Delowar Hossain Chowdhury, director of Daffodil Computers Ltd, died due to old-age complications at his Dhanmondi residence yesterday. He was 71.

No wonder Dhaka is one of the most unlivable cities in the world. Many would like to think that except the change in spelling of the name of the Capital, very little change has come about by way of adding to the comfort of the people living in the city.

It is a shame that new academic sessions of colleges seem destined to be delayed, if not thrown off-gear altogether.

Radical change in land management is needed to quickly resolve land-related disputes and establish the rights of landless people, said speakers at a roundtable yesterday.

Today is the first death anniversary of poet Abul Hussain, a pioneer of modernism in Bangla poetry.

Dhaka University and Jahangirnagar University yesterday announced their budgets for 2015-16 fiscal with low allocations for research

A Dhaka court yesterday placed the news editor of Gtv on a one-day remand after he was arrested in a case filed for torturing his wife

The proposed Cyber Security Act 2015 will significantly curb people's freedom of expression on the internet and keep them in fear,

Although the two great personalities are no more, the nation will always remain grateful to them for their contribution to upholding the

A front page photo in this newspaper published yesterday spotlights how recklessly VIPs are breaking traffic rules. A minister's SUV

Eleven children have died in less than a month in Dinajpur having consumed litchis over-treated by pesticides. Investigative journalism by

Information Minister Hasanul Huq Inu yesterday told parliament that Khaleda Zia would not be able to take part in the next national

The Jahangirnagar University senate yesterday inducted two of its members into the syndicate and one into the finance committee

The number of unsettled audit objections against 55 ministries or divisions is 8,53,314 involving Tk 6,15,606 crore which is almost double of the proposed budget of the next fiscal year.

BSMMU Syndicate forms probe body to investigate irregularities in financial transactions of more than Tk 1,000 crore for its different development projects during last six and half years.

Incessant rainfall triggered by monsoon inundated many parts of the capital for the second consecutive day yesterday, causing misery

The government has taken initiatives to transform textbook contents of technical education into e-books and mobile applications (apps).

Three people were killed when a bolt of lightning struck them while they were collecting coal near the Jadukata river at Maingaon village

A mobile court fined a man Tk 10,000, and in default he would have to serve two months' imprisonment, for stalking a schoolgirl in

The vice chancellor of the Shahjalal University of Science and Technology (Sust) yesterday dismissed the allegations levelled against him