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Chhatra Dal announces hall committees at DU despite ban on campus politics

Bangladesh, Aug. 8 -- The Dhaka University wing of the Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal has announced committees for 18 residential halls in defiance of the ban on student politics on campus after the fall of... Read More


Ebtedayee scholarship test to return after nearly 17 years. When and how?

Bangladesh, Aug. 8 -- Scholarship examinations for Ebtedayee-level students at madrasas are set to return nearly 17 years after they were last held. The last time fifth-grade Ebtedayee students sat f... Read More


Govt plans to include importance of voter registration in school curricula

Bangladesh, Aug. 8 -- The Election Commission is moving to include lessons on the importance of voter registration and National IDs in school textbooks. Led by the NID registration division, the plan... Read More


Led by Yunus, post-Uprising government marks one year with trials, reforms, political uncertainty

Bangladesh, Aug. 8 -- A year has elapsed since Muhammad Yunus's interim government took charge. Since the tumultuous mass uprising toppled the Awami League government, the interim administration spen... Read More


Jamaat-e-Islami places seven demands in emergency meeting

Bangladesh, Aug. 8 -- The Jamaat-e-Islami has put forward a set of seven demands in an emergency meeting of its central executive committee. The party urged the public to unite in support of its dema... Read More


Tejgaon College assault: NCP calls victims its activists, JCD insists they were with Chhatra League

Bangladesh, Aug. 8 -- Two students assaulted at Tejgaon College in Dhaka have been claimed as activists by the National Citizen Party (NCP), while Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal (JCD) insists they were long... Read More


Car driver stabbed to death in roadside attack in Natore

Bangladesh, Aug. 8 -- A car driver has died after being stabbed in the neck in Natore's Lalpur Upazila. The incident occurred around 10pm on Thursday on the Gopalpur-Lalpur Road near Gopalpur Mills H... Read More


Journalist killed in Gazipur 'for filming' attack on another person, police say

Bangladesh, Aug. 8 -- Police say that journalist Md Asaduzzaman Tuhin was hacked to death for recording a video of a public assault on a person in Gazipur. Law enforcers came to the conclusion after ... Read More


High Court acquits GK Shamim, overturning 10-year jail term in money laundering case

Bangladesh, Aug. 7 -- The High Court has acquitted controversial government contractor and alleged Jubo League leader SM Golam Kibria Shamim aka GK Shamim in a money laundering case, overturning his 1... Read More


Former Rokeya University vice chancellor Kalimullah arrested over embezzlement allegations

Bangladesh, Aug. 7 -- Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) detectives have arrested Nazmul Ahsan Kalimullah, the former vice chancellor of Rangpur's Begum Rokeya University, over allegations of embezzling ... Read More