The authorities of private universities are making preparations to submit a writ petition challenging a High Court order asking them to obtain Bangladesh Bar Council (BBC) clearance to run LLB courses. They said they would file the petition, seeking elaboration of the order and more time to comply,…

The Supreme Court (SC) will deliver its verdict tomorrow on a review petition filed by war crimes convict and Jamaat-e-Islami leader Mir Quasem Ali, seeking review of his death penalty. After concluding the hearing on the review plea from both sides, a five-member bench of the Appellate Division, headed…

Singapore yesterday confirmed 41 locally transmitted cases of the Zika virus, which can cause deformities in unborn babies, and said more infections are…

The Cabinet Division has sought Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s approval to cancel the Independence Award given to late president Ziaur Rahman and consider keeping it in the national museum. The BNP-led Four-Party Alliance government had posthumously conferred the award on Ziaur Rahman in 2003…

Ekushey Padak-winning Bengali poet Shahid Qadri passed away at a US hospital yesterday morning at the age of 74, reports UNB. He breathed his last at North Shore University Hospital in New York around 7 am local time, said his wife Neera Quaderi. The poet was admitted to the hospital a week ago with…

The government has given permission to set up a new private university in the capital, raising the total number of private universities in the country to 95. Most of the private universities in the country are concentrated in the capital, although there is a decision in principle not to allow any new…

Afghanistan cricket team will arrive in Dhaka on September 21 to play a three-match one-day series with Bangladesh. Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) President Nazmul Hassan Papon stated this to media at his Gulshan residence in the capital yesterday night. “Yes, the bi-lateral series with Afghanistan…