Principal Husne Ara, Bashundhara branch in-charge relieved of charge The family of the Viqarunnissa Noon School and College student who was raped by Parimal Jayadhar, a teacher of the institution’s Bashundhara branch who was sacked and arrested, will file a petition to the court against the charge sheet the police submitted to the metropolitan magistrate’s ... Read more
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Judicial body member visits spot with lone survivor
The one-man judicial committee, formed on August 10 to probe the killing of six students at Amin Bazaar in Savar, visited the places of occurrence on Saturday along with the lone survivor of the brutal lynching that took place in the early hours of July 18. The judicial committee of Dhaka metropolitan magistrate Utpal Chowdhury, ... Read more
RU teachers, students demand withdrawal of all cases
Rajshahi University teachers and students on Saturday demanded that the government and the authorities concerned should withdraw the cases filed against the university students in connection with the August 2007 campus protests. Campus protests began on August 20 with Dhaka University students taking to the streets
SUST decides to give extra time for examinees with disabilities
The Shahjalal University of Science and Technology has decided to give an extra five minutes per hour for examinees with disabilities. The decision was made in the 117th academic council meeting on Saturday afternoon, confirmed the university officials. The SUST authorities are also mulling over offering the extra time for the admission seekers with
UNFPA to fund $70m for next five years
The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) has pledged to fund $70 million in the next five-year (2012-16) plan to improve the country’s maternal and reproductive health and tackle violence against women. UNFPA Executive Director Dr Babatunde Osotimehin said this at a press conference at Ruposhi Bangla Hotel in the city yesterday, ending his three-day visit ... Read more
City buses bypass orders on designated bus stops
Poor monitoring deepens crisis Most of the buses plying Dhaka roads do not follow transport committee orders concerning designated bus stops in absence of proper monitoring by Bangladesh Road Transport Authority and Dhaka Metropolitan Police. The authorities concerned said that Dhaka Metropolitan Regional Transport Committee, popularly
Woman killed by wild elephant
A woman was killed by wild elephant on Wednesday in hilly area of Islampur union in Cox’s Bazar Sadar upazila. The deceased was Khorsida Begum, 35, daughter of Ishaque Mia of village Lalsiha under Islampur union in the Cox’s Bazar Sadar upazila. With this, the number of killing by wild elephant has risen to nine ... Read more
Number of science students on decline
Says research paper The number of students studying science is decreasing so alarmingly that Bangladesh is likely to face a huge shortfall in human resources adept in science and technology in near future, reveals a research paper. The decreasing rate of science students is 31.33 percent in the last eight years, says the study titled ... Read more
6.6pc boys, 15.3 percent girls face sexual harassment
Reveals study Around 6.6 percent boys and 15.3 percent girls of the country experience different forms of sexual harassment by their friends, relatives, teachers, and familiar persons, a study finds. Although the incidents of harassment including rape and different penetrative and non-penetrative acts seldom come to light, the academic progresses of the abused children are ... Read more
DU online admission forms launched
Online forms for admission in Dhaka University under its 2011-12 session were made available on Tuesday. The university vice-chancellor, AAMS Arefin Siddique, launched the online forms in the registrar building’s central admission room at noon. The forms will be available till September 15 and the applicants have to take admit cards within
Jewel Aich, Moushumi new UNICEF advocate for child’s rights
Magician Jewel Aich and film actress Arifa Zaman Moushumi formally joined the United Nation’s Children’s Fund as the ‘UNICEF advocates for child’s rights’ through a programme in Dhaka on Tuesday. A media release issued by UNICEF on Tuesday confirmed that the celebrities would work with UNICEF to promote child rights and create awareness of child ... Read more
Yunus meets Hillary Clinton
Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus met the US secretary of state, Hillary Rodham Clinton, at her office in the state department on Thursday. They discussed a broad range of issues relating to microcredit and social business as tools to fight poverty, and other issues relating to women and global justice, according to a message from
Patients, their attendants hail RMCH ban on MRs
Patients, their attendants and people in general have welcomed the ban on the entry of the pharmaceutical company representatives to Rajshahi Medical College Hospital, taking effect from Thursday morning. The decision, taken on August 4 in a meeting of RMCH staff led by its director Brigadier General Abdus Sabur Mia, restricted the movement of the ... Read more
Govt won’t allow even an inch of land for terrorism
Says prime minister Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday said the present government will not allow anyone to use even an inch of land of the country for terrorism. “My government is always against terrorism. We won’t allow any space to the terrorists; we won’t allow an inch of land of the country to be used ... Read more
Air force raises objection to metro rail route
Bangladesh Air Force (BAF) has raised objection to the proposed metro rail route through Bijoy Sarani reasoning that its height would hinder air traffic. It has proposed to move the route alignment to Khamar Bari at Farmgate. On the other hand, Japan International Cooperation Agency (Jica), the lone financer of the metro rail
Application time for Jhilmil plots extended
Rajdhani Unnayan Kartripakkha (Rajuk) has extended the time to apply for allotment of around 1250 plots at Jhilmil Residential Area project by one month following demands from applicants. The revised deadline is now September 25, which was August 25, said Rajuk Chairman Nurul Huda. “We have allowed the time extension honouring the request of applicants ... Read more
Judicial probe instituted
A one-member judicial committee was appointed on Wednesday to probe into the lynching of six students at Amin Bazaar in Savar on July 18. Metropolitan magistrate Utpal Chowdhury has been asked to probe intothe incident and submit a report in 30 days. Dhaka chief metropolitan magistrate AKM Enamul Haque instituted the probe into the incident ... Read more
Woman killed by husband
A man allegedly strangled her wife to death and left the body in his slum house in the city’s Pallabi Tuesday night. The slum dwellers said they found Sathi Akhter, 25, lying dead in the bed as they went to the house hearing her one-year-old son crying. They informed police of the incident around 1:00am
Rajshahi hospitals, clinics lack proper waste management
Rajshahi Medical College Hospital, the biggest healthcare facility in the north-region, and others public and private hospitals in the city bad lack in waste disposal facilities, exposing people to serious health hazards. The 530-bed Rajshahi Medical College Hospital dumps its garbage in two open brick-built dustbins, built on its premises, said patients and staff at ... Read more
German woman mugged at Gulshan
A 51-year-old German woman sustained cuts and bruises after snatchers on a car dragged her around 150 metres along with her bag in the city’s Gulshan on Sunday. She was returning home from her workplace with her husband on a rickshaw on road number 117 around 7:45pm when the white sedan with tinted windows blocked ... Read more