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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

Claims madrasa secretary Rajdhani Unnyan Kartripakhha (Rajuk) unjustly leased out a big plot to an association by taking the Waqf land of Naimuddin Madrasa at Baridhara in the city, claimed the secretary of madrasa at a press conference yesterday. Md Shahidur Rahman, secretary (Motowalli) of Moulavi Md Naimuddin Mia Waqf Estate

Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) here yesterday destroyed a huge quantity of contraband liquor, phensidyl, yaba tablets and compact discs (CDs) containing pornographic material, seized in separate drives over the last six months. Members of the elite force destroyed the seized items worth over Tk 5 crore at around

30th BCS Preliminary Test HC asks PSC to give full marks for wrong questions The High Court yesterday directed the Public Service Commission to publish the results of 30th Bangladesh Civil Service preliminary test and award candidates full marks for 11 wrong questions on the disputed set-2 question paper. There were three sets of question ... Read more

The online registration of US Diversity Visa (DV) 2012 lottery starts at 10:00pm tomorrow and will continue until November 3. A maximum of 6,000 Bangladeshis, on winning the lottery, can get the chance to become permanent US residents, said US Embassy officials in Dhaka at a press conference at the city’s

Health minister tells international conference At least 80 lakh people with hepatitis B are prone to serious kind of liver diseases, which should be handled by skilled hepatologists, said hepatologists at the inauguration of Livercon 2010, the 9th biannual international conference of Association for the Study of the Liver, Bangladesh (ASLB) held at a city ... Read more

The ICT fair at the Uttara Community Centre in the Rajshahi city drew a huge crowd on the concluding day of the fair on Saturday. A large number of students from different educational institutions in the city thronged the fair premises to have an overview of the state-of-the-art technology

The 28th BCS candidates, who were excluded from viva, demanded their immediate appointments to the non-cadre posts in the government services before the final results of 29th BCS exams are out. The job seekers made the demand at a human chain at the footstep of Aparajeyo Bangla at Dhaka University yesterday

Environment activists on Saturday urged the people to use traditional products made of earth, jute, bamboo and cane instead of polythene and plastic products to save the environment. They made the call at a discussion meeting titled ‘Use of plastic can, bottle and products: dangerous impact on human body’ and organised by Bangladesh Paribesh Andolan ... Read more