The government has warned all sixth to ninth-grade students that if they complete assignments using third-party guidebooks or copy from others, teachers would cancel the assignment and ask them to resubmit it.

Shamsul Haque Tuku, Awami League MP and chief of the parlia-mentary standing committee on Ministry of Home Affairs, yesterday urged authorities

Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH) has set up a mass casualty management centre to handle influx of patients due to disastrous incidents like Rana Plaza or Nimtoli tragedies.

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.

A 21-year-old, who was severely burned in Friday’s fire at Notun Bazar slum in Kalyanpur in the capital, died at Sheikh Hasina National Institute of Burn and Plastic Surgery in Dhaka today.

A Dhaka court today placed Dhaka-7 lawmaker Haji Salim's son Mohammad Erfan Salim and his bodyguard Zahidul Mollah on a fresh two-day remand in the case filed over assaulting navy official Lt Wasif Ahmed Khan.

Dhaka North City Corporation is all set to begin a 10-day combing operation in areas under its jurisdiction from tomorrow to destroy all breeding grounds of Aedes mosquitoes, carriers of both dengue and chikungunya.

A section of medical students took position on Shahbagh intersection in the capital to press home their three-point demand including reduction of session jam.

The 35th span of the much-anticipated Padma Bridge was installed yesterday, bringing a total of 5.25 kilometres of the structure into view.

A police Inspector of Chattogram Metropolitan Police (CMP) was assaulted by a sub-inspector and later handcuffed in the port city’s Riazuddin Bazar area.

Police arrested five people in Narayanganj on Friday night in connection with gang rape of a teenage girl.

Several potholes that have developed on the pontoon at Barishal river port is putting the thousands of passengers rushing across it every day at risk of accidents.

A mobile court yesterday fined seven potato wholesalers in Dhaka’s Mohammadpur Krishi Market Tk 4.30 lakh for selling the vegetable at prices higher than that fixed by the government.

Regional and institution-wise disparity in digital infrastructure and readiness affected students’ learning during the pandemic, as only 39 percent of youth said their educational institutions were offering online classes in July 2020, a recent survey shows.

Convicted war criminal Syed Mohammad Qaisar has filed a petition with the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court seeking review of its verdict that upheld his death sentence for committing crimes against humanity and war crimes durning the country’s Liberation War in 1971.

The first national level cyber-security drill, organised recently by a government agency and participated by 35 private and public institutions, has produced some rather quizzical results.

Criminal Investigation Department (CID) yesterday said it is going to submit an “exemplary” charge sheet by accusing government officials in connection with Narayanganj mosque blast.

One of the seven people who were burnt in a fire caused by an explosion at a scrap material shop in Dhaka’s Mohammadpur area on Tuesday died earlier yesterday at a hospital.