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Uncertainty looms over the forthcoming honors admission test of Jahangirnagar University under the session 2013-14 is to be held in December because of the teachers’ movement demanding vice-chancellor’s resignation. Meanwhile, JU teachers’ association made an offer to vice-chancellor Professor Anwar Hossina to shift the responsibility of honors 1st year admission test to

The Barisal City Corporation is constructing shopping-stalls on the leased land of the Bangladesh Inland Water Transport Authority in the river port area on the bank of River Kirtankhola. The BIWTA authorities sent a letter to the BCC protesting against the construction but the BCC authorities ignored the letter. The BIWTA Barisal office

Twenty-five senior officials left on Friday to participate in a 14-day healthcare management training in Korea, reports UNB. They will participate in the course as a part of a project ‘Establishment of National Institute of Advanced Practice Nurses in Bangladesh’ supported by Korea International Cooperation Agency (Koica) with a budget of US$ 13.75 million. Kim Bok-Hee, the

Arms-ammo sized Members of Rapid Action Battalion arrested three young men from Kazi Market area at Anarkoli road of Tongi under Gazipur town Thursday night. RAB also sized a foreign made pistol and two rounds of bullets from their possession. The arrested were identified as Sumon, 30,

Detective branch of police arrested an assistant of a lawyer along with 125 pieces of Yaba tablet and 35 grams of heroin in Sylhet on Friday. The arrestee was identified as Azad Ahmed, 35, a resident of Kazitula area in the city and assistant of a lawyer, sources in the police said.

Speakers tell book launching Dhaka can still be a livable city if managed efficiently and if urban plans are implemented accordingly, speakers told a book launching ceremony yesterday. Dhaka’s biggest challenge is that it lacks a leader — a single authority to deal with the problems of its urbanisation, said one of the speakers, Prof ... Read more

N’ganj City Corporation Economic dev, not service delivery, underscored Experts have suggested that a master plan should be formulated for the Narayanganj City Corporation to shift its focus on service delivery to economic development. In a report, the urban experts have observed that the city corporation should focus more on the city’s economic development instead ... Read more

Health and family welfare ministry has uploaded the draft rules of the amended the smoking and tobacco product usage (control) act on the ministry’s website and sought public opinions on the rules, the officials said on Thursday. The draft rules were uploaded on Wednesday and would be kept available up to November 20 at www.mohfw.gov.bd, they ... Read more

Popular and National Award winning singer Naznin Munir Nancy feels threatened that police would arrest her or any members of her family in false case, she has claimed. She has alleged that police went and searched her house without any cause at Netrakona on Tuesday after she had posted a status where she commented

Mahila Parishad national convention told Violence against women and lack of recognition of women’s contributions to the country’s economy is a huge deterrent to the empowerment of women, said speakers at the twelfth national convention of Bangladesh Mahila Parishad yesterday. Convening women from all over the country under the banner “Women’s rights and contributions to the ... Read more

The certificate awarding ceremony of the officers’ Gunnery Staff Course (Field) -15 was held at Artillery Centre and School at Halishahar in Chittagong city on Thursday. General commanding officer of Army Training and Doctrine Command Major General Abul Kalam Md Humayun Kabri distributed the certificates among

A lighter vessel with 1,800 tonnes of government-imported wheat capsized after an oil tanker hit it near Chittagong Port channel in the river Karnaphuli yesterday. Thirteen crew of the sunken vessel, however, got down safely, said Capt Najmul Alam, deputy conservator of Chittagong Port Authority (CPA).

Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Kazi Rakibuddin Ahmad on Wednesday announced the code of conduct, saying that the government would not be able to make any “policy-level decision”, and it would carry out only “routine work”, the way a caretaker government functions. The EC had finalised the draft code of conduct on Tuesday, imposing some

The largest safari park of Asia ‘Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Safari Park’, Gazipur opens today. Prime minister Sheikh Hasina is scheduled to inaugurate the park, said Tapan Kumar Dey, conservator of forest, wildlife and nature conservation unit of Department of Forest. Department of Forest is implementing

The Model election code of conduct is not supported by the Constitution, Representation of the People Order (RPO) and Rules of Business, which will be the main hurdle to implementation of the code, said former Election Commissioner Brigadier (Rtd) Sakhawat Hossain. “Without amending the Constitution we cannot

Only 130, out of 20,000 rickshaw-pullers of Barisal city, have driving license and only 12,000 rickshaws have license, with more than half of them yet to renew their documents. The Barisal City Corporation transport section set a rule that rickshaw pullers and owners would have to collect their driving license and transport license

United Airways Ltd, a private airliner, on Wednesday launched its first flight on Dhaka-Ishwardi route. Civil aviation and tourism minister Faruk Khan inaugurated the flight at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport. State minister for home Shamsul Huq Tuku, United Airways director general Tasbirul Ahmed Chowdhury and high officials concerned were present at

A Dash 8 aircraft of Regent Airways met an accident on the runway at the Cox’s Bazar Airport on Wednesday evening after a fox jumped on its front wheels. The 15 passengers and four crew on board, however, were unhurt when the accident took place at about 6:45pm, claimed the airway’s chief commercial officer,

Dhaka University’s ‘Gha’ unit intake test to enrol into its bachelor courses under 2013-14 academic sessions would be held tomorrow.  The one-hour written examination between 10:00am and 11:00am would be held in 19 centres on the campus and 31 centres outside the campus. The students can know their seat-plans

Officials of Dhaka University and United Nations Children’s Fund, Bangladesh on Wednesday signed a memorandum of understanding with a view to promoting health and nutrition, child protection, water, sanitation and hygiene education and research in the country, said a DU press release. Under the MoU, DU and UNICEF would organise