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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

Most drivers including those of heavy vehicles on busy highways lack institutional training and knowledge of traffic rules contributing to the increasing number of road accidents. They enter the profession as transport helpers or conductors at an early age and become drivers in a few years. A large number of them obtain fake driving licences ... Read more

The Civil Aviation and Tourism secretary, Shafique Alam Mehedi, on Monday inaugurated the seventh boarding bridge at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport to ensure sooth movement of the passengers. The boarding bridge was built in 30 months at a cost of Tk 14 crore with a view to ensure speedy exits and entrance of the passengers ... Read more

Srishtigarh School of Digital Film Making, a school set up in the capital for encouraging film making among the youths, is going to launch a certificate course on cinematography with 35mm adapter, lens, light and composition. The courses would start from November 26 and the basic teachings would be offered in 12

Rajshahi University reopens today amid tight security after Eid-ul-Azha. Seven entry points on the campus have been given now in the charge of law enforcing agencies to avoid untoward situations, said a university release on Monday. RU assistant proctor Mustak Ahmed told New Age that the identity cards of the students and entry

Police raided different areas of the city early hours yesterday following a mugging incident on Sunday afternoon and arrested three muggers with robbed cash and firearms. Police recovered two locally made guns, five rounds of bullets, a machete and looted money worth Tk 13,000 from their possession and also seized a CNG-run

A young man died yesterday evening after being hit by a train in Shamantapur area of Gazipur Pourashava. The deceased was identified as Mohabbel Hossain, 34, of Shoylapangsa village in Rajbari. He was a tobacco distributor of Abul Khair Group. Police said Mohabbel was walking on the rail tracks with his mobile phone’s headphones

Rapid Action Battalion (Rab-1) personnel yesterday arrested three alleged cheats from the city’s Uttara on charges of misappropriating money and valuables from people by identifying themselves as ‘Badshahs of Jinn’ (king of supernatural spirits). The arrestees are Kafil Uddin, 22, son of Abdul Kuddus, Abul Bashar Milon, 25, son of

The academic activities of Rajshahi College, one of the largest seats of learning in the north, are being seriously hampered for acute shortage of teacher, classroom, accommodation, transport and others necessary inputs. Official sources said the college has only 120 teachers to conduct the academic activities of more

Speakers at a programme yesterday said the quality of the country’s mathematics textbooks is the worst in the world. Quality textbooks are crucial as arithmetic and algorithmic knowledge are vital in almost every field of science including information communication technology (ICT), they