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A glimpse into Zahir Raihan's Films
19 August 2024
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Dubai floods / Thousands of Bangladeshis stranded at Dhaka, Dubai airports
18 April 2024
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Natural Disaster
From outlaws to flower growers
14 April 2024
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'Genuine' SSC, HSC certificates for sale!
1 April 2024
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Counterfeiting currency / Learning from YouTube, he sells them on Facebook
28 March 2024
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21 January 2024
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Shaheed Asad: The spark that lit a fuse in 1969
20 January 2024
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THE UNCOMFORTABLE TRUTH
The incident of sexual assault that took place this Pahela Baishakh on the Dhaka University campus was not the first of its kind.
23 April 2015
A TALE OF PASSION
From being an English Major to a documentary photographer, Jashim Salam fought against all odds and became one of the most
23 April 2015
BEGINNING A NEW CHAPTER
Supriti Dhar is a journalist by profession, activist by choice and editor of an award winning blog - Women Chapter.
23 April 2015
Why We Have Chins
Look at a primate or a Neanderthal skull and compare it with a modern human's. Notice anything missing? We have one feature that
23 April 2015
SYNESTHESIA
Researchers at The Australian National University (ANU) have shed new light on synesthesia -- the effect of hearing colour, seeing
23 April 2015
Cattle trader stabbed, robbed of Tk 5 lakh
Criminals stabbed a local cattle trader and snatched Tk 5 lakh in Sharsha upazila of the district yesterday.
22 April 2015
10 arrested on charge of raping schoolgirl
The law enforcers arrested 10 people at Ratanpur village in Ghatail upazila on Sunday on charge of violating a 13-year-old schoolgirl.
20 April 2015
Microcredit guru Prof Yunus among top business pioneers of all time
Microcredit guru Prof Muhammad Yunus has been named one of the top six business pioneers in finance by The Financial Times.
20 April 2015
IS shows purported executions of Ethiopia Christians in Libya
The Islamic State jihadist group has released a video purportedly showing the executions of some 30 Ethiopian Christians in Libya.
19 April 2015
3 killed in IS car bomb in Iraq
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.
19 April 2015
THE PROFESSIONAL QUALIFICATION
Ahmed Shafquat Noor is the Finance Manager-GL at the British American Tobacco Bangladesh. With a BBA and MBA from one of the top universities in the country, IBA, Noor represents a large number of the young dreamers in Dhaka, driven by passion and ambition.
16 April 2015
PEARLS OF WISDOM
“GOD GIVES TALENT. WORK TRANSFORMS TALENT INTO GENIUS.”
16 April 2015
Why I Am Excited about the City Mayoral Elections And ultimately, does my vote matter
I'm a lousy utopist. I daydream about waiting behind a line of people to enter polling centres – homemakers, teachers, middle-aged medical officers, rickshawpullers, third year university students, artists, activists – and a social entrepreneur. Are we finally voting for a city mayor we believe in?
16 April 2015
KAYMU BANGLADESH WELCOMES POHELA BAISHAKH 1422
To commemorate and welcome this Bengali New Year, Kaymu Bangladesh celebrated 'Pahela Baishakh 1422' on April 11, 2015 at their office in Banani in the capital city.
16 April 2015
FIRST BANGLADESH STUDIES CENTER IN US, AT UC BERKELEY
Monday, March 30, marked the official opening of UC Berkeley's Subir and Malini Chowdhury Center for Bangladesh Studies.
16 April 2015
SHUTTERSTORIES
“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.”
16 April 2015
About Town
BLUES NIGHT UNDER THE SKY
16 April 2015
SNAPSHOT
“She was free in her wildness. She was a wanderess, a drop of free water. She belonged to no man and to no city”
16 April 2015
“An Ode to Baishakh”
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.
16 April 2015
THERE IS NO THERE
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.
16 April 2015