A Rangpur court on Wednesday framed charge against 132 leaders and activists of Jamaat-e-Islami and its student wing Islami Chhatra

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.

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.

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

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.”

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

Looks like this 3-year-old will think twice before flagrantly disregarding any traffic laws again.

Amjad Khan Chowdhury, chief executive officer of PRAN-RFL Group, passed away at a US hospital yesterday. He was 75.

The qulkhwani of Rokeya Begum; wife of late Matiur Rahman Khan, former member of Appellate Tribunal, solicitor and District and

An Australian man is still at large after an exchange with police on Facebook where he asked them to change his mugshot.

An intensive investigation involving about 50 police officers reveals that crows are the culprit in the vandalism of about 40 cars in southwest Japan.

A Bangladeshi cattle trader is tortured to death allegedly by Indian Border Security Force on Debhata frontier in Satkhira.

Law enforcers in separate drives arrested two alleged arms peddlers and seized a revolver, one pistol and ammunition from their

Joey "Jaws" Chestnut has lost his hot dog eating crown to Matt Stonie at the Fourth of July contest at Nathan's Famous in Coney Island.

The Chittagong Union of Journalists (CUJ) launched its website last evening, marking 55 years of its founding.