With greater independence in work and better pay, many Bangladeshi workers are turning to freelancing in the online marketplace.

56 students were charged with attempted murder and sedition for speaking up against the police brutality that left three students of the 'Protibader Naam Jahangirnagar' road safety movement severely wounded by gunshot and countless others injured.

With rising urbanisation and rapid industrialisation in Bangladesh, the demand for electricity has increased and the pressure on resources is burgeoning.

With cities, it is as with dreams: everything imaginable can be dreamed, but even the most unexpected dream is a rebus that conceals a desire or, its reverse, a fear.

A carefree sailor is rescued from his toy dinghy one mile (1.6km) off the coast of Redcar in north east England after being dragged out to sea by strong currents.

Bollywood superstar Amitabh Bachchan, who is going strong and is busy with several projects, revealed how he actually fell asleep while they were filming a scene in which he had to pretend that he was sleeping, reports NDTV

A passionate midnight kiss landed an inebriated woman in Kolkata jail.

A woman in Ohio is hospitalised after a boa constrictor reportedly wrapped around her body and latched onto her face.

A 59-year old woman from the central Chinese city of Wuhan transformed her appearance through plastic surgery in order to avoid 25 million yuan ($3.71 million) of personal debts, state news agency Xinhua says.

Translating Donald Trump is, well, an awkward process. After all, the president of the free world has about as much respect for basic grammar, word choice and sentence structure as he does for immigrants, women and the environment.

Today we break the mould of satire and really talk because it seems we need to.

Human trafficking in Bangladesh has taken a turn for the worse

The National Committee to Protect Oil, Gas, Mineral Resources, Power and Ports is proposing the “Peoples' Master Plan for Power and Energy (2017-2041)” as an alternative to the government's master plan.

The article titled "Finding the superbug" published in Star Weekend on July 7 was shocking!

“Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty unfamiliar and perilous - to poetry. But also, it gives birth to the opposite: to the perverse, the illicit, the absurd.”

A Los Angeles man is arrested after federal prosecutors said he arranged to smuggle into the United States three live, highly venomous king cobra snakes hidden in potato chip canisters.

A woman has been convicted of murdering her husband after the husband’s last words were repeated by the pet parrot who witnessed the attack, reports Independent.

Alive in the Super Unknown

It is a long and difficult struggle for persons with intellectual, hearing and speech disabilities

The article "Finding the superbug, the invincible bacteria" published in the Star Weekend on June 7, caught my attention as it demonstrated the rise of the superbug, a bacteria which is resistant to all types of antibiotics.