Boy, 12, falls at exhibition, accidentally punches hole in $2 million dollar painting (video)

A 12-year-old boy has tripped and accidentally smashed a hole in an AU $2 million dollar painting on display in Taiwan.
25 August 2015

Recharge your car on the road!

A trial in England is hoping to significantly boost the range of electric cars by introducing roads that can charge the vehicles as they drive along them.
25 August 2015

Courage! (video)

What could be more courageous than taking on an animal multiple times your size? This goat has the answer as it takes on a cow head on in a feat of sheer will power.
23 August 2015

Duck farming gains popularity in Rajshahi region

In the wake of gradually increasing nutritional demand and lucrative market price, commercial farming of ducks including gooses are
22 August 2015

Dismaland-Disneyland inspired ‘bemusement park’

Dismaland, which opens to the public Saturday and sits on the 2.5 acre site of the Tropicana lido, is the shadowy artist's first "bemusement park," and it's packed full of subversive artworks.
22 August 2015

High school adopts local cat named Bubba as student, gives him ID card

Bubba, a cool cat, lives with his owner Amber Marienthal and her family in a house near Leland High School and Bret Harte Middle School in San Jose of California. Bubba is allowed to wander through the school hallways and hang out in classrooms, meowing whenever he wants to be let in or out. Finally he gets his very own student ID card.
22 August 2015

Bangladeshi journalist Probir Sikder demands probe into GD denial

Senior journalist Probir Sikdar yesterday demanded an investigation into police's claim that he didn't hand them over a draft of a general diary.
21 August 2015

Delhi tea seller emerges as award winning novelist

Although he looks like any other ordinary tea seller, however, Laxman Rao is a tea-seller with a difference. He owns a small roadside stall, where his customers come not only for the brew, but also a taste of his words, reports the NDTV.
21 August 2015

The Painter of Nostalgia

Kherokhata or a sketchbook is more of a personal thought processing space than just a piece of notebook.
20 August 2015

Taking on the Digital World

Having your own digital media agency no easy feat, especially the kind of agency that aims to help other organisations use unconventional, creative and data-driven marketing strategies to take their businesses up a notch.
20 August 2015

Shutter Stories

“Again and again I've taken quick glances and then for some reason I've got to sit before a picture waiting and it's opened up like one of those Japanese flowers that you put into water and something I thought wasn't worth more than a casual, respectful glance begins to open up depth after depth of meaning.”
20 August 2015

1 Minute Please

Amit Chowdhury has proved himself to be a prominent Bharatanatyam dancer of our country.
20 August 2015

MAILBOX

The spotlight story titled "Growing Pains" published in August 14, 2015 was a perfect depiction of the acute problem that is mostly faced by our young generation in the urban areas.
20 August 2015

A Day in the Life of A Fellow

“One, two, three, all eyes on me!”
20 August 2015

SNAPSHOT

A place does not become good by your physical aspects, but by the people who are present in it.
20 August 2015

The Best Day, Everyday

A Teach for Bangladesh Fellow is a dignitary- not in his or her lifestyle, or in their fame and money, or in all clichéd ways one becomes a dignitary.
20 August 2015

PEARLS OF WISDOM

There are two ways of spreading light – to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it
20 August 2015

One man shame for judiciary

A day after the gruesome grenade attack on August 21 in 2004, the then BNP government had formed a one-member inquiry
20 August 2015

STAR DIARY

Last week the HSC results got published and my sister could not score a GPA 5. Seeing her results, she burst out into tears and became very upset.
20 August 2015

Testimony to terror sponsored by state

The dreadful memories of captivity still send shudder down his spine. Police tortured Joj Mia in custody to make him confess to a crime he did not commit.
20 August 2015