Month: August 2013

Most of them do not take approval from primary institutions More than 3,000 public university teachers, mostly without approval, take classes in private universities, ignoring their primary institutions that hugely hampers academic activities in universities, University Grants Commission officials said. The commission in its latest annual report said, ‘Some of the public university teachers spend

Postal Service Waiting for a turnaround For centuries, postal services around the world reigned supreme as the most popular mode of communications. But with the advances in communications technologies and emergence of private courier services, people’s reliance on the traditional postal service has significantly declined. The only way the postal service in any country can ... Read more

In efforts to regain its lost glory, Bangladesh Post Office has launched a number of new services and plans to introduce some more. Co-branding with Sonali Bank, which allows its 60,000 postal cash card holders to use the ATM booths of 26 banks for money transfer, is the

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Friday called upon all pro-liberation forces to forge a greater unity across the country for building a non-communal Bangladesh as dreamt by Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman. “A greater unity among all pro-liberation forces is very vital at this time against those who opposed the national independence and sovereignty back in ... Read more

Restrictions in ME countries main reason Manpower export in the first half of this year has dropped significantly compared to the corresponding period of last year, mainly in the fallout from restrictions imposed by some Middle Eastern countries over the years. An estimated 2,08,340 Bangladeshi workers have migrated abroad in the first half of this ... Read more

The police on Friday recovered the bodies of an officer of the Special Branch and his wife from their residence in the capital’s Chamelibagh. The couple — Mahfuzur Rahman , 48, inspector of SB, and his wife Swapna Rahman, 40 — were hacked to death 24-48 hours back, the police suspected

Sufferings of patients at the burn and plastic surgery unit at Dhaka Medical College Hospital further aggravated as they had to pay at every step for the service they need. Even no dressing is done there without money. But this service is supposed to be given to the patients free of cost. The patients at ... Read more

Lack of campaigns and the counselling of mothers about nutrition and hygiene are responsible for malnutrition, experts said. They are of the opinion that the lack of hygienic practice, such as washing hand before feeding the child or preparing baby food, causes drainage of nutrition form the children’s bodies and

Osman Gani, a former chief conservator of forests who hogged the headlines as a ‘forest gobbler,’ now passes his days in the Dhaka central jail where none of his relatives but a distant nephew bothered to meet him. He has already passed six out of the 12 years he was sentenced to imprisonment, keeping an ... Read more

New York-based rights watchdog Human Rights Watch on Friday said the trial of the former chief of Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islaami, Ghulam Azam, at the International Crimes Tribunal was ‘deeply flawed’ and ‘did not meet international fair trial standards.’ In a press release posted on its website, the HRW said it had found four major concerns about

Biman Bangladesh Airlines are in a confusion over the actual number of Hajj pilgrims this year as the Saudi authorities are likely to issue some new regulations in the wake of spreading of a virus that may restrict the Bangladeshi pilgrims who have respiratory problem. The Saudi government has taken some cautionary measures for Hajj ... Read more

Syed Ashraf slates celebration of Khaleda’s birthday Ruling Awami League General Secretary Syed Ashraful Islam yesterday dismissed any possibility of compromising or sitting in a dialogue with the main opposition BNP to resolve ongoing political crisis. “It is not possible for us to compromise with those [BNP] who celebrate fake birthday on the death anniversary ... Read more

BNP Standing Committee member Khandakar Mosharraf Hossain has said the ruling Awami League (AL) is mulling to bring a third force in power apprehending its inevitable debacle in the next general election. AL is engaged in hatching conspiracy to hand over power to the third force apprehending its inevitable setback in the next general election. ... Read more

Sumaya’s dream of earning a livelihood for which came to Dhaka has been shattered because of a workplace accident in which she lost her sight. Physicians have also diagnosed a cancerous tumour in the body as she is now being treated in Dhaka Medical College Hospital

The Bangladesh Nationalist Party chairperson, Khaleda Zia, will sit in a meeting with her party’s policymaking body today to review the current political situation and determine the next course of action for restoration of the election-time ‘non-party’ government. The meeting of the BNP national standing committee will start at Khaleda’s Gulshan office at