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Girl Guides in a daylong camp on Thursday stressed empowering girls through acquiring self-sufficiency and self-defence to achieve millennium development goals. The programme was held on Barisal Islamia College campus as part of the sixth camp of Girl Guides ranger-unit of the college. The camp was conducted by

The Sylhet City Corporation authorities formally started reclaiming and re-digging an encroached canal on Wednesday to reduce the water-stagnation problem in the city. The city mayor, Ariful Haque Chowdhury, inaugurated the renovation work of Gavial Khal, one of the nine major canals of the city that covers

The preservation of the mass killing ground and torture cell at the then WAPDA campus, used as regional cantonment of the Pakistan occupation army during the liberation war, has remained stalled. Barisal city mayor Shawkat Hossain Hiron on June 14 unveiled the curtain of a proposed project to preserve the spots, but the initiative fell through. After ... Read more

The Jahangirnagar University Teachers’ Association election for the year 2014 will be held on December 27, 2013. The association chief election commissioner, Professor Akter Mahmud, announced the poll schedule on Tuesday. A 15-member executive committee of the organisation including four office bearers- president, vice-president, secretary general, joint

At about 1:40pm thousands of anxious people breathed a sigh of relief after holding their nerves for over six minutes at the National Parade Ground, when it was confirmed that their effort was worthy of new world record involving the largest number of people being able to create a national flag by holding placards overhead. When ... Read more

Exempts their residences from holding taxes, water bill The Sylhet City Corporation authorities declared residences of freedom fighters exempted from holding taxes and drinking water supply charges in the city. SCC mayor Ariful Haque Chowdhury made the announcement at a reception of freedom fighters on Monday. The city corporation organised the programme

Call to execute penalties of all war crime convicts The 43rd Victory Day was celebrated on Monday here in the port city in a different atmosphere amid paying homage to the martyrs and colorful programmes. After 42 years of the victory, this year scenario is bit different as death sentence of a war criminal has ... Read more

Violence Against Children Rights activist concerned The child rights activists of different non-government organisations have expressed their deep concern over how children are being victims of the current political unrest. In a press statement published on Sunday, they said a good number of children died and received injuries in different political programmes

The Salimullah Medical College will resume its academic function on December 17. The decision to reopen the college was made in a meeting with the Mitford Hospital, the medical college principle Dilip Kumar Dhor told New Age. Dilip Kumar said that in an academic council

Women lawyers on Saturday condemned Friday’s incident at Motijheel in which Class III student Shanto Islam received multiple critical injuries hit by rubber bullets. Shanto is battling for his life at the casualty ward of Dhaka Medical College Hospital. A student of a school at Rupganj, Narayanganj,

A number of schools in the capital are holding two examinations in a single day to make up for the time lost due to political turmoil, putting schoolchildren under crumbling pressure. A Class IX student of Ideal School and College said he took annual exam for physics and chemistry on Friday. ‘Taking two exams in one ... Read more

Nature enthusiasts thronged the daylong butterfly fair on the Jahangirnagar University campus on Friday amid festivity and fanfare. JU acting vice-chancellor pro-VC MA Matin inaugurated the festival as chief guest while pro-VC Afsar Ahmed, treasurer Abul Khaiyer and Manowar Hossain, convener of butterfly fair-2013, were present, among others.

Health services at Mitford Hospital, one of the most crowded hospitals at Old part of the capital, remained stalled for the third consecutive days on Thursday, causing severe sufferings to hundreds of patients. The students of the Salimullah Medical College are yet to leave hostels although the authority closed the college and asked them to vacant ... Read more

About one core children under-5 in the country do not officially exist as they do not have birth registration, according to a new report by UNICEF published on Wednesday. Children unregistered at birth or without identification documents are often excluded from accessing education, health care and social security.

A daylong colorful butterfly fair will be held on Jahangirnagar University campus tomorrow amid enthusiasm and festivity. With the slogan ‘Urley Akashe Prajapati, Prakriti Pay Natun Gati’, JU zoology department will arrange the fair for the fourth time in association with the Prakriti O Jiban Foundation. The fair convener, Professor Monwar Hosaain, in a press

Tenants’ Council on Wednesday urged the house owners to stop increasing house and shop rent illogically on the eve of New Year. At a press conference, they demanded amendment to the House Rent Control Act 1991 and its proper implementation. Tenants Council organised the press conference at Comrade Nirmal Sen Auditorium in the capital. Its president

A group of land grabbers, led by a land department official, is constructing a kitchen market over a canal at Nathullabad in the Barisal city. Ali Ahmed, a local resident opposing the construction of the kitchen market, said operating kitchen market in the area would create health hazards,

The Chittagong Shah Amanat Airport customs’ officials seized 138 gold bars, weighing around 17kg, from a toilet of a Bangladesh Biman flight coming from Dubai on Wednesday. The Chittagong customs’ assistant commissioner, Parvej Al Jaman, said the gold was found in a drive on the flight BG-046 of Bangladesh Biman after

Women entrepreneurs in Barisal on Tuesday formed a human chain and burnt copies of their trade licences in protest at the ongoing political crisis and blockade. If this situation continued, they would not be able to pay workers’ wages, bank loan instalments and taxes of any type, they cautioned in the

Speakers at a human chain cum street-corner meeting in Rajshahi on Tuesday emphasised the need for collective efforts of both the public and private organisations concerned for ensuring fundamental rights of people with disabilities. Terming the disadvantaged people as the