Aquaculture, or the farming of aquatic life such as molluscs, crustaceans and fish under controlled conditions, is a direct antithesis of commercial fishing which is often exploitative and destructive to natural ecosystems.

On January 5, 2020, a second-year student of Dhaka University was raped in Kurmitola after she mistakenly got off at the wrong bus stop at around 7pm on her way to a friend’s house.

Inspired by Mussolini’s march to Rome, on November 9, 1923, Hitler and his SA goons attempted the “Munich Putsch”—what Hitler thought would be a triumphant march to seize power from the Weimer Republic reeling from economic crisis.

The recent rape and consequent death of a school-going, 17-year-old girl fills one with rage and helplessness.

To write off the acts of anarchy and insurrection that was being played out live inside the Houses of the United States Congress on January 6, as that of a few deranged, rabid, racist individual Americans would be a disastrous mistake.

If there was any doubt that America has been encroaching fascism, it ended on Wednesday with the white nationalist coup in the US Capitol. The image of an American flag replaced with a Trump flag symbolises the “F-word” to its very core. At this point, America might as well wake up and prepare for another historically horrible political event infiltrated by Donald J. Trump, the most unhinged leader in the nation’s history.

When a pestilence caused the deaths of more than half of the population of Milan in 1846, it was evident that a clean and well-designed urban environment would be essential for human welfare.

Eventually, the matter seems to have been settled with the intervention of the High Court.

Four years after newly elected President Donald Trump vowed to stop “an American carnage,” insurrectionists rallied by his lies stormed the US Capitol in an attempt to overthrow the results of the November 3, 2020 presidential elections.

Our comrade Ayesha Khanam, president of Bangladesh Mahila Parishad, left us on January 2, 2021. Like everyone else, I had been convinced that she would defeat cancer and come back strong.

The Academic Experience Project is a faculty-student collaborative work aimed to glean insights about the experiences of tertiary-level students. Each Friday, The Daily Star publishes an op-ed highlighting its findings. This is the tenth article of the series.

It is heartening to note that discussion is taking place after the release of the 4th edition of the Global Knowledge Index (GKI), jointly produced by the UNDP and Dubai-based Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Knowledge Foundation.

As I ordered a Hoya and a Dischidia, two beautiful trailing house plants, from a seller online, I was elated to think how easy it has become nowadays to buy plants from various Facebook groups and online shops.

Amidst the relentless continuum of the coronavirus crisis, our lives have become constrained by the realities of the pandemic.

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan ushered in the new year pledging to employ his country’s military to secure Turkey’s place in a rebalanced new world order.

For the last few years, the higher education authorities have been trying to bring all public universities of our country under one umbrella to hold a uniform, central admission test for their undergraduate courses to reduce the sufferings of candidates.

Improving the learning outcomes of students has gained significant attention in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic, as existing assessment methods were significantly hampered due to school closures.

“When a number of flute players are equal in their art, there is no reason why those of them who are better born should have better flutes given to them; for they will not play any better on the flute, and the superior instrument should be reserved for him who is the superior artist”.

2020 was synonymous with the Covid-19 pandemic and the unprecedented crisis it brought across economic, social, and health dimensions. 2021, on the other hand, is already being associated with the promise of the next normal.

In every comparative survey among countries—be it a survey of the economy, transparency, university rankings, etc.—Bangladesh almost always ranks at the very bottom.