Christoph Waltz

Christoph Waltz is a German-Austrian actor. He is best known for his works with American filmmaker Quentin Tarantino, receiving acclaim for portraying SS-Standartenführer Hans Landa in Inglourious Basterds (2009) and bounty hunter Dr. King Schultz in Django Unchained (2012).
3 September 2015

MAILBOX

This week’s cover story of the Star Weekend was really very significant. For the last couple of years we have seen how the desperate students and their equally desperate parents are adopting malpractices only to get a good score in the public examinations such as SSC and HSC.
3 September 2015

SNAPSHOT

There's a sunrise and a sunset every single day, and they're absolutely free. Don't miss so many of them.
3 September 2015

The Iron Gates of Injustice

Prisons are supposed to be reformatory centres. However, in Bangladesh, they are nothing less than torturous, punitive concentration camps.
3 September 2015

1 Minute Please

The three thing would be Scarlett Johansson, Candice Swanepoel and Natalie Portman. They would do just fine for me in the deserted island.
3 September 2015

Of boats and paddles

Bangladeshi boat race, popularly known as nouka baich is quite different from the other forms of boat races anywhere in the world.
3 September 2015

PEARLS OF WISDOM

“We love life, not because we are used to living but because we are used to loving.”
3 September 2015

7 odd ways to go to school

Bangladesh, takes its education seriously but it is not alone in its incredible story of children defeating the odds just to reach school.
3 September 2015

2 drug peddlers held

Police arrested two drug peddlers with 500 bottles of phensidyl in Dhop Pukur area under Shibganj upazila of the district on Tuesday night. The arrestees are
2 September 2015

Non-tourist Bangladeshis don't need online appt for visas

India has once again announced that Bangladeshi visa seekers will not have to make an appointment online for applying for visa except
2 September 2015

Photographing wonderland under the water (video)

John Ng dives in the waters around Hong Kong and overseas taking amazing photos of the extraordinary sea life and marine animals for more than 10 years.
2 September 2015

Man takes off in a lawn chair powered by 54 propellers (video)

We all have dreams. Sometimes that dream can be to fly in a giant drone one day!
2 September 2015

CMP awards constable Monir for rescuing boy

Chittagong Metropolitan Police yesterday awarded traffic constable Md Monir Hossain, who courageously rescued a boy from a 25-feet-
1 September 2015

Feast for the deshi palate

First heat ghee and fry the peeled potatoes, keep aside. Take the whole garam masala, and tie them up in a Muslin cloth.
31 August 2015

Mohiuddin bemoans 'cheating' of Ctg residents

Referring to the decision to build a deep-sea port in Pairabond of Rangpur instead of the pre-declared Sonadia in Cox's Bazar, ABM Mohiuddin Chowdhury, former Chittagong City Corporation mayor, yesterday alleged that people of Chittagong have been deceived.
31 August 2015

Mukti Brikkhya aims to plant 30 lakh trees countrywide by 2018

Mukti Brikkhya yesterday planted four saplings on the Nagar Bhaban premises in the capital as part of their initiative to plant one tree for each of the 30 lakh Liberation War martyrs and thereby pay them tribute.
31 August 2015

A hero in uniform

A traffic policeman dives into a ditch and rescues an eight-year-old child while people were standing there as mere spectators.
31 August 2015

Australia launches world’s biggest selfie service

Australia offers tourists massive selfies from hundreds of metres away as part of a campaign to attract Japanese tourists to the country.
31 August 2015

Four-year-old Bangladeshi trekker dies

Sadman Casper, affectionately known in the trekker community as Chhoto Bhoot (little ghost), breathed his last yesterday at the Intensive Care Unit of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University (BSMMU).
30 August 2015

Japanese toilet giant flipping open lid on new museum

Japan's leading toilet giant opens a new museum dedicated to a century of lavatories, from its first water flushing model to the most cutting edge version with odour-neutralisers and variable water jets.
30 August 2015