Celebrating linguistic and cultural diversity, we should remember to continue making good use of language not just in literature but also in our day-to-day lives. One way to celebrate the beauty of language is to reclaim the art of writing letters.

Celebrating 50 years of the independence of Bangladesh, The Daily Star recently launched ‘Muktijuddho Olympiad’, in partnership with food-tech company efood. It is the largest Olympiad based on the Liberation War of 1971.

National Child Forum (NCF) is an organisation for children by children, which aims to ensure children’s rights in every sphere, guaranteeing child safety and promoting positive leadership.

I still remember how there was so much commotion around the language issue in East Pakistan right after the 1947 Partition. In 1948, Liaquat Ali Khan brought amendments that sought to make English and Urdu the lingua franca of Pakistan, even though a majority of Pakistan’s population spoke in Bangla.

What started as a group of seven boys from South Korea with big dreams but only a handful of fans has amassed today into the global phenomenon known as Bangtan Sonyeondan (BTS) with millions of admirers from all over the world. BTS’s fanbase, known as ARMY (short for Adorable Representative MC for Youth), are often misjudged for being immature and toxic due to the lack of proper media representation.

Youth School for Social Entrepreneurs successfully ended its flagship event Bangladesh Youth Symposium 2021. This time the event was held virtually through the videocall platform Zoom, in association with Northern University on Friday 12th February, 2021.

The pandemic has affected all aspects of life but the education system continues to be severely impacted into its second year. With educational institutions shutting down, students have been detached from the learning process and this is believed to hamper their progress in the long run.

During the 53 days that journalist Shafiqul Islam Kajol spent in enforced disappearance and the additional seven months of imprisonment, the movement for his release was fuelled by the most part by his unrelenting son, activist Monorom Polok.

This year, Space Apps declared challenges in 7 different categories: observe, inform, sustain, create, confront, connect and invent your own challenge. Under the category "Connect", one of the sub-categories was "Orbital Sky", where the winner was team BUET Zenith from Bangladesh.

For the first time in Bangladesh, Ho Chi Minh Islam and Tashnuva Anan Shishir, two transgender women, received scholarships to pursue higher studies in an international platform of BRAC James P Grant School. The scholarships were awarded to them in two categories to pursue higher studies in the Master of Public Health (MPH) programme.

I still remember the first day that I stepped into the campus of Notre Dame University Bangladesh (NDUB), not only because it was wonderful, but also because I came across an eighty-five year old, wearing an antique white helmet and a beautiful smile, riding his white vintage vespa. Rev Fr Joseph Stephen Peixotto, CSC, or as I address him, Fr Joe Peixotto, when I first met him, was the treasurer of the newly established university, built on the shoulders of Notre Dame College (NDC).

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APON Foundation, a government approved charitable organisation, was formed in 2006, with the aim of facilitating education for

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Share Your Closet, a youth organisation, intends to bridge the nationwide clothing divide, and ensure that the less fortunate communities have

Registration is open for The Daily Star Muktijuddho Olympiad – the largest Olympiad on the Liberation War. The event is a joint initiative by The Daily Star and Efood.

Muslin, the premier fabric of Bengal of the pre-Moghul and Moghul era, is regarded as the epitome of elegance. In time, the production of the exquisite fabric diminished and became a lost treasure.

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Riyadh left the military in 2012, after which he pursued his MBA from IBA, DU, and received his Neuro-linguistic Programming (NLP) training in the UK from Dr Richard Bandler, the Co-creator of NLP.

24-year-old Shirina Akter, who is employed at a ready-made garment factory in Savar’s Nishchintapur, works around 10 hours every day to manage her family of five. But during her periods, she cannot always work for such a long time, and is forced to skip work on the first or second day.