Primary Education Completion Examinations (PECE) and its equivalent Ebtedayee Education Completion Examination begin across the country with 29,03,638 students appearing.

Seven people have been killed and 15 injured in what police said a gas pipeline explosion at a house in Patharghata of Chattogram city.

Police Bureau of Investigation on Friday night arrested the helper of the bus responsible for the incident in which a BIWTC official lost one of her legs in the capital’s Banglamotor area on August 27.

BNP central standing committee member Amir Khasru Mahmud Chowdhury yesterday claimed that price of onion has been increasing by Tk 2 per kg every hour.

Amidst a boycott by the organisation’s general secretary, the national council of Bangladesh Shanti Parishad was held yesterday.

Primary Education Completion Examinations (PECE) and its equivalent Ebtedayee Education Completion Examination will begin across the country today with 29,03,638 students appearing.

Dialysis services should be urgently extended to upazila level to serve critical kidney patients, speakers at a seminar said yesterday.

Speakers at a press conference yesterday urged the government to ensure fair share of trans-boundary rivers, like Teesta, from India before helping the neighbouring country by giving its own water.

All universities must maintain quality in imparting education, said Deputy Minister for Education Dr Mohibul Hassan Chowdhury yesterday.

Sabrina Manzur Tannie passed away in Toronto, Canada on Tuesday night, after a long battle with cancer. She was 34.

“CUETians in Australia”, an alumni association of Chittagong University of Engineering and Technology (Cuet), organised a daylong event in Sydney’s Carss Bush Park on November 3, said a press release.

After a closure of 15 days, academic activities are set to resume today at Khulna University of Engineering and Technology (Kuet).

Dr Sabur Khan, founder and Chairman of Daffodil International University (DIU) and Daffodil Family presented his speech at 18th Arab Businessmen and Investors Conference held on Wednesday (November 13) at Ritz Carlton Hotel in Bahrain, said a press release.

State Minister for Foreign Affairs Shahriar Alam yesterday said the present government has been working relentlessly for infrastructural development at educational institutions across the country.

Port city residents are deprived of parks and planned recreational places although it is a city to which nature has endowed all its beauties. There are only six parks in the city for around six million people.

BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir yesterday said Bangladesh’s long-pending problems with India could not be resolved as the current government has no bargaining capacity.

Police in separate drives in Dhamrai, Manikganj and Faridpur on Friday night and early yesterday arrested four alleged members of a gang of inter-district motorcycle thieves, including the ringleader.

An HSC examinee was killed in a road crash on Mymensingh-Kishoreganj road in Kishoreganj town’s Charpara area yesterday.

Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) have arrested six suspected operatives of banned militant outfit Ansar al Islam in Dhaka and Satkhira, who were allegedly operating the group online and through encrypted messaging apps.

The new executive committee of Bangladesh Paribesh Andolon (Bapa), a platform of green activists, was formed yesterday with rights activist and environmentalist Sultana Kamal as its president.