As part of the “Clean Campus Week-2019’ (August 01 to 07, 2019) initiative of University of Dhaka, Sir PJ Hartog International Hall organized a day-long cleaning program on and near the premises on August 06, 2019.

Vessel movements are suspended in Padma river on Shimulia-Kathalbari ferry route due to rough waves and high current, prompting hundreds of vehicles to remain stranded at Shimulia ferry ghat.

Hello dear readers! How are you doing today? Here are the news headlines so far on August 7, 2019

The High Court has directed the authorities concerned of the government to continue providing privileges (protocol) “without fail” to those who are supposed to get such privileges as per the warrant of the precedence.

Another person died of dengue fever taking the unofficial death toll to 66 in the recent outbreak of the mosquito-borne tropical disease in the country.

Police arrest an accused in a human trafficking case from Pekua upazila of Cox’s Bazar.

Jatiya Party demands the mayors of Dhaka North and South city corporations to step down from their posts, bringing allegation of misappropriation of Tk 50 crore allocated for mosquito control.

Homebound passengers began Eid journey through railway route today with at least 18 trains departing from the city’s Kamalapur Railway Station.

Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader asks the authorities concerned to refrain from spraying ineffective mosquito medicines.

The officer-in-charge and assistant sub-inspector of Government Railway Police Station in Khulna are withdrawn on charge of raping a woman at Khulna Railway Station.

Chinese media outlet Global Times reports that Huawei will launch the first commercial devices powered by its in-house operating system this year.

Indian President Ram Nath Kovind and Prime Minister Narendra Modi were among the leaders who paid their last respects today to former External Affairs Minister and senior BJP leader Sushma Swaraj who died here of a massive cardiac arrest last night.

The remains of a super-sized parrot that stood more than half the height of an average human and roamed the earth 19 million years ago have been discovered in New Zealand.

Two suspected criminals are killed in a reported gunfight between two groups of criminals at Bhabanipur bridge in Bogura’s Sherpur upazila.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina expresses condolence at the demise of former Indian external affairs minister Sushma Swaraj.

Former Indian External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj, also a senior leader of ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), passes away aged 67.

US author Toni Morrison, whose 1987 novel “Beloved” about a runaway slave won a Pulitzer Prize and contributed to a body of work that made her the first black woman to be presented the Nobel Prize in Literature, has died at the age of 88, her publisher says.

Hello dear readers! How was your day? Here are the news headlines on August 6, 2019

The standing committee on hard term loan approves the proposal from B-R Powergen to borrow from a German bank on the condition that the power plant would get listed as it starts generation.

Dengue cases are increasing across the country as around 2,348 more new patients were hospitalised with the mosquito-borne deadly virus in the last 24 hours till 8:00 am today.