There are laws, rules and specific instructions on how a government authority should remain prepared all the time to face a disaster.

North South University (NSU) has launched the globally-renowned Learning Management System (LMS) “CANVAS” through a virtual session on Sunday. In doing so, NSU becomes the first among Bangladeshi universities to bring this technology to the country’s students.

Three environmental and animal rights organisations yesterday sent a legal notice addressing the Fisheries and Livestock Ministry, Department of Environment and 11 others regarding the demise of 21 horses in Cox’s Bazar in the last one month.

“Bangabandhu Chair” has been introduced at Khulna University of Engineering and Technology (KUET) on the occasion of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman’s birth centenary.

BNP senior leader Nazrul Islam Khan yesterday called upon the government to withdraw its restriction on sending their party’s ailing chairperson Khaleda Zia abroad for advanced treatment.

Jahanara Imam, mother of a higher-secondary student Ismail Hossain who was arrested in connection with the movement against Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to Bangladesh, demanded his son and others’ immediate release at a nagorik somabesh (citizens’ forum).

The High Court yesterday cleared the way for the government to resume the process for appointing around 54,000 teachers to private educational institutions across the country.

A Dhaka court yesterday placed five university students on a five-day remand each in connection with a case filed for possessing the hallucinogenic drug Lysergic Acid Diethylamide (LSD).

Although more than half of the project period has already elapsed, railways authorities could not take decision yet whether they would develop some infrastructure for the installation of electric traction under the ongoing Padma Bridge Rail Link Project (PBRLP).

Police early yesterday rescued two girls, who were lured with the promise of jobs and later forced into prostitution, from CDA residential area of Agrabad in port city.

The Supreme Court yesterday extended till June 20 its chamber judge’s order that stayed the High Court bail to seven convicts in a case filed over the attack on the then opposition leader and now Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina at Kolaroa in Satkhira in 2002.

Speakers at a virtual roundtable demanded a violence-free and safer city for women and girls, especially those who work in the informal sector and contribute to the gross domestic product (GDP).

Participants during a virtual dialogue yesterday urged the government to give priority to landless poor women, including those belonging to ethnic minorities in the plains, during allocation of arable khas land.

Allocation for water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) facilities must be increased in the national budget 2021-2022 to address the overwhelming challenges posed by Covid-19, said speakers at a press conference yesterday.

Experts at a discussion yesterday called for strict enforcement of ban on polythene, and incentivising producers of plastic alternatives.

Born on January 5, 1937, Abdul Monem was a veteran civil engineer, industrialist, and entrepreneur.

A group of Dhaka University students held a protest at the base of Raju Sculpture on the campus yesterday morning, demanding reopening of educational institutions and dormitories.

The Executive Editor and Chief News Editor of The Financial Express (FE) Shahiduzzaman Khan has passed away.

Two senior officials of UNHCR will visit Bhashan Char’s Rohingya housing facility today.

All the ad-interim orders delivered by the High Court including those regarding bails have been extended for next four weeks because of ongoing pandemic.