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17 August 2022
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Books & Literature
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20 February 2022
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Bangladesh
For the Love of Tea
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Star Literature
Court Corner / SC forms committee against sexual harassment
4 November 2021
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SEXUAL HARASSMENT
UK-listed cybersecurity firm Avast in merger talks with NortonLifeLock
15 July 2021
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Organisation News
Selfies of old school media
28 November 2019
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Star Weekend
How to survive the end
28 November 2019
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Star Weekend
THE LAST HUSTLE
28 November 2019
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Star Weekend
'Nation's First Ever Musical Book!'
This book does not play chimes and jingles, the way a child's book would, of course. Rather, it’s a musical, which is to be read and not listened to!
8 February 2017
'When Money Stops Talking and Starts Working!'
Getting back to consciousness after three days in a hospital in New York, multimillionaire Delwar Hossain looks for his son Tanjil with a mysterious smile on his face. As Tanjil enters the cabin, he knows right away that there is something behind that smile.
7 February 2017
'A Study Tour through the Life of a Middleclass Boy.'
Being a poet myself, I know how difficult it is to fit an entire story in a few words and two lines. Not only did Kingkor Ehsan do exactly that in the novel, but also created the poems, broke them into pieces and turned them to stories again.
6 February 2017
''Is it a crow? Is it a man? Oh well...''
Don't think I'm crazy when I say this book is meant for people aged from eight to eighty and over! You may read it to your child as a bedtime story, at the same time you may laugh and sigh while reading it as a political satire.
5 February 2017
'Super Fun Stories that Rhyme Too!'
Amirul Islam -- a teacher of Bengali Children's Literature is publishing a book of 6 rhyming stories, this year at the Boimela -- 'A Cat Named Katus Kutus in the Grassland'!
4 February 2017
Boimela Picks: The Ghost of Pahartoli
To the adventurous ones among you, Pahartoli may seem to be an amazing place, but there is a story of a long lost cruel jungle king sacrificing human lives by strangling them to death there, and of a noise that is believed to be the death screams of those unfortunate ones.
3 February 2017
Having Found Peace
During holidays, my family and I often become tourists, traveling the roads less traveled by, in Bangladesh. Last year during the Eid holidays, we started our journey from Chittagong and headed to our destination, Sylhet.
2 February 2017
MAILBOX
Dhaka University is considered as the hub of intelligentsia in Bangladesh. However, after its establishment in 1921 Dhaka University, due to its limited resources and capacity comparing to Calcutta University, could not contribute much to the independence movement of Bengal.
2 February 2017
Dhaka's Brahma Samaj
If you are a regular reader of Bengali literature, you must be familiar with the term 'Brahma Samaj'. But if not, don't mix up the term 'Brahma' and 'Brahman'—they are very different concepts.
2 February 2017
Chobi Mela IX Begins Today
The best thing about any February is the frenzy of activities that comes along with it -- the Ekushey Boi Mela, Pahela Phalgun celebrations and of course commemorating the heroes on International Mother Language day.
2 February 2017
Combining Dancing and Direction
“I’m nervous,” were the first words that director and writer of the film Gohin Balu Chor, Badrul Anam Saud, said during the press launch of the cinema. While he said that, all I could think was, “YOU'RE nervous?? What about me???”
2 February 2017
When Facts Meet Curiosity
On 24th of February, 2017, the English and Humanities Department of BRAC University arranged the launching ceremony of Dr. Tamina Mahmud Chowdhury's book titled Indigenous Identity in South Asia: Making Claims in the Colonial Chittagong Hill Tracts at its GDLN Centre.
2 February 2017
The Discovery of Time Crystals
Recently physicists have discovered a whole new form of matter, It is four dimensional matter called time crystal. Normal crystals, like diamonds, are an atomic lattice that repeats in space.
2 February 2017
Life without Oxygen
There is a long established idea that oxygen is the prerequisite element for the creation of life on earth.
2 February 2017
PEARLS OF WISDOM
“YOUR PHOTOGRAPHY IS A RECORD OF YOUR LIVING, FOR ANYONE WHO REALLY SEES. “
2 February 2017
Growing Up With Pen and Paper: Masud Pathik's journey as a writer
“A writer has to accept the fact that people will be against them.” This is a fact, stated and accepted by Bangladeshi film director, lyricist and poet, Masud Pathik.
2 February 2017
The Festival Prepares
“The global photography spotlight is on Bangladesh. The stars are arriving at our doorstep. It is now up to Bangladeshis to step up the podium. The world of photography beckons.” – Shahidul Alam
2 February 2017
STAR DIARY
I have always been an avid reader. When smart phones started taking over our lives, I became very agitated finding people around me looking at their phone screens all the time.
2 February 2017
Humayun Azad
Abu Kaiser, one of his fellow students in the department of Bangla, Dhaka University, remembers Azad as the student who used to don "a Bonde Ali Miah-like hair-do" and "whose reticence belied his intelligence and his goonpona (creativity)".
2 February 2017
NUMBERS 13
Is the number of people, who have been killed in a coordinated gun-and-bomb attack, carried out by al-Shabab at a popular hotel in Somalia's capital, Mogadishu, according to police.
2 February 2017