The incredible feat of breaking 3 baseball bats with one kick is in itself a jaw-dropping phenomenon.

Dhakaites have been complaining for a very long time that we don't have enough recreational activities or holiday places in our city. Other than going to the so called amusement parks or hopping between restaurants, we face a moral dilemma on how we can utilise the weekend. The going gets tougher when one is faced with short holidays.

Coming back home around 10 or 11 at night, after a heavy iftar, a world full of shopping, traffic and human stampedes, one's mind may wander into the thoughts of sweet, sweet slumber.

Nuheen Khan, with his small group of volunteers, started working with the Dalit community in Natore in 2012. Running a project that involves the Dalit community was not easy to do. People's attitudes toward the subaltern community has always fallen under a stereotype.

Peter Hayden Dinklage is an American actor. Since his breakout role in The Station Agent (2003), he starred in many films, such as Elf (2003), Find Me Guilty (2006), Underdog (2007),

Saddam Hossain Shahin, a young computer programmer has developed a software programme which can be a milestone in ensuring public safety.

We grew up with pastimes like reading books, playing outdoors or spending time with our friends and family members.

The term Sannyasi means “renunciant of the world”, a man who, out of a maddening desire for divine experience, renounces all wealth, fame, pleasure and attachment.

The European Space Agency's Rosetta spacecraft first began orbiting comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko in August 2014. Almost immediately, scientists began to wonder about several surprisingly deep, almost perfectly circular pits on the comet's surface. Now, a

Did you know that the term 'brand' derives from 'brandr', which essentially means 'to burn'? Marking livestock with fire-heated stamps with distinctive logos or symbols identifying the ownership of farm animals had been in place for centuries.

“BY AND LARGE, MOTHERS AND HOUSE-WIVES ARE THE ONLY WORKERS WHO DO NOT HAVE REGULAR TIME OFF. THEY ARE THE GREAT VACATIONLESS CLASS.”

The modest tin-shed facade of Kadhurkhil high school at Boalkhali upazila in Chittagong tells little about the rich past of its mud-structure.

This city is filled with people and their stories. While an old tale vanishes, a new one adds to the list. In the case of Dhaka, however, new stories are adding up faster than ever, especially when it comes to the month of Ramadan.

Recently, the government has passed a bill imposing 7.5 percent VAT on all the private universities and private medical colleges.

Rahat Rahman is the man behind the camera – the storyteller and the director. An established ad-filmmaker, Rahat recently made a name for himself with his telefilm Monkey Business. As the name would suggest, the film was a jumble of unique characters, bizarre

“Someday we'll live like horses; Free rein from your old iron fences There's more ways than one to regain your senses; Break out the stalls and we'll live like horses”

Thanks a ton 'the Star Weekend' for publishing such an informative and investigative article (published on July 3, 2015) on Dhaka city's

We cannot predict earthquakes beforehand but the idea of a technology to detect earthquakes fast enough for an alert to reach susceptible areas is no doubt good news for us; and more so when it is being designed by our own countrymen.

Bangladesh receives a record $15.3bn in remittances from its migrant workers in the last fiscal year 2014-15. It's the highest in the

As the Eid holidays get closer, our beloved Dhaka city becomes evermore hectic. Though it is getting quite hard to live in the gridlocked, shopping frenzied city, we are accepting it with a smile in anticipation of the cherished ooliday and festivities at the end.