Team Bangladesh has become the champion after competing against 173 countries in the biggest global robotics competition for high school students titled “First Global Challenge”, which took place from July to September.

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Prominent sports organiser, ex-footballer and referee Mrenalendu Nandi Chanchal passed away yesterday, while undergoing treatment in a hospital in Dhaka. He was 85.

Detectives arrested four employees of a courier service in Rajshahi city yesterday while they were transporting fake cigarettes and band-rolls worth Tk 1.35 crore to different parts of the country.

Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) yesterday found Aedes mosquito larvae at 94 houses and establishments during the first day of an operation to destroy the breeding grounds.

Two people were killed and two injured as a truck and a covered-van collided head-on on Bonpara-Hatikumrul highway at Khalkula in Tarash upazila of Sirajganj early yesterday.

A Dhaka court yesterday rejected bail petitions of seven bodyguards of expelled Jubo League leader GK Shamim, a top contractor of government projects, in a money laundering case.

Chief Election Commissioner KM Nurul Huda yesterday said elections to municipalities will be held in five phases, starting in December.

The International CHT Commission has expressed grave concern that the plan to construct a five-star hotel in Nilgiri of Bandarban will displace Mro villagers from three villages around the project site, and threaten to displace villagers from five other villages.

Investigators are yet to ascertain the real identity of the reported imposter who was scamming people by posing as the grandson of Nawab Salimullah Khan.

Distinguished personalities have expressed deep sorrow at the untimely passing of veteran writer and cultural figure Abul Hasnat.

Transparency International Bangladesh has said the “indescribable” torture on Chattogram-based journalist Golam Sarwar was a threat to independent journalism.

Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) today found Aedes mosquito larvae in 94 houses and establishments on the first day of a 10-day combing operation to destroy breeding grounds of mosquitoes.

Police have foiled an attempt by Hefazat-e-Islam-led ‘Somomona Islami Dal’ -- a platform of Islamist parties -- to besiege the French embassy in Dhaka.

Vehicular movement from Dhaka’s Baitul Mukarram National Mosque to Bijoynagar intersection remained suspended since this morning as several hundred activists of Hefazat-e-Islam staged protest against the recent comments made by French President Emmanuel Macron.

Dhaka Comics, a Bangladeshi comic book publisher founded in 2013, is holding an online comic book writing contest to promote budding artists of all ages. This year, the annual contest’s theme is horror comics.

Several hundred students from medical and dental colleges yesterday blocked the capital’s Shahbagh intersection to force authorities to accept their demands.

Mohammad Shahjahan, commander of Bangladesh Muktijoddha Sangshad, Cox’s Bazar district unit has died yesterday.

Condemning cartoons insulting Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) in France, BNP yesterday expressed solidarity with the protests by people of all races and religions and the Muslim Ummah against such a dreadful crime.

Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) is all set to begin a 10-day combing operation to destroy all breeding grounds of Aedes mosquitoes in areas under its jurisdiction from today.