Researchers at The Australian National University (ANU) have shed new light on synesthesia -- the effect of hearing colour, seeing

A finance manager of one of the top foreign multinational banks in Bangladesh, Md. Yasir Arafin has set his bar high thanks to the CIMA qualifications.

Two years ago on this day, Rana Plaza, an eight storied commercial building in Savar, collapsed, killing at least 1129 people.

Pantha Kanai is one of a kind, when it comes to defining personalities and musicians in Bangladesh. Not only is he a fantastic singer, he is also a drummer and rhythm programmer.

The last whole week has been a difficult one for Dhaka dwellers. The Pahela Baishakh incident – where women were sexually harassed,

“Where flowers bloom, so does hope.” — Lady Bird Johnson

Criminals stabbed a local cattle trader and snatched Tk 5 lakh in Sharsha upazila of the district yesterday.

The law enforcers arrested 10 people at Ratanpur village in Ghatail upazila on Sunday on charge of violating a 13-year-old schoolgirl.

Microcredit guru Prof Muhammad Yunus has been named one of the top six business pioneers in finance by The Financial Times.

The Islamic State jihadist group has released a video purportedly showing the executions of some 30 Ethiopian Christians in Libya.

A car bombing claimed by Islamic State kills three people on Friday outside the US consulate in Erbil, in a relatively rare attack in the capital of Iraq's Kurdistan region.

“The rain began again. It fell heavily, easily, with no meaning or intention but the fulfilment of its own nature, which was to fall and fall.”

BLUES NIGHT UNDER THE SKY

“She was free in her wildness. She was a wanderess, a drop of free water. She belonged to no man and to no city”

I am pleased to say that the last cover photo of the Star Weekend (published on April 10, 2015) had the perfect essence of our Bengali New Year celebration.

For the past four days I have been confined to my bed, with the occasional foray into the kitchen in search of food and water and subsequently the toilet.

The city of Delhi's anti-corruption helpline re-launched by chief minister Arvind Kejriwal on Sunday answered 12,731 calls in 24 hours. Officials are now investigating the calls to separate the real calls from the frivolous calls.

Prominent Swiss psychiatrist and psychotherapist Carl Gustav Jung is known for his enormous contribution in analytical psychology.

Sharif Hossain Nazmuddin, an entrepreneur who has been fish farming for years in his 5 fishponds at Chandpur shared his struggling experience.

I was making my way to an important meeting at work from Gulshan to Kawran Bazaar. Usually it takes me about an hour to get to work but today I was stuck in front of the PM's office for over an hour because she had decided she was going somewhere and the roads needed to be cleared for her.