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Pencils not allowed in IELTS from 2025

Effective Jan 1, 2025, candidates can no longer use pencils in paper-based IELTS exams.

How to write the “Why us?” supplement essay for US colleges

The “Why us?” essay is perhaps the most common supplement you’ll come across on your application journey.

Sustenance, soaring prices, and struggling students

For many students on a tight budget, meals become purely practical, devoid of any consideration for nutrition or quality.

The terrible eating habits of university students

For students, the very idea of sustenance is synonymous with ‘eating whatever you can’, and this practice is only reinforced by restaurants and university cafeterias offering mainly deep-fried items rich in unsaturated fats and unhealthy carbohydrates.

NASA chief astronaut delivers an inspirational talk at BRAC University

BRAC University recently hosted an inspirational talk by veteran astronaut Joseph M Acaba, chief of NASA’s Astronaut Office, at its Merul Badda campus on December 15.

Bangladesh wins six gold medals at World Mathematics Team Championship 2024

Participating in the World Mathematics Team Championship 2024, Team Bangladesh has achieved six gold medals, 11 silver medals, and seven bronze medals alongside three merit awards.

The role of ECAs in securing funds for graduate studies abroad

The notion that involvement with extra-curricular activities makes one eligible for graduate funding is hardly the truth.

16 Days of Activism / Can social media help combat gender-based cyber violence?

Digital platforms can become a powerful tool to combat gender-based cyber violence, but only if we act decisively.

The Daily Star and UNDP organise Cyber Defence Innovation Challenge 2024

The Cyber Defence Innovation Challenge (CDIC) was a multi-phase competition encouraging creative approaches to cyber safety.

August 1, 2024
August 1, 2024

Quota protests: Through the eyes of medical students

The recent movement saw a massively uneven distribution of power, where unarmed students were up against armed forces in full gear. In this reality, medical students have been trying their best to speak out against the atrocities being carried out. Alongside that, they’ve been using their skills to help save lives.

August 1, 2024
August 1, 2024

Editorial

We believe there can be no future without the success and support of the students.

July 18, 2024
July 18, 2024

Quota Reform Protests: Student associations in Australia, Canada, Hungary, and India stand in solidarity

Bangladeshi student associations in Australia, Canada, and Hungary are organising rallies to show their support for the reform movement.

July 18, 2024
July 18, 2024

Quota Reform Protests: Students share what happened at ULAB on July 17

On July 17, at least five students were injured during attacks by leaders and members of BCL in front of the ULAB campus.

July 18, 2024
July 18, 2024

BRAC University students request urgent medical assistance at campus

Several hundred BRAC University (BRACU) students are stuck inside their campus, and many of them are currently in need of urgent medical assistance. 

July 17, 2024
July 17, 2024

Show of support for Quota Reform Movement from Hungary

A group of Bangladeshis, alongside a few locals, in Budapest, Hungary, came together to show their support for the Quota Reform Movement.

July 17, 2024
July 17, 2024

Your comments on leaving the country are not welcome here

It is the task— the responsibility, even— of anyone with a semblance of power to uphold the rights of those without. So when crisis befalls, why do we suggest escape to those who cannot?

July 16, 2024
July 16, 2024

Experiencing July 15 as a student

The future of these protests remains uncertain, yet the students' unity endures.

July 16, 2024
July 16, 2024

Do you too regret your university major?

It is hardly a rare circumstance that only two or three years down the line, we realise that our chosen path is not what we expected it to be.

July 15, 2024
July 15, 2024

Private university students join Quota Reform Movement protests

Students from several private universities took to the streets earlier today to join the Quota Reform Movement protests.