The chef who put home cooks: At heart of global cuisine
28 November 2025, 18:48 PM
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When the alleys knew our names
21 November 2025, 18:27 PM
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Haripur Zamindar Bari in Brahmanbaria / On the banks of Titas, a palace fading into memory
14 November 2025, 20:04 PM
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The magic of ras utsab / A night of dance, music and devotion
7 November 2025, 18:34 PM
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Taxidermy: Preserving life through art, science
31 October 2025, 19:28 PM
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Choosing peace over pace
24 October 2025, 19:35 PM
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The mantas: A life adrift
17 October 2025, 18:57 PM
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Echoes of grandeur linger in Haturia’s fading palaces
10 October 2025, 19:09 PM
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The struggle against concrete invasion
3 October 2025, 19:24 PM
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Durga Puja: A symphony of faith and festivity
26 September 2025, 19:06 PM
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A village of mosques
Beraid is a small place in terms of size, but it is huge in terms of popularity, thanks to a large number of ancient mosques.
17 February 2023, 18:00 PM
Cultivating reading habits since 2001
At first glance, it looks like a simple tin-shed house. One will not even find any decent-looking furniture inside the room.
17 February 2023, 18:00 PM
Where basic amenities remain elusive
Residents of the newly-added wards in Dhaka North City Corporation expressed dissatisfaction after being denied civic amenities, claiming that life was far better when they were under the union parishad.
17 February 2023, 18:00 PM
Dhaka’s uninspiring govt primary schools
The government aims to build a “Smart Bangladesh” by 2041, but without fixing our faulty public education system, how far can it achieve this goal? The human resources for Bangladesh’s future are being short-changed at the primary education level, finds The Daily Star through visits to several schools right in the heart of the capital.
10 February 2023, 18:00 PM
Watching planes their only entertainment
With a smiling face and curiosity in her eyes, six-year-old Anika stood beside a barbed wire fence and gazed up at the sky. Soon, an aeroplane took off with a loud roar.
3 February 2023, 18:00 PM
A village of crabs, in Dhaka!
It was early morning. The sun had not yet risen, and most of Dhaka was still sleeping.
3 February 2023, 18:00 PM
Plight of DNCC wards 52, 53: Life seemed better under union parishad
In July 2017, Dhaka North City Corporation took 18 wards under its wing, which were previously under the union parishad system.
3 February 2023, 18:00 PM
Freedom of movement a basic right
Adil Mohammed Khan, professor of urban & regional planning at Jahangirnagar University, said a lack of alternative roads is a direct result of unplanned urbanisation.
27 January 2023, 18:00 PM
There’s only one way in and out
It was the most horrific day of Jhumu Begum’s life when she had to endure labour pain for two hours straight at night, without being able to reach the hospital.
27 January 2023, 18:00 PM
The ordeal of patients with chronic kidney diseases
Four years ago, Md Tobarok Hossain left for Malaysia to work as a labourer on a palm oil plantation. He consciously accepted the brutal life of a plantation worker, only because he wanted to give his family a better life.
20 January 2023, 18:00 PM
On discovering Somali novelist, Nuruddin Farah, at the Dhaka Lit Fest
On each edition of the Dhaka Lit Fest, you leave having discovered a brilliant author. Last time, it was the humorous and adorable Jan Blake whose performance storytelling left me captivated.
13 January 2023, 18:00 PM
Promises remain promises
Catastrophic floods, crop-wilting droughts and record heatwaves this year have shown that climate change warnings are increasingly becoming reality and this is “just the beginning”, experts say, as international efforts to cut planet-heating emissions flounder.
6 January 2023, 18:00 PM
Can Ukraine survive in 2023?
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine plunged Europe into its biggest land war since World War Two, igniting a conflict that has killed thousands, displaced millions, pulverised Ukrainian cities and damaged the global economy.
30 December 2022, 18:00 PM
Ukraine war: A brief timeline
February: Russian forces march into Ukraine from the north, in an attempt to gain control of Kyiv and with the intention of overthrowing the Ukrainian government.
30 December 2022, 18:00 PM
Jean Kay: Unforgettable story of a forgotten friend
December 3, 1971. It was around 11:30am in Paris. A flight of Pakistan International Airlines had just landed at Paris Orly Airport.
23 December 2022, 18:00 PM
Rajab Ali's ordeal
Rajab Ali has been away from home for 22 years. He spent 16 years in Saudi Arabia before coming to neighbouring Qatar six years ago, and he hasn't been home for the past six years.
16 December 2022, 18:00 PM
Real lives in ‘artificial’ land
If you happen to come to Qatar from the subcontinent, you could often get confused whether you landed in an Arab land some 3000-4000 kilometres away from home or you were just in another of Bangladesh or India or Pakistan.
16 December 2022, 18:00 PM
Football fever takes over
Sports and politics had long been interlocked in such a way that the intention to view sports from an apolitical lens becomes, like it or not, a political stance.
10 December 2022, 02:30 AM
‘Excitement over if Argentina not in title race’
The Daily Star (DS): How do you see the craze of the FIFA World Cup as a footballer?
25 November 2022, 18:00 PM
Immutable and unignorable: Our passion for football and festivity
Having been a bit lukewarm to the FIFA World Cup thus far for not having my favourite team at this edition in Qatar, I was kind of sucked into the excitement of it all a fair two days after the Greatest Show on Earth began. It was the Argentina versus Saudi Arabia match on Tuesday which once again reminded me of football’s power to get people imbued despite the daily grind.
25 November 2022, 18:00 PM