Month: November 2013

The state-owned Khulna Hardboard Mill has suspended production amid a severe financial crisis. The officials have said the mill does not have fund since Monday evening to purchase furnace oil needed to continue production works. Hardboard worth Tk 3 crore produced by the mill has remained unsold in its warehouse since last two years, which led

Optimum treatment and necessary healthcare facilities towards the mentally sick people is very vital to get back to their normal life, said speakers at a view-sharing discussion in Rajshahi on Tuesday evening. They viewed that collective effort is urgently needed as all mental diseases excepting the schizophrenia are curable and so social awareness alongside

Drug Price Hike by Nearly 50 Percent Pharmaceuticals using political violence as diversion Janashastha Sangram Parishad rally told Taking advantage of the distraction created by the political violence, profiteering pharmaceutical companies have arbitrarily increased prices of many widely used lifesaving drugs significantly, hoping that it would go unnoticed, speakers told a protest rally yesterday. The ... Read more

Science fiction writer Muhammad Zafar Iqbal and his wife Yasmeen Haque on Wednesday withdrew their resignations after the Shahjalal University of Science and Technology administration decided to restore the combined admission tests with Jessore Science and Technology University. An emergency meeting of the university academic committee on

The Barisal University authorities declared the rescheduled date of the BU admission tests Wednesday after a meeting of the admission committee in the afternoon, said a university press release. According to the new schedule, the tests will be held on December 7, Saturday which were supposed to be held on November 28 and later were ... Read more

The Chittagong University’s biological science faculty and marine science faculty admission tests under 2013-14 session have been postponed because of the ongoing political unrest of the country. The tests were scheduled to be held on November 28, and the rescheduled date was fixed on December 7, said a CU press lease signed by the deputy

The results of the written tests for admission in the Dhaka University’s bachelor courses under ‘Ka’ unit in 2013-14 academic sessions were published on Wednesday. DU vice-chancellor AAMS Arefin Siddique at a press conference at the registrar building announced the results of the tests held on November 22.

Regional cooperation among three countries — Bangladesh, India and Myanmar that makes up the Bay of Bengal – can boost hilsa reserve in the Bay, says a study of London-based International Institute for Environment and Development. The research focuses on hilsa and a scheme, implemented by the Bangladesh government, to compensate fishing communities that

A woman and her two children were burnt to death when a fire broke out at their house at Panchpukuria village in Fatikchhari upazila of Chittagong early yesterday. The deceased are Sumi Nath, 25, wife of Milan Nath, an expatriate in Dubai; their daughter Barsha Nath, 3, and one-and-a-half-year-old son Shrabon Nath.

BRAC Bank Limited has distributed warm clothes among 26,000 poor people in the Northern region ahead of winter. Three teams of BRAC Bank distributed 3,500 blankets, 6,000 sweaters and 17,000 warm clothes in three areas in the Northern districts – Bhurungamari in Kurigram, Dimla in Nilphamari and Harivasha in Panchagarh, says a press release. The ... Read more