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Pro-VC still confined Stalemate continued in Jahangirnagar University as teachers teamed up under different banners have been on demonstrations to push for the vice-chancellor’s resignation. Students, teachers and other members on the staff teamed up as the Teachers, Students, Officers and Employees’ Unity Forum have been on

The government would provide round the clock safe delivery facilities at union level hospitals by June 2014, family planning director general AKM Amir Hossain said Saturday. Increased hospital based delivery would reduce child and maternal mortality rates, he said at the launching of a three-year family planning

Civil society members urge govt Civil society members on Saturday urged the government to work out a climate action plan with own resources and capacity to tackle climate-induced problems. At a press conference, they said that the government should move forward with its own capacity as the recent CoP-19 outcome had seriously

The Rajshahi University students staged a demonstration in front of the university’s administration building on Saturday protesting against the attack on them by the police as they blocked the Dhaka-Rajshahi highway on Friday protesting at the death of a fellow student in a road accident. Over a hundred

A citizen platform of Narayanganj, Amra Narayanganjbashi, formed a human chain at the central rail station on Saturday demanding to increase the commuter trains as soon as possible to upgrade the city’s communication system. The participants sent an application to the

A four-storey under-construction building collapsed on Roghu Das Lane in the Old Town of Dhaka Friday morning. However, no casualty was reported in the incident. The building collapsed around 7:00am, said police. It had no approval from Rajuk, said Sutrapur

Political unrest has been hampering the safe return of recovered destitute or missing children to their families over the past couple of months. Within a fortnight at least five such victims were recovered in the Barisal city by the Bangladesh Women Lawyers’ Association. Masuk Kamal,

A female student of Rajshahi University (RU) was killed in a road accident in the university’s Main Gate area on Friday morning. The decased identified as Sabrin Jahan, a second year student of the Sociology department of RU, hails from Kahaloo upazila under Bogra district. A fellow student of Jahan, who accompanied her during the ... Read more

Fifteen couples ceremonially have registered their marriages in remote Arazi Kanua village under Kawnia upazila here after 20 to 35 years of beginning conjugal life through overcoming the wraths of social curses. Social Development Foundation with the assistances of Souhardo-II Programme of CARE Bangladesh assisted in registering the marriages at its office on

Most of the high-rise residential and commercial buildings in the Khulna city are extremely vulnerable to fire hazards, mainly in absence of fire protection and extinguishing systems, according to officials of the Fire Service and Civil Defense (FSCD), Khulna. As per the Fire Protection Act 2003, all the establishments must have sufficient fire safety equipment. ... Read more

The three-day Bangladesh International Tourism Fair 2013 began on Thursday at Bangabandhu International Conference Centre in the capital. Bangladesh Foundation for Tourism Development and Association of Travel Agents of Bangladesh in collaboration with Ministry of Civil Aviation

The staff of Khulna City Corporation on Thursday observed a two-hour work abstention from 12:00pm, protesting at attack on the city mayor, Md Moniruzzaman Moni, and withdrawal of cases against him. Most of the officials and workers of the city corporation, during the work abstention, observed the programme by closing doors of their chambers. The KCC

The president, Abdul Hamid, urged all concerned on Thursday to introduce scout movement to all primary and secondary level public and private educational institutions for making the youth self independent and well educated. ‘It is needed to form a scout team at every educational institution for building our gradually increasing youth community as worthy

The government of Japan will provide an amount of 500 million Japanese yen (equivalent to approximately Tk 41.95 crore) as grant for the “Primary Education Development Programme-3 (PEDP-3)”. An agreement was signed to this effect between the governments of Bangladesh and Japan on Thursday. Economic Relations Division secretary Abul Kalam Azad

The physicians of Khulna Shishu Hospital observed a two-hour work stoppage on Thursday in protest against the attack on the hospital’s residential medical officer, Shah Muradur Rahman, by the police. The victim says four constables of the Khulna Metropolitan Police stopped him on the Khanjahan Ali road under the Sadar police on Wednesday night while he ... Read more

The state-owned Khulna Hardboard Mill has suspended production amid a severe financial crisis. The officials have said the mill does not have fund since Monday evening to purchase furnace oil needed to continue production works. Hardboard worth Tk 3 crore produced by the mill has remained unsold in its warehouse since last two years, which led

Optimum treatment and necessary healthcare facilities towards the mentally sick people is very vital to get back to their normal life, said speakers at a view-sharing discussion in Rajshahi on Tuesday evening. They viewed that collective effort is urgently needed as all mental diseases excepting the schizophrenia are curable and so social awareness alongside

Drug Price Hike by Nearly 50 Percent Pharmaceuticals using political violence as diversion Janashastha Sangram Parishad rally told Taking advantage of the distraction created by the political violence, profiteering pharmaceutical companies have arbitrarily increased prices of many widely used lifesaving drugs significantly, hoping that it would go unnoticed, speakers told a protest rally yesterday. The ... Read more

Science fiction writer Muhammad Zafar Iqbal and his wife Yasmeen Haque on Wednesday withdrew their resignations after the Shahjalal University of Science and Technology administration decided to restore the combined admission tests with Jessore Science and Technology University. An emergency meeting of the university academic committee on

The Barisal University authorities declared the rescheduled date of the BU admission tests Wednesday after a meeting of the admission committee in the afternoon, said a university press release. According to the new schedule, the tests will be held on December 7, Saturday which were supposed to be held on November 28 and later were ... Read more