The government is devising ways to offload state-owned companies' shares according to a new Daily Star report (March 17, 2017).

The Home Minister had reportedly asserted in early March this year that, “militancy problem remains under control”.

You can conquer almost any fear if you will only make up your mind to do so. For remember, fear doesn't exist anywhere except in the mind.

On March 24, 2017, Star Weekend published an article titled Memories of Blood and Terror that sent shivers down my spine.

The only noise now was the rain, pattering softly with the magnificent indifference of nature for the tangled passions of humans.

Last week, I somehow found myself at a market where the Rapid Action Battalion and Bangladesh Telecom Regulatory Commission (BTRC) were busting shops for selling walkie-talkies.

Laal Jatra

A few days ago, 42-year-old wood carver Swapan died in the most tragic of circumstances at the Moghbazar-Malibagh flyover construction site.

Silly rhymes, nonsensical verses, absurd characters - that's how Sukumar Ray introduced poetry in to my life with his book Abol Tabol (Rhymes without Reasons), an amazing collection of classic Bengali nonsense poetry.

Our society is one that really cares about its people. Through a series of questions that may at first seem a little daunting, society chooses to show its undying affection for all its members.

A study by the Microsoft Corporation concluded in 2015 that the average attention span of humans has dropped from 12 seconds to 8 seconds, officially below that of a goldfish.

It was a Thursday. Madhushudan Dey, owner of the famous Dhaka University Modhur Canteen, went off on his business around noon.

The footages, along with transcripts of ABC, CBS and NBC prime time news from March 25 to December 25, 1971, perhaps characterise the then US administration's stance on the Liberation War of Bangladesh, and show the response of the powers involved in the war and US media. However, the focus of this short write-up is how these three US television news channels represented the Liberation War in 1971.

In December 1971, East Pakistan became the independent nation of Bangladesh after a nine-month war with West Pakistan and their local Bengali collaborators.

1971, for families torn apart or displaced by the war, was a time of profound uncertainty, of not knowing where or how their loved ones were, of waiting for news – any news – good or bad.

The Palestinian struggle for independence bears some resemblance to ours, but Bangladesh's support for their cause dated back to its ...

The article published in the "Spotlight" section of Star Weekend (dated March 17, 2017) was a very insightful write-up that showed us...

The people of Chunarughat observed something unique on the morning of March 10. Hundreds of activists, musicians and artists...

Recently, the news of a Dhaka University (DU) teacher's suspension – following claims from some of his Masters students that he showed ...

During my time at university, one of my friends, from an indigenous community, and I used to share a dorm room.