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Bangla Academy introduced a Student Ambassador Leadership Programme, aiming to create leadership among students in school and provide poor children with education facilities. Bangla Academy yesterday launched the programme at a press conference in the National Press Club in the city. The academy launched the similar programme in Australia on August

People protest pollution, misuse of the river Bangshi in Savar People from various organisations and localities joined a campaign yesterday in Savar to protest pollution and misuse of the river Bangshi, to save rivers and to reduce carbon emissions in the atmosphere. The programme was part of a global campaign to fight climate change, in ... Read more

A debate should be started to prohibit death penalty and the government could stop its execution before deciding on it, Professor F Bellivier, deputy secretary general of International Federation for Human Rights said yesterday. Poor and illiterate people mostly suffer from death penalty than the rich people as they

Maasranga Television, a concern of Square Group, started its test transmission yesterday morning. Syed Fahim Munaim, the chief executive officer (CEO) and chief editor of Maasranga, said they have a plan to go for a full-fledged transmission by the end of this year. They will give equal importance to both the news and entertainment programmes,

World Mental Health Day Today Frame law to ease sufferings of 1.4cr mentally ill people Rights activists urge govt World Mental Health Day will be observed today in the country as elsewhere in the world with rights activists urging the government to enact a law immediately to ease the sufferings of the country’s over 1.4 ... Read more

Poor Waste Management Minister says Dhaka uninhabitable Education Minister Nurul Islam Nahid yesterday said Dhaka is now not a liveable city, as it has no effective waste management system. The minister said this while he was speaking at the launching of a book titled “Solid and hazardous waste management” at Bangladesh University of Engineering and ... Read more

Continuous rainfall under the influence of depression in the Bay has been disrupting life in the metropolitan cities of the country for the past tow days. Our Chittagong correspondent adds: Many parts of the city have gone under ankle to knee-deep water because of the rainfall in the last two

The government, for the first time, has included its representatives in the management of the private universities of the country to ensure monitoring over the universities. The University Grants Commission (UGC) finalised a list of 51 educationalists to function as syndicate members of 51 private universities, said UGC sources. It has been sent to the

Dozens of minority-community members in Dhaka on Friday said they have been facing discrimination and exploitation in workplaces and in society because of their place of birth and professional identities. People from the community at a human chain also urged the government to take initiatives to eliminate disparity between the community members and other people ... Read more

The registration for admission to Rajshahi University Engineering and Technology BSc honours courses under the academic session 2010-11 started on Friday and will continue till October 25 through mobile phone short message service. The admission test will be held on November 8 at 9:30am to 1:30pm, a RUET press

A Unesco delegation has wrapped up a two-day visit to Santinekatan in West Bengal state to assess whether Rabindranath Tagore’s abode of peace, which also hosts Visva Bharati University, could be listed as a world heritage site, officials said yesterday. Led by Kai Wisa, head of the International Council for Monuments and Sites (ICMOS),

Gulshan Couple Murder Criminals now attack son, daughter-in-law Six months into the killing of their parents, Shihab and his wife Momtaj Begum came under attack by the killers’ cohorts in the city’s Badda yesterday. The couple, Sadequr Rahman and Romana Nargis, was killed on March 24 at their Gulshan residence after they refused to marry ... Read more

A German radio station, Deutsche Welle (DW), officially launched its programmes in Bangla using the FM frequencies of the state-run radio station Bangladesh Betar yesterday. Listeners in six divisional cities — Dhaka, Chittagong, Sylhet, Khulna, Rajshahi and Rangpur — can reach DW programmes from 8:00am to 8:30am, and 8:00pm to 8:30pm

Scientists have suggested Bangladesh must pay particular attention to the untapped potentials and latest technologies to increase rice production, as the country faces challenges for rapid population growth, decline of land and regular natural disasters. They said Bangladesh has been almost self-sufficient in rice with over three crore tonnes

House rent in the Rajshahi city has doubled in the recent years, causing serious problems to the tenants. There are allegations that the house owners increase the rent on their whim, flouting the rules in this regard. According to the Premises Rent Control Act 1991, there should be a written deal between the house owner ... Read more

33 vie for one seat The Chittagong University honors admission test under the 2010-’11 academic session is going to begin tomorrow. More than 33 candidates, on an average, have been contesting for a single seat this year. A total of 1,11,560 applications have been received through mobile phone short message

The Supreme Court (SC) yesterday gave permission to the Jamuna Television (JTV) authorities to file an appeal with SC challenging the High Court (HC) verdict that upheld the government decision to cancel frequency allocation to JTV and to stop its test transmission. A three-member bench of the Appellate Division headed by Chief Justice ABM Khairul ... Read more

The Rajshahi University authorities could not arrange any convocation in the past twelve years, with the last convocation held in 1998. Only seven convocations were held so far since the inception of the university in 1953, according to university sources

Five young men were killed in separate incidents in the city’s different parts and Savar yesterday. In an incident, unidentified miscreants stabbed Alamgir Hossain, 25, an alleged drug addict and security guard Bulbul, 30, to death behind Savar Municipal market around 3:00am. Police recovered the bodies and sent those to Dhaka Medical College Hospital morgue ... Read more

Foreign Minister Dipu Moni on Saturday called for rationalisation of distribution of aid that many donors allocate based on political, economic and strategic interests. She made the call while she was addressing as co-chair an interactive policy dialogue on quality and quantity of ODA for LDCs and their debt problem in Lisbon, says a