19 CoU departments told to start exams by 15 October to prevent session jam
An initiative has been taken to start the first-year examinations of the 2025-26 academic year in 19 departments of Cumilla University (CoU) within 15 days in order to restore academic discipline, hold examinations and publish results on schedule, and…
Class XI admission: 1.83 lakh students selected in second phase
The results of the second round of online applications for admission to class XI in the 2026-2027 academic year have been published. Prof Syed Akhtaruzzaman, president of the Bangladesh Inter-Education Board Coordination Committee and chairman of the…
Umama Fatema vents anger in Facebook status, calls Jamaat and Awami League identical
Umama Fatema, former spokesperson of the Anti-Discrimination Student Movement, has remarked that there is no difference between Jamaat and the Awami League. She made the remark in a status posted on her Facebook account on Thursday. In that status she…
Bashundhara Welfare Society begins journey at new office
The new office of Bashundhara Welfare Society has been formally inaugurated with the aim of further improving the welfare of and the standard of services for the residents of Bashundhara Residential Area. The new office was inaugurated on Thursday…
‘Tk 5 lakh cannot be the value of a life’, says MP Monirul
Cumilla-6 lawmaker Monirul Haque Chowdhury has demanded that compensation for the families of those killed in road accidents be arranged by transport owners as well, alongside the government. He said countless people are losing their lives in road…
Bodies of two children missing in Turag river recovered in Tongi
The bodies of two children have been recovered 22 hours after they went missing while going to catch fish in the Turag river at Tongi in Gazipur. A Fire Service diving team recovered their bodies from under the railway bridge on the river on Thursday (1…
Anti-teen gang drive in Noakhali, 68 detained in 24 hours
Police have detained 68 people in anti-teen gang drives in different police station areas of Noakhali district in the last 24 hours. Of them, two have been shown arrested in previous cases, six arrested under section 34 and 60 released into the custody…
Prayer timings: 1 October 2026
Today is Thursday, 1 October 2026, 16 Ashwin 1433, 19 Rabius Sani 1448. The prayer timings for Dhaka and its adjacent areas are as follows: Zuhr time begins at 11:51am. Asr time begins at 4:06pm. Maghrib at 5:49pm. Esha time begins at 7:02pm. Fajr begins…
The dua taught by the Prophet for protection from the evil eye
أُعِيْذُكُمَا بِكَلِمَاتِ اللهِ التَّامَّةِ مِنْ كُلِّ شَيْطَانٍ وَّهَامَّةٍ وَّمِنْ كُلِّ عَيْنٍ لاَمَّةٍ Pronunciation: U’izukuma bikalimatillahit tammati min kulli shaitanin wa hammatin wa min kulli ainin lammatin. Meaning: I place you both in…
Index falls in Dhaka, market upbeat in Chattogram
Trading on the capital market ended amid a rise and fall of the indices on Thursday (1 October), the last working day of the week. On the day, the index fell on the Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE), the country’s premier bourse, but rose on the…