Team OLEEK: The national champion of Student to Startup
Student to Startup, held at Sheikh Hasina National Youth Centre, Savar, aims to catapult the young generation of entrepreneurs to the
27 June 2019, 18:00 PM
World Festival of Poetry celebrated at EMK Center
June 21 witnessed the celebration of World Festival of Poetry in 160 countries around the world. The theme for this year’s festival, ‘No War – Hug Peace’, is an attempt to speak against war and support communal harmony.
24 June 2019, 18:00 PM
Rafat Nur’s projects to help the underprivileged community
Rafat Nur, a graduate of National University of Bangladesh, runs Chobi’r Haat, an organisation comprised of close to 28 young artists who sell their artworks and use the money to provide food and healthcare services to slum dwellers.
12 June 2019, 18:00 PM
Potter Bibi: Promoting Bangladeshi culture and fashion
Potter Bibi is an online shopping site serving products that are made in Bangladesh. The name, Potter Bibi, refers to the Bangla idiom,
31 May 2019, 18:00 PM
KOTHA: Addressing sexual violence at its core
Twenty-three year-old Umama Zillur, a graduate from Mount Holyoke College, founded KOTHA, a primary intervention programme that addresses the attitudes, behaviours, and conditions that support, condone and lead to sexual violence, in 2016. Developed under the Clinton Global Initiative
30 May 2019, 18:00 PM
Jaifrin Ahmed’s journey to BAKED
Jaifrin Ahmed, a business graduate from North South University, won the Alokito Nari Shommanona this year for her entrepreneurial
22 May 2019, 18:00 PM
Zaheed Sabur’s success at Google
Zaheed Sabur is the first Bangladeshi principal engineer at one of the world’s leading technology companies, Google.
15 May 2019, 18:00 PM
CURE impresses at Harvard National Model United Nations 2019
Harvard University recently organised the 65thedition of Harvard National Model United Nations, one of the oldest and most prestigious conferences of Model United Nations globally.
11 May 2019, 18:00 PM
Mohammad Aman Ullah talks about World Orphans Day
Worldwide Organization for Charity (WOC), established by Mohammad Aman Ullah, celebrated World Orphans Day on April 20, 2019, across 130 countries including Bangladesh, Germany, Ghana, Slovenia and others.
25 April 2019, 18:00 PM
AI-powered digital Dhaka: A step towards safer roads
Gaze Technology, owned by a team of young Bangladeshi students has devised a project to manage the traffic of Dhaka and make the roads safer.
25 April 2019, 18:00 PM
Proborton celebrates World Orphans Day
In a recent collaboration with Worldwide Organization for Charity (WOC), Proborton, an organ-isation aimed at helping and educating underprivileged children, celebrated World Orphans Day at its Mirpur campus with more than 30 students.
25 April 2019, 18:00 PM
Resurgence wins Social Impact Prize at GSEA International Finals
Naziba Naila Wafa, co-founder and chief marketing officer of Resurgence is the first Bangladeshi to win an award under the category of ‘Social Impact’ at the ‘Global Student Entrepreneurship Awards 2019 in Macau.
23 April 2019, 18:00 PM
National Leadership Conference 2019 held at Krishibid Institute
English Olympiad and Team Worldwide Organization for Charity (WOC) recently conducted their National Leadership Conference at Krishibid Institute.
22 April 2019, 18:00 PM
Ashfaq Zaman’s journey to LEAD
Young entrepreneur Ashfaq Zaman is the founder of Leadership Excellence and Development (LEAD), an organisation that specialises
18 April 2019, 18:00 PM
Bangladeshi teen breaks Guinness World Record twice
Mahmudul Hasan Faisal, 17, a freestyler, has registered his name in Guinness Book of World Records twice. In August 2018, he created his first record by arm-rolling a football 134 times in a minute.
16 April 2019, 18:00 PM
Rabita Rashid on working with the transgender community
The pictures of some models smiling with happiness created quite a buzz on the internet. Their smiles reflect love and kindness but what they do not portray is the actual lives of these models.
12 April 2019, 01:11 AM
Female freedom fighters open up about the Liberation War
Recently, EMK Centre hosted the JudhdhorDine’rGolpo featuring a panel of prominent female freedom-fighters, Reshma Amin, Khuku Ahmed and Sayeda Kamal.
7 April 2019, 18:00 PM
Najmun Nahar Shohagi: The Fearless Globetrotter
All across the world, women are stepping out of the safe confines of their homes to explore unknown cities, countries and continents.
21 March 2019, 18:10 PM
Youth Fest season 3 concludes
Youth Festival Season 3, one of the most anticipated events of the year was organised on the campus of St Joseph Higher Secondary School from March 7 - 9.
19 March 2019, 18:00 PM
Pencil – Inscribing a new phase of literature
The journey of Pencil began as a Facebook group that started on September 12, 2016, with an assemblage of diverse writers, singers,
16 March 2019, 13:22 PM