Brac Kumon Ltd and Brac Kumon’s new instructor have signed an agreement at Brac University recently to launch new Brac Kumon Centre in the captial's Siddheswari.

Under this, managements, employees, and their dependents of Industrial and Bangladesh Export Processing Zones Authority (BEPZA) can avail special healthcare facilities at United Hospital Limited.

The government has launched a web-based platform under the planning commission to integrate disaster risk information into development planning and budgeting, policies, and programmes, with the assistance of the National Resilience Programme (NRP) with technical support from the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and financed by the Government of Bangladesh, FCDO of the UK Government and SIDA of the Government of Sweden.

The Daily Star and IPDC have called for nominations for the sixth edition of “Unsung Women Nation Builders” awards.

The session aimed to identify areas of collaboration amongst stakeholders to create enduring partnership for development and better serve disadvantaged groups through engaging the private sector.

The Asia Foundation in Bangladesh and Unesco Dhaka Office joined forces to produce and disseminate books and reading materials focused on cultural heritage of Bangladesh, and to promote reading among children and youths.

The CEO of Covid-19 vaccine maker BioNTech has a message for those who are worried about the Omicron variant of the coronavirus: keep your cool.

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Eminent actor, academician and Ekushey Padak awardee Dr Enamul Haque passed away today around 2:30 pm at a hospital in the capital today. He was 77 years old.

Legendary singer and freedom fighter Fakir Alamgir passed away at 10:56 pm today at the capital’s United Hospital. He had been suffering from Covid-19, and was 71 years old at the time of passing.

Hardly any improvement in workplace safety has taken place at the non-garment factories over the years as the authorities were primarily bogged down in fixing the loopholes in the apparel industry.

Details of our tour of Mexico in 1991 had started fading from my memory. A hazy outline remained: after a few days in Mexico City my wife and I had flown to the provincial town of Oaxaca and explored nearby ruins. Next we had gone to Cancun to swim in the warm Caribbean waters. At the end we had flown back to California which was our home at the time.

Using a toilet can pay for your coffee or buy you bananas at a university in South Korea, where human waste is being used to help power a building. 

Finance ministers representing the G20 large economies back a deal setting a global floor for corporate tax rates and will push to resolve outstanding issues on it by October, the latest draft of a joint communique said. 

People in rural areas of Chattogram are seemingly reluctant to go for Covid-19 testing even after suffering from fever for six to seven days, increasing the risk of further worsening the situation in the country, according to experts.

SOMEONE DIED HERE A DAY AGO

A motorcyclist died and his pillion rider sustained injuries after their bike collided with a battery-run van on an apparently vacant road in Dhaka’s Paribagh area early today.

Despite suspension of ridesharing services via motorcycles due to health safety concerns, bikers can still be seen with their vehicles parked at intersections in the capital, waving to potential passengers, and with some success too, as many commuters still choose the verbal-contract service despite the risks associated.

Acumen Academy has selected 23 Bangladeshi change-makers as fellows for the inaugural group of Acumen Fellowship Program, says a press release.

Sagira Morshed Salam was killed 30 years ago over a domestic dispute -- as opposed to the previous narrative that it was a mugging incident gone wrong, Police Bureau of Investigation (PBI) yesterday claimed to have found in its probe.