Paramilitary drones target Khartoum airport for 2nd consecutive day
Paramilitary drones targeted Khartoum International Airport on Wednesday for a second consecutive day, a Sudanese military source said...
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HSC results lay bare looming university crisis
BANGLADESH鈥橲 2025 Higher Secondary Certificate and equivalent examination results have delivered a quiet but seismic shock to the country鈥檚 higher education system. Only about 58.8 per cent of students passed this year, down sharply from 77.8 per cent in 2024 and 78.6 per cent in 2023...
Metaliteracy is a civic necessity
THE digital age has provided us with more information than any other time in history. News, video and images reach us in seconds. But along with this abundance comes a new crisis: how do we know what鈥檚 real? With artificial intelligence that can churn out human-like text, resize and create voices, and create deepfake videos capable of fooling the sharpest of eyes...
Correlating training, skills and employability
While training and development has fir long been treated as a clich茅, in the parlance of management literature, the terms have not lost their lustre yet in terms of market demand and supply chain of skilled labour between the potential sending and receiving countries of expatriate workers. Even this time of Industrial Revolution 4.0, some businesses such as...
Dhaka鈥檚 air quality continues to be 鈥榰nhealthy鈥� with AQI score of 164
Dhaka, the overcrowded capital city of Bangladesh, has ranked fifth on the list of cities with the worst air quality with an AQI score of 164 at 9:35am on Wednesday morning...
Murder case filed over CU student death
A murder case was filed on Monday night after the police recovered the body of a Chittagong University student with severed tendons in the city...
CIS, A-PAD hold int鈥檒 symposium on conflict, crisis management
Community Initiative Society and Asia Pacific Alliance for Disaster Management jointly organised an International Symposium on 鈥楬eating Planet, Conflict, and Crisis Management: Building Resilience and International Cooperation in a Changing World鈥� in Dhaka city on Tuesday...
RU students stage protests for Teesta project
Students of Rajshahi University on Tuesday held a cultural gathering and protest rally on the campus, demanding immediate implementation of the long-stalled Teesta River Master Plan...
NSU鈥檚 architecture dept hosts Meet the Parents
The Department of Architecture at North South University organised a socially responsive event titled 鈥楳eet the Parents鈥� on its campus in Dhaka on Monday...
鈥業n Search of Peace鈥� explores harmony of 聽surroundings
Visual artist Sadrul Rafi explores the theme of harmony in his fourth solo art exhibition, currently under way at Galerie Zoom, Alliance Fran莽aise de Dhaka, Dhanmondi...
Lack of unity halts society, state鈥檚 progress: Sabur Khan
Daffodil International University chairman Md Sabur Khan said that there was a great lack of unity in our society. Due to lack of unity, society and the country were not able to move forward...
3 鈥榗onfess鈥� to JnU JCD leader murder
Three detained accused in Sunday鈥檚 murder of Jagannath University student and Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal leader Jobayed Hossain in Old Dhaka on Tuesday confessed to their involvement in the murder before three metropolitan magistrates in Dhaka...
Kings leave for Kuwait with high hopes
Five-time Bangladesh Football League champions Bashundhara Kings left home for Kuwait on Tuesday to take part in the Group B phase of the AFC Challenge League, scheduled to be held at the Jaber Al-Mubarak Al-Sabah Stadium from October 25 to 31.聽..
Falling growth key concern: GED
Falling private sector credit growth has remained as the most worrying issue on the country鈥檚 economic front despite a rebound in deposit growth in banks, according to a government report released on Tuesday...
Transactions thru cards surge by 172pc in 5yrs
Card-based transactions in Bangladesh have surged by 172 per cent over the past five years, driven by growing consumer confidence in digital payments, rapid expansion of e-commerce, and widespread adoption of point-of-sale (POS) and online payment systems...
BB鈥檚 independence essential to restore economy: PRI seminar
Independence for Bangladesh Bank is essential to restore the country鈥檚 economic health, said experts at an event organised by the Policy Research Institute...
DSE falls, CSE go up
The upward momentum observed in the early trading hours at both the Dhaka Stock Exchange and Chittagong Stock Exchange did not last, as the DSE ended the day in the red while the CSE managed to sustain its gains...
Korean investors invited to explore Bangladesh
The Bangladesh Investment Development Authority (BIDA) has called on South Korean investors to capitalize on Bangladesh鈥檚 dynamic investment landscape, highlighting the country鈥檚 competitive advantages and ongoing reforms to facilitate foreign direct investment...
Agrani Bank launches 30-day basic banking course
Agrani Bank Training Institute on Sunday launched a 30-day long basic banking training course for cash officers of Agrani Bank PLC鈥檚 94th and 95th batches, said a press release...
US govt shutdown leaves Unilever demerger on ice
British consumer goods giant Unilever has postponed a demerger of its ice cream business, saying Tuesday that the US government shutdown meant a New York listing could not be approved...
Gaza ceasefire vital to deliver food, save lives: UN
Maintaining the Gaza ceasefire is critical for delivering life-saving food aid in the territory, the United Nations said Tuesday, repeating a call for all border crossings to be opened...
Trump demolishes part of White House for new ballroom
Donald Trump has often been dubbed a political wrecking ball for his unorthodox style 鈥� and now the US president has literally started demolition work on the White House...
Surviving fourth industrial revolution
THE industrial revolution stands as the most significant turning point in human history since the domestication of animals and plants. The first industrial revolution, spanning from 1760 to 1840, began in Great Britain, which emerged as its harbinger. This period marked the introduction of mechanical textile production, the steam engine, and the factory system across...
More power to BBS to ensure evidence-based policy-making
THE government task force identifying external and political interference and aid dependency as reasons for the poor performance of the Bureau of Statistics corroborates what independent experts have for long said. The national statistical office has largely failed to live up to its mandate for being plagued by interference. The task force, formed in April 2025 against the...
Chess mourns US grandmaster dead at 29
The chess world has been plunged into mourning following the sudden death of prominent US grandmaster Daniel Naroditsky aged 29.
Dhaka鈥檚 air quality turns `unhealthy for sensitive groups鈥� with AQI score of 147
Dhaka, the overcrowded capital city of Bangladesh, has ranked 8th on the list of cities with the worst air quality with an AQI score of 147 at about 9:00am on Tuesday morning...
No end to infrastructural, academic crises in 20 years
Jagannath University, which evolved from a 200-year-old school into a public university in 2005, marked its 20th founding anniversary on Monday...
Digital tech can boost creative book industry: workshop
Sales experts, book publishers and a journalist on Monday said that digital technology was not detrimental to the creative book industry, but rather helpful as creative digital marketing could improve the industry...
Chhatra Odhikar forms new committee for DU
Bangladesh Chhatra Odhikar Parishad on Sunday night announced a 20-member new committee for its Dhaka University unit...
BUFT鈥檚 Shaheed Selim Central Library begins 3-day book fair
Shaheed Selim Central Library of BGMEA University of Fashion and Technology launched a three-day book fair on the BUFT campus in Dhaka on Monday...
