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Participants in a three-day training workshop and seminar of teachers in Barisal on Sunday stressed moral value-based teaching for quality education. The programme was organised and funded by Caritas Barisal region and participated in by teachers of 12 schools and madrassahs in the city and district at the Caritas

The results of combined medical and dental admission tests for both public and private colleges were published on Sunday evening. The directorate general of health services published the results at its website—www.dghs.gov.bd at around 6:00pm on the day. The results were also sent to the mobile numbers

The fifth Bio-chemistry Olympiad 2013 will be held on December 20 on the Curzon Hall premises at Dhaka University. The DU biochemistry and molecular biology department will organise the occasion like the previous years. The decision was taken in a Bio-chemistry Olympiad organising committee meeting on Sunday, said a press release. The registration

The vitamin A+ campaign programme started on Saturday across the country with a target to feed the life-saving capsules to at least 21 million children aged between six months to five years. Director General of the Health Directorate Professor Dr Khondaker Mohammad Sefayetullah inaugurated the programme at its Mohakhali office in the city. “A red ... Read more

A section of teachers at Jahangirnagar University continued with their sit-in for the fifth consecutive day on Saturday in front of vice-chancellor Anwar Hossain’s residence demanding his resignation. They also set Anwar’s effigies on fire. Anwar also continued his stay in front

Study conducted by Centre for Policy Dialogue reveals More than 60 per cent residents of the country’s city corporations and municipalities are unhappy with the civic amenities they are provided with, says a study conducted by the Centre for Policy Dialogue. Citizens from lower (C and B) categories of the municipalities are more dissatisfied than ... Read more

Government officials and experts at a seminar on Saturday stressed the importance of better understanding and clarity of the gender policy and various approaches to address gender issues. The women and children affairs ministry and North South University jointly organised the seminar on the gender policy in Bangladesh: strategies,

The police recovered the body of a housewife from her house at Provatibagh under the Khilgaon police station in the capital at about 11:45am on Saturday. The deceased was identified as Sonia Akhter Chhabi, 32, wife of AKM Mahfuzul Haque of the area. Quoting neighbours and family members, the police said

The 65th founding anniversary of the Dhaka University Alumni Association was observed on Saturday with much festivity and enthusiasm. Several hundred former students took part in the programmes drawn up by the association to mark the day. DU vice-chancellor AAMS Arefin Siddique

Most of the advance tickets are sold out within a few hours after the counters open every day at Dhaka and Chittagong railway stations, with a large number of people, who wish to celebrate Eid-ul-Azha and Durga Puja in their village homes, returning empty-handed. The Bangladesh Railway began selling advance

Social Safety Net Programmes WB lends $500m to help 4m poorest households The government yesterday signed an agreement with the World Bank to receive $500 million to strengthen the major safety net programmes covering four million of the poorest households. The fund will support the Safety Net Systems for the Poorest (SNSP) project to be ... Read more

Heavy rainfall for the last two consecutive days under the influence of deep convection formed over North Bay caused serious disruption in civic life, port and businesses activities in the Chittagong city. The coastal regions of Chittagong were swept by a wind-driven surge by 2-3 feet above the normal tide, official sources said. Patenga Meteorological ... Read more

A daylong programme marking Jibanananda Award distribution was held in Barisal on Friday. The late poet Khandakar Ashraf Hossain got the award for his poetic works and Shantanu Kaisar for his prose works on this occasion. The programme was jointly organised by Adda, Dhansiri of Barisal, Sahitya Saikat of Rajapur, Jhalakati and little magazine ‘Durba’

A series of fairs was launched throughout the country on Thursday to create awareness and encourage people to take up English language learning opportunities. The series of fairs titled ‘Ananday Shiki Engreji – English in Action Mela’ would take place in 37 upazilas of the country. English in Action Project

Preparations for the five-day celebration of Sharadiya Durgotsab, the main religious festival of the Bengali Hindus, are going on in full swing in the Barisal city and other parts of the region. However high price of raw materials used for making idols and rainy weather coupled with increase in other costs, may affect this year’s ... Read more

Government on Tuesday inaugurated the Nuclear Industry Information Centre at Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman Novotheatre in Dhaka to disseminate general knowledge about nuclear energy for the public domain. State Minister for Science and Technology Yefesh Osman, Director General of Russian State Corporation, ROSATOM , Sergey Kirienko jointly

Fellows to besiege LabAid today Several hundred students of Dhaka University on Tuesday observed hunger-strike protesting at alleged ‘wrong’ treatment of one of its students at Labaid Hospital in the capital. The students of political science department postponed their protest in the evening after vice-chancellor AAMS Arefin Siddique assured them of

A college girl allegedly committed suicide jumping from the fifth floor of Dhaka district sessions judge court building on Tuesday afternoon. The deceased was identified as Rabeya Khatun, 22, student of Abujar Gifari College and resident of Malibag Hazipara in the capital. Kotowali police

Dhaka Water Supply and Sewerage Authority (DWASA) on Tuesday signed a Euro 7.5 million deal with Vitens Evides International, a Netherlands-based organisation, for urban dredging demonstration, aiming to address the problems of urban flooding and water-logging in the capital. Dwasa managing director Engr Taqsem A Khan and regional director (Asia)

Running Cattle Market At Zero Point KCC, KMS, local admin at loggerheads Khulna City Corporation, Khulna District Muktijoddha Sangshad and Khulna district administration are at loggerheads over running a sacrificial cattle market at Zero Point of the city near Khulna–Satkhira Highway. The KCC chief executive officer, Tapon Kumar Ghose, issued an official letter to the ... Read more