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Bangladesh's silent service to the world

Quite out of the public eye, a health organisation has been routinely sending experts to manage the diarrhoea and cholera epidemics that break out in conflict zones.
9 November 2017, 18:00 PM

Rules of engagement

A nine-to-five workday spent dangerously close with the opposite sex in a sequestered office cubicle makes it painstakingly difficult for things not to get steamy once in a while.
9 November 2017, 18:00 PM

The spectre of Red October: 100 years of the Russian Revolution

The 1917 October Revolution was a watershed moment in history. Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels set the philosophical vision for the scientific theory of revolution, and even actively fought for it, but it was Vladimir Lenin under whose stewardship it became a reality.
9 November 2017, 18:00 PM

Where blue birds fly

All the houses in the city have it—an empty patch under the sky.
2 November 2017, 18:00 PM

Stranger thoughts

The slow but steady permeation of American and British TV into the lives of millennials and post-millennials has been raged at by living-room social scientists ever since Ross and Rachel found out that going back and forth in a relationship before marriage makes for good television.
2 November 2017, 18:00 PM

“Subodh” artist arrested [SATIRE]

Dhaka, Bangladesh: The police in Dhaka have arrested an artist who they say is the creator of the much-talked-about graffiti series “Subodh,” along with his two alleged collaborators.
2 November 2017, 18:00 PM

The abandoned mothers

Thirteen-year-old Rupa Akter begs on a foot over-bridge in the capital's Shewrapara area, with her eight-month-old son, Nirob. Akter lives in a makeshift house (if one can call the threadbare tarp tent a house) under the bridge—her unemployed husband left her and married another woman during her pregnancy.
2 November 2017, 18:00 PM

Xi Jinping bores party into submission, takes over world

Xi Jinping, the Chinese president, has recently been bandied about by serial exaggerators like The Economist, Foreign Affairs and Foreign Policy as the most powerful man in the world.
2 November 2017, 18:00 PM

The promise of municipalities

Bangladesh's towns and cities are infested with problems resulted from uncontrolled population growth and unplanned infrastructural developments.
2 November 2017, 18:00 PM

Jailed in God's own country

While Bangladeshi trafficked victims and those looking for work have traditionally been found in various parts of Northern India, finding them in the southernmost parts of the country is a relatively new trend.
2 November 2017, 18:00 PM

How Trump is endangering undocumented Bangladeshi-American youth

A group of undocumented Bangladeshi-Americans are in a fix but there is no talk of it in their country of origin.
2 November 2017, 18:00 PM

MAILBOX

The article on Alia madrasa based education system published in Star Weekend on October 27, 2017 really drew my attention.
2 November 2017, 18:00 PM

Lazy man's guide to becoming fit like Hugh Wolverine

We have seen him flex his muscles and unsheathe his claws. Women and men love him with equal intensity.
2 November 2017, 18:00 PM

About Town

Dhaka International Folk Fest 2017
2 November 2017, 18:00 PM

Meet the world's most infamous diamond

The world's most infamous little diamond—only the 90th largest in the world—glimmers along a bloody trail from throne to armband, (briefly) a humble paperweight, from brooch to crown, smuggled and secreted, carelessly misplaced or locked away, looted, gifted, exhibited, mocked, cut and, even today, sought by several claimants.
2 November 2017, 18:00 PM

Animal Farm in the making

Animals in and around the country have been raising allegations of discrimination, squarely levelling the blame on the government and its actor for propagating a harmful and hateful narrative.
26 October 2017, 18:00 PM

The tales of Sonali: a 1992 Toyota Vista

The few times I tried fixing it up resulted in my thoughtful colleagues nicknaming it “Sonali Bank” since it kept swallowing up all my money. Here's the story of my car, my unhealthy obsession.
26 October 2017, 18:00 PM

About Town

Performance Day
26 October 2017, 18:00 PM

The Great Bengal romance with the Sundarbans

She is a friend and a foe. She is all encompassing and she can take away all. The mighty Sundarbans, the enchanted forest, the recipient of my modern-day love letters.
26 October 2017, 18:00 PM

Phoenix of Longadu

“After the landslide, it became all too clear where the aid was headed. Of course there would be an inclination to send relief to the Bengalis,” says Mrittika Kamal, Director of Terracotta Creatives and one of the curators of Phoenix of Longadu, a charity exhibition, held between October 16 and 19 at Drik Gallery, dedicated to raising funds for the affected families.
26 October 2017, 18:00 PM