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The government will soon conduct a survey to determine the exact number of disabled people in the country. The survey will first begin in Dhaka division, said Gazi Md Nurul Kabir, managing director of Jatiya Pratibandi Unnayan Foundation, at a meeting held at LGED Bhaban on Sunday. Manusher Jonno Foundation, an organisation for promoting human ... Read more

‘Local Government Engineering Department (LGED) is playing an important role towards infrastructure development in Bangladesh’. This was observed by Thevakumar Kandiah, the newly appointed country director, Bangladesh resident mission, Asian Development Bank (ADB), during his visit of LGED headquarters in the

Media should rely on independent sources to cover events, speakers say at roundtable There is no alternative to a free media with independent sources for ensuring peace in the South Asian region, speakers at a roundtable said yesterday. “Media has to be allowed to perform its role independently for establishing peace in South Asia,” said

Thirteen teachers of Dhaka University Business Studies faculty on Saturday were given Dean’s Academic Award in recognition of their outstanding contributions in research works. The Dhaka University vice-chancellor, AAMS Arefin Siddique, as chief guest, handed over the crests to the awarded teachers in an award ceremony at the Business Studies conference hall on

Paribesh Bachao Andolan and Barnak Samaj yesterday jointly launched a programme to free “Lal Math” of Mirpur in the city from encroachers. Poba chairman Abu Naser Khan and local lawmaker Ilias Uddin Mollah inaugurated the programme. Eviction of the shops at the field and building boundary walls for the field started

Hope for the Poorest (HP), a sister concern of ASA and Prime Medical College Hospital, Rangpur signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) tecently to provide free eye treatment to the extreme poor of Rangpur district, says a prèss release. Poor people will be provided with free eye treatment including operation and necessary

Experts on earthquake at an awareness campaign on Friday said Dhaka was the second most vulnerable city to earthquake in the world and a moderate quake might cause severe devastation in the densely populated city. They also emphasised building awareness about the measures which should be taken before,

Green activists on Friday called upon the government to engage the traffic police for implementing laws against sound pollution by fining vehicles with hydraulic horns and using horns without reason. The monitoring system should be strengthened at all public places, where the involvement of traffic

A five-member Bangladesh National Mathematical Team will leave the country tomorrow to compete in the 51st International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO) to be held at Astana in Kazakhstan. The team members are Tarik Adnan Moon of Kustia Govt College, Pranon Rahman Khan of Sylhet MC College,

Air service on Rajshahi-Dhaka route will start again on a limited scale this month. Galaxy Flying Academy, a private flying training school, signed a contract with the aviation authorities for the service. Rajshahi Mayor AHM Khairuzzaman Liton informed the media about this at a news briefing

Examinees of Secondary School Certificate examinations and their guardians are worried over delay in publishing the results of Barisal Education Board. Asifur Rahman, an SSC examinee, said re-examination results of Dhaka, Rajshahi and Dinajpur education boards had already been published and classes of higher secondary level had already

Silver Bell’s Girls’ High School, Chittagong College and Dhaka University emerged as champions at different categories in the ‘Mutual Trust Bank- The Daily Star Debate Contest 2010. The prize giving ceremony of the contest was held at Chittagong Shilpakala Academy yesterday evening at the concluding ceremony of the two-day long debate

The National Birth Registration Day will be observed countrywide today to ensure every child’s right to be registered and have a name. The government has chalked out elaborate programmes to observe the day through creating awareness among the mass

Bangladesh’s busiest launch terminal Sadarghat started afresh on Thursday under government management, scrapping a 43-year-old leasing system. The government will operate the terminal on a work-based payment system called ‘Shram Jar Mojuri Tar’ (pay for work), instead of leasing it out to

Dhaka University celebrated 89th founding anniversary with enthusiasm, festivity and fanfare of students and teachers on Thursday. Several hundred students and teachers, with the beats of drums, marched the Dhaka University campus, celebrating Dhaka University Day

A weeklong International Inter-University Photography Exhibition (IIUPE)- 2010, organized by North South University photography club (NSUPC) will begin on Sunday  simultaneously in the gallery of National Fine Arts Academy and

Advocate Subrata Chow-dhury and Mangol Chandra Ghosh were elected president and general secretary of Bangladesh Puja Udjapan Parishad at its national convention recently, says a press release. Other office-bearers are Vice Presidents: Kajol Debnath, Jayonto Sen Dipu, Sabitri Bhattacharjee,

Advocate Chaitanya Chandra Halder of The Daily Star and Advocate Anwarul Kabir Babul of the daily Jugantor have been elected president and general secretary of the Court Reporters’ Association (CRA) for 2010-2011 on Wednesday, says a

Today is the 89th founding anniversary of the University of Dhaka, the premier public university of the country. With the theme of this year ‘Higher Education for Building Digital Bangladesh’, hundreds of former and present students, teachers and employees will celebrate the day called Dhaka University Day,

The Supreme Court (SC) yesterday stayed for six weeks a verdict of the Administrative Appellate Tribunal, halting the reinstatement of 85 upazila election officers, who were appointed during the previous BNP-Jamaat alliance government but terminated during the caretaker government. The Administrative Appellate Tribunal in its verdict had declared illegal the termination of the