Dhaka Comics, a Bangladeshi comic book publisher founded in 2013, is holding an online comic book writing contest to promote budding artists of all ages. This year, the annual contest’s theme is horror comics.

Several hundred students from medical and dental colleges yesterday blocked the capital’s Shahbagh intersection to force authorities to accept their demands.

Mohammad Shahjahan, commander of Bangladesh Muktijoddha Sangshad, Cox’s Bazar district unit has died yesterday.

Condemning cartoons insulting Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) in France, BNP yesterday expressed solidarity with the protests by people of all races and religions and the Muslim Ummah against such a dreadful crime.

Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) is all set to begin a 10-day combing operation to destroy all breeding grounds of Aedes mosquitoes in areas under its jurisdiction from today.

The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court yesterday stayed until November 8 a High Court order that granted bail to contractor Asif Hossain in a case filed over the much-discussed corruption in purchasing furniture and household items for officials of Rooppur Nuclear Power Plant in Pabna.

A 21-year-old, who was severely burned in Friday’s fire at Notun Bazar slum in Kalyanpur in the capital, died at Sheikh Hasina National Institute of Burn and Plastic Surgery in Dhaka today.

A Dhaka court today placed Dhaka-7 lawmaker Haji Salim's son Mohammad Erfan Salim and his bodyguard Zahidul Mollah on a fresh two-day remand in the case filed over assaulting navy official Lt Wasif Ahmed Khan.

Dhaka North City Corporation is all set to begin a 10-day combing operation in areas under its jurisdiction from tomorrow to destroy all breeding grounds of Aedes mosquitoes, carriers of both dengue and chikungunya.

A section of medical students took position on Shahbagh intersection in the capital to press home their three-point demand including reduction of session jam.

Several potholes that have developed on the pontoon at Barishal river port is putting the thousands of passengers rushing across it every day at risk of accidents.

A mobile court yesterday fined seven potato wholesalers in Dhaka’s Mohammadpur Krishi Market Tk 4.30 lakh for selling the vegetable at prices higher than that fixed by the government.

Regional and institution-wise disparity in digital infrastructure and readiness affected students’ learning during the pandemic, as only 39 percent of youth said their educational institutions were offering online classes in July 2020, a recent survey shows.

Convicted war criminal Syed Mohammad Qaisar has filed a petition with the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court seeking review of its verdict that upheld his death sentence for committing crimes against humanity and war crimes durning the country’s Liberation War in 1971.

The first national level cyber-security drill, organised recently by a government agency and participated by 35 private and public institutions, has produced some rather quizzical results.

Criminal Investigation Department (CID) yesterday said it is going to submit an “exemplary” charge sheet by accusing government officials in connection with Narayanganj mosque blast.

One of the seven people who were burnt in a fire caused by an explosion at a scrap material shop in Dhaka’s Mohammadpur area on Tuesday died earlier yesterday at a hospital.

Kohinur Begum (57) came to the capital 25 years ago with her husband, who was a rickshaw puller, and four sons from Bhola, as their house was destroyed by the nearby river.

Renowned scholar and educationist Prof Yusuf Mahbubul Islam has joined Independent University, Bangladesh (IUB) as dean of School of Engineering, Technology and Sciences.

A bus of Green Line Paribahan was burnt to ashes after it had caught fire following a collision with a covered-van on Dhaka-Chattogram highway in Cumilla early yesterday.