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A six-member team of South Korean volunteers arrived in Dhaka on Tuesday to train people in different trades, according to a KOICA release. The six volunteers will be attached to host organisations for two years to provide training in computers, automobiles, nursing, bakery and

A female professor of an Argentine university was mugged near Fakirapul Water Tank in the city yesterday morning. Professor Anatilde Ltoya, 60, was injured when two muggers snatched her bag with her passport, Euro 1000, US $ 2000 and Tk

Chittagong University authorities have postponed viva of G-unit of the 1st year honours admission test scheduled on November 30 due to unavoidable reasons. The oral test of G-unit will be held at 10:00am on December

A man was stabbed to death by unidentified criminals at Monsurabad C&B colony in the port city yesterday. The deceased was identified as Md Nobi Hossain, 40, of Machhimpur Muhuri Bari under Daganbhiuyan upazila of Feni. Jahirul Hoque, sub-inspector of Double Mooring Police Station, said some unidentified

Padma Bridge Ten firms submit pre-qualification statements Ten firms have submitted their pre-qualification statements for the $2.4 billion construction work of the Padma multipurpose bridge. The firms put forward their documents on the last date of submission of the statement yesterday, bridge division sources

Primary Education Terminal Exam 7,755 students absent on 2nd day The second day of the Primary Education Terminal Examination was held peacefully yesterday with a total of 7,755 students absent. Of the total absent, some 7,141 students are from general primary while 614 from ebtadai madrasas, according to the control

The European Union will finance more than one third of the costs of the Bangladesh Population and Housing Census 2011. To this effect, an agreement was signed between the European Union and the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) yesterday to fund a project titled “Support to the 2011 Bangladesh Population and

The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) will now have full-fledged presence in Bangladesh through establishment of its own delegation in Dhaka. To this effect, an agreement between the Bangladesh government and the ICRC has been signed at the foreign affairs ministry

An unidentified young girl was brutally killed and her body was buried under a construction site of a real estate company in the capital’s Gulshan yesterday. Gulshan police arrested two security guards Rafiqul Islam and Abdul Kaiyum of a private company Basumoti Security Service hired by the real estate

Chinese ambassador Zang Xian Yi on Wednesday inaugurated a China studies centre on the North South University campus in Dhaka. The inauguration of the centre, aimed at providing facilities of research and academic activities on China, was also attended

The Anti-Corruption Shadow Parliamentary Debate competition will be held on December 9 marking the International Anti Corruption Day. Graduate and post-graduate students have been invited to participate in the debate competition on the topic of “Impact of Corruption on the Environment,” said a

With an aim to improve air quality in the capital, the government is working to address two main sources of air pollution, emissions from vehicles and brick kilns. The government is running a project “Clean Air and Sustainable Environment Project” funded by the World Bank (WB), says a press release

Grameenphone Limited, Bangladesh’s largest cellular operator, will pair up with Channel i to provide information services to farmers. Jon Fredrik Baksaas, president and CEO of Telenor Group, largest shareholder in Grameenphone, expressed his willingness

Denial to Give Free Food Shopkeeper assaulted Miscreants injured a shopkeeper and a schoolboy and assaulted several others in the city’s Kadamtali area yesterday as the shopkeeper refused to give them food for free on Monday. The miscreants created a dreadful situation by exploding at least ten cocktails. Shopkeeper Mohammad Sumon, 25, received injuries on ... Read more

The US government will invest $63 billion in Bangladesh and 7 other countries to strengthen the health and family planning system and to develop the nutritional status of the people till 2015. Under its Global Health Initiative (GHI) programme, the US government has already provided $54 million to Bangladesh as one of the “GHI Plus” ... Read more

The viva for the first year bachelor’s degree admission in Rajshahi University is going to start today at the university’s dean complex. According to a RU release, the viva of A1, A2, A3, A4, A5 and A6 would be held on November 24 and 25, ‘B unit’ viva would

BBA first year admission test in the session 2010-2011 under the faculty of business administration (Ga unit ) of Dhaka University will be held on November 26, said a DU press release . The one-hour admission test will start at 10:00am. The candidates have been asked to visit the university website http://www.univdhaka.edu/ or

Valerie Taylor, founder and coordinator of Centre for the Rehabilitation of the Paralysed (CRP), received an honorary doctorate degree in Health Sciences from York St John University, UK, on November 19, says a press release. The degree was conferred to her at the convocation ceremony of the university. It was

The Sylhet Osmani Medical College Hospital still lacks a mortuary cooler even 30 years after the hospital morgue was established, seriously hampering the forensic evidence preservation and post-mortem examinations. According to the hospital sources, the SOMCH was established in 1962 and the morgue of

At least 12 people were killed and 22 others injured in separate road accidents in Comilla, Barisal, Jhenidah, Magura, Lalmonirhat and Narayanganj on Sunday night and yesterday. UNB from Comilla reports: At least four people were killed and 16 others injured in a head-on collision between a bus and a truck on Dhaka-Chittagong highway in