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Private universities, which failed to shift to their own campus will no longer be allowed to open further departments. According to the Private University Act, it is mandatory to own a campus within five years of opening, a condition which only nine out of 54 private universities managed to

The High Court yesterday directed the government to immediately stop piracy through properly enforcing the copyright law, and confiscate all the pirated copies of audio and video CDs from markets. The court also declared piracies of audio music, video films and documents illegal. An HC bench of Justice AHM Shamsuddin Chowdhury Manik and

Three institutions of South Asia will jointly carry out a three-year study on water security and related issues that surfaced due to increasing urbanisation and global climate change. Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (Buet), Nepal Engineering College and India-based South Asia Consortium for Interdisciplinary Water Resources Studies will

A month-long garment, loom products exhibition and hena festival was launched at the Green Plaza of the Rajshahi City Corporation Tuesday noon. Amra Rajshahibashi, a voluntary social organisation working to protect local tradition, arranged the programme. The Rajshahi mayor, AHM Khairuzzaman Liton, inaugurated the programme at

A two-day international education fair begins tomorrow in the Dhaka city’s Pan Pacific Sonargaon Hotel. A total of 45 foreign education consultant organisations will take part in the fair organised by the Foreign Admission and Career Development Consultants Association of

The Dhaka Collegiate School Alumni Association will observe its 175th founding anniversary on December 17 and 18 this year at the Bangabandhu International Conference Centre in the city. Former students and their wives will participate in the function on first day and the current

The High Commission of India yesterday announced introduction of mandatory online submission of visa applications for nationals of all countries applying for visa with Indian Visa Application Centres (IVACs) Dhaka, Sylhet and Chittagong with effect from

More than 90 per cent kindergarten and non-government English medium primary-level educational institutions in Sylhet are running without approval in the absence of monitoring by the authorities concerned. No specific data about how many of such institutions are running in the city and on

Prof Amena Mohsin, former chairperson of Dhaka University’s International Relations Department, yesterday said intensive courses and seminars are needed to help Bangladeshi students face academic challenges in other countries. She said viewed from a global perspective, local universities, especially

The Chittagong City Corporation drew up a budget of Tk 741.51 crore for 2010-11 fiscal year with a surplus of Tk 1.78 crore and without imposing new tax on city dwellers on Thursday The CCC Mayor M Manjur Alam announced the budget at a general meeting at the corporation auditorium Thursday noon when

The government has appointed Imtiaz Ahmed, current Bangladesh ambassador to Sweden as the next ambassador of Bangladesh to the Kingdom of Bhutan, according to an official announcement yesterday. The relation between Bhutan and Bangladesh has always been positive since the former

The preliminary tests of 30th Bangladesh Civil Service (BCS) examinations will be held today. Over 1.31 lakh applicants will sit for the first-round exams in 110 centres across the country from 10:00am, competing for 2,572 posts of various cadres, said Public Service Commission (PSC)

Saarc Food Bank’s fourth meeting will be held on October 27-28 in Dhaka, which is likely to clear the way for making the bank operational to address any food crisis in South Asia. The Ministry of Food and Disaster Management at a meeting on Tuesday fixed the date for the meet

Two youths were caned and fined Tk 50,000 on Tuesday in an arbitration at Khadimpara on the suburb of the Sylhet city for harassing a schoolgirl. Local arbitrators declared the verdict against Rezaul, 21, son of Mostafa Miah, and Abdul Kaiyum,

The Group of Liberal Debaters Bangladesh of the Rajshahi University unit arranged a four-day inter-department debate championship and debaters’ hunt-2010 from Wednesday at the university deans’ complex. At around 11:00am, the university unit GOLD Bangladesh started its opening ceremony for

Speakers at a Khulna divisional advocacy meeting on Saturday suggested giving more autonomy to the city corporations so that they can do their works freely. They also suggested promoting regional products for proper development of the country as

A human chain was formed on Saturday to urge the government to take necessary steps for the protection of Wise House and other important archeological sites from land grabbers, as also to save the country’s cultural heritage and tradition. The human chain was jointly organised by Bangladesh Academy of Fine Arts (BAFA) and

The food and disaster management minister, Mohammad Abdur Razzak, on Saturday inaugurated Bangladesh Scouts’ national course on emergency help during disasters. Fifty rover scouts, five trainers and 10 observers from different parts of the country took

An exhibition of more than 50 photographs by 20 adolescents began at the Rajshahi Chamber of Commerce and Industry auditorium in the Rajshahi city on Saturday. The Adolescent Development Programme, an education plan of non-governmental organisation

A three-day Annual Science Fair of the Bangladesh International School (BIS) ended on the school premises in the city yesterday, said a press release. Out of the 46 science projects exhibited at the science fair, two projects titled ‘Effect of human