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‘Ensure rights of indigenous people’ Leaders of Bangladesh Adivasi Odhikar Andolan yesterday reiterated their demand for constitutional recognition of indigenous people to ensure their rights. They also called for steps to protect their right to land and forest by cancelling the eco-park projects

Express worry to UN under secretary The Karail slum dwellers on Monday expressed their worry that they might be evicted from the slum as the government was planning to set up and IT village there. They expressed the worry to the executive director of UN-HABITAT, Anna Tibaijuka, also the UN under secretary, when she visited ... Read more

The National University (NU) has digitised its examination system to make exam-related activities such as filling in of forms and publication of results easier and faster. The university will also create a college-wise database of forms with information of students. The college authorities will provide the soft copies of the forms to the

The Health Technology Institute on the Barisal Sher-e-Bangla Medical College Hospital compound is yet to start functioning even nine months after the completion of its construction because of acute manpower shortage. Construction of the institute at a cost of Tk 20 core on three acres of land on the medical college

A special drive will be conducted in the capital city within a month to evict all illegal structures along 44 lakes and canals illegally occupied by vested groups, parliamentary standing committee on land sources said on Sunday. The lakes and canals, which were once the lifeline of Dhaka city, include Segunbagicha Khal,

Journalists, cultural activists express solidarity Journalists and cultural activists at a gathering on Saturday called upon the government to immediately withdraw its decision to halt the transmission of the private television network Jamuna TV. Expressing serious concern at the delay in allowing test-operation of Jamuna TV, they said the

Betar Bangla, a community radio station, has received licence from the British media regulator, Ofcom, to broadcast its programmes in the UK 24 hours a day, says a press release. It became the first 24-hour Bangla infotainment radio stations in the UK. Betar Bangla has been

Plots at the Purbachal New Town Project will be handed over to the allottees by December this year. Purbachal is the biggest planned township in the country with a project area of about 6,150 acres of land, divided into 30 sectors, located in between the Shitalakkha and the Balu rivers at Rupganj upazila in Narayanganj ... Read more

Elimination of Human Trafficking Dhaka does not fully comply with minimum standards: US Bangladesh does not fully comply with the minimum standards for the elimination of trafficking, but it is making significant efforts to do so, a US State Department report said. The government has continued to address the sex trafficking of women and children, ... Read more

The government has taken up a Tk 4.35 billion project for building new schools and colleges in Dhaka. According to this new project approved yesterday, the government is set to build 11 secondary schools and six colleges. The approval came in a meeting of Executive Committee of the National Economic Council (ECNEC)

The construction work of long-awaited Jatrabari-Gulistan flyover is likely to begin this month, officials of Dhaka City Corporation (DCC), the implementing agency of the project, said here yesterday. The nine-kilometre-long four-lane flyover is to be constructed in three years at an estimated cost of about Taka 1,400 crore, they

Barsha Utshov, celebrating the rainy season, was observed with much enthusiasm on the premises of the Dhaka University (DU) Central Library yesterday.  Sattayn Sen Shilpi Shanstha organised the function in cooperation with mobile operator Banglalink. DU Vice-Cancellor Dr. AAMS Arefin Siddique inaugurated the day-long programme. It was

There are undiscovered artists all around us. Some paint a picture, some sing in oblivion, some design a building quietly and then some compose a poem in absolute solitude. These are unseen souls, invisible people that live next to us, that surround us. Sometimes these

Bangladesh Investment Climate Fund (BICF) has organized a debate competition recntly on business reforms in Bangladesh managed by IFC, in partnership with the UK Department for International Development and the European Union. The competition titled “Creating Opportunities for Tomorrow” featured undergraduate students from

Architects and housing experts on Saturday called for enactment of a law to make rainwater harvesting mandatory to save the capital city from sinking and also face its growing water crisis. They told a seminar that the use of too many deep tube-wells was rapidly depleting the groundwater table which could cause subsidence or the ... Read more

World Cup favourites Brazil and Argentina are engaged in an unlikely aerial battle in sports-lover Dhaka University as football fever reaches a pinnacle in the country. Supporters of Brazil and Argentina football teams hoist the national flags of the two countries in their halls, departments and in

Rajshahi College, an institution with a long history, plans to reintroduce the higher secondary programme this academic session after a break of 14 years, much to the delight of many admission seekers and the guardians concerned. According to the college officials, admission activities started on Monday with the distribution of

The South Asian University (SAU) will begin its first academic session from a temporary campus in Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) in August with 50 students in two masters courses. The students will be taken from the eight member states of the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (Saarc), official

Speakers tell seminar Speakers at a seminar yesterday said Dhaka city requires a long-term environmental master plan and political will for its implementation. They said it is urgent to introduce the plan in order to save the city from total system collapse and possible abandonment. They urged all to consider the amount of economic loss ... Read more

A three-day national fruit fair will be held in the city from June 16 under the auspices of the agriculture ministry. Besides, a fruit tree planting fortnight would be observed from June 16-30 at district and upazila headquarters. Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina is expected to inaugurate both the programmes here on June 16,