The nature of Cuban socialism

An interview with Fidel Castro
17 August 2017

Science is out

The number of students pursuing science is decreasing at an alarming rate
17 August 2017

If Rohingyas were Hindu

A story by Reuters citing an Indian government spokesperson says that India is in talks with Bangladesh and Myanmar to deport 40,000 Rohingya Muslims, arguably one of the world's most persecuted ethnic groups.
17 August 2017

Separating morality from service

Learning about sexual rights from Uganda
17 August 2017

After Jamdani and Hilsa…

In the last one year, two Bangladeshi products—Jamdani and Hilsa—received Geographical Indications (GI) from the Department of Patents, Designs and Trademarks (DPDT). The DPDT is currently working on analysing 24 more goods.
17 August 2017

Declaring war against the Sundarbans?

The GoB has given its go-ahead to 320 polluting industrial projects adjacent to the Sundarbans.
17 August 2017

MAILBOX

The article titled 'How safe are our schools?' published in the Star Weekend on August 4, showed us that we have willingly blindfolded ourselves about the vulnerable condition of fire safety in our educational institutions.
17 August 2017

SNAPSHOT

"The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress." — Frederick Douglass
17 August 2017

SNAPSHOT

“Do not be angry with the rain; it simply does not know how to fall upwards.”
10 August 2017

A lazy man's guide to walking in Dhaka city

Experts say walking is the first step to fitness. Get it?
10 August 2017

Priyabhashini's orchestrations of carbon

'Megher Shongi', sculptor Ferdousi Priyabhashini's 13th Solo Exhibition
10 August 2017

History's first student movement

The first student protest in recorded history took place in China more than 2000 years ago in 160 BC.
10 August 2017

Sazeda's story of breaking chains

Sazeda visits every home in the village regularly and educates parents and other family members about the harmful effects of child marriage and the importance of educating female children.
10 August 2017

Sultan's atemporal vision of awakened bodies

S.M. Sultan, in an organic way, devised a strategy to simultaneously belong to the past and the present, to the East and the West, to 'here' and 'nowhere'.
10 August 2017

The unmaking of Nawaz Sharif

The devastating Supreme Court ruling has not only delivered Nawaz Sharif the ultimate humiliation of being unceremoniously ousted from power, but has also put him and his entire family in the dock over corruption allegations.
10 August 2017

Is 'politics' a dirty word?

With no democratic student governments in private universities, what recourse do students really have?
10 August 2017

We need classrooms that unite, not divide

There is mounting evidence that inclusive institutions have positive impact on a country's growth and progress when marginalised groups gain better access to education, higher learning opportunities, and gainful employment.
10 August 2017

Why so few? Underrepresentation of women in tech

Women are under-represented in the computer science industry, especially in developing nations like Bangladesh, and not only in the workplace, but in universities as well.
10 August 2017

No country for indigenous women

Indigenous women suffer discrimination on multiple fronts—as women and as minorities
10 August 2017

The government's got your tongue

Years of majoritarian Bangla education means that certain minority communities only speak their mother-tongue, and neither read nor write.
10 August 2017