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Aliya Sharafi started the musical component of a programme organised by Bengal Foundation on Sunday commemorating her father, the late exponent of Tagore song Kalim Sharafi, by rendering the song ‘Tomari jharna tolar nirjoney’. After her, Tagore singer Mita Haque rendered two songs – ‘Koto ajanare janaile tumi’ and

Boishakhi Television, a private television channel, has stepped into the sixth year of its journey yesterday. Information Minister Abul Kalam Azad and Managing Director of Boishakhi Rafiqul Amin inaugurated the anniversary by cutting a cake at 12:01am yesterday, says a press release. Mohammad Hossain, chairman of Destiny Group; Farid Akter, executive director of

The fourth convocation of Khulna University will be held on the university campus today. The university authorities will confer degrees on 2,526 students in the convocation, said university vice-chancellor Professor Md Saifuddin Shah at a press conference at the university on Monday. Twenty graduates of different departments from 2006 to 2010 sessions will be awarded ... Read more

Japan Bangladesh Friendship Hospital (JBFH) has organised a fortnight programme to motivate parents of under-five children to provide their children with polio vaccine and Vitamin A capsule. On the eve of National Immunisation Day on January 8, JBFH has started registration of under-five children at Dhanmondi and its adjacent areas in the city, says

Bapa urges govt Bangladesh Paribesh Andolon (Bapa) yesterday demanded of the government to take quick initiatives to restrict private cars on the roads of the capital to reduce traffic congestion. Bapa in a press release, signed by its general secretary Dr Md Abdul Matin, said newspapers reported that the government would restrict movement of private ... Read more

Form human chain demanding fresh tests The guardians in Rajshahi city demonstrated on Sunday, demanding holding of fresh tests for admission into Class III. They said that the results of the admission test held at six government schools in the city on Friday were tampered. They demanded holding of fresh tests without repeating the

At least seven people were killed and 11 others injured in separate road accidents in Bogra, Laxmipur and Dinajpur yesterday. Staff correspondent from Bogra reports: Four people were killed and eight injured in a head-on collision between a bus and a covered van on the Bogra-Rangpur Highway in Bogra Sadar upazila yesterday

Statisticians at an international conference at Dhaka University on Sunday stressed the need for improving the contents and teaching methods of statistics for its effective application. They said this at the inaugural session of the First International Conference on Theory and Applications of Statistics at the Nabab Nawab Ali Chowdhury Senate Hall Bhaban at Dhaka ... Read more

Owner of a chemical shop in city’s Kadamtali area allegedly killed the shop’s manager yesterday. Atiqur Rahman Mamun, 24, worked as the manager of Mita Chemicals at Shyampur in the city. Mamun’s brother Bashir Ahmed told The Daily Star that the shop owner and his men took Mamun to Kadamtali where piling work of the ... Read more

Dhaka University yesterday decided in principal to launch a new masters course on environmental education to build expertise on environment in national and international levels, says a press release. Prof Bishal K Sitaula of Norwegian University and Associate Professor Laxman Ganwali and Parbat Dhungana of Kathmandu University of Nepal called on DU

Results of terminal examinations of the students of Class V and ebtedayee (madrasa) for 2010 will be published today. The results will be available on the website of the primary education directorate http://www.dpe.gov.bd/ and website of the primary and mass education ministry http://www.mopms.gov.bd/ . Primary and Mass Education Minister Afsarul Amin will announce the results ... Read more

East West University Photography Club will organise a five-day long ‘Bangla-Lion 6th East West University Photography Exhibition-2010’ at the city’s Drik Gallery from today. University board of trustee head Prof Farashuddin Ahmed will inaugurate the exhibition at 4:30pm, while its Pro Vice-Chancellor Prof Mohammad Sharif will chair the inaugural session, says

The victory fair in Chittagong crowded round as several thousand people from all walks of life stream into the fair in the Chittagong city everyday. The fair organisers said the sale of various items in the stalls, especially handicrafts, also soared as the number of visitors increased in last few

Finds a 2-year research As many as 18 women die from cervical cancer and more than 35 others are diagnosed as having the fatal disease in the country every day, oncologists and gynaecologists told a research report dissemination session on Thursday. Cervical cancer is transmitted by virus and, in most cases, is related to sexually

A team of Chittagong Divisional Forest and Animal Preservation Department recovered at least 21 different species of birds and one mongoose here on Wednesday. Among them, three were common parrots, two Black Maynaes, 13 munias, one White Parrot, two Yellow Parrots and a mongoose

The festival on traditional Dhaka food started yesterday to conclude the celebration of the 400th year of Dhaka as capital. Dhaka Kendra and Spellbound jointly organised it on a Kalabagan sporting club ground with the assistance of city group, says

A drug addict youth stabbed a schoolgirl in Birganj upazila of Dinajpur district while stalkers injured a housewife and two of her relatives when they tried to save her sister-in-law from kidnap attempt by the4 delinquents at village Manirampur in Magura Sadar upazila on Tuesday evening. Seriously stabbed by a drug addict pervert in Birganj ... Read more

Eleven people were killed and 34 others injured in separate road accidents in Sirajganj, Gaibandha, Brahmanbaria, Pabna, Netrakona and Gazipur on Tuesday and yesterday. Our Sirajganj correspondent reports: A truck rammed a CNG-run auto rickshaw at Hatikumrul on the western side of Bangabandhu Bridge at about 7:30am, killing four people

The two-day 33th national council session of the Bangladesh Girls Guides Association started in Barisal Wednesday morning with a call to prevent stalking. The Barisal mayor, Shawkat Hossain Hiron, opened the programme by illuminating 33 lamps at Barisal Govt Girls School and participated in the anti-stalking human chain in front of the

A three-day screening of the film, Runway, of Tareque Masud begins in Sylhet today. Two cultural organisations — Shrutichitra and Prantik Parshad — in association with Chokh Film Society and Moviana Film Society, have taken the initiative to show the film along with Narasundar, a movie based on the story of War of Independence, at ... Read more