DU Correspondent | 2014-02-19 00:00:00
The University Grants Commission (UGC) has expressed concern over the private universities' curriculum as the regulatory body was unaware of the contents of their syllabus. The commission is also concerned about the existing examination system that measures the students' ability...
Voicing deep concern over the continued 'impunity' to perpetrators of violence against indigenous women in the CHT region, the Chittagong Hill Tracts Commission has urged the government to take effective measures to put an end to the violation of basic...
Chairman of the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) Dr Mizanur Rahman Tuesday said the law enforcers crossed their limit by making attacks on a recent peaceful rally of Rajshahi University (RU) students, reports UNB. "Members of the law enforcement agencies...
DU Correspondent | 2014-02-19 00:00:00
The Teacher-Student Center (TSC) of the Dhaka University has been brought under WiFi network to facilitate the students with free of cost internet service. State minister for the ICT Division of the newly formed Posts and Telecommunication and Information Technology...
JU Correspondent | 2014-02-19 00:00:00
Three students were detained at Jahangirnagar University (JU) while they were mugging admission seekers at the campus on Tuesday. The accused are identified as Shourov Rahman a fourth year student of Botany department, Atikul Islam Farhad a third year student...
Our Correspondent | 2014-02-19 00:00:00
RAJSHAHI, Feb-18: Dan W Mozena, US Ambassador in Bangladesh inaugurated American Corner at Upasahar area in Rajshahi this afternoon. The US Corner has been set up in Rajshahi after 42-year of torching of USIS( United States Information Services)centre at Talamari...
A Dhaka court Tuesday took cognizance of the charges against eight people, including Mufit M Jasimuddin Rahmani, chief of Islamist outfit Ansarullah Bangla Team, in the blogger Ahmed Rajib Haider killing case, reports UNB. The other charge-sheeted accused are Faisal...
Bangladeshi Leo Fahim Ashraff Khan won the Kao Prize 'eco together' from Japan for entry to the 4th Kao International Environment Painting Contest for Children (Kao International EPCC), said a press release of the LEO Club Dhaka. The highest honour...
FE report | 2014-02-19 00:00:00
Customs intelligence has seized illegally imported drugs worth about Tk 10 million Tuesday at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport freight section. The medicine, made in Pakistan, was imported without approval of the department of drug administration. Any type of medicine imported...
Workshop at Brac Centre A workshop on 'The Role of Brac in Building Capacity of Farmers in Agriculture and Aquaculture in The Southern Districts' was held in Brac Centre in the city Tuesday. Director General (Seed Wing) and Additional Secretary...
A young man was killed and three others were injured as a covered van hit them on the Atish Dipankar Road under Sabujbagh police station in the city Monday night, reports UNB. The deceased was identified as Atiqur Rahman (26),...
A High Court (HC) Tuesday asked the health secretary and the director general (DG) of Directorate General of Health Services to issue directives to the heads of all hospitals to ensure that surgeries are carried out by surgeons, and supervise...
A division bench of the High Court (HC) Tuesday summoned the investigation officer (IO) of journalist couple Sagar and Runi murder case to appear before it on March 5 with an update of the case, reports UNB. The HC bench...
Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) Monday night recovered illegal Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) equipment worth about Tk 10 million (1.0 crore) from a house at Shekhertek in the city under Adabar Police Station and arrested one person in this connection,...
Weather is likely to remain dry with temporary partly cloudy sky over the country today (Wednesday). Mild cold wave is sweeping over the regions of Jessore, Kushtia, Rajshahi, Pabna and Srimangal and it may continue, Met Office said. Night temperature...
Doulot Akter Mala | 2014-02-19 00:00:00
The number of actual Taxpayers Identification Number (TIN) holders crossed 1.06 million until Monday following positive response of taxpayers to the online TIN system. The e-TIN registration system will continue until March 31 next that the government introduced in the...
India has yet to respond to Bangladesh's request to hold next round of talks aimed at expanding power sector cooperation, a senior Bangladesh source said on Tuesday, reports UNB. The 7th meeting of Bangladesh-India Joint Steering Committee (JSC) meeting on...
NEW DELHI, Feb 18: Amidst pandemonium, Lok Sabha on Tuesday passed the Telangana Bill, report agencies. The telecast of the Lok Sabha had been blocked while voting for the bill was underway. Voting on clauses of the Telangana Bill took...
Members of the elite strike force Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) detained a youth from Tangail on charge of spreading so-called audiovisual message of al-Qaeda head Ayman al-Zawahari on the internet, reports UNB. Director (media and legal wing) at the Rab...
Airing doubt about credible upazila elections beginning on Wednesday, BNP acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir alleged Tuesday that the Election Commission has failed to ensure a congenial atmosphere for free and fair Upazila elections as it did in...
FE Report | 2014-02-19 00:00:00
The central bank has asked the commercial banks to gear up their recovery drive to ensure collection of instalments of rescheduled loans properly. All banks have also been asked to set up recovery units for strengthening collection of such loans...
The first phase of the elections to 97 upazila parishads will be held today (Wednesday), reports BSS. Voting will start at 8 am and continue till 4 pm without any break in 34 districts. The Election Commission (EC) has already...
Shamsul Huq Zahid | 2014-02-19 00:00:00
A little bit of generosity on the part of the central bank in the matters of loan rescheduling has, apparently, helped a section of banks and their errant borrowers reap benefits. It also has the potential to benefit the government...
FE Report | 2014-02-19 00:00:00
The government needs to immediately begin a meaningful dialogue with political parties with a view to reaching a lasting solution to the political conflicts that have resulted in chaotic law and order problems and virtually paralysed the economy. Suggestions to...
The government formally announced newspapers as an industry on Tuesday, fulfilling a long-standing demand of the owners, reports BSS. Industries minister Amir Hossain Amu made the announcement at a meeting with newspaper owners at the ministry's conference room. Mahbubul Alam,...
FE Report | 2014-02-19 00:00:00
Bangladesh and Sri Lanka have agreed to sign a preferential trade agreement (PTA) to boost bilateral trade and investment, sources said. The consensus was reached on the first day of the two-day joint working group meeting in Dhaka Tuesday. The...
FHM Humayan Kabir | 2014-02-19 00:00:00
The government has spent only 33 per cent of Tk 658.72 billion development budget in the first seven months of the current fiscal. This is five percentage points lower than that of the corresponding period last fiscal, officials said Tuesday....
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