A teacher in your home Single mums get educated through the radio

Tegucigalpa, Honduras. Kathia Varela gently adjusts the dial of her old stereo to tune into her 5pm radio class on the Catholic radio
19 June 2015

Communication in seven boxes

No assistance without coordination. No coordination without communication. However, the latter usually collapses in natural
19 June 2015

Virtual Assistant:a three-dimensional avatar, the best classmate for deaf students

A three-dimensional female humanoid avatar, designed to capture the voice of the teacher and translate it into Lesho, Honduran Sign
19 June 2015

Five faiths sharing one roof

It is possible for very different rituals and beliefs about life and the afterlife to co­exist: this miracle happens every day at the House of
19 June 2015

A Woman In The Driver's Seat

By training and hiring only female chauffeurs, Viira Cabs, a taxi service, in Mumbai provides women with skills, jobs and independence, while offering female passengers a sense of security.
19 June 2015

The One Who Answered the Call

The way basic healthcare is provided to some of the most impoverished people in Bangladesh changed forever in the year 2002. That’s
19 June 2015

Virtual Supermarket: A game to detect memory problems in older adults

A new specialised videogame, developed by Greek scientists and available for free, promises to accurately examine and “save” the
19 June 2015

Girls today, pioneers in Stem tomorrow.

The Straits Times, Singapore
19 June 2015

Visualizing Impact: A civic commitment to making information readable

It all began with an observation: information and knowledge are essential to development. A number of organisations, especially non-
19 June 2015

Because you’re happy

It seems that Switzerland is the happiest nation in the world...or at least if we are to believe the latest World Happiness Report
19 June 2015

A clean bag of water

It weighs no more than 300 grams, fits easily into a backpack and looks like any other plastic bag.
19 June 2015

Harassment Map: An initiative to empower Egyptian women

While working with one of the civil society organisations in Egypt in 2005, American citizen Rebecca Chao and her three Egyptian
19 June 2015

Light for the blind

It was a fine morning on June 25th, 2013. RagibHasan reached his office atthe University of Alabama in Birmingham, USA and started
19 June 2015

Incredible Edible

Plant first, ask later. This is what a handful of volunteers in an ordinary town in northern England did, and from it sprang a worldwide
19 June 2015

Living Together, On And Off The Road

This July, a Muslim, a Jew, a Christian and an atheist will take off on a year-long journey around the world, the second
19 June 2015

1 Minute Please

Arafat Mohsin is one of the two brothers (Arafat Kirty and Arafat Mohsin) who remade the oldie "O bondhu laal golapi" for a popular telefilm '@18' back in 2013.
18 June 2015

KAMAL LOHANI: A REVOLUTIONARY LIFE

We live in an age of armchair activism – where many people believe that sitting in an armchair holding a smartphone is enough to bring about a change.
18 June 2015

MAILBOX

The Star Weekend's initiative to promote the emerging politicians is appreciable.
18 June 2015

NUMBERS 18

To avoid casualties caused by landslides during this monsoon, the Chittagong district administration has launched its eviction drive evicted 18 vulnerable hill dwellers.
18 June 2015

Bruce Lee

Well-known martial artist Bruce Lee was born in Chinatown, San Francisco. He was a action film actor, martial arts instructor
18 June 2015