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Shadow parliament demands youth-friendly budget
Staff Correspondent | Updated at 06:09pm on June 19, 2021
Members of a shadow youth parliament on Saturday demanded a youth-friendly national budget for 2021-22 to tackle the Covid situation and continuing sustainable development in...
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More budgetary allocation sought for Bangladesh youths
Staff Correspondent | Updated at 06:44pm on May 29, 2021
The government should increase the allocation for the development of the youths in forthcoming national budget, said participants in an online discussion on Saturday. Action...
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Myanmar junta disappearing youths to crush uprising
United News of Bangladesh | Updated at 03:49pm on May 05, 2021
Myanmar’s security forces moved in and the street lamps went black. In house after house, people shut off their lights. Darkness swallowed the block. Huddled inside...
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Power of the youth in digital era
Joy Qiao | Updated at 12:00am on April 21, 2021
IN A mixture of plain rationality and vivid optimism, former US president Franklin D Roosevelt once said, ‘We cannot always build the future for our...
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Young investors taking on lots of risk
| Updated at 10:47am on March 24, 2021
A new generation of young consumers, often influenced by social networks and using trading apps, are plumping for high-risk investments, Britain’s financial markets regulator warned...
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Youths urged to raise voice for rights
Staff Correspondent | Updated at 11:45pm on March 20, 2021
Young politicians at a discussion on Saturday urged youths to raise their voices for realising rights and ensuring justice in society as well as in...
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Bangladesh to celebrate 50th anniversary of independence in March–December
Staff Correspondent | Updated at 11:48pm on January 03, 2021
The country’s 50th anniversary of independence celebrations will begin on March 26 in Dhaka and will continue till December 16 across the country with the...
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Summit for entrepreneurs with disabilities held
Staff Correspondent | Updated at 06:42pm on December 13, 2020
A two-day online summit to create a platform, promote initiatives and business ideas of young entrepreneurs with disabilities in Bangladesh successfully ended on Friday. The...
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Drug, misinformation threaten to derail youth: webinar
Staff Correspondent | Updated at 12:48am on November 12, 2020
Speakers at a webinar on Wednesday said that drug abuse and misinformation threatened to derail Bangladesh’s youth who, if properly guided, could have been the...
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Obesity greatest risk factor for young adults with COVID-19
Agence France-Presse. Washington | Updated at 09:49am on September 10, 2020
Young adults with underlying conditions such as morbid obesity, diabetes and hypertension are at the highest risk of being placed on a ventilator or dying...
