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The 34th death anniversary of Shilpacharya Zainul Abedin will be observed today. Teachers and students of Dhaka University’s Fine Arts Faculty will place flowers on Zainul’s grave in the university’s premises at 8:30 in the morning. A discussion on Zainul will be held in the Faculty’s auditorium at

Canada has tightened the visa policy aiming to ensure that the North American country welcomes only clean people. The Canadian Citizenship and Immigration department recently decided that it would not allow people visiting Canada or studying, working or migrating there should they have any history of

Green and civic rights activists on Wednesday urged the government to adopt a policy of restricting private cars in order to facilitate the expansion and the use of public mode of transport, which would help ease traffic congestion in the cities. Speaking at a news briefing, they also stressed the need for a coordinated transport ... Read more

Findings from a study yesterday revealed that women health workers have been found to be acting as change makers of society at the community level since the sixties of last century. The study conducted over community health programmes of the government, ICDDR,B, BRAC and Gonoshasthya Kendra in Matlab, Savar and Jamalpur said that the recruitment ... Read more

The admission process in colleges will begin in mid-June and classes on July 1. A meeting of the education ministry with the heads of public and private colleges in the city reached this preliminary decision yesterday, meeting sources said. The ministry’s college section convened the meeting at the Directorate of Secondary and Higher Education

The University Grants Com-mission has undertaken a Tk 681 crore project titled ‘Higher Education Quality Enhance-ment Project’ for improving the quality of higher education and research in the country, reports UNB. The International Development Association, a soft lending arm of the World Bank, will provide Tk

Speakers at a workshop on environment in Dhaka on Saturday said rooftop gardening could immensely help protect environment as well as biodiversity in the capital city. Paribesh Bachao Andolon and Sweet Heaven Garden jointly organised the workshop followed by a display on environment in Siddheshwari in

Dr Abu Raihan, country director of Orbis International in Bangladesh, has recently been appointed as the senior adviser to the Orbis Asia programme, says a press release. Dr Raihan will now oversee the strategic direction of Orbis programmes in Asia, quality of programmes and development of regional resources and professional linkages in Asia. His

Bangladesh Paribesh Andolan has demanded immediate prevention of land encroachments, complete removal of wastes from rivers and adoption of ‘free river’ policy instead of ‘river boundary’ policy to save the rivers of the country including the River Meghna. The organisers also placed a six-point charter of demands in a rally at the National Press Club ... Read more

Munira Naim and Najmi Moyeen have been elected president and secretary of Zonta Club IV-Dhaka recently, says a pres release. The election was held at the annual general meeting (AGM) of the club. Other members of the executive committee for 2010-12 are 1st vice-president Farha Lazina Sumi,

Cooperation of ministries sought to ensure dev of the disabled Development activists on Thursday demanded amendments to the rules of business to ensure the involvement of other related ministries alongside the social welfare ministry in the development of the people with disabilities. They made their demand at a views-exchange meeting on ‘Implementation of

Says Prof Muzaffer Chairman of the Upazila Parishad should be given the highest status in the upazila parishad and no one should have the similar status, Prof Muzaffer Ahmad said yesterday. “According to the amendments brought to the Upazila Parishad Act, the upazila chairman and the Upazila Nirbahi Officer (UNO) will enjoy the same status ... Read more

Around 15,000 mothers die every year in Bangladesh during delivery because of their poor health condition. Speakers in a daylong advocacy workshop styled ‘mother, infant and child health’ organised by BRAC at the Chillies Chinese Restaurant in Dhaka on Wednesday, revealed this data. The chief health officer of Rajshahi City Corporation, Abul Fazal, joined the ... Read more

A two-day gender fair, organised by Democracywatch to raise awareness of gender issue among the young generation, began in the Dhaka city on Wednesday. Twelve rights organisations including NGO Forum, Transparency International Bangladesh, International Organisation for Migration, ICDDR,B, Nari Maitri, Karmajibi Nari,

The professional sweepers, widely known as Harijans, are facing hard times as city corporations and different government offices are replacing them with mainstream population depriving them of the only occupation they have done for more than one hundred years. Highlighting the social discrimination against them at a press conference yesterday, Bangladesh

May 12: The sultry weather coupled with extreme power outage, water and gas crisis is causing untold sufferings to the people in the port city. The suffering of the people has intensified mainly due to the frequent power outage.  Power Development Board (PDB) sources said that they could only supply half against the existing

The orientation programme of the newly admitted students for Summer 2010 in MBA, EMBA, MBM and MDS programmes of East West University was held at the university auditorium on Tuesday at 5pm. Jalaluddin Ahmed, president, board of directors, East West University graced the occasion as the chief guest while Prof Dr Mohammed Sharif, vice chancellor ... Read more

Reception ceremony of the freshers of arts faculty of Dhaka University (DU) was held yesterday at the Teacher Student Centre (TSC) auditorium of the university. A large number of students from 17 departments under the faculty took part in the ceremony. Addressing the ceremony as chief guest DU Vice Chancellor Prof Dr AAMS Arefin Siddique ... Read more

The government is planning to turn more medical colleges into universities in the country aiming to improve the quality of medical education and create high quality doctors. “Initially, the oldest medical college Dhaka Medical College (DMC) and Chittagong Medical College will be turned into universities,” health and population affairs secretary of the ruling

Speakers at a meeting stressed the need for more proactive role of the Barind Multipurpose Development Authorities to boost agricultural production for sustainable socio-economic development in the country’s northwest region. Besides, the region needs more other need-based programs to face the adverse impact of the