With the class of 2020 striding into one of the worst recessions of all time, the agitation about unemployment only seems to be increasing. As a final year student of North South University (NSU), I relate to their anxieties regarding internship and job opportunities, the changes a post COVID-19 world will bring to the recruitment process and the resumption of interviews and standardised tests for graduates, among other things. After the first case of COVID-19 was detected in the country back in March, educational institutions were shut, and soon, the offline classes were shifted online. I decided to speak to a few of my classmates and teachers from NSU, alongside HR professionals, about their predictions regarding the future, and the changes we should prepare for.

Learning new languages has proven to improve analytical, listening, understanding, creative, and problem-solving abilities, among other things. From a societal aspect, understanding a different culture profoundly brushes up our knowledge about our own customs and traditions, including cuisine, music, fashion and so on.

There is a desk calendar on my wardrobe. It shows the month of May. It has been like that for a while now – but it is August now. Much like my calendar, the world has come to a pause. The global pandemic has brought our lives to a standstill. It all started with a distant whisper of a foreign disease that had been wiping out lives on the other side of the globe. But here’s the thing about people - unless it affects them, they don’t realise the magnitude of the situation.

To celebrate International Youth Day 2020, Shongjog recently hosted the second episode of ‘Youth Shongjog: Bangladesh in Climate, Water & Sustainability’. Sohanur Rahman, CEO of Bangladesh Model Youth Parliament and coordinator of YouthNet for Climate Justice and Sharnila Kabir, youth activist and environmentalist, participated in the live discussion hosted by Saraf Nawar, Co-founder of Shongjog and the Dutch National Sustainability Coordinator.

Young researcher Mohsinul Bari Shakir has built a ultraviolet (UV) janitor to combat COVID-19 in Bangladesh. He is also the shareholder and Chief Operating Officer at the IT-based company, Aqualink BD. Born in Dhaka, Shakir’s hometown is in Sylhet. He completed his BSc in Computer Science from BRAC University in 2018. As his father is a government official, Shakir had to travel a lot and attend different schools at different points of his life. He has three internationally published researches, and is currently working on two more journals.

Coping with a public health emergency can be stressful, as people try to manage the uncertainty about the future. However, there are steps you can take to build your wellness.

Bookstagram, a hashtag on Instagram, has built a community with 46 million posts about books today. In the past few years, Bangladeshi bookstagrammers have been thriving.

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On a fateful Friday morning, Reshma Nahar Ratna was cycling on Lake Road, next toChandrimaUddyan, when a speeding microbus recklessly hit herand ran away, shattering her dream of conquering the mountains of the world, in a matter of moments.

Two years ago, a speeding bus lost control and killed two teenagers and injured nine others in Dhaka.

The ongoing pandemic has made virtual meetings an integral part of our lives, and so, our education system has also shifted to the screens, with institutions all over the world initiating online classes. This transition has been tough for many. While teachers are struggling to maintain the ideal classroom environment, students are having a hard time in adapting to the new ways of assessment.

Young-adult literature has been consistently one of the most popular book genres for years – their commonly used themes of identity, love and friendship are universal, and most good YA novels have gotten the Hollywood treatment – prompting people to check out the source material. Even in the middle of a global pandemic, we need light-hearted and gripping novels to escape reality for a while. We have compiled a list of some great YA books, from popular to lesser known stories, that you may like.

On a fateful Friday morning, Reshma Nahar Ratna was cycling on the Lake Road of Chandrima Uddyan, when a speeding microbus recklessly hit her and ran away, shattering her dream of conquering the mountains of the world, in a matter of moments.

The COVID-19 pandemic has transformed and altered the lives of students, teachers, and other educational professionals to a great extent. With schools closed and online classes going on in full swing, the education sector is going through a major shift.

Youth organisation Engage recently introduced an online contest, Demonstrate 2020, focusing on mental health. The competition is open for everyone studying in the third grade and above.

Photography began rather casually for Aungmakhai Chak, as she playfully clicked some photos with a camera that belonged to her sister’s friend. Spending her childhood in Naikhongchhari, Bandarban, her passion for the art form developed from a young age. However, it was not until she moved to Dhaka during the intervals of her HSC exams that she started taking photography seriously. She completed a basic course and a foundation course in Pathshala South Asian Media Institute, which kicked off her journey as a photographer.

Global Peace Summit Turkey 2020 (GPST) is providing opportunities to extraordinary young, competent and enthusiastic peacebuilders from

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Gontobbo Youth Foundation (GYF) strives to alleviate unemployment for underprivileged communities through their activities.

During the Youth Skills Summit 2020, hosted by The Daily Star to mark World Youth Skills Day, Mahfuz Anam, Editor and Publisher of The Daily Star, talked about the growing lack of empathy and ethics in our daily lives.