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Books & Literature
Fear of sexual harassment triggering child marriage: survey
20 February 2022, 18:00 PM
Bangladesh
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
UK-listed cybersecurity firm Avast in merger talks with NortonLifeLock
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Organisation News
Change is the only constant
28 November 2019, 18:00 PM
Star Weekend
Media: Between a rock and a hard place
28 November 2019, 18:00 PM
Star Weekend
How new autocrats curb press freedom
28 November 2019, 18:00 PM
Star Weekend
Why BoJack Horseman is life
In season four, episode six of Netflix's BoJack Horseman—titled “Stupid Piece of Sh*t”—BoJack effectively loses it with Hollyhock and his dying mother Beatrice living with him.
13 December 2018, 18:00 PM
LOVELY LITTLE LIECHTENSTEIN
It wasn't supposed to go this way, but it did. My bus from Cologne to Munich took five hours longer than it was supposed to and, as such
13 December 2018, 18:00 PM
Sexual harassment of RMG workers
Women's participation in the ready-made garments sector, and the importance of this sector to national exports and economic growth has contributed to changed perceptions of women's economic and public role and has provided women themselves with more options.
13 December 2018, 18:00 PM
No Woman's Land
Hamida Begum's* husband had beat her yet again. But this time was different. He had also uttered talaq three times, essentially divorcing her according to the Islamic customs of the Rohingya community.
13 December 2018, 18:00 PM
Clash in Tabligh Jamaat
The fight between two factions of Tabligh Jamaat was really unexpected. People saw that the Tongi Ijtema Maidan turned into a battlefield where an elderly person died and more than 200 were injured.
13 December 2018, 18:00 PM
Our duty on the suicide issue
Suicide has been skyrocketing over the past decade despite numerous preventative measures. Five DU students recently ended their lives.
13 December 2018, 18:00 PM
Let there be no others like Aritry
The untimely demise of Aritry Adhikary, a ninth-grader of Viqarunnisa Noon School & College was saddening for our nation as a whole. Her tragic death should serve as a wake-up call for us.
13 December 2018, 18:00 PM
Millions will be made stateless, and we're silent
The day after this article is published, three million Bengalis will have become stateless in India.
13 December 2018, 18:00 PM
Witness to Horror: In conversation with advocate Razia Sultana
Razia Sultana is a Rohingya lawyer and educator in Bangladesh. She is currently one of 16 women activists featured by the Nobel Women's Initiative for their work as change makers in their societies.
29 November 2018, 18:00 PM
Can bank alliances prevent human trafficking?
In early 2018, the Italian police intercepted a trafficking ring that dealt with workers from Bangladesh and India. Similar to almost every other trafficking story, the workers, in this case as well, were given false promises of jobs and brought to the country in exchange of exorbitant recruitment fees.
29 November 2018, 18:00 PM
When teenagers are sent to adult jails
Hridoy Gazi is an inmate at Kashimpur Prison in Gazipur. He is also an eighth-grader according to his family, and a 13-year-old according to his birth certificate.
29 November 2018, 18:00 PM
ABACUS MEMORIES
My being lives a wild life inside my head. I think, again and again, of bare colourful thoughts
29 November 2018, 18:00 PM
Mental Health 101
The recent cases of suicide in educational institutes this year—nine cases of suicide at University of Dhaka (DU) and one at a residential complex of a private university—has opened a can of worms, exposing how poorly the mental health condition of Bangladesh's youngsters are dealt with.
29 November 2018, 18:00 PM
Stop air pollution and changing environmental degradation
Bangladesh has been struggling with air pollution for a long time and Dhaka continues to rank among the most polluted cities in the world.
29 November 2018, 18:00 PM
If music be the food of love, play on
It was a privilege for me to attend the Dhaka International Folk Festival, popularly known as Folk Fest, this year. I only made up my mind to attend on the last night of the festival.
29 November 2018, 18:00 PM
Only authoritarians love refugees
In a breathtakingly racist speech, he warned that Europe could turn “black”and have its culture and civilisation overwhelmed by the “barbarian invasions” of migrants from across the Mediterranean.
29 November 2018, 18:00 PM
Montevideo Musings
What we'd thought would be a breezy two-hour bus ride from the coastal town of Colonia del Sacramento to the capital of Uruguay, Montevideo, quickly turned into a four-hour affair.
29 November 2018, 18:00 PM
Baagh nama
Baagh nama
29 November 2018, 18:00 PM
Dear university, are you listening?
On November 20, an undergraduate student of BRAC University (BRACU) lost his life in the university's residential campus, referred to by students as TARC, in Savar—according to official accounts, he succumbed to his injuries on the way to the hospital after jumping from the fifth floor of his dormitory.
29 November 2018, 18:00 PM
Ming's man-made marvel
The Great Wall of China stands as a testament of human endurance and perseverance. Few things in this world can compare to this awe-inspiring architectural feat. I knew I had to go and see it on my recent trip to Beijing.
22 November 2018, 18:00 PM