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The Finance Minister has proposed a 10 percent tax on private educational institutes in the National Budget for the upcoming fiscal year.

For those of us living a city away from Bashundhara, a trip to there might eat up our entire day. I was in a similar rut and during lunch time too. Luckily enough, a few of my friends dragged me to Burger Lab because burgers.

Most gamers will agree that video games help them channel their real life frustrations into a virtual world and do things they cannot do in real life.

'Fête de la Musique', also known as World Music Day, began as a music festival in France in the year 1982. Since then it is celebrated all over the world, especially in European countries.

I stopped watching WWE sometime during 2005. I grew up with the Attitude Era and after Wrestlemania 21 getting up in the mornings to watch a WWE PPV just didn't work out any more for 6th grader me.

Adnan M. S. Fakir teaches Economics at BRAC University.

Winter mornings made me crave for coffee and poetry. Mother said I was too young for coffee, and I couldn't waste another single second behind something as trivial as poetry when I was already half an hour late for school.

Don't Read The Newspaper

The soft buzzing from his phone woke him. His feeble, passive attempt to sleep in by disabling the sound on the alarm was a failure.

I heard they're making a masterpiece

In light of the on-going street harassments and sexual assaults, security for young women has been a hot topic and rightfully so.

Our parents are dead serious about grades. Sometimes to satisfy our parents or to pull up our CGPA, we seek aid of unethical means.

Bangladesh cannot prosper if the road to higher education is blocked by monetary constraints.

You have witnessed a psychopath rape a character who has grown up on screen, and a father burn his daughter at the stake for power. At this point you have to ask yourself, where does the line lie?

My chalk had snapped in two.

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So manic pixie dream boy's back again

With most of us having lived in our respective cities our entire lives, it's hard to imagine how challenging it can be to completely move your life out of one place and into another.

Love is hard. Few of us can escape its scheming tentacles reaching every aspect of our lives, bringing anxiety and uncertainty.