North South University (NSU) has been ranked in the QS World University Rankings 2020 by subject for the very first time, consequently becoming the only private university in Bangladesh to have achieved this milestone.

Former vice chairman and sponsor director of NCC Bank Khondkar Zakaria Mahmud (Bachchu) passed away while undergoing treatment at Bumrungrad Hospital in Bangkok. He was 74.

Reading through three issues of the English version of the graphic novel series “Mujib”, based on the life of the Father of the Nation Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, I was able to go back in time a hundred years when Bangabandhu was born. The colorful animation of the graphic novel showed me how an ordinary boy transformed himself into the voice of a nation. These graphic novels are based on the unfinished memoir written by Bangabandhu himself, while he was in prison serving his term as a political prisoner.

Director General of the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) Abul Kalam Azad tendered his resignation today.

FinPro Consultants Limited hosted a webinar recently titled “Data Science: The Future Career” aiming to provide an overall idea about data science and to encourage people to pursue a career in it.

To help small and medium businesses recover from the fallout due to the Covid-19 crisis, ShopUp has planned to stand by their side to help them get back on their feet, with an attitude to do “whatever it takes”.

Fahim Saleh, co-founder of ride-sharing venture Pathao, is found dead in an apartment in New York.

With a focus on preparing a youth-led reform matrix for a paradigm shift in Bangladesh, Youth Policy Forum (YPF) has announced its “Road to Reforms” series.

Independent University, Bangladesh (IUB) organised the first Online Orientation Workshop for its faculty members very recently. More than 500 fulltime and adjunct faculty members took part in the workshop where the theme was, ‘Learning and Teaching Online’. The event was inaugurated by Prof Milan Pagon, Vice Chancellor (Acting), IUB, says a press release.

Virtual memorial event to remember the life and works of Latifur Rahman, an iconic business leader and CEO of Transcom Group, who passed away on July 1.

Indian government says it has for the first time loaded a special parcel train to Bangladesh carrying 384 tonnes of dry chillies from Reddipalem in Guntur district of Andhra Pradesh state.

A journalist of The Daily Star has been named the winner of the “Family Planning Media Award 2020” arranged by the Directorate General of Family Planning (DGFP) today.

Live streaming of doa mahfil in remembrance of Latifur Rahman, founder chairman and CEO of Transcom Group.

Immediately after his country broke free in a bloody and ruthless war to snatch away freedom from Pakistan, a young man in Dhaka landed on a crisis no one of his age would have wanted to find himself in. W Rahman Jute Mills, the first of its kind to be owned by a Bengali in erstwhile Pakistan, and, more importantly, one of the two sources of bread and butter that his family had in the turbulent days of 1972, was nationalised along with other privately-owned industries.

Islami Bank Bangladesh Limited, a top private commercial bank in the country, has crossed the milestone of Tk 1 trillion deposited to it.

Eric M Walker has been appointed president of Chevron Bangladesh companies based in Dhaka, commencing his position in July 2020.

Most of the Rohingya refugees living in Cox’s Bazar are not aware of coronavirus and its intensity, according to a survey jointly conducted by KNH Germany and Samaj Kallyan O Unnayon Sangstha (SKUS).

A total of 269 people, most of whom are Bangladeshi expatriates, left Dhaka for Italy aboard a special chartered flight of Biman today.

Mountain Dew, a brand that has always maintained that the difference between ‘ordinary’ and ‘extraordinary’ is the decision to move beyond fears and self-doubt, is once again set to inspire the youth of Bangladesh to overcome their fears through its ‘Bhoyer Porei Joy’ campaign this Summer.

The fourth episode of ESC Dialogue, organised by the Economics Study Center (ESC) on June 14, focused on “Budget 2020-21 and its effectiveness to fight against COVID-19 crisis.”