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

Whenever we are on the streets of Dhaka, we live the tagline “expect the unexpected”. We come out on the streets with a number of possibilities - dealing with a significant amount of gridlock and congestion, inhaling smoke-filled air.

With the end of yet another semester, many have just finished their life at university and is ready to embark upon a whole new journey- that of an employee. As we go around from place to place, hunting for jobs, here are five tips for you to remember as new office-goers.

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.

The fact that the greatest diversity of large mammals is found in Africa reflects past human activities – and not climatic or other environmental constraints.

The worst thing about travelling around Dhaka is being stuck in traffic. Spending hours inside a stagnant car, bus or an auto rickshaw can be unnerving and agitating.

This number has become synonymous to ambiguity and a threat to people's free speech.

Pingla Naya in West Bengal, India, is the village of folk painters called Patuas. Apart from painting scrolls, they paint the walls of their homes and make wooden painted souvenirs and images.

Sanjida Preeti is one of the most popular young models and award winning television actors in Bangladeshi entertainment, having created her base in theatre.

Stepping out of the house, most people are busy squinting eyes, wrinkling noses, trying to avoid the scorching sun.

Though the famous Northbrook hall was established in 1874, the Northbrook Public Library was not added to the establishment until 1882. It is located in Farashganj, a little north of the Buriganga River.

Last week's spotlight of my favourite - The Star Weekend - was quite different. It described the day to day activity of a worker of an NGO called Teach for Bangladesh.

I visited my sister, Hasna in the Philippines in the summer of May 1987 along with my son, Asif, for nearly 3 weeks.

“Life is priceless. Even to an ant”

Once upon a time - when Facebook was not yet born, when people would actually depend on handwriting more than keyboards, when finding a new friend was not just a click away - there used to be a way through which people would make friends: pen pals.

Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all

A train ride from Barcelona to the Paris Gar de Lyon, is a long one. Even though we Bangladeshis are used to spending hours on the streets of Dhaka to get to Motijheel from Gulshan, the 6 hour train ride from Spain to France is quite a long one for Europeans.

Last week I went to pick up my grocery from a supershop. Suddenly I found my mobile phone missing from my pocket.

A few years ago, popular actor Mosharraf Karim played the role of a transgender, also known as ‘Hijra’, in a Television drama called ‘Chaiya Chaiya’.

Ciarán Hinds is a Northern Irish film, television and stage actor.