Metropolitan

Delay in inviting tenders for buying fogger machine has stood in the way of launching mosquito eradication drive by the Khulna City Corporation. KCC chief executive officer Tapan Kumar Ghosh served a notice last Wednesday upon assistant conservancy officer Md Anowar Hossain,

A seminar titled ‘future of women in legal profession’ was held at Rajshahi University on Sunday. In association of USAID’s Justice for All Programme, the university law faculty organised the seminar in the conference room of RU deans’ complex at 11:00am. RU law faculty dean Professor Biswajit Chanda

Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal, student wing of opposition BNP at Jahangirnagar University, on Sunday submitted a memorandum to the vice-chancellor Professor Anwar Hossain, demanding congenial atmosphere for holding election to the university central students’ union. JCD convener of Maulana Bhashani HallTawsif Hasnain

Women entrepreneurs at a views-exchange meeting here on Saturday called upon all quarters, including the government, to extend all-out support to them so that they can make smooth progress in business, especially in the industrial sector. Founder president of Bangladesh Women Chamber of Commerce and Industry (BWCCI) Selima Ahmad in her chief guest’s

The admission tests of Chittagong University (CU) started on Saturday amid worry about their timely completion for the ongoing political turmoil. Though the Chittagong city unit BNP withdrew their hartal for Sunday, there was made no change in the fresh schedule of the admission tests. The 10-day admission battle in the university began with holding ... Read more

AHM Nouman, a Bangladeshi rights activist, won the Gusi Peace Prize International-2013 for his outstanding contribution to ‘poverty alleviation and humanitarianism’ in Bangladesh. Nouman, founder and secretary general of Development Organisation of the Rural Poor (DORP), a national NGO, is the lone Bangladeshi to get the prestigious award, which is being

The Aila-affected poor people in Koyra upazila of the district still have little access to sanitation facilities. The entire coastal region of the country was submerged under saline water following the onslaught of cyclone Aila on May 25 in 2009. The super cyclone destroyed sources of drinking water including ponds, tube-wells and household latrines, leaving

Japan Bangladesh Friendship Hospital (JBFH) and Help Foundation jointly organised a free health campaign targeting low income group people of Bau Bazar, Zigatola in the city on Friday, marking the World Diabetes Day. The medical team comprised of 16 professional and 30 local volunteers including doctors, paramedics, nurses and technologists. Around 800 people

The first-ever 15-day SAARC conference on cytopathology and histopathology began in the Chittagong city on Thursday. The pathology department of Chittagong Medical College Hospital organised the conference at Dr Shah Alam Bir Uttom Auditorium. Second international conference titled CMC-Path CME also kicked off at the same

Admission To 24 City Govt Schools Form selling starts Dec 1, lottery Dec 14 The 24 government secondary schools in the Dhaka city will start selling admission forms for the academic year 2014 on December 1 and continue till December 9, officials of the Directorate of Secondary and Higher Education, which controls admission, told New ... Read more

A fire broke out at a building in the Dilkusha commercial area of Motijheel in Dhaka around Tuesday morning. However, no major casualties were reported in the incident. The fire service control room official, Nilufer Yasmin, said the 18-storey Dilkusha Centre caught fire at about 11:00am and eight fire fighting units

Climate-induced Catastrophes Bangladesh fifth most vulnerable in 2 decades Says new CRI report Bangladesh has ranked fifth among 10 countries most vulnerable to climate change-induced natural disasters in the last two decades from 1993 to 2012, according to a new report. During the period, Bangladesh suffered damages worth US$1,832.70 million, wrought by 242 types of ... Read more

Participants in a programme in the Sylhet city on Tuesday demanded immediate step to stop the authorities from changing the name of Hason Raja Academy in Sunamganj. They strongly criticised the move to change the name of the academy to Baul academy and urged all enthusiasts of Hasan Raja’s songs and cultural

Results of the Dhaka University’s ‘Kha’ unit admission test in the academic session 2013-2014 were published on Tuesday. A total of 5,128 aspirants (13. 92 per cent) out of 36, 835 examinees passed the test against 2,296 seats of the social sciences and arts faculties. The DU vice-chancellor, AAMS Arefin Siddique,

India will discontinue issuing the special India-Bangladesh Passport (IBP) from November 15. IBP was introduced as a special travel document on August 1972 to facilitate travel between the two countries. Bangladesh also used to issue IBPs to its citizens but stopped long ago because of the decline in its demand over the years. The decision to discontinue IBP ... Read more

Unhealthy Food, Slow Internet Students of three RU dorms stage protest Residential students yesterday vandalised three dormitories at Rajshahi University demanding quality food and high speed internet connectivity. They alleged that they were often falling sick for consumption of unhygienic food at the dining halls, while WiFi connections there were too slow to

The cabinet on Monday approved a proposal for recognising the transgender people as a separate gender to remove discrimination against the marginalised community in the society. Besides male and female, the transgender people, who do not have a straightforward gender identity, would be identified as Hijra, cabinet secretary

Teachers, students and staff of Jahangirnagar University on Monday formed a human chain on the campus, demanding immediate announcement of vice-chancellor panel election. Shikkhak-Shikkharti-Karmakarta-Karmachari Oikyo Forum formed the human chain on the premises of JU administrative building. Earlier,

At least eight people, including four garment workers, were killed and 20 others injured in two separate road accidents in Sirajganj and Narayanganj on Monday, the second day of 84-hour general strike called by the BNP-led alliance. In Sirajganj, four people were killed when a truck laden with drinking water bottles lost control and skidded off ... Read more

A total of 18 out of 53 examinees of Dhaka Match Industries (now Dada Match Factory) Secondary High School have so far failed to fill in the forms to sit for SSC examinations as they could not afford the money required for that purpose. These 18 examinees are sons and daughters of jobless workers of the ... Read more