The students and cultural organisations of Rajshahi University held cultural programmes and launched a mass signature campaign on Tuesday, demanding the immediate opening of the Teachers and Students Cultural Centre at the institution. Around 200 general students, members of the Progressive Students Alliance, platform of four
Metropolitan
WASA bottled water project goes belly up
Bottled mineral water Shanti marketed by the Dhaka Water Supply and Sewerage Authority is failing to attract Dhaka city dwellers’ attention in the absence of a proper marketing policy, observed officials concerned. Shaheda Islam, microbiologist at the Mirpur Bottled Water Production Plant (Shanti), said the authorities took the Tk 17-crore Shanti project in 2006, when ... Read more
NU bachelor’s 1st year results published
National University published its results for bachelor’s (honours) first year examinations on Wednesday, said a NU release. A total of 1, 88,622 students took the examinations that were held from February to April this year. Apart form the colleges; the results are also available on NU website
Tragic
A female college student committed suicide in the capital’s Mirpur area Tuesday night, a day after her lover committed suicide in Malaysia. Rimi Parvin, a second-year student of social work of Mirpur University College, hanged herself at her brother-in-law Nuruzzaman’s house at Pirerbag around
30,000 toxic bananas destroyed
A mobile court yesterday destroyed around 30,000 toxic bananas and fined a trader Tk 5,000 for ripening the fruit artificially at a wholesale store in Radhanagar village of Pabna Sadar upazila. The court led by Pabna Sadar Upazila Nirbahi Officer (UNO) Salma Khatun raided the wholesale shop of Md Anwar Hossain and seized the fruit ... Read more
Husband beats up DU teacher
A teacher of Dhaka University was critically injured and lost an eye as her husband brutally beat her up a few days ago. The victim, faculty member of international relations department at DU, was assaulted by her husband Syeed Hasan Sumon on June 5 while staying at her parents’ residence in the capital’s
2 girls rescued while being sold to brothel
The police foiled a bid to sell two female garment workers to Daulatdia brothel in Goalanda upazila and arrested their trafficker Monday night. The victims were Hazera Khatun, 18, and Amena Begum, 18. They are workers of Redoy Knitwear in Tongi and both are residents of Kendua upazila of
SSC examinee kills herself after failure
A girl committed suicide after failing to pass this year’s SSC exams at Satla village of Uzirpur upazila in Barisal Thursday afternoon. Bithika, 15, youngest daughter of Laxman Chandra Bain, hanged herself with a scarf from a beam of her tin-shed house, said Nasiruddin, sub-inspector of Uzirpur
78pc Pass in Ctg
Fauzdarhat tops list Pass rate in SSC examinations under Chittagong board rose by 5.96 percentage point to 78.27 percent this year from last year’s 72.31 percent. Total examinees were 77,465 under the board this year. Of them 77,325 students sat for the examinations and 60,521 came out successful from 921
Machine readable visa launched
The government yesterday started issuing machine readable visas (MRV) from the passport office in the capital’s Agargaon and aims to expand it to other divisional offices within a fortnight. Home Minister Sahara Khatun launched the process by handing over the passport to a foreigner with an MRV sticker
Rajuk to allot 1,250 plots in Jhilmil project
Applications to be invited for the third time soon Rajdhani Unnayan Kartripakkha (Rajuk) is set to invite applications for a third time for allotting around 1,250 plots in its Jhilmil Residential Area project in Keraniganj within a few days. Rajuk Chairman Nurul Huda said the Ministry of Housing and Public Works (MHPW) has already approved ... Read more
Husband sets wife on fire in Savar after quarrel
A 16-year-old housewife is struggling for her life at the Dhaka Medical College Hospital after her husband allegedly poured kerosene on her body and set her on fire at Kaowdia in Savar on Friday evening, said the victim’s family members. The victim, Pinky Akhtar Shahnaz, was admitted to the burn and plastic surgery unit of ... Read more
31st BCS preliminary test May 27
The preliminary test of the 31st Bangladesh Civil Service (BCS) Examinations under the Public Service Commission (PSC) will be held on May 27. The decision on the examination was taken at a meeting of the commission at the PSC on Thursday, said PSC Controller of Examinations (Cadre) AYM Naser Uddin
20 hurt in Narsingdi clash over UP poll
At least 20 people were injured by harpoons early Thursday in a clash between two groups of villagers in Narsingdi Sadar upazila centering Union Parishad election. Police said the clash ensued at about 5:00am when the rival groups of remote Anantarampur village in Chardighaldi Union Parishad as a sequel to a dispute took place over ... Read more
Elephants kill 1 in Sherpur
A man was killed in an attack by a herd of wild elephants in Jhenaigati upazila of Sherpur Wednesday night. The victim was identified as Md Bahadur Ali, 40, hailed from Dhanua Kamalpur village in Bakshiganj upazila of Jamalpur, reports a correspondent from Sherpur. Abdur Rauf Pradhan, officer-in-charge of Jhenaigati Police Station, said at least ... Read more
SSC results on May 12
The results of the Secondary School Certificate (SSC), SSC vocational and Dakhil examinations of 2011 under 10 education boards will be published on May 12, education officials told The Independent Monday. ‘The due date of publication of the results is May 10 (within two months of completion of exams) but our honourable Prime Minister Sheikh ... Read more
Smuggling thru airport soaring
Law enforcers at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport have arrested a dozen people, during the last four months, and seized foreign currency, gold ornaments and other valuables worth about Tk. 15 crore. The confiscated valuables were being smuggled to various countries through the premier airport of the country. According to the Airport Police Station, personnel of Armed ... Read more
Expats get MRP service
Introduced in 4 missions; 2 others in process Bangladesh has introduced machine-readable passport (MRP) service in Singapore, Malaysia, Abu Dhabi and Dubai missions as part of its effort to provide Bangladeshi expatriates with the service in its 65 missions worldwide. The service will be introduced in Jeddah and Riyadh missions next month, considering
Rapist killer Taleb arrested
Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) arrested Abu Taleb who raped and allegedly killed a student of class eight setting her on fire after she became pregnant for seven months from the capital’s Rampura yesterday. The victim Nilufa, 16, died on January 31 at the Burn Unit of Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH) after fighting for her ... Read more
550 foreign-funded NGOs lose registration
Dhaka: NGO Affairs Bureau (NGOAB), the regulatory body for foreign-funded NGOs, has cancelled registrations of 550 donor-funded NGOs, in the past nine months, while 67 of the organisations have applied for reinstatement of their registrations, sources at the NGOAB said. NGOAB has cancelled the registrations of the NGOs, as they were found to have been ... Read more