Team Positive Bangladesh, consisting of eight students, won the Peer to Peer Facebook Global Digital Challenge Spring 2019, beating 500 university campaigns all around the world. The event was held in Brussels this year.

The largest credit union in South Asia, The Christian Cooperative Credit Union Ltd, Dhaka, was founded in 1955 by Rev Fr Charles J Young CSC in Lokhhibazar. The union aims to provide the Christian community with affordable services, helping them to achieve financial viability, operational efficiency, competitive advantage, and good co-operative governance. The Daily Star has formed a partnership with the organisation, under which 100 copies of the newspaper are provided to them every day, for free.

Siam Hussain Shimul was admitted to JAAGO Foundation’s school in Rayerbazar when he was six. At the age of 16, he has earned a two-year scholarship at the renowned United World College (UWC) in New Mexico, USA.

The reality show, ‘GPH Ispat Presents Esho Robot Banai’, held their grand finale recently at Bangabandhu International Conference Center (BICC).

Toycon, the most prominent toy convention in the country, organised by Toycon Bangladesh, concluded at Midas Center in Dhanmondi, this weekend. The two-day event featured a variety of collectibles, memorabilia and miniature models of toys. It was the third iteration of the event.

We are apprised of the sufferings and hardships of women in our society. While there is an add-on to those who belong to the minority, for them the roads to success are always bedded with thorns. Sonu Rani Das belongs to one such group. She, beyond all the

World Heritage Volunteers (WHV) 2019 – Empowering the Commitment to World Heritage. The WHV 2019 campaign provides empowering and enriching opportunities to young people and enables them to go beyond borders in some of the most outstanding

Born to parents who are already established in their respective fields in media, it is no surprise that Ali Hasib nurtured similar dreams. His mother, Shamima Shammi is a director as well as a writer for television, while his father, Mohammad Ali Bashir is a television

23-year-old Narayanganj local Akash Ahmed recently constructed a car that resembles a Lamborghini. Akash is an autorikshaw mechanic and settled in Narayanganj. “I got all my training from my father and both maternal and paternal grandfathers, who were also mechanics”, says Akash.

After three years of classes in the scorching heat and uncompromising rain, the students of the open school of Alokito Shishu, A Last Mile Life Initiative, got their formal school at the all-new Munshiganj campus. With the support and fund from IDLC, Alokito Shishu built the school.

What began as five friends sitting in a cafeteria at school, talking about wanting to do something to help their community, has become a powerful force for social change. They started out by distributing warm clothing to people in need, during a particularly harsh winter, with the help of volunteers from the community. Today, almost 6 years after their first campaign in 2013, Footsteps has taken up Project Trishna, and the monumental task of ensuring safe, drinkable water for everyone.

Four urban educators — Al Mansoor Helal, Mahmudul Hassan Tareq, Shahinur Selim, and Hasibur Rahman Sohan, all graduates of leading universities — began their journey as Residents in a one-year programme called the School Leadership Residency, in Panchagarh, run by Teach For Bangladesh, in 2018.

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Bangladesh Youth Skills Summit took place last month, at the permanent campus of United International University (UIU), at Madani Avenue, Badda. It was an insightful day for all those who participated from different esteemed professionals across the country.

Pradeepta Kumar Saha conceived the idea of a virtual reality based education program in 2016 to assist the education sector. “I realized that I was a visual learner, when I performed surprisingly well in a test conducted after a University trip to Lalbagh, where I had experienced the location and could relate better to the guide’s narration” he shared. Thus, in an attempt to help students like him, he started working on VR education.

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Economics Study Center (ESC), University of Dhaka, in collaboration with EMK Center organised the first episode of People’s Debate recently. This platform is dedicated towards the practice of freedom of speech and freedom of expression. The debate focused on one of the most burning concerns our society faces today – youth unemployment. The topic for the debate was ‘The Unemployment Epidemic of University Graduates’.

Promising young dancer, Md Hanif, was recently chosen to partake in the prestigious Summer Intensive programme organised by the globally renowned Akram Khan Company, scheduled to take place from August 5-10, 2019 at the Orsolina 28 premises in Turin, Italy.

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Bangladesh 4th National Youth Conference on Family Planning 2019