Inherited Gumption

When she was just a child, her father used to frequently say, “My daughter is going to grow up to be a barrister one day!”
13 August 2015

Mentoring the Future Leaders

Whenever there is a crisis, there is a challenge faced by the nation; the youth of Bangladesh have come forward.
13 August 2015

Restoring Faith in Humanity

What started out as a course project, turned into a life-changing event for one child, named Pavel, who thought he was damned for life.
13 August 2015

A voyage over the youth's UN

Fariha Raisa, Abdullah, Kaifuzzaman and Hasnain- these four delegates from Fiji, India, Russia and Switzerland, respectively, locked their horns in a debate on the agenda about the participation of the youth in local governments across the world during a committee session of United Nations Development Programme.
13 August 2015

MAILBOX

Every year during the rainy season, landslides kill thousands of people in the hilly areas of our country.
13 August 2015

NUMBERS 191

It is a horrid number that declares the total sum of children who were killed this year till July.
13 August 2015

SNAPSHOT

Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art.
13 August 2015

The Mighty Halda

The tidal river Halda of Chittagong is one of the most unique natural carp breeding grounds in the whole world. Carp fish (Catla, Ruhi, Calbaus and Mrigayel) arrive here from different channels to release eggs.
13 August 2015

1 Minute Please

Nazia Haque Orsha is a household name when it comes to television series' and dedicated work.
13 August 2015

Accused # 1

The prisoners were in a bus, on their way to the court. They were accused of a very serious crime: sedition.
13 August 2015

Birth from the Black Hole

Astronomers have uncovered a unique process for how the universe's largest elliptical galaxies continue making stars long after their peak years of star birth.
13 August 2015

Durlov Kothok: Abul Mansur Ahmad

Edited by Emran Mahfuz, this voluminous book reflects on the life and works of one of our nation's great thought leaders.
13 August 2015

5 Fun Indoor activities for A Rainy Day

It is very frustrating to wake up on a weekend and realise that all your plans with your friends have gone down the drain with heavy showers of rain.
6 August 2015

The Power of Love

It is a truth that the intellect is limited in its abilities to fix the world's problems. From history we have witnessed the power of emotion in creating massive positive changes in the world.
6 August 2015

Enticed by Words

Claire Chambers is a Lecturer in Global Literature at the University of York, where she teaches twentieth and twenty-first century writing in English from South Asia, the Arab world, and their diasporas. Claire has also published her works in journals such as Postcolonial Text and Contemporary Women's Writing, and is Co-Editor of the Journal of Commonwealth Literature.
6 August 2015

The Start Up Guru

After completing university education, most of the Bangladeshi youth rush to get jobs while very few of them take the risk of starting their own business.
6 August 2015

Changing Lives of One Another

Almeer Ahsan Asif, a graduate in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from American International University, Bangladesh (AIUB), always wanted to do something for those in need.
6 August 2015

A lift of shame?

Monir Hossain, 35, works as a senior executive in a firm. He used to travel to and from office in private cars.
6 August 2015

MAILBOX

I am really grateful to the Star Weekend and the writer for writing about condition of the animals in the Bangladesh National Zoo (Published in July 31, 2015).
6 August 2015

Prototypes of the Future

On July 29, 2015; Kolpokoushal, a knowledge initiative by Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) students and alumni, arranged their first event at the University of Liberal Arts.
6 August 2015