SNAPSHOT

“Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.”
20 July 2017, 18:00 PM

Take a bow, break a leg, and stop the show

Different plays have different curtain calls. One thing is common though—we invariably take the bow in an expression of our humility.
20 July 2017, 18:00 PM

Cambodia widow sees dead husband in five-month-old calf

Cambodia's latest social media sensation is a five-month-old calf believed by a villager to be the reincarnation of her dead husband.
20 July 2017, 05:17 AM

Uruguay pharmacies start selling pot

Pharmacies in Uruguay start selling marijuana under the final phase of a four-year-old law that made the small South American country the first in the world to legalise pot from production to sale.
19 July 2017, 09:30 AM

First-ever photos show wild lion nursing leopard cub in Tanzania

While African lions have a habit of killing leopards, it is quite surprising to see a five-year-old lioness nursing a weeks-old leopard cub recently in Tanzania's Ngorongoro Conservation Area.
15 July 2017, 12:06 PM

No bird-brain here: Ravens can plan ahead

Long admired for their intelligence, ravens are now known to be able to plan ahead, a skill previously thought to belong only to humans and great apes, says a study.
14 July 2017, 12:27 PM

Gazette for all photographers

An extraordinarily boring general meeting of ALL Facebook Photographers was uselessly convened and held at Your Typical Sketchy Restaurant and Hotel on 07-10-2017 to discuss the issue of Facebook Photographers taking bad pictures and giving terrible captions.
13 July 2017, 18:00 PM

About Town

Tame Your Inner Critic
13 July 2017, 18:00 PM

My Bollywood love affair

You know that imaginary friend that every child grows up with? Mine was Rahul. Not a storybook character or a person I'd made up at random, but the Rahul of the dimpled smiles and a necklace that spelled 'COOL'.
13 July 2017, 18:00 PM

A demographic time bomb?

According to the latest figures released by the Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics (BBS), around two million youths of working age are unemployed. Young university graduates are struggling the most to secure employment.
13 July 2017, 18:00 PM

MAILBOX

It's time to wake up
13 July 2017, 18:00 PM

SNAPSHOT

“Unexpected intrusions of beauty. This is what life is.”
13 July 2017, 18:00 PM

World's 'oldest' hippo dies at Philippine zoo

Bertha, believed to be the world's oldest hippopotamus, dies aged 65, the Manila zoo says, having beaten the typical lifespan for the mostly herbivorous mammals by decades.
10 July 2017, 10:24 AM

Mexican mayor weds crocodile for town's prosperity

The mayor of a small fishing town in southern Mexico marries a crocodile as part of a local custom that dates back to 1789.
8 July 2017, 14:08 PM

China built a 248-acre solar farm shaped like panda

China Merchants New Energy Group, one of the country's largest clean energy operators, builds a 248-acre solar farm in the shape of a giant panda.
8 July 2017, 09:18 AM

MAILBOX

The article “Digital Repression in Digital Bangladesh” published in the Star Weekend on 16 July demonstrates that section 57 of the ICT Act has become a draconian law as it poses a big threat to freedom of expression.
6 July 2017, 18:00 PM

SNAPSHOT

“What a weary time those years were -- to have the desire and the need to live but not the ability.” ― Charles Bukowski, Ham on Rye
6 July 2017, 18:00 PM

Fashion in Film: A Love Story

My father didn't look like other people's fathers when I was a young child. He was tall and fit and square-chinned and took great care with how he dressed.
6 July 2017, 18:00 PM

A pause to breathe

When I started working at the zoo it seemed impossible to relate to it, but in a serendipitous twist of fate, after spending ample time there, I started to develop a bond with the animals.
6 July 2017, 18:00 PM

Finding the superbug, the invincible bacteria

Scientists find invincible bacteria resistant to all antibiotics in city locations
6 July 2017, 18:00 PM