Speaker of the Jatiya Sangsad Dr Shirin Sharmin Chaudhury returned home from the USA yesterday, after joining a parliamentary forum in New York.

Students of Gonoshasthaya Samaj Vittik Medical College in Savar yesterday boycotted all classes and examinations with a 10-point demand including registration under Bangladesh Medical and Dental Council (BMDC) and educational activities under Dhaka University.

A fire breaks out at a makeshift room for workers of metro rail project at Shahbagh.

World Health Organization (WHO) expressed its willingness to work jointly with Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC) to control dengue prevalence.

A female student of Government Shaheed Suhrawardy College in Dhaka dies after jumping off the college building.

Terming the allegation made by Priya Saha to US President Donald Trump about Bangladesh as ‘false and fabricated,’ Kazi Reazul Hoque, former chairman of the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC), says she should be tried for spreading such falsehood.

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Three men were arrested with six loaded firearms from the capital’s Gendaria area yesterday while trading arms in broad daylight, police said.

A schoolboy sustained burn injuries as a fire broke out due to a gas pipeline blast at Khelaghar playground in Tejgaon’s Tejkunipara area yesterday.

Disapproving Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) Chairman Iqbal Mahmood’s comment that corruption committed in good faith is not an offence, Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader yesterday said the government will not differentiate between corruptions.

A free eye screening camp for underprivileged people -- organised by The Distressed Children & Infants International (DCI), and Rights and Sight for Children (RSC) -- was held at Hizla Government Primary School in Keraniganj, Dhaka yesterday, says a press release.

Olik -- a four member global winning team in NASA Space Apps Challenge 2018 -- from Shahjalal University of Science and Technology (Sust) was denied US visa required to attend several programmes at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida from July 21 to 23.

Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) has cancelled leave of all employees and officials of its waste and health management departments in a bid to control the spread of dengue, chikungunya and other related diseases.

A moderate earthquake measuring 5.5 magnitude on the Richter Scale jolted different parts of the country at 3:22pm yesterday.

On Wednesday evening, Senior Assistant Superintendent Sultana Esrat Jahan was heading home from Police Headquarters. Near the High Court area, her vehicle got stuck in a traffic jam.

Jagorani Chakra Foundation Founder and Executive Director Azadul Kabir Arzoo received India’s prestigious “Entrepreneur Awards 2019” on Thursday.

In last week’s column, I mentioned The Decisive Moment, a photographic term for the moment when the subjects of a photograph in motion come together perfectly. The term is applied primarily to a street photograph, where such a moment is snatched from ongoing human activity. The subject(s) of the photograph are in motion, and in one particular instant, the photograph as framed by the viewfinder comes together in perfect geometry, preferably without the knowledge of the subjects. The photographer must click the shutter at this moment.

The National Peace Carnival-2019 was held at Begum Fazilatunnesa Mujib Auditorium on the capital’s Baily Road yesterday, with a lot of enthusiasm.

BNP has sought explanation from the government over the inclusion of Chief Election Commissioner KM Nurul Huda in the Hajj delegation.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will attend a conference of Bangladesh envoys in Europe, the first of its kind, in the British capital of London today.