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Hundreds of bird lovers from across the country including the capital enjoyed the bird fair held on the Jahangirnagar University (JU) campus on Friday, amid unbounded enthusiasm and fun. Organised by JU Zoology Department, the fair was inaugurated by acting Vice-Chancellor of the university

Humayun Ahmed best director The government has announced to give the National Film Award 2012 to 24 artists and film professionals in recognition of their outstanding contributions to development of Bengali movies, reports UNB. The National Film Award 2012 will be given in 24 categories this year, said a PID handout on Thursday. The awardees are: Best ... Read more

Besides being a spot for the booklovers, the venue of the month-long Amar Ekushey Book Fair has been a meeting place for many who want to pass time with their dear ones and to ret rid of the monotony of routine life. People of all ages come to the fair, now on the Bangla Academy premise ... Read more

Children corner, as an integral part of the Book Fair 2014, at the Bangla academy premises with its 26 stalls were buzzing with youngsters yesterday as schools remained closed on the occasion of Saraswati Puja. Almost all day long children thronged every stall which were decorated with colorful motifs and cartoons to attract the young ... Read more

The number of migratory birds flying to the country has increased this year despite continuous destruction of wetlands, said bird experts. A team of bird experts and environmentalists last month conducted a census of migratory birds in different coastal areas and chars

Students of Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET), angered by injury of a colleague in an accident, brought out procession and blocked the Palashi intersection for around two hours yesterday. Anika Tasnim, a third year student of the architecture department, was injured when a speeding microbus hit the rickshaw in which she was travelling ... Read more

Three factories were gutted in a devastating fire at Kashaituli in Bangshal in the capital yesterday. Nine fire-fighting units, in cooperation with factory workers and local people, brought the fire under control in more than one and a half hours of efforts. The cause of the fire, extent of damage and casualty could not be ... Read more

Former students of the Department of English of Dhaka University yesterday gathered at the green meadow of the Teacher Student Centre (TSC) and recalled their past memories during their get together on the campus. Like the previous years, English Department Alumni Association organised the reunion at the TSC where the former students of the department ... Read more

Police found a partially decomposed body of a middle-aged woman from city’s Uttara area yesterday. A team of Uttara West Police Station on getting information recovered the body from a spot near house no 33 at road no 20 under Uttara 14 sector at around 12:30PM. Sub-Inspector Firoz of Uttara West Police Station said,‘‘ The ... Read more

Bangla Academy, the organiser of month-long Amar Ekushey Book Fair, on Thursday announced Bangla Academy Literary Award 2013. The academy director general, Shamsuzzaman Khan, at a press conference at the academy premises announced the names of ten authors who won

The 28th National Poetry Festival will begin on the Dhaka University campus at 9:00am on Saturday with the slogan ‘Kabita Sahena Danab Jatana.’ Poet Syed Shamsul Huq will inaugurate the two-day programme in front of the DU central library, organised by the National Poetry Council.

Former English Department students of Dhaka University will have a meeting at their annual get-together today. The reunion will begin at 3:00pm at the Teachers-Students Centre (TSC) where the graduates are expected to get together. This will be the 28th reunion of the English Department Alumni Society (EDAS) since its inception in December, 1986. Organisers ... Read more

The German ambassador in Dhaka, Albrecht Conze, on Wednesday said that his government would continue its support to ensure fire safety in the Bangladesh’s apparel factories as there was huge public pressure in the western world to ensure safety standard in the factories. ‘I do not think we would lose the momentum

The Bangla Academy authorities have taken all-out preparation to arrange the month-long Amar Ekushey Book Fair scheduled to begin in the capital on February 1, reports UNB. Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina is expected to inaugurate the book fair at 3 pm, deputy director of Bangla Academy Murshed Anwar told. Bangla Academy hopes this year’s book ... Read more

Sylhet City Corporation (SCC) has started drives to evict the illegal shops and establishments from the city’s footpaths. In the recent past, hawkers would take possessions on all the major sidewalks and roads in the Sylhet city and set up shops and establishments illegally. The footpaths of Bandar bazaar Surma Market point to Chauhatta, Shubhanighat, ... Read more

The government has given private universities failing to move their own, permanent campus for the third time, asking them to do so by September 15, 2015. If private universities that are in operation for more than seven years fail to move to their own campus by third deadline, they will lose their provisional approval to ... Read more

The measles-rubella vaccination campaign started on Saturday all over the country. According to the Directorate General of Health Service officials, the three-week long vaccination campaign will continue till February 13 and about 5.20 crore children will be given measles-rubella vaccine while 2.20 crore children the polio vaccine during the

The Detective Branch (DB) of police arrested six drug peddlers and confiscated six pounds of cocaine from Nikunju of Gulshan area in the city on Thursday. The drug peddlers are Md Kamrul Alam (40), a director of Madina Pharmaceuticals, Spanish expatriate Taher Mondol alias Zoba (30), pharmacy owner Mosharraf Hossain Bhuiyan (46), stock market trader

Green activists urged the government to take effective measures to check dust pollution in the capital. They made the demand in a human-chain programme jointly arranged by the Poribesh Bachao Andalan and Bangladesh Centre for Human Rights and Development in front of the National Museum. POBA joint secretary Md Abdus Sobhan urged the government to

Professor MA Matin has been appointed acting vice-chancellor of Jahangirnagar University for a month and directed to arrange VC panel election. President Abdul Hamid, also chancellor of the university, on Wednesday appointed statistics department professor, also Pro-VC (education) Professor MA Matin,