful to the Star Weekend and the writer for writing about condition of the animals in the Bangladesh National Zoo (Published in July 31, 2015).

On July 29, 2015; Kolpokoushal, a knowledge initiative by Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) students and alumni, arranged their first event at the University of Liberal Arts.

Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much

The word 'reptile' may evoke a reaction of disgust in most people, but in Shahriar Caeser Rahman it evokes happy, loving emotions. “Not just reptiles.

After 68 years of prolonged struggle, nearly 52,000 inhabitants of 162 enclaves inside Bangladesh and India marked their last day of statelessness, officially becoming citizens either of the two countries.