Dhaka’s Bookcentric library has announced their September 2021 reading challenge in collaboration with Daily Star Books. For this month, Bookcentric will look at books that feature a “utopia” or, conversely, a “dystopia”, given their thematic similarities, from Cormac McCarthy’s The Road (2006) and Ursula K Le Guin’s The Dispossessed (1974) to Begum Rokeya’s Sultana’s Dream (1905), among others.

None of them will surprise you.

In the 1700s, there lived an Italian artist, architect, and archaeologist who saw in the world far more than what was in it. Giovanni Battista Piranesi captured his world, among other things, through prints: the most famous of which are the Views, an imitation of the classical remains of Rome, and the imaginary renditions of the Prisons.

The Supreme Court today commuted the death sentence of two convicts to lifeterm imprisonment in a case filed for killing two children in Nayatola area of Dhaka in 2008.

A Rajshahi court today sentenced four people to life-term imprisonment in a case filed for killing bus driver Abdus Salam of Rajshahi University of Engineering and Technology (Ruet) in 2018.

At least 256 more dengue patients were hospitalised in 24 hours till 8:00 am today, according to the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS).

A Dhaka court today placed former owner of E-orange Masukur Rahman and its Chief Executive Officer Md Amanullah Chowdhury on a two-day remand each in a case filed over embezzlement of around Tk 23.25 lakh.

A private university student drowned to death at Cox’s Bazar sea beach today.

Fu Wang Bar has been sued by the VAT Audit, Intelligence and Investigation Directorate (VAIID) for allegedly evading Tk 41.08 crore in value-added tax.

Riddled with huge potholes and affected by extreme waterlogging, the Tongi-Ashulia DEPZ road could be easily mistaken for a river. The road is used every day by thousands of small and medium-sized vehicles and the intensity of traffic jam is increasing by the day.

Local administration has suspended the health service activities of two hospitals in Dhamrai upazila of Dhaka due to various irregularities and not having necessary documents.

The Korean government has donated 100 books and multimedia materials on Korea and Korean language to the Korea Corner at the University of Dhaka.

She was confined, tortured and forced into sex work for more than five years.

After a scintillating bowling display from spinner Nasum Ahmed and left-arm pacer Mustafizur Rahman, contributions with the bat from Bangladesh skipper Mahmudullah Riyad and opener Mohammad Naim helped the Tigers register a convincing six-wicket victory over New Zealand in the fourth T20I at the Sher-e-Bangla National Stadium in Mirpur today.

Police arrested a man this afternoon hours after a case was filed against him on charges of killing his elder brother over a family feud in Gazaria upazila of Munshiganj last night.

Fifty-two people died from Covid-19 in 24 hours till 8am today, said a press release issued by the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS).

Spinner Nasum Ahmed and ace left-arm paceman Mustafizur Rahman took four wickets each to help Bangladesh bundle out New Zealand for a meagre 93 in 19.3 overs in the fourth T20I at the Sher-e-Bangla National Stadium in Mirpur today.  

This was proven to us in the 3rd T-20 match between them and the Tigers.

The government has promoted 89 officials of the administration cadre, who were performing duties as joint secretaries, to the post of additional secretary.

Supply of fertilizer among dealers from the godown in Laukathi area of Patuakhali has been suspended due to the dilapidated condition of the warehouse.