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Md Ali Azzam has been elected chairman of the board of trustees of Eastern University.

A 26-day-old baby boy, who was stolen from a Kafrul house on December 20, has been safely reunited with his mother after nearly two weeks.

Free textbooks have been handed over to the students of the academic year 2023 today, on the first day of New Year. It was a joyous occasion with first and fifth graders of different educational institutions gathering at the Dhaka University central playground in the morning.

State Minister for Primary and Mass Education Zakir Hossain today said all the students will get the new textbooks by this month.

The new subvariant of Omicron, BF.7, has been found in Bangladesh, confirmed IEDCR. Tahmina Shirin, director of Epidemiology, Research and Disease Control, confirmed the matter to The Daily Star.

An employee of the Department of Social Services was stabbed to death due to an internal feud between two groups of local Chhatra League in Dhaka's Agargaon area early today.

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The authorities suspended the operations of metro rail for two hours today "on safety ground" as huge number of doused sky lanterns fell on the overhead electricity lines during last night's New Year celebrations.

Dhaka has once again topped the list of world cities with the worst air quality.

No Covid-19 death was reported in 24 hours till 8am today, said a press release issued by the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS)..The current positivity rate is 1.03 percent while the total positivity rate stands at 13.43 percent, the press release added. .The total number

A total 3,857 passengers journeyed on the metro today, the first day the country’s metro rail service was opened to public.

Today is the last day of office for four secretaries, the top officials of the bureaucracy, as they are going on Post Retirement Leave (PRL) on the last day of this year.

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Prof Tito Mia, Principal of Dhaka Medical College Hospital has been appointed as the acting director general of the Directorate General of Medical Education.

A Dhaka court today summoned the complainant to appear before it on January 26 to give his opinion whether it will accept the charges brought against 15 people in a case filed over death of ASP Anisul Karim Shipon on November 9, 2020.

The Dhaka University Teachers' Association (Duta) election has begun amid festive mode today from 10:00am at Dhaka University Teachers' Club.

Metro Rail passengers can buy multipurpose pass cards till 10pm today, MAN Siddique, managing director of Dhaka Mass Transit Company Limited, said today.

The authorities will hold a review meeting on the overall situation of the first-day operation of the metro rail, said MAN Siddique, managing director of Dhaka Mass Transit Company Limited.

A Dhaka court today set February 1, 2023, to hear bail petitions submitted by BNP Senior Joint Secretary General Ruhul Kabir Rizvi and 12 other leaders and activists in a case filed over the party men's December 7 clash with police in Dhaka's Nayapaltan.