Metropolitan

The protesting civil engineering department students of Khulna University of Engineering and Technology broke their fast-unto-death Thursday night as the university vice-chancellor, Professor Md Alamgir, assured them of resuming their classes on November 11. Over a hundred students of the department

A group of Dhaka University teachers and students, teamed up as Sampradayikata Biradhi Chhatra Shikkhak Mancha, on Thursday demanded immediate arrest of the miscreants who attacked the Hindu minorities in Pabna and Lalmonirhat. They placed the demand at a human chain at the base of Dhaka University’s Aparajeya Bangla. Asking the government to

The 2nd photo exhibition titled ‘Chobi Dekhe Shekha – Butterflies of Bangladesh, Inventory Second Phase’ begins at Drik Gallery, Dhanmondi, in the capital today. Ishtiaq Uddin Ahmed, country representative of IUCN Bangladesh, will be the chief guest at the inaugural session while Stephen John Ball, chief financial

DHAKA Comicon, Bangladesh’s first-ever comic book convention, begins today. The two-day event is scheduled to conclude on Saturday. The event includes live art competition, short film competition, action figure photography competition, artist corner collectors’ exhibitions,

More than a hundred students of civil engineering department of Khulna University of Engineering and Technology continued their token hunger strike for the third day on Wednesday, demanding continuation of classes which remained suspended since last six months. They laid siege to administrative building

The admission test of ‘Kha’ unit for the first year honours courses in Dhaka University for the academic session 2013-14 will be held tomorrow. The hour-long admission test will begin at 10:00am. The test will be held at 72 centres in the capital.

A trader was hacked to death by miscreants on Tuesday night at village Mizmizi under Shiddhirganj police station in Narayanganj. The deceased was identified as Russel Mia, 35, son of Babul Mia, a resident of Mizmizi village. Imran Hossain, elder brother of the deceased, claimed that some drug peddlers of their locality, who were released from the ... Read more

An acute manpower crisis in the forensic section of Barisal Sher-e-Bangla Medical College and Hospital is seriously hampering educational activities, medical test of women victims of oppression and autopsy of bodies as six out of eight posts in the section lie vacant. The forensic section of the hospital works

Travelling by launches on the Barisal-Dhaka route has become insecure in recent time for lack of adequate security staff. The water vessels plying the route are mostly manned with ansar members far less than required in number, placing the passengers always in a constant fear of sabotage at the time when the country is passing ... Read more

The agitating teachers of Jahangirnagar University have given a 20-hour ultimatum to the vice-chancellor, Professor Anwar Hossain, to resign. They put forth the ultimatum in a press conference held on the campus on Tuesday. The convener of the General Teachers Forum,

Green activists at a seminar in Dhaka on Tuesday stressed the urgency of creating new leadership with scientific perspective to implement the climate change strategies announced by the government. They said new leadership especially from youths and students would be better to implement the climate change strategies to cope with adverse impacts of global

Twenty journalists, including Ershad Komal Khan of New Age, have got Dhaka Reporters Unity-Grameen Phone Reporting Award-2013. Each of the winners got Tk 75,000 provided by the Grameen Phone and a crst and certificate. The speaker of parliament, Shirin Sharmin Chowdhury, distributed the awards at a programme at Hotel Sonargaon in the city.

The Banglalink Grandmaster Season-3 which was launched few months back has engaged enormous no. of students around the around the country, with above 8000 registered students in a single competition to start something new through technological advancement-specifically, mobile internet based applications that can change people’s lives. Grandmaster

Officials of the two city corporations in Dhaka have yet to make any decision over establishing two landfills at Dhaka’s two corners for dumping city garbage. At present the city corporations have two landfills at Matuail and Aminbazar while there was a plan to establish two more at two other corners of Dhaka.

US Congressman Steve Chabot will arrive in Dhaka today on a two-day official visit to discuss the current political challenges Bangladesh is facing over the upcoming general elections. Chabot will also discuss the Dhaka-Washington bilateral relation with Bangladesh’s top political leaders, according to a press release of the US embassy.

The Rajshahi city dwellers are experiencing acute water crisis currently as the water plants are failing to supply sufficient water. The water pumps and tube wells in the city cannot lift enough water from underground to meet the public demand. At present the Rajshahi Water Supply and Sewerage Authorities are supplying water using 70 deep tube wells

The Asian Development Bank has approved US$ 250 million assistance for a Dhaka WASA project to bring 50 crore litres of water per day from River Meghna to reduce its dependency on groundwater. ADB, which is the lead financier of the project, at its board meeting held recently at its Manila headquarters approved the project assistance, ... Read more

Cabinet okays draft The cabinet yesterday approved the final draft of the Bangladesh Journalist Welfare Trust Act, 2013 to financially assist journalists in need. Financial aides will be provided in the case of deaths, accidents or loss of working ability, Cabinet Secretary Musharraf Hossain Bhuiyan told reporters.

MD says using leased ones brings no profit Biman Bangladesh Airlines will use its own aircraft to carry Hajj pilgrims from next year instead of using leased aircraft which brings no profit, said its Managing Director Kevin John Steele yesterday. Keeping to the trend of past years, several Hajj flights on the sole leased Boeing ... Read more

Private airline United Airways on Monday began operating its flight on Dhaka-Singapore route, said a release. A 167 seated MD-83 aircraft of the airline took off from Dhaka for Singapore 83 at 3:00pm. The airline fixed Tk 18481 as the airfare for a one-way ticket for its Dhaka-Singapore flight and Tk 34001 for a return ticket including ... Read more