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

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.

Learning about sexual rights from Uganda

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.

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

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.

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

Incarcerated in the camps in (West) Pakistan after the surrender of General Niazi and the capture of over 90,000 Pakistani soldiers, the Bengali Armed Forces Officers and their families counted the days and months as they eagerly awaited repatriation to their newly liberated motherland.

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

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

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

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.

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'.

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.

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

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.

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.

Indigenous women suffer discrimination on multiple fronts—as women and as minorities

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

While members of the civil society admit that the reinstatement of the No Vote system may not make a huge difference, it will give the people of Bangladesh more freedom to express themselves in 2019.