Metropolitan

Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman Hall authorities at Rajshahi University have imposed restriction on using luxurious mobile phones, computers, laptops, audiovisual devices, ornaments and keeping cash in the hall rooms. The residential students, however, demanded withdrawal of the restriction as there is no

A huge rush of students besieged the government medical colleges in the city on Monday, which was the first day for distribution of admission test forms for Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery. Forms were distributed by three medical colleges in the city, and the authorities of Shaheed Suhrawardy Medical College had to stop ... Read more

The education ministry is soon to send reminder letters to the private universities, which missed the deadline to express opinions about shifting to their own campuses. On August 18, the ministry in a meeting with the Association of Private Universities of Bangladesh (APUB) set a three-week deadline for the institutions to come up with opinions ... Read more

1 tonne of polythene shopping bag seized A mobile court on Sunday seized about 1 tonne polythene shopping bags from three markets in the Dhaka city. The mobile court filed cases against four polythene sellers in kitchen markets at Gulshan 1, Gulshan 2 and Banani areas in the city and realised Tk 60, 000 in ... Read more

Rights activists on Sunday urged the government to ensure safety and security on the waterway. They alleged that the government had failed to manage properly the waterway journey as it was hostage to the launch-owners. The government should also come up with special measures to make the waterway journey

Degree Pass first year examination 2009 (special) under National University will begin on October 11. According to NU authorities, students across the country have to sit exams at 2:00pm on scheduled date, a press release said

Almost all (99.3 percent) the farmers use chemical pesticides for banana cultivation, according to a recent study. The study says that for hopper control in banana, 37 percent farmers use Carrate, 33 percent use Sythrin and 22 percent use Ostad while to control fly, 36 percent of the farmers use Sumithion. It reveals that about ... Read more

International Ozone Day Observed Call to create awareness on ozone depletion International Ozone Day was observed in the country yesterday with colourful programmes emphasising on creating awareness about depletion of the ozone layer and its adverse effects on this planet’s environment. This year’s theme of the day was ‘Ozone layer protection: governance and compliance at ... Read more

Padma Bridge ‘Bid on to start work early next year’ Communications Minister Syed Abul Hossain yesterday said the government is making all out efforts to start the construction of Padma Bridge at the beginning of next year. Once this construction starts, initiatives would be taken to build another bridge at the

Gono Bishwabidyalay, in order to bridge the gap between education in village and town, is going to introduce four new subjects for its four-year bachelor degree courses from the coming session, said a press release on Tuesday. The new subjects are Bengali language, literature and culture, English, applied mathematics

A cross-country car rally among Bangladesh, India, Myanmar and China will be held next year with a view to establishing regional communication and strengthening mutual cooperation. The route of the car rally has already been finalised starting from Kunming of China via Dhaka and Sylhet of Bangladesh to be ended in Kolkata of

Income Tax Day Today Call to develop tax culture The National Income Tax Day will be observed in the country today with a call to develop tax culture. The slogan of the Day is “Commitment to charter for change, let us be partner of it.” On the eve of the day, President Zillur Rahman and ... Read more

An Army staff threw acid on two sisters and their mother on refusal of marriage proposal in Gaibandha on Monday night. The victims are Rehena Akhter, 22, a student of Dhaka Northern International Medical College, her sister Ruma Akhter, 14, and their mother Rezia Siddique, 40, of

Preparations have already been made to hold Eid-ul-Fitr jamaats in the capital and other districts across the country. The main Eid congregation will be held at the National Eidgah in the High Court premises at 8:30am on Eid day. Five jamaats will be held at the Baitul Mukarram National Mosque, scheduled at 7:30am,

Eid Congregation Some to seek blessings, some to beg alms City dweller heading to the mosque or eidgah with family members early on the Eid day morning to attend the Eid congregation is a common scenario. Thousand of beggars go there too, but with a different purpose altogether. They gather in front of different mosques ... Read more

The results of assistant teacher and headmaster recruitment examinations for government primary schools were published yesterday. Directorate of Primary Education (DPE) published the results in its website at www.dpe.gov.bd. At least 30,712 examinees succeeded for the post of assistant teacher and 1,852

International Literacy Day will be observed in Bangladesh as elsewhere around the world today with the theme — Literacy and women’s empowerment. The day is being observed with girls still accounting for more than a half of the 6.75 crore out-of-school children in the world and with females accounting for two-thirds of the 79.6 crore

Dhaka University on Tuesday launched its online admission site as the authorities aims to digitalise its admission process. The admission seekers can download and submit their application forms from the site between September 27 and October 14, official sources

Bangladesh Environment Lawyers Association (Bela) yesterday served a legal notice on different ministries and government offices asking them to stop pollution of Dholaibil, Bilbaghil and Karnapara canals in Savar. Industries mostly dyeing, spinning and textile, and dairy farms situated by these three canals dump toxic wastes in the canals polluting their water, the legal notice ... Read more

The results of Masters final part examination of 14 subjects held in 2007 under the National University were published on Sunday. The departments are Bengali, English, sociology, statistics, marketing, geography, home economics, Arabic, Pali, Sanskrit, psychology, library and information science, soil science and