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Focus on governance, poverty, environment, security Asian University for Women (AUW) will hold a three-day international symposium in the city from January 20. Various renowned international scholars and leaders will attend the symposium titled ‘Imagining Another Future for Asia: Ideas and Pathways for Change’ at Bangabandhu International Conference Centre. Students, scholars and leaders from all ... Read more

Say experts Experts yesterday suggested comprehensive planning of housing system to save arable land, which is decreasing fast and threatening food security. Plans also need to keep in mind climate change, likely to result in frequent and erratic rainfalls, flooding and cyclones, they said

The Santal Students’ Union has demanded re-admission of their fellows at the Catholic Christian College Hostel in the Rajshahi city and an end to all kinds of discrimination against the ethnic minority students at the hall. The union put forth their eight-point demands on Saturday at a press conference in

Various organisations on Saturday urged the government to immediately remove chemical factories, warehouses and shops from residential areas. The state minister for law, Quamrul Islam, said that everyone should be aware of dangerous chemical substances while addressing a discussion programme in the city, and pointed out that the

The 19th foundation celebrations of International University of Business Agriculture and Technology (IUBAT) will be held today. Food and Disaster Management Minister Abdur Razzak will inaugurate the programme on IUBAT campus in the city’s Uttara at 10:30am

Dutch-Bangla Bank Limited donated 30,000 pieces of blankets to poor and floating people around the country. In this regard, the bank’s Chairman Mohammed Sahabuddin Ahmed handed over a sample blanket to Food and Disaster Management Minister Muhammad Abdur Razzaque at the minister’s residence in the city yesterday, says a

China will give scholarship to 100 Bangladeshi students to study in China in 2011, Chinese ambassador Zhang Xianyi said at a book launching ceremony in Dhaka Saturday. The number of students who got Chinese scholarship last year was 70. A new book on China titled ‘Revisiting China after 32 Years’ written by

A two-day little magazine fair began at Rajshahi University on Saturday. ‘Chinho’, a campus-based little magazine, organised the little fair in front the Shahidullah Art Building, marking its 12th founding anniversary. More than fifty little magazines from home and abroad are taking part in the fair, the organisers

Dhakabashi, a socio-cultural organisation of the Old Town of Dhaka, and the Bangladesh Kite Federation on Friday organised a festival marking the end of the Bangla month of Poush, aiming at popularising seasonal festivals throughout the country. The festival began with cake feast and distributing warm clothes among the poor people at

An eight-day cake festival titled ‘Jatiya Pitha Utsab 1417’ presenting numerous traditional cakes began at the Shilpakala Academy in the capital on Friday. The food and disaster management minister, Abdur Razzak, inaugurated the festival on the coffee house premises of the academy

Speakers at a convention yesterday demanded constitutional recognition, rights and use of mother tongue in primary-level education for indigenous people. They also demanded a pro-people Chittagong Hill Tracts Land Commission to end land disputes in the region

A 25-year-old man committed suicide in the Rajshahi city Thursday night. He hanged himself from the ceiling fan of his bedroom, the police said. The diseased was identified as Kausar Ali Pintu, resident of Sagorpara in the city. Neighbours said Kausar married a girl of Comilla four days ago in Dhaka without taking the

The National University (NU) authorities have asked the candidates who have passed in the admission test for first year honours course under the academic session of 2010-11 to get registered online for admission. The candidates of the first merit list will have to complete their registration by filling in application forms available on NU websites ... Read more

It is the farmers who produce food, but they cannot have enough food to eat. The question is that how long they will continue to feed others, having suffered from malnutrition for whole life. “Will they continue to be neglected by the policymakers and the urban people living on their produces? No that cannot happen,” ... Read more

Polli Sheva Society (PSS) and Green Mind Society yesterday demanded immediate steps to stop filling Dumini-Boulmari Khal (canal) in Dumini Union under Khilkhet Police Station by encroachers. PSS and the society leaders, at a token eviction drive on Dumini canal held in front of National Press Club in the city, said a land grabbing organisation ... Read more

Integrated and effective measures are essential to cope with population explosion as well as face country’s development challenges, said speakers at a dialogue on population and development challenges on Wednesday. The department of population science of Dhaka University and the United Nations