• Women’s issues transported into artworks
  • Meena Borua to present her anthology
  • Children painting competition held
  • ISI money to BNP leader
  • A pointer to incumbents’ apathy to child rights
  • Death on the river Meghna
  • Confrontational politics, desperate citizens and the urgency of now
  • Will Akhilesh emerge from his father’s shadow?
  • CU reopens after long holidays
  • Printers on hunger strike
  • Only 56pc loan disbursed in first 8 months
  • CITF cut short to vacate venue for AL ‘grand’ rally
  • Blasts hit Syria ahead of UN missions
  • 55 dead in gunfights, air strikes in Pakistan
  • BERC holds public hearing on power price hike today
  • HC asks govt to report on its steps to stop their harassment
  • Tarique, Babar, 28 others indicted
  • Heated exchanges as BNP returns to JS
  • Univ’s vision in question as founder criticised
  • Tk 5,500cr JV investment on hold
  • Law hails ‘Team Bangladesh’
  • Double ton crossed in Kohli’s mind for once
  • Watson hails game-changer Doherty
  • Pep surrenders despite Messi’s 150th strike
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CU reopens after long holidays

Chittagong University reopened amid strict security on Sunday after 38-day unscheduled closure. The university officials and students said that university shuttle trains left Battali and Sholashahar railway... Full story

Printers on hunger strike

Local textbook printing companies on Sunday staged a token hunger strike, demanding cancellation of the international tender for printing primary textbooks for 2013 academic year. Full story

Worker shot in capital

A construction worker was shot in his right hand by some unknown miscreants at an under construction building near Staff College of Kafrul in Dhaka on Sunday morning. Full story

One dies from fall, another shot dead in capital

A construction worker died from accidental fall at Mohakhali and a bus conductor found dead at his residence at Pallabi in Dhaka on Sunday. Construction worker Mohammad Mofizul Islam, 30, from Kurigram, fell from the... Full story

PSA protests at WTO chief’s scheduled speech at DU

The Progressive Students Alliance on Sunday went on demonstrations at Dhaka University in protest at a speech scheduled to be delivered by World Trade Organisation director... Full story

BN, Navy anchorage schools get buses

Chief of naval staff vice-admiral ZU Ahmed on Sunday handed over four new school buses to the principals of Dhaka BN School and Dhaka Navy Anchorage School at the naval headquarters. Full story

CUET teachers rally for VC appointment

Teachers at the Chittagong University of Engineering and Technology on Sunday continued their demonstrations demanding appointment of vice-chancellor without delay. Full story

Jagannath University statistics teachers on

Sunday refrained from taking classes, protesting against recruitment of a lecturer in mathematics department. They alleged that the lecturer was appointed not as per merit and qualification required for the post. Full story

Workshop on light engineering begins at BUET

The Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology started a four-day workshop on ‘strategic management of technology in light engineering sector with special emphasis to advanced machinery and CNC system’ in Dhaka on Sunday. Full story

Rain or thundershowers likely

Rain or thundershowers with hails at places accompanied by temporary gusty or squally wind is likely to occur at one or two places over the Rajshahi, Barisal, Khulna, Dhaka, Chittagong and Sylhet divisions until 6:00pm today. Full story


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