It may be safe to say that action movies are liked, even loved, by the majority of the general population. Action movies, when they are well-executed...

The creative writing section of the O Level English exam may seem daunting to most people. The ideas need to be extremely original and raw, straight out of the depths of a person’s mind.

Recently, GEIST International Foundation organised a youth leadership training session for the English Access Micro Scholarship Program students...

Ramna Buddhi Protibondhi and Autistic School has been working for mentally challenged children since 1985. 170 students presently attend the school, which has 12 teachers including the principal.

National Debate Federation Bangladesh (NDF BD) hosted their 12th NDF BD National Debate Festival’19 last month, at the Bangladesh Shishu Academy, Dhaka.

Mahmudul Hasan Faisal, 17, a freestyler, has registered his name in Guinness Book of World Records twice. In August 2018, he created his first record by arm-rolling a football 134 times in a minute.

Recently, pictures of girls wearing hair pins and t-shirts with the text, ‘Ga Gheshe Daraben Na’ created quite a stir. The project, which has garnered widely encouraging reactions, was started by Jeenat Jahan Nisha, an alumnus of University of Development Alternative, after she was inappropriately touched by a man inside a bus.

For the first time in Bangladesh, Samsung organised an Inter-university DOTA 2 eSports Championship, which concluded last month, with the final matches at Independent University, Bangladesh.

The pictures of some models smiling with happiness created quite a buzz on the internet. Their smiles reflect love and kindness but what they do not portray is the actual lives of these models.

The International Visitors Leadership Program (IVLP) is an exclusive exchange programme by the Department of State, USA.

The awards were definitely a motivating factor. When I was young, I was unaware of the fact that good grades actually help in getting into better universities, but I definitely knew about the popularity of The Daily Star Awards.

Applications are now open for the Arabic Summer School 2019 in Rabat, Morocco.

Yunus Centre is currently accepting applications for candidates to participate in the One Young World 2019 Summit in London.

Australian National University’s Asia Pacific Week is an interdisciplinary conference for students and young professionals across the world who are interested in Asia and the Pacific.

University of Liberal Arts Bangladesh (ULAB) and Keele University, UK signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) on April 6, 2019 at the ULAB permanent campus in Mohammadpur.

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No, I am not talking about fried chicken that we all know with the golden flour skin. Broast chicken is pressure fried instead of the usual deep-frying method that is used for fried chicken.

The resemblance between the two is uncanny no matter how you think about it. Yet, when you rally all your brain cells together and think deeply enough, you will realise how the two are not so different from one another yet, why one of them might be better than the other.

In order for us to consider something to be true beyond reasonable doubt, we put it through a series of tests. This has also been the method we resort to when we need to prove the credibility of one’s knowledge.

On April 7, 2019, World Health Day was celebrated around the world. Bangladesh has experienced impressive levels of progress in the health and nutrition over the past two decades.