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The authority of Khulna University has chalked out an elaborate program to celebrate its 23rd founding anniversary on November 25. The KU campus will be illuminated and improve diet will be served at all dormitories on the day. Khulna University was launched with 80 students under four departments in 1990-91 academic years. The KU authority celebrated

Victims of Savar Rana Plaza tragedy who turned disabled received artificial limbs from BRAC Limb and Brace Centre on Saturday. BRAC at a simple ceremony in Dhaka also provided a fixed deposit of Tk 100,000 for each 11 victims as part of a long-term rehabilitation support. Following the tragic incident in Savar Rana Plaza

Amid rising concerns of public health experts, the department of livestock is proceeding to commercially introduce the poultry vaccine against avian influenza virus from December, officials said on Thursday. Livestock department officials said that they had sent the draft proposal to the ministry of fisheries and livestock for approval by the national

The poachers catch birds and then sell them in local markets openly. Indiscriminate poaching of birds by a section of local people has started in the wetlands of the southern region, including Khulna, barely with the advent of winter this year. Both with a callous disregard for ecology and greed for money and meat of ... Read more

At least three siblings were injured as miscreants looted cash money, a motorcycle and a gold chain in Sylhet on Thursday evening. The victims were identified as Shahadat Khan Dabir, 35, son of the late Kutub Khan of Noapara at Akhalia area in the city, and his sister Lucky Begum, 30, and brother Kabir Khan, 25, ... Read more

Some 15 fruit shops were burnt in a fire that broke out at Bansh Bazar in the city’s Shanirakhra area Friday morning. Fire service sources said the fire originated from a cigarette butt at a shop around 8:00am and it soon engulfed the adjoining ones. On information, three firefighting units

A construction worker died on Friday after falling from a 10-storey building at Mugda of the capital. The deceased was identified as Md Ali, 25. Dhaka Medical College Hospital police outpost inspector Mozammel Haque said Ali fell from the sixth floor of a ten-storey under-construction

Dumping of untreated wastes in an open filed of the Sylhet city has exposed public health and environment to severe threat for more than two decades. Local people have complained that garbage, including household and clinical wastes, is not only creating public nuisance, but also putting adverse

Physician Killing In Khulna 72-hr given for arrest of killer Physicians at a rally in Khulna on Thursday gave a 72-hour ultimatum to the law enforcement agencies to arrest the killer of physician Gouranga Das. If otherwise, they warned that they would launch tougher agitation programmes from a general meeting to be held on November ... Read more

The intake test of the third batch of Barisal University will be held on November 28. The 120-mark written intake test in MCQ system will be held in three shifts at 11 centres including temporary and permanent campus of the university, four government colleges and two government schools, one government technical institute, two private colleges ... Read more

A CNG driver was killed in a road accident in the cantonment area of the capital as miscreants left the driver on the road after drugging him and hijacking his valuables. Cantonment police subinspector Kamal Hossain said the deceased, Jahangir Hossain, 35, was drugged by muggers as they snatched the CNG and

World Philosophy Day was observed on Thursday at Dhaka University with the theme ‘united society, sustainable planet’. DU philosophy and Dev Centre of Philosophical Research organised the daylong function, inaugurated by DU vice-chancellor AAMS Arefin Siddique. Marking the day, a colourful procession

Smoking, both active and passive, causes cancer of lung, throat, mouth and stomach and it also affects heart functioning and breathing, speakers at a participatory discussion said in Rajshahi on Thursday. They viewed there has been many evidences that smoking and uses of tobacco products kill thousands of people every year. So, there is no alternative ... Read more

The admission tests for the first year honours courses of BSc engineering and Bangladesh urban and rural planning of Khulna University of Engineering and Technology under 2013-14 academic session begin on November 23, a KUET press release said. This year, the tests will be held for 10 departments under three faculties. A total of 7,625 admission seekers ... Read more

Gold smuggling through Chittagong Shah Amanat International Airport has seen a sudden escalation in recent times with a syndicate of international gold smugglers reportedly remaining active for long. Sources said at least 10 to 15 groups of local smugglers having link with the international syndicate bring in huge smuggled gold into the country from abroad ... Read more

ATN Bangla chief adviser Saiful Bari died of old age complications at a city hospital on Tuesday morning. He was 77. Saiful Bari, who had been undergoing treatment for prolonged illness, including cancer, breathed his last at LabAid Hospital around 5:00am, said Rafiqul Islam, newsroom editor of ATN Bangla. Bari, also a veteran journalist, was born ... Read more

THE interns at Rajshahi Medical College Hospital on Wednesday threatened to launch an undefined strike in protest at allowing internship of private medical college students at the hospital. They pressed for their demand in a meeting with the hospital’s acting director Professor Dayem Uddin at his office at noon. RMCH sources said recently

The three-day Bangladesh International Tourism Fair 2013 starts on November 28 at Bangabandhu International Conference Centre of the capital. The Bangladesh Foundation for Tourism Development and the Association of Travel Agents of Bangladesh in collaboration with the Ministry of

Nabanna Utshab1420, harvesting season in late autumn, was observed colourfully on Wednesday by Dalit Matua Community at Natun Bazar in Barisal. Participants in the festival called for an end to communal violence and observing the festival nationally. Matua Sampradaya, the Hindu Dalits sect

Rampant saline water-based shrimp cultivation on agricultural lands in the south-western coastal region of the country including Khulna, Bagerhat and Satkhira districts poses a threat to soil fertility, thus casting an ominous shadow on country’s food security and environment as a whole. The farmland of Koyra, Paikgaccha, Dacope upazilas of Khulna district,