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For the Love of Tea
7 January 2022, 18:00 PM Star Literature
Court Corner / SC forms committee against sexual harassment
4 November 2021, 18:00 PM SEXUAL HARASSMENT
How new autocrats curb press freedom
28 November 2019, 18:00 PM Star Weekend
(Uncertain) Future of Journalism in Bangladesh
28 November 2019, 18:00 PM Star Weekend
“Predisposed journalism can never grow and sustain”
28 November 2019, 18:00 PM Star Weekend
Putting the “news” in our news feeds
28 November 2019, 18:00 PM Star Weekend

Traffic alert fails

Why apps are unable to map Dhaka's traffic
17 August 2017, 18:00 PM

About Town

Women of Inspiration Awards
17 August 2017, 18:00 PM

3 ways to beat anxiety (well, one that actually works)

Spiderman has a great way of dealing with anxiety. He tingles in the head. Then he shoots a web and engages in a fight full of snappy comebacks.
17 August 2017, 18:00 PM

The nature of Cuban socialism

An interview with Fidel Castro
17 August 2017, 18:00 PM

Science is out

The number of students pursuing science is decreasing at an alarming rate
17 August 2017, 18:00 PM

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, 18:00 PM

Separating morality from service

Learning about sexual rights from Uganda
17 August 2017, 18:00 PM

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, 18:00 PM

No country for indigenous women

Indigenous women suffer discrimination on multiple fronts—as women and as minorities
10 August 2017, 18:00 PM

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, 18:00 PM

No Vote: Society's barometer

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.
10 August 2017, 18:00 PM

MAILBOX

Dhaka University in its golden era of students' organised movement contributed to upholding the democratic values and rights of citizens whenever peace was endangered and democracy threatened throughout the history of Bangladesh.
10 August 2017, 18:00 PM

SNAPSHOT

“Do not be angry with the rain; it simply does not know how to fall upwards.”
10 August 2017, 18:00 PM

A lazy man's guide to walking in Dhaka city

Experts say walking is the first step to fitness. Get it?
10 August 2017, 18:00 PM

Priyabhashini's orchestrations of carbon

'Megher Shongi', sculptor Ferdousi Priyabhashini's 13th Solo Exhibition
10 August 2017, 18:00 PM

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, 18:00 PM

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, 18:00 PM

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, 18:00 PM

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, 18:00 PM

Is 'politics' a dirty word?

With no democratic student governments in private universities, what recourse do students really have?
10 August 2017, 18:00 PM