Notre Dame Information Technology Club is going to organise its annual IT carnival NDITC_init-2019 powered by The Daily Star on 13-14 September at the college premises.

The entry test for 2019-20 session under the 'Ga' (C) unit - Business Studies Faculty - of Dhaka University will be held tomorrow.

Bangladesh Bridge Authority (BBA) signs a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Korea Expressway Corporation (KEC) for the operation and maintenance of Padma Multipurpose Bridge.

Doctors at Chattogram Medical College Hospital (CMCH) could not register their attendance yesterday, as connections to eight biometric fingerprint scanners at the Chattogram Medical College (CMC) were snapped “mysteriously” the previous night.

A suspected drug peddler was killed in a “gunfight” with Rapid Action Battalion in Narayanganj early yesterday. The dead -- Hridoy alias Gittu Hridoy, 30, of Sonargaon upazila -- was accused in at least 15 arms and drug cases, said Rab. Three people were also arrested during the shootout, in Changrakandi area of the upazila.

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The High Court yesterday issued a rule asking the government to explain in four weeks why it should not be directed to purchase paddy and rice directly from farmers, in line with the Domestic Food Grain Procurement Policy 2017.

Different platforms and student wings continued their protests at Dhaka University against the “illegal enrolment” of 34 former and incumbent Bangladesh Chhatra League leaders into an evening programme of the Faculty of Business Studies.

Environmental activists yesterday demanded that the government immediately bring river grabbers, who have been identified lately, under trial and ensure exemplary punishment for them.

Eminent writer, playwright and teacher Dr Najma Jasmine Choudhury passed away on this day 30 years ago.

Seventy eminent teachers, professionals and activists have demanded appointment of an ombudsman for effective implementation of the masterplan adopted for the development of Jahangirnagar University (JU).

Rotarian Dr Belal Samad passed away on September 6 at Emory Hospital in Georgia, USA, after battling with different health issues. He was 67.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday said Bangladesh is now in talks with its neighbouring countries to import electricity to meet the growing demand.

Pragati Khisha, 48, a computer operator at Rangamati deputy commissioner’s office, has been suffering from metastatic thyroid cancer. He is undergoing treatment at Apollo Hospitals in India, says a press release.

As part of its continued effort to help students excel in English, The Daily Star will provide some 1,000 resident students of Dhaka University with free copies of the newspaper at their dormitories for the next one year.

Unnumbered buildings are being constructed in the country without compliance with the National Building Code, posing threat to life, property and environment, experts said at a discussion in the capital yesterday.

Khulna unit of BNP and its allies yesterday submitted a memorandum to the district’s deputy commissioner Mohammad Helal Hossain, demanding withdrawal of 110 cases -- that were supposedly lodged in the last ten years against leaders and activists of the party.

BNP yesterday urged people to put up a resistance against the current government through waging a national movement to “restore their rights, democracy” and uphold the spirit of the Liberation War.

Ship-breaking Workers Trade Union Forum yesterday pressed home their 10-point demand for the safety of workers.

An upazila-level leader of Bangladesh Chhatra League and an elderly man were killed and several were injured, when a speeding truck hit the human haulier carrying them in Mirsharai upazila of Chattogram on Tuesday.