The Jahangirnagar University (JU) will launch four new departments in the upcoming academic session of the university, Vice-chancellor of the university Prof Dr Shariff Enamul Kabir said. He said this while addressing an orientation and farewell function at the Fazilatunnesa...
Opposition leader Khaleda Zia said her party would launch movement to realise the mid-term national elections to overcome what she called prevailing dangerous situation in the country, reports UNB. Addressing a reception of newly elected office-bearers of the Supreme Court...
good marks but not for real learning, | 2011-04-08 00:00:00
good marks but not for real learning, Shafiqul Alam Teaching is a noble profession, a giving profession and a caring profession. Teaching has its rewards. However, the rewards are quiet internal. All of us can recall one or more teachers,...
The present elected government, since its assumption of office, has established a large number of community clinics across the country. But are the preponderant rural people of the country getting significantly any extra healthcare from their establishment? Marginally, perhaps, for...
Banking in the context of Bangladesh, cannot be entirely divorced from the needs and principles of extending vital services to the neglected areas or extending uniform facilities in the country to meet the requirements of equity and justice. The private...
I work as a Head of Department for Marks & Spencer and as the only Bangladeshi employed there, staff members come to me with the latest news, gossip and queries about Bangladesh. I think they expect me to know everything...
The front-page lead article in your April 2 issue illustrates the utter failure of the Chittagong Port Trust (CPT) authority's responsibility in doing their duty. They are all now silent to media queries. The lame excuse offered on their behalf...
Government remains in a specially tight situation in the current year from not getting enough external assistance from the donors. The flow of aid resources continue to be specially lean. Its attempts to contract loans from multilateral lending bodies to...
NARAYANGANJ, Apr 07 (UNB): Police today arrested a JCD leader on charge of assaulting police and damaging property during the day-long hartal in the town recently. The arrested person was identified as Rafiuddin Ahmed Riad (30), vice-president of Narayanganj town...
Rain or thundershowers accompanied by temporary gusty or squally wind is likely at one or two places over Rangpur and Sylhet divisions and the regions of Tangail, Mymensingh and Bogra in next 24 hours till 6.0pm today (Friday). Weather may...
A journalist was strangulated to death by assailants at an unknown place and the body was left in Port Colony area near Halishahar in the city on Wednesday night. The deceased was identified as Abdullah Al Mahbub, alias Mahbub Tutul...
A court here Thursday convicted a man and sentenced him to death for killing his wife in 2007. The convict Manik Mollah (24), son of Sona Mollah of Dakkhin Bhobanipur village in Kumarkhali Upazila strangled his wife Rashida Khatun (18),...
The Jahangirnagar University (JU) will launch four new departments in the upcoming academic session of the university, Vice-chancellor of the university Prof Dr Shariff Enamul Kabir said. He said this while addressing an orientation and farewell function at the Fazilatunnesa...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina urged the businessmen to pay taxes properly saying that increased revenue will help the government to build infrastructures to generate power and explore gas for greater interest of industrialisation in the country, report agencies. She made...
WASHINGTON, Apr 7 (agencies): The World Bank Group President Robert B Zoellick has said that each of the issues such as corruption, gender and transparency has been recognised over the last 20 years as being crucial for successful development and...
From Fazle Rashid | 2011-04-08 00:00:00
From Fazle Rashid NEW YORK, Apr 07: There have been earth-shaking news around the world during the past 24 hours. Col. Muammar Gaddafi, the eccentric Libyan dictator yesterday sent a letter to US president Barack Obama urging him to stop...
The government is set to increase the production of liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) by this year, the prime minister's energy adviser said, reports bdnews24.com. After a meeting on popularising LPG at the ministry on Thursday, adviser Tawfiq-E-Elahi said the production...
I work as a Head of Department for Marks & Spencer and as the only Bangladeshi employed there, staff members come to me with the latest news, gossip and queries about Bangladesh. I think they expect me to know everything...
The front-page lead article in your April 2 issue illustrates the utter failure of the Chittagong Port Trust (CPT) authority's responsibility in doing their duty. They are all now silent to media queries. The lame excuse offered on their behalf...
Government remains in a specially tight situation in the current year from not getting enough external assistance from the donors. The flow of aid resources continue to be specially lean. Its attempts to contract loans from multilateral lending bodies to...
NARAYANGANJ, Apr 07 (UNB): Police today arrested a JCD leader on charge of assaulting police and damaging property during the day-long hartal in the town recently. The arrested person was identified as Rafiuddin Ahmed Riad (30), vice-president of Narayanganj town...
Rain or thundershowers accompanied by temporary gusty or squally wind is likely at one or two places over Rangpur and Sylhet divisions and the regions of Tangail, Mymensingh and Bogra in next 24 hours till 6.0pm today (Friday). Weather may...
JAMALPUR, Apr 5: Bodies of six people drowned in boat capsize in the Jamuna during Monday's tornado were recovered along with a boat at Kulkandi in Islampur Tuesday afternoon. With the recovery of six more bodies death toll from tornado...
Rain or thundershowers accompanied by temporary gusty or squally wind is likely at one or two places over Rajshahi, Rangpur, Khulna, Barisal, Dhaka, Chittagong and Sylhet divisions in next 24 hours till 6.0pm today (Wednesday). Day temperature may rise slightly...
ruler because they now know the ways of | 2011-04-06 00:00:00
ruler because they now know the ways of Ashraful Azad and M. Mizanur Rahman Arab autocrats are falling down. The situation can be compared with the fall of communism in Eastern Europe. None could predict such mass uprisings against the...
The extent of damage to farmlands in a r | 2011-04-06 00:00:00
The extent of damage to farmlands in a rroads, real estate, factories and industries, points to an extended period of reconstruction for Japan, Anu Mahmud Although Prime Minister Naoto Kan termed the earthquake followed by the tsunami as Japan's most...
DU Correspondent | 2011-04-06 00:00:00
DU CorrespondentThe Higher Secondary Certificate (HSC) and its equivalent examinations - 2011 began Tuesday throughout the country. Bangla first paper examination was held on the first day and the exams will continue until May 31 as per the present time-table....
FE Report | 2011-04-06 00:00:00
FE ReportThe ECNEC Tuesday approved nine development projects at a total cost of Tk 26.63 billion, for improving the country's infrastructure and socio-economic sector. The Ministry of Planning officials said the projects would be bankrolled by the government resources, without...
Leader of the Opposition in Parliament and BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia Tuesday expressed deep shock at the death of journalist Achinta Sen, reports BSS. In a message of condolence, Khaleda Zia said Achinta was not only a veteran journalist and...
A case has been filed against officer-in-charge (OC) and two sub-inspectors (SI) of Rampura Police Station for allegedly demanding graft and threatening to grab a house in Khilgaon, Dhaka, reports bdnews24.com.
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