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The World Bank has approved a total of US$ 390 million additional financing for two ongoing projects in the Bangladesh’s education sector. The Washington-based lending agency on Wednesday approved $ 265 million for Secondary Education Quality and Access Enhancement Project and $ 125 million for Higher Education Quality Enhancement Project, said a World Bank release. It

A man allegedly hacked a couple and later committed suicide by handing himself from a ceiling fan in the capital’s Gendaria Thursday morning. Gendaria police subinspector MA Momen said an assailant, MA Mannan, entered the flat of Abul Kalam around 10:00am and started hacking Kalam indiscriminately. As his wife Baby Akhter tried to save him, Mannan also ... Read more

A section of Sylhet people, under the banner of Sachetan Sylhetbasi, on Thursday announced a general strike for December 19 in the city if the Shahjalal University of Science and Technology authorities would not scrap its joint intake test move. The authorities have taken an initiative to hold the admission tests simultaneously at SUST and Jessore ... Read more

The admission tests of Barisal University have been postponed for an indefinite period which were supposed to be held on December 7, Saturday, said the authorities at a press conference on the university’s temporary campus on Thursday. The tests have been postponed as the BNP-led opposition alliance have announced country-wide 72-hour blockade programme from Saturday, the ... Read more

Says WFP, IFPRI joint research Nutrition education is critical in leveraging the benefits delivered from food and cash transfers among the ultra poor in Bangladesh. So suggest the first findings of a joint research by two international organisations. World Food Programme and the International Food Policy Research Institute presented the findings on Tuesday, says a WFP ... Read more

The found of woman was dead on Wednesday night in Deobhog Banglabazar area under the Fatulla police in Narayanganj. The deceased was Amena Khatun, 18, daughter of Sohrab Hossain and married to Nur Mohammad four months ago but lived at her parents’ house in the area along with her husband. The victim’s mother, Laily Begum, alleged that ... Read more

Locals of Narayanganj sadar upazila early yesterday caught and handed over to police two men who were, alongside some three others, raping a female garment worker after abducting her at gunpoint. The two, Sajal Mian, 20, and Ramjan Ali, 25, are residents of Narayanganj city’s Khanpur area, said Narayanganj Sadar Model Police Station Sub-inspector

The Australian government on Tuesday announced that anyone who has arrived in Australia by boat illegally before July 19 this year will not be granted permanent protection visa. “There are no visas for those who came illegally by boat and we will never allow those people to settle here,” said a press release of the ... Read more

Admission seekers in Sylhet on Wednesday urged the Shahjalal University of Science and Technology authorities for immediate step to hold the postponed admission tests at the institution. They made the call from a human chain formed in front of Central Shaheed Minar in the city under the banner of ‘General students willing

The Dhaka Water Supply and Sewerage Authority has taken a plan to manage 70 per cent of its supply water from the surface sources by 2021. Managing director of the service provider Taqsem A Khan on Wednesday expressed his hope that by the fiscal year 2018-2019 it would be

The 50th death anniversary of Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy will be observed across the country today (Thursday). Different political, social, cultural and professional organisations have chalked out various programmes to observe the day. The programmes include placing wreaths at grave of the great leader, discussion meetings, Quran khwani, milad and

The traditional art of Jamdani weaving has been inscribed on Unesco’s Representative List of Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity this year. The decision was made at the eighth meeting of the Intergovernmental Committee for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage that

Law enforcers seized around 14 kilograms gold from a flight of the Regent Airways at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in the capital Wednesday. The fight from Malaysian capital city Kuala Lumpur landed at the airport early in the morning. Sources said acting on a tip-off, customs officials

A commercial building caught fire in the capital’s Moghbazar area on Wednesday morning. Fire service official said that fire broke out in a building at Moghbazar intersection at about 9:15am. Two units of Tejgaon fire station rushed to the spot and doused the fire within half-an-hour. Fire service headquarters officer-in-charge

Don’t neglect disabled children, treat them with sympathy, asks PM International Day of Persons with Disabilities was observed on Tuesday across the country. Different government and non-government organisations held different programmes to mark the 22nd International Day of Persons with Disabilities and 15th National Disabled Day. The theme of National Disabled Day 2013 was

The capital’s noise level is two times higher than what is permissible, posing a serious threat to public health, a study has said. Vehicle horn, brick chips machines, mills, factories, music accessory shops and public gatherings are the main sources of noise pollution in the capital, it says. Save the Environment Movement disclosed the

Teachers vow to continue agitations Jahangirnagar University teachers once again besieged the vice-chancellor, Anwar Hossain, in his house, pressing for his resignation. The teachers under the banner of General Teachers’ Forum laid the siege to the vice-chancellor’s house Monday night and said the programme would continue until Anwar resigned. They laid the siege to the vice-chancellor’s house ... Read more

The divisional-level competition of 4th Bangladesh Physics Olympiad would be held on the Shahjalal University of Science and Technology campus on December 27. A press release, issued on Tuesday and signed by the divisional Olympiad unit member secretary Sharif Md Sharaf Uddin, asked the students willing to participate

The admission tests for the first year honours courses under session 2013-14 in all disciplines of Khulna University have been postponed. The decision was made in a meeting of ‘Central KU Admission Test Committee’ Tuesday afternoon, said a press release. Chaired by the KU vice-chancellor Professor Md Fayequzzaman, all deans, heads of departments and teachers attended the meeting.

Participants in a discussion in Barisal on Tuesday called for taking forward a disability-inclusive development agenda and human rights for all. The programme was arranged to observe International Day of Persons with Disabilities with the theme ‘break barriers, open doors: for an inclusive society and development for all’ at Social Service Directorate ground in the city. On ... Read more