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Books & Literature
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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
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
(Uncertain) Future of Journalism in Bangladesh
28 November 2019, 18:00 PM
Star Weekend
What After Rana Plaza?
Four years ago, over a thousand workers lost their lives and 2500 were injured in the collapse of the Rana Plaza building.
20 April 2017, 18:00 PM
Factbox: Industrial accidents
A timeline of the major industrial accidents in Bangladesh in recent years.
20 April 2017, 18:00 PM
MAILBOX
When I read the article titled “Is this Our City?” I was really shocked because even I never thought about how a person with disability...
20 April 2017, 18:00 PM
LEST WE FORGET
Rana Plaza. The murder scene of 1,129 Bangladeshi workers, and burial ground of numerous “missing”. A national shame, an international spectacle.
20 April 2017, 18:00 PM
Setting our priorities straight
The Rana Plaza collapse wasn't just the worst mass fatality disaster in the history of the garment industry; it was the worst mass fatality disaster in the history of all manufacturing.
20 April 2017, 18:00 PM
The struggle continues
I have known the site of Rana Plaza in Savar for almost four decades now. I have to cross Savar to and from the Jahangirnagar campus
20 April 2017, 18:00 PM
Out of the ashes of Rana Plaza
There is an age-old proverb, “Out of sight out of mind”. This, I fear, is what is happening to the 1,134 workers who died in Rana Plaza, and the thousands who have been injured and are barely surviving.
20 April 2017, 18:00 PM
Sramik Awaaz: The unheard four million
Chaumtoli Huq explores the reality of the workers' rights movement in the garments industry of Bangladesh in her 2017 documentary Sramik Awaaz or Worker Voices.
13 April 2017, 18:00 PM
Kafka in the age of the internet
“I see, these books are probably law books, and it is an essential part of the justice dispensed here that you should be condemned not only in innocence but also in ignorance.”
13 April 2017, 18:00 PM
There will come soft rains
It begins with a listless thought, brushed aside. What does a heartbeat sound like, you wonder. Brush, aside.
13 April 2017, 18:00 PM
Is this our city?
In this city of 14.5 million people, at least 9.07 percent of its inhabitants have some form of physical disability, according to Household Income Expenditure Survey 2011 of Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics.
13 April 2017, 18:00 PM
Artwork for Sale, Not the Shobhajatra
At a time when it's all but impossible to organise large-scale events without corporate sponsorship, the Faculty of Fine Arts (FFA), popularly known as the Charukola
13 April 2017, 18:00 PM
Jatra
Thus thunders the hero, his voice reaching far and wide, capturing the full attention of his audience. The language of jatra...
13 April 2017, 18:00 PM
SUFFERING FROM AN IDENTITY CRISIS?
It is the first day of the Bengali New Year and our national identity seems to be in a state of predicament.
13 April 2017, 18:00 PM
What could have been a landmark case
This could have been a landmark case. This could have - once and for all - proved that sexual harassment on the street is something that needs to be dealt with the force of law.
13 April 2017, 18:00 PM
MAILBOX
Mashrafe Bin Mortaza is not only a cricket player but also a hero, a fighter and an ideal leader.
13 April 2017, 18:00 PM
SNAPSHOT
SNAPSHOT
13 April 2017, 18:00 PM
Access Denied!
Adil Mahbub lost his leg in a road accident when he was in grade seven. After the accident, Adil's studies came to a halt for a long seven years as no school agreed to enrol Adil, who is now wheelchair-bound.
6 April 2017, 18:00 PM
MAILBOX
The stories of prolific journey of women leaders are really inspirational for the rest of the women who live around them.
6 April 2017, 18:00 PM
SNAPSHOT
“And the air was full of Thoughts and Things to Say. But at times like these, only the Small Things are ever said. Big Things lurk unsaid inside.” ― Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things
6 April 2017, 18:00 PM