Independent University, Bangladesh, has a new vice-chancellor. Dr Tanweer Hasan, Rolf A Weil Professor of Finance at Roosevelt University (IL, USA), has joined the university as its new VC, effective from February 23.

Today marks the 44th death anniversary of Bangladesh Navy’s Freedom Fighter Lt AM Ataul Haque. Lt Ataul joined the Royal Indian Navy in 1945.

A Dhaka court yesterday set March 22 for the hearing on charge framing against BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia and six others in the Barapukuria coalmine graft case.

On Saturday afternoon, Agrani Bank’s Haripur Gas Field Branch’s officer Moudud Ahmed hired a CNG-run auto-rickshaw from Haripur area of Sylhet’s Jaintiapur upazila to go to Bandarbazar in the city.

Students of Dhaka University broke the lock on the door of a hall today, demanding reopening of the dormitories.

Jahangirnagar University (JU) administration has begun discussion with the agitating students who refused to leave the halls this morning.

Agitating students of Barishal University (BU) will bring out a procession this afternoon protesting attack on them allegedly by a group of transport workers on February 17, that left at least 25 students injured.

Students of Jahangirnagar University (JU), who are staying at the dormitories defying directives, declined to leave the halls by 10:00am today.

The authorities of Jahangirnagar University (JU) today asked the students, who are staying at the dormitories defying directives, to leave the halls by 10:00 am today.

Call for building inclusive and multicultural societies is growing strong globally as International Mother Language Day, which was proclaimed by Unesco in 1999 in recognition of Bangladesh’s 1952 Language Movement, was observed yesterday.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, while addressing a programme recently marking National Food Safety Day-2021, stressed the need for taking effective actions against food adulteration.

In line with its tradition for the last couple of years, school children from Barishal city’s Rasulpur Char wrapped the area with Language Day fervour by constructing 30 Shaheed Minars.

For the unassuming, Cumilla Victoria Govt College’s Shaheed Minar may seem like a customary tribute to the Language Movement. That the monument itself has been a battleground between the region’s people and the then East Pakistan administration is thus a history worth retelling.

The nation yesterday observed Amar Ekushey and International Mother Language Day in a befitting manner, paying rich tribute to the Language Movement heroes for their supreme sacrifice for Bangla as state language.

A student of Rajshahi University of Engineering and Technology (Ruet) was found dead at a mess (shared accommodation) in the city yesterday.

Lalbagh police busted a mugging gang that has been robbing people while disguised as detective branch police or Rab for the last eight years.

Students of Rajshahi University yesterday staged a sit-in in front of the residence of the vice chancellor and gave the authorities a 24-hour ultimatum for reopening the campus and dormitories.

Police on Saturday night arrested a man after he attempted to mug ornaments from a jewellery shop in Dhaka’s Baitul Mukarram Mosque Market, brandishing a bomb-like object.

Two persons were killed in road accidents in the capital’s airport and Shyampur areas early yesterday.

Jahanginagar University authorities today filed a case against 250 unnamed locals who allegedly attacked students on Friday evening over a cricket match.