Education Minister Dipu Moni hopes that all public universities would introduce a uniform admission test system by next year.

A Supreme Court lawyer files a writ petition with the High Court challenging legality of appointments of 70 deputy attorney generals (DAGs) and 105 assistant attorney generals (AAGs).

A total of 246 people are killed and 97 injured in lightning strikes across the country in last seven months this year, says a press release.

An exciting boat race has been held on the Kaliganga river at Balirtek area in Manikganj Sadar.

India’s second unmanned moon mission Chandrayaan-2 lander Vikram, which contact was lost yesterday, has been located on the lunar surface and it must have been a hard-landing, Indian Space Research Organization Chairman K Sivan says.

The online application process for admission into the first year honours programmes in Chittagong University under 2019-2020 academic session began.

No decision has been taken yet on dissolving Bangladesh Chhatra League’s central committee, Awami League (AL) General Secretary Obaidul Quader has said.

Hello dear readers! How are you doing today? Here are the news headlines so far on September 8, 2019

Two dengue patients die in Dhaka and Khulna. Of the deceased, Nasima Akter, 48, a resident of the capital’s Shewrapara area, died at Dhaka Medical College Hospital around 9:30am.

India imposes curfews in several parts of the contested Kashmir region, after clashes between security forces and Shi'ite Muslims taking part in a procession, officials and eyewitnesses say.

Jatiya Party Secretary General Moshiur Rahman Ranga claims all members of his party are now united and there is no more partition within it.

A section of Jahangirnagar University (JU) teachers observes work abstention protesting alleged corruption of the authorities and unplanned development work on the campus.

Thousands of Hong Kong protesters chants the US national anthem and called on US President Donald Trump to "liberate" the Chinese-ruled city, the latest in a series of demonstrations that have gripped the territory for months.

The High Court accepts for hearing a bail petition of BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia in Zia Charitable Trust corruption case, in which she has been sentenced to seven years’ imprisonment by a lower court.

Alongside new books, primary school students will get Tk 2,000 each to buy school uniforms at the beginning of the academic year from next year, says State Minister for Primary and Mass Education Md Zakir Hossain.

An alleged drug peddler is killed in a reported gunfight with police in Sadar upazila of Mymensingh.

Transport owners in Chattogram division call off their indefinite strike, around 10 hours after they enforced the strike to press home their nine-point demands including to stop allegedly harassment and extortion by law enforcers.

India asks Pakistan to “recognize the futility of unilateral actions” a day after Islamabad denied permission to allow an Air India special flight carrying Indian President Ram Nath Kovind overflying Pakistani airspace on way to Europe next week.

A Bangladeshi PhD student is shot dead in a robbery at a gas station in Louisiana of the United States.

At least 18 people have been injured in an explosion at a hotel in Gazipur. “Due to the explosion, two hotels and a branch of a private bank, were badly damaged,” a fire service official said.