Dhaka University (DU) and Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (Buet) have failed to make any progress in the latest Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) world university ranking of 2022 published yesterday.

Two members of a transnational human trafficking racket yesterday confessed to a magistrate that they were involved in trafficking young women and girls to India for one year.

Speakers at a post-budget webinar urged the government to publish the gender budget report during the final release of the proposed budget for the fiscal year 2021-2022 and take the necessary initiatives to ensure women empowerment and gender equality by allocating specific budget for women and taking necessary work plans in the development programmes.

An anchored fishing trawler capsized at Karnaphuli river early yesterday.

Even though Covid-19 cases have been rising alarmingly since the last couple of weeks in Rangpur, there is still no ICU support at the hospitals in six districts of the division.

With the number of Covid-19 patients on the rise, the dedicated hospital for treating coronavirus in Khulna is struggling to cope with the pressure.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will launch 50 out of 560 model mosques today.

A few yards south of the capital’s Bahadur Shah Park, near Sadarghat terminal, is a bend where you will find the age-old Banglabazar Government Girls High School and missionary-run Heed International School. And surrounding them is a long series of book stores and stationery shops, where students and their guardians would throng to on a usual day to buy books, pens and pencils.

Police yesterday seized a consignment of cannabis brownies and arrested three youths for selling, preparing, and consuming those from the capital’s Mohammadpur.

A twelve-year-old girl died at hospital after a boundary wall collapsed on her in Dhaka Mirpur area.

United Hospital Limited (UHL) has started evening outpatient department (OPD) with 35 consultants, according to a press release by the private hospital.

Bangladesh and Austria signed the Air Services Agreement (ASA) in Vienna on Monday.

Today is the first death anniv-ersary of Shahid Ullah Patwary, a renowned journalist, said a press release.

Authorities at Enam Medical College and Hospital in Savar allegedly collected outstanding bill of Tk 3.20 lakh by holding the body of a deceased for over 24 hours.

Although tenure of the vice-chancellor (VC) of Begum Rokeya University, Rangpur (BRUR) is over, he is reportedly continuing to do official work of the post. Hence, a section of the university’s teachers has served a legal notice to stop his activities as VC.

The US has delivered emergency medical supplies, including 100 US-manufactured ventilators and gas analysers worth $2 million, to Bangladesh.

Speakers at an event yesterday called for ensuring safe and healthy foods for the consumers.

Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC) Mayor Sheikh Fazle Noor Taposh yesterday said authorities will fine owners of government housing colonies four times the usual amount, if they find mosquito larvae in any structure.

After a mild tremor of magnitude 3.8 that jolted Sylhet city on Monday evening, cracks developed cracked on a two-storey academic building of the century-old Raja Girish Chandra (GC) High School.

A Dhaka court yesterday ordered to freeze 170 bank accounts of Md Monir Hossain, known as Golden Monir, and three others in connection with a money laundering case.