‘Like a morning after a nuclear attack’
24 March 2023, 18:00 PM
Historical
Fear of sexual harassment triggering child marriage: survey
20 February 2022, 18:00 PM
Historical
For the Love of Tea
7 January 2022, 18:00 PM
Historical
Court Corner / SC forms committee against sexual harassment
4 November 2021, 18:00 PM
Historical
UK-listed cybersecurity firm Avast in merger talks with NortonLifeLock
15 July 2021, 18:00 PM
Business
Change is the only constant
28 November 2019, 18:00 PM
Star Weekend
Media: Between a rock and a hard place
28 November 2019, 18:00 PM
Star Weekend
How new autocrats curb press freedom
28 November 2019, 18:00 PM
Star Weekend
(Uncertain) Future of Journalism in Bangladesh
28 November 2019, 18:00 PM
Star Weekend
“The space for in-depth critical journalism is shrinking"
28 November 2019, 18:00 PM
Star Weekend
The hidden side of natural disasters
No amount of planning, preparation, or scientific investigation can avert catastrophe, but preventing social catastrophes most definitely lies within our collective human capacity.
15 June 2017, 18:00 PM
Before cancer: Treating arsenic early
First comes the wheezing. It happens decades before the skin lesions appear – the tell-tale signs of arsenic poisoning.
10 June 2017, 06:15 AM
Child abused at home, teachers helpless
Teachers are struggling with cases of sexual abuse and they do not have an effective social welfare system to turn to for help.
8 June 2017, 18:00 PM
'Unnoyoner' budget
Understanding the budget during the era of development.
8 June 2017, 18:00 PM
When logic takes a back seat
To expect Bangladesh to ease past teams like Australia, England and New Zealand in conditions that they aren't used to in would be highly impractical.
8 June 2017, 18:00 PM
Record this and record that
The future seems to be one where people are busy staring at small screens while recording other things with other devices.
8 June 2017, 18:00 PM
Modi's strategic deployment of cultural diplomacy
Modi is one of the few Indian leaders to have placed an emphasis on cultural components during state level interactions to complement trade agreements, defence partnerships and economic assistance.
8 June 2017, 18:00 PM
Cutting off Dhaka's lifeline
The network of 53 canals of Dhaka that once ran through the city and functioned as its water extraction and flood control system is now almost dead. A few of the surviving lakes and canals are also on the verge of extinction due to continuous encroachment.
1 June 2017, 18:00 PM
Rajshahi: A model for tackling ambient air pollution in our cities
One of the first pollution sources to be targeted was the transport sector—in 2004, the city introduced battery-powered rickshaws and banned large trucks in the city centre during daytime.
1 June 2017, 18:00 PM
Dhaka needs more trees, but…
While a liveable city should contain 25 percent greenery of its total area, the capital has barely five percent greenery for lack of regular plantation, and no maintenance of the existing ones.
1 June 2017, 18:00 PM
Death of the Brahmaputra
Our ecosystem, our homes, and our livelihoods are under threat.
1 June 2017, 18:00 PM
How natural disasters affect birds
Finding the link among loss of tree cover, greater non-native or introduced trees and higher bird mortality.
1 June 2017, 18:00 PM
Deal or no deal
While President Trump insists that he is yet to make a decision on whether to honour the only global commitment to save the planet from a premature doomsday, he reportedly told his close confidants that he would exit.
1 June 2017, 18:00 PM
About Town
About Town
1 June 2017, 18:00 PM
Nomads in a land of rivers
“How can anybody survive there?” a frustrated Mohammad Gul-e-Noor laments. “Whatever we planted is now under water. Even the fish is floating dead. What will they eat there?"
1 June 2017, 18:00 PM
The last days of an ecology
Gondamara union is not only incredibly disconnected from the rest of Banshkhali upazila and the greater Chittagong area, it isalso one of the most vulnerable places in the country to cyclones and tidal flooding.
1 June 2017, 18:00 PM
Remembering Syed Abdullah Khalid
A long haired young sculptor was regularly seen near the arts faculty of Dhaka University, with a hammer and chisel in his hands, working day and night on a life-size structure.
25 May 2017, 18:00 PM
BAIT UR ROUF MOSQUE: AN AESTHETIC AND INCLUSIVE SPACE
In the increasingly dense neighbourhood of Faidabad, Uttara, a humble brick structure outshines the nearby tall apartment buildings.
25 May 2017, 18:00 PM
Cathartic and self-destructive
The Underdogs by Mariano Azuela is a modern epic set at the height of legendary Mexican general Pancho Villa's fame and ends two years later, when Villa is suffering heavy blows in the fight between the two factions of revolutionaries.
25 May 2017, 18:00 PM
Locked up in Motherland
Dr Syed Shamsuddin Ahmed, former professor and head of Burn and Plastic Surgery Unit of Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH)
25 May 2017, 18:00 PM