Nineteen-year-old Wasif Ahmed Salam is currently completing his BBA at City University of London.

With an objective to clean the sea shores, AMAL Foundation has come up with the ‘Trashtag’ challenge.

The South Asia Fall Tour 2019, hosted by the American embassy’s EducationUSA Student Advising Center, took place on September 7, at Radisson Blu Dhaka Water Garden.

International University of Business Agriculture and Technology (IUBAT) is one of the first private universities in Bangladesh, founded by the late Dr Alimullah Miyan. The university started its journey in 1991, in Dhanmondi. However, in 2005, IUBAT’s campus was shifted to Uttara, on about 5.5 acres of land in Sector 10, with a beautiful view. The green courtyard of the university consists of a lake, an open basketball ground and a large field bedded with grass.

Habiba Shurovy graduated in Graphic Designing from Faculty of Fine Art, University of Dhaka. She is the owner of Shorodindu, which was an online shop at first and today, has three outlets across Dhaka, at Happy Arcade Dhanmondi, ZamZam Tower Uttara and Bashundhara City.

Education Entrepreneur’s society (EES) organised Edupreneurship Idea Quest for the second time recently. The programme was supported by EMK Center. After the success of Edupreneurship Idea Quest’s first season, the second iteration was launched in July this year.

The 13th edition of the International Earth Science Olympiad (IESO) was held in Daegu, South Korea. 182 contestants from 43 countries across the world participated in the contest.

Multiple Language Learning Club (MLLC) is founded by Ismail Hossain Siraji from the Department of Persian Language and Literature,

Anisha Faruk has won the Student Union (SU) presidency at Oxford University, recently. Former co-chair of the Oxford University Labour Club and Editor-in-Chief of The Oxford Student, Anisha bested her two fellow candidates, Ivy Manning, an independent candidate, and Ellie Milne-Brown, the candidate for the Aspire panel, at an event at the Weston Library.

Team PROTHOMA, which has Mahedi Hasan Omi, Nafisa Hasan, Sumaiya Alam and Zarif Tazwar from Bangladesh University of Professionals, won the Honourable Mention Award at the Richards Barrentine Values and Ventures Competition of Texas Christian University (TCU) among 56 other teams from 20 different countries.

As plastic bags and other inorganic wastes pile up and continue to harm our natural environment, the Lal Sabuj Society (LSS) intends to keep Barishal clean with their initiative, ‘Save Green Movement’.

Cybernauts 2019, one of the most prominent gaming programmes of the country, was at the North South University last month.

M Ahsan Al Mahir (SOS Hermann Gmeiner College, Dhaka), Ahmed Ittihad Hasib (Dhaka Residential Model College, Mohammadpur, Dhaka), Soumitra Das (Government Rajendra College, Faridpur), Md Maruf Hasan Rubab (Mymensingh Zilla School, Mymensingh), Saadman Hasan (St Joseph Higher Secondary School, Dhaka) and Mashroor Hasan Bhuiyan (Notre Dame College, Dhaka) represented Bangladesh in Bath, United Kingdom, at this year’s International Math Olympiad (IMO). Ahsan bagged the Bronze medal while Soumitra, Ittihad, Maruf and Saadman received honourable mentions at the prize-giving ceremony of the competition.

On the first Friday of every month, a part of Manik Mia Avenue is blocked by Dhaka Transport Coordination Authority (DTCA) to create space for people to run, play, cycle and carry out a range of other activities. Teenagers ride their bicycles while their parents take strolls in the empty street. I visited the spot on the first Friday of August and talked to many people who came along with their family and friends to enjoy the day.

Apply to attend the 9th International Youth Camp Nepal (IYCN). IYCN is an experiential learning programme designed for young people from different corners of the world. International Youth Camp Nepal highlights cross-cultural exchange, self-exploration, leadership

Twenty-two-year old Sabiha Mili, a graduate from Jahangirnagar University, started her journey with Model United Nations (MUN) in 2014. She attended her first conference as a delegate in Ireland, representing an intelligence agency committee. Usually an

The saying, “One man’s trash is another man’s treasure” rings true for Fahim Uddin Shuvo, Founder of Garbageman. During his undergraduate education in Architecture at North South University, Shuvo saw the problematic lack of waste disposal methods.

Arif Ahmed’s short film, Paradise Nest, won the award for Best Film on Nature/Environment at the 17th Calcutta International Cult Film Festival. The film was screened at Italy’s Cefalù Film Festival, India’s International Festival of Short Films on Culture and Tourism, and

SPIYCE is an EMK small grantee 2019 Empowerment through Law of the Common People (ELCOP) project which aims to train undergraduate students in effective community engagement. SPIYCE is inspired by the model of simulation led by the International Human Rights Clinic (IHRC) of the Harvard Law School. They aim to train participants in community-level engagement, rights-based fact-finding operation and creating community leaders in the area of street law.

An event titled, ‘Poetry for Peace” was organised jointly by World Poetry Festival and Kathak, a Bangladeshi Poetry Initiative, recently. It was held at Bishwo Shahitto Kendro. The general theme of the event was presenting a united stand against the recurring acts of violence across the globe. The event saw 35 Bangladeshi poets and two Mexican poets come together and perform their pieces.