The US is set to make its final penny. The Philadelphia Mint will strike its last batch of one-cent coins on Wednesday, after more than 230 years of production. The coins will remain in circulation, but the phase-out has already prompted businesses to start adjusting prices, as they say pennies a
A college in Mymensingh city has been closed indefinitely to control the situation after a series of attacks over a “love dispute”. The attack on Shambhuganj GKP College took place throughout Monday, said Kotwali Model Police chief Md Shibirul Islam. Principal Sultana Parveen said, &l
Entrepreneur and visual artist Shahad Sharif has been awarded the prestigious Bangladesh Achievers Award 2025 by the Bangladesh Achievers Awards committee. Shahad Sharif, the founder and CEO of Graficity Communication, received the award at a ceremony at the Bangladesh-China Friendship Convention
The new book ‘AI Sikhun, Taka Gunun’ by ICT writer and journalist Mojahidul Islam Dheow has officially been released. According to the publisher, Systech Publications, the book received a warm response even before hitting the shelves with 1,600 pre-orders completed during the very firs
The British Council invites responses to two open calls for artists and cultural practitioners based either in Bangladesh or in the UK, and arts organisations based in Dhaka, Chattogram, Rajshahi and Sylhet that are working at the intersection of art, culture, gender, and contemporary society to pr
The British Council has recently announced the recipients of its Connections Through Culture (CTC) Grant Programme 2025, which supports collaborations between artists and cultural practitioners in the United Kingdom and internationally. Selected through an international open call, 127 grants have
Two mountaineers, one French and one South Korean, have died in Nepal after separate expeditions to the Ama Dablam mountain in the Himalayas, hiking officials said on Monday. Hugo Lucio Colonia Lazaro, 65, from France, was hit on the head by a falling piece of ice and was evacuated to Kathmandu by
The Louvre has transferred some of its most precious jewels to the Bank of France, according to French radio RTL, after an audacious daylight heist last week exposed the famed museum's security vulnerability. The transfer of some precious items from the museum's Apollo gallery, home to the French
The ERF Institute, run by the Economic Reporters Forum (ERF), launched its first-ever training course on Saturday, aiming to enhance the skills of economic journalists. The daylong session, focused on data journalism, was held at the ERF auditorium in Paltan Tower in Dhaka. A total of 20 particip
In a minutes-long strike Sunday inside the world’s most-visited museum, thieves rode a basket lift up the Louvre ’s facade, forced a window, smashed display cases and fled with priceless Napoleonic jewels, officials said. The daylight heist about 30 minutes after opening, with visitors
