STAR DIARY

As I was returning home, I got sad to see a special child, sitting on a wheel chair while a woman was pushing the wheelchair, and asking for alms.
29 September 2016

MAILBOX

This year, at least 265 people were killed in 210 accidents on roads during Eid vacation. This is really shocking news for us.
29 September 2016

Three Hundred and Thirty Five Years' War

One of the longest wars in the human history was actually a bloodless war where no single shot was fired from any of the warring sides.
22 September 2016

Quirky Science

After reconstructing the colour patterns of a well-preserved dinosaur from China, researchers from the University of Bristol have found that the long-lost species Psittacosaurus (meaning "parrot lizard," a reference to its parrot-like beak) was light on its underside and darker on top.
22 September 2016

Didi – The Torch Bearer

Manju Banerjee became the 'Didi' of an uncountable number of people. Each and every one of them shed tears out of loss and immense respect when they heard that Didi has left. The beginning of the ended started earlier this year, when the diagnosis confirmed that Didi has been attacked by cancer.
22 September 2016

Metamorphosis: From a workaholic to a hard worker

At the young age of 19, as I fell in love with work, I would watch others take long vacations, go on beach holidays, travel here and there and I would smirk.
22 September 2016

Star Diary

Panicking never does any good when it's an emergency- we all know this. But this knowledge seems useless when you are stuck in a lift.
22 September 2016

Harry Houdini

Born Erik Weisz, later Ehrich Weiss or Harry Weiss; Harry Houdini was an American illusionist and stunt performer, popularly known for his sensational escape acts.
22 September 2016

Pages of Kolkata

It was a usual summer day in Kolkata. A nonchalant working day where one is bound to wake up from the rings and horns of the busy Kolkata streets.
22 September 2016

The Poor Drainage System of Blood

A Kashmiri Indian, an Israeli settler in Palestine, a Bangladeshi politician/businessman, a click-bait journalist from a click-bait national daily...
22 September 2016

PEARLS OF WISDOM

“YEARS OF DROUGHT AND FAMINE COME AND YEARS OF FLOOD AND FAMINE COME, AND THE CLIMATE IS NOT CHANGED WITH DANCE, LIBATION OR PRAYER.”
22 September 2016

5 Ways to Recognise Your Workaholism

Being a workaholic can take quite a toll on your body and mind. But most of the time, a workaholic won't recognise them as symptoms.
22 September 2016

The need for social work

A city buzzing with energy. Noise, everywhere you go.Thousands of people within every square mile in almost all areas of the city.
22 September 2016

Dear Liesel

When you hear about the legendary film, “The Sound of Music” what is the one thing that comes to your mind? For most of us, it is Chariman Carr, as the eldest von Trapp daughter, performing the song “I am Sixteen going on Seventeen,” a playful duet with her boyfriend Rolf who sings back that he is“seventeen going on eighteen.”
22 September 2016

Bangladesh's Lawless Roads

During the nine days from 7th to 15th September 157 people have been killed in 88 different road accidents all over the country.
22 September 2016

About Town

Dance Drama - Bhabna's Production
22 September 2016

SNAPSHOT

Imagine having a city full of things that no other city had.”– Bill Bryson, an Anglo-American author
22 September 2016

Caring for Special Children

Najifa Tabassum was a premature baby and the doctor called her Einstein at her birth. First recognised to be a special child when she was 18 months old...
22 September 2016

MAILBOX

Due to very limited media exposure, the profession of planning is not that familiar in Bangladesh.
22 September 2016

Bengal's Own Private Investigator

In the year 1965, a popular children's magazine named Shandesh published a story written by Satyajit Ray.
22 September 2016