Physically challenged Mohoram Ali is set to start his world tour on a wheelchair on June 28 to raise awareness about the rights of physically challenged people. Mohoram, 24, whose left leg was paralysed at the age of one and a half years due to polio, plans to begin the tour with India and seek ... Read more
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Still students after 7 yrs, BCS a pipe dream for JnU’s 1st batch
Session jams have meant studentsof Jagannath University’s 2005-2006 session are still in 8thsemester While students of 2005-06 academic year in most other public universities have already taken the 31st Bangladesh Civil Service (BCS) examination and entered the life of regular service, students of the same session in Jagannath University (JnU) are still waiting and fretting. ... Read more
Girl commits suicide at RU
4 killed in four months A female student of Rajshahi University committed suicide by jumping into a pond inside her hall of residence on the campus on Friday night. The diseased was Umme Habiba Mimi, a second-year student of marketing and resident of Taposhi Rabeya Hall
Concern rises over growing number of women smoker
Anti-tobacco activists in a workshop on Saturday laid stress on raising awareness to keep the women away from smoking and urged the government take action to stop smoking in public places. Tamak Birodhi Nari Jote organised the workshop titled ‘National budget: increase tobacco taxes and raise awareness to stop smoking in public places’ at its ... Read more
150000 people go abroad for treatment a year
Some 150,000 patients, particularly from the affluent section, go abroad for treatment every year due to lack of sophisticated healthcare facilities in the country, causing huge financial losses. A recent study shows the patients mostly travel to India, Singapore, Thailand and Malaysia for better treatment. State Minister for Health Mozibur Rahman Fakir said the government ... Read more
WASA people at Sayedabad plant don’t use Shanti
People working at the Sayedabad water treatment plant of the Dhaka Water Supply and Sewerage Authority drink mineral water processed and marketed by another company instead of its own brand, Shanti, although the WASA product adheres to the required standards. During a programme at the plant on Wednesday, where Denmark’s ambassador Svend Olling and
Arsenic detector costing Tk 700 developed
Even an illiterate person can use the gadget In a first for the country, the Bangladesh Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (BCSIR) has developed an arsenic-detecting kit which will be available for Tk 700 as against the Tk 1.5 lakh price of an imported one. “Even an illiterate person can use the gadget and ... Read more
Crowd marks last day of Rajshahi mango fair
The seven-day mango fair in the Rajshahi city witnessed a huge crowed on the concluding day on Tuesday. The fair, organised by the Rajshahi City Corporation on its Green Plaza premises, began with only one stall, which later grew to 10. People from the city and suburbs visited the fair to buy fruits and books ... Read more
RU students continue movement for TSCC
The students and cultural organisations of Rajshahi University held cultural programmes and launched a mass signature campaign on Tuesday, demanding the immediate opening of the Teachers and Students Cultural Centre at the institution. Around 200 general students, members of the Progressive Students Alliance, platform of four
WASA bottled water project goes belly up
Bottled mineral water Shanti marketed by the Dhaka Water Supply and Sewerage Authority is failing to attract Dhaka city dwellers’ attention in the absence of a proper marketing policy, observed officials concerned. Shaheda Islam, microbiologist at the Mirpur Bottled Water Production Plant (Shanti), said the authorities took the Tk 17-crore Shanti project in 2006, when ... Read more
NU bachelor’s 1st year results published
National University published its results for bachelor’s (honours) first year examinations on Wednesday, said a NU release. A total of 1, 88,622 students took the examinations that were held from February to April this year. Apart form the colleges; the results are also available on NU website
Tragic
A female college student committed suicide in the capital’s Mirpur area Tuesday night, a day after her lover committed suicide in Malaysia. Rimi Parvin, a second-year student of social work of Mirpur University College, hanged herself at her brother-in-law Nuruzzaman’s house at Pirerbag around
30,000 toxic bananas destroyed
A mobile court yesterday destroyed around 30,000 toxic bananas and fined a trader Tk 5,000 for ripening the fruit artificially at a wholesale store in Radhanagar village of Pabna Sadar upazila. The court led by Pabna Sadar Upazila Nirbahi Officer (UNO) Salma Khatun raided the wholesale shop of Md Anwar Hossain and seized the fruit ... Read more
Husband beats up DU teacher
A teacher of Dhaka University was critically injured and lost an eye as her husband brutally beat her up a few days ago. The victim, faculty member of international relations department at DU, was assaulted by her husband Syeed Hasan Sumon on June 5 while staying at her parents’ residence in the capital’s
2 girls rescued while being sold to brothel
The police foiled a bid to sell two female garment workers to Daulatdia brothel in Goalanda upazila and arrested their trafficker Monday night. The victims were Hazera Khatun, 18, and Amena Begum, 18. They are workers of Redoy Knitwear in Tongi and both are residents of Kendua upazila of
SSC examinee kills herself after failure
A girl committed suicide after failing to pass this year’s SSC exams at Satla village of Uzirpur upazila in Barisal Thursday afternoon. Bithika, 15, youngest daughter of Laxman Chandra Bain, hanged herself with a scarf from a beam of her tin-shed house, said Nasiruddin, sub-inspector of Uzirpur
78pc Pass in Ctg
Fauzdarhat tops list Pass rate in SSC examinations under Chittagong board rose by 5.96 percentage point to 78.27 percent this year from last year’s 72.31 percent. Total examinees were 77,465 under the board this year. Of them 77,325 students sat for the examinations and 60,521 came out successful from 921
Machine readable visa launched
The government yesterday started issuing machine readable visas (MRV) from the passport office in the capital’s Agargaon and aims to expand it to other divisional offices within a fortnight. Home Minister Sahara Khatun launched the process by handing over the passport to a foreigner with an MRV sticker
Rajuk to allot 1,250 plots in Jhilmil project
Applications to be invited for the third time soon Rajdhani Unnayan Kartripakkha (Rajuk) is set to invite applications for a third time for allotting around 1,250 plots in its Jhilmil Residential Area project in Keraniganj within a few days. Rajuk Chairman Nurul Huda said the Ministry of Housing and Public Works (MHPW) has already approved ... Read more
Husband sets wife on fire in Savar after quarrel
A 16-year-old housewife is struggling for her life at the Dhaka Medical College Hospital after her husband allegedly poured kerosene on her body and set her on fire at Kaowdia in Savar on Friday evening, said the victim’s family members. The victim, Pinky Akhtar Shahnaz, was admitted to the burn and plastic surgery unit of ... Read more