Turkey Bangla Cultural Fest 2016

The spell is over, the hour is up. And I can no longer remember.

The Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) expresses deep concern as none was held responsible for in a court of law in the August 21 grenade attack on Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and killing of Shah AMS Kibria in 12 years.

A Chinese engineer “marries” a robot he created after failing to find a human spouse.

It's amazing how the likes of Shakib Al Hasan, Tamim Iqbal and Mushfiqur Rahim have consistently performed for Bangladesh over the years.

Shreya Ghoshal Melody Night

When Abdullah Shibli Sadiq got a call from an unknown phone number informing him that he would receive a reward of Tk 62,500 from the government, he was astounded.

You can conquer almost any fear if you will only make up your mind to do so. For remember, fear doesn't exist anywhere except in the mind.

On March 24, 2017, Star Weekend published an article titled Memories of Blood and Terror that sent shivers down my spine.

An architecture firm releases speculative plans to build a tower suspended from an asteroid that would hang down to Earth.

Little did I know that my rendezvous with the eminent writer would exceed the scheduled time only because I would be mesmerised by the stories he narrates!

Reduction, a small town of population 60 in Pennsylvania, US, is up for sale with an asking price of $1.5 million.

Two more people are arrested over Wednesday's terror attack in London, police say, also giving the attacker's birth name as Adrian Russell and appealing to the public for information about him.

President Donald Trump meets with truckers at the White House, and they let him get behind the wheel of one of the big rigs himself.

The only noise now was the rain, pattering softly with the magnificent indifference of nature for the tangled passions of humans.

Laal Jatra

It was a Thursday. Madhushudan Dey, owner of the famous Dhaka University Modhur Canteen, went off on his business around noon.

The footages, along with transcripts of ABC, CBS and NBC prime time news from March 25 to December 25, 1971, perhaps characterise the then US administration's stance on the Liberation War of Bangladesh, and show the response of the powers involved in the war and US media. However, the focus of this short write-up is how these three US television news channels represented the Liberation War in 1971.

In December 1971, East Pakistan became the independent nation of Bangladesh after a nine-month war with West Pakistan and their local Bengali collaborators.

1971, for families torn apart or displaced by the war, was a time of profound uncertainty, of not knowing where or how their loved ones were, of waiting for news – any news – good or bad.