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9,370 examinees in Sylhet apply for re-evaluation A total of 9,370 HSC examinees under Sylhet board have applied to have their answer sheets re-evaluated. The Board of Intermediate & Secondary Education (BISE), Sylhet saw the highest pass percentage among the education boards this year. However, this year also saw the highest number

UN Peacekeeping Missions Boost support for Bangladesh’s capacity enhancement International community urged from DU conference Lauding Bangladesh’s contributions to United Nations peacekeeping missions, speakers at the inauguration of a two-day international conference yesterday called upon the international community to increase support for enhancing Bangladesh’s capacity to serve in these missions. Bangladesh’s national and foreign policy ... Read more

Over 300 Rajshahi University (RU) teachers and students yesterday observed “Student-Teacher Repression Day” marking the countrywide atrocities on their fellows from August 20 to 23 in 2007 during the military-backed caretaker government rule. On August 20, 2007, army personnel beat three Dhaka University (DU)

4,682 accused Out of a total of 4,682 people accused of acid throwing in the last 11 years only 291 of them have been convicted, said speakers at a press conference yesterday. The cases caught up in the judicial backlogs date back till 2002, when the phenomenon achieved a paramount proportion of 498 instances

A huge number of children die in drowning in the country every year. Many children die during floods that hit the country every year. Moreover, there are tidal surges in the coastal areas which also cause drowning of children. On an average, 30,000 children die in accidents in Bangladesh every year. Of them, 50 per ... Read more

Speakers at a workshop on Saturday said south-western part of Bangladesh is one of the disaster prone zones of the globe owing to its geographical location as well as natural reasons. Due to climate change the frequency and intensity of disasters are increasing, threaten lives and livelihood. A large number of people are become ultra ... Read more

Cop, Wife Murder Oishee to face court today Detective police will produce Oishee Rahman, the prime suspect of killing her parents, before a Dhaka court today after a five-day remand. On August 18, a Dhaka court granted remand for Oishee, her friend Mizanur Rahman Rony, and domestic help Khadiza Khatun Sumi in connection

The Dhaka University teachers on Friday observed black day demanding punishment of the perpetrators involved in campus violence in August 2007 during the military-backed caretaker government. Wearing black-badges, the university teachers and staff held a discussion at Teacher-Student Centre auditorium. DU vice-chancellor AAMS Arfin Siddique,

As it did not put aside land to set up adequate water pumps in the plan, the Rajuk has recently given Dhaka Wasa a space inside a park in Uttara Sector 13 to install one. Though this has made a part of the lakeside green patch ugly, there was no other space for setting up ... Read more

At least 14 people, including 4 children and six women, were rescued from a human-trafficker at Hakimpur upazila of Dinajpur district on the border with India on Friday, Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) sources said. The rescued persons have been identified as Minoti Roy 35, Setu Bala 65, Saleka Bala 60, Nani Bala 55, Kaloni Rani ... Read more

Says Prof Jamilur Reza Choudhury There must be a stronger and more coordinated disaster management system in case of future disasters like that of Rana Plaza collapse, said Prof Jamilur Reza Choudhury, adviser to a former caretaker government, yesterday. He was addressing a workshop titled “Urban Disaster Response and Lessons Learnt from the Rana Plaza ... Read more

11 ex-RU students still fight against conviction Although four Rajshahi University (RU) teachers, convicted in a case filed over the August 2007 protests, received a presidential pardon, 11 former students have been struggling for nearly six years to overturn their conviction. In December 2007, a Rajshahi speedy trial court sentenced the students to three years’ ... Read more

Says Dr Akbar Ali Khan Former adviser to a caretaker government Dr Akbar Ali Khan yesterday said the country was not enjoying the benefits of democracy due to a lack of the rule of law and democratic values. “There is a shell of democracy in Bangladesh, it has no life,” he told Dhaka YES Conference ... Read more

Rpo Amendment EC pins hope on ordinance The Election Commission is pinning its hope on promulgation of an ordinance to amend the Representation of the People Order 1972 as the chance of the RPO amendment bill passage in the next session is very thin. President Abdul Hamid has convened the 20th parliamentary session of the ... Read more

The Bangladesh Nationalist Party has said people would resist the government’s move to hold the coming general election under a partisan government. Inaugurating a political training workshop of the party at a city hotel on Thursday, BNP acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir

A Metropolitan Magistrate’s Court in Dhaka on Thursday granted bail to Bangladesh Nationalist Party standing committee member MK Anwar in a case filed under the Information and Communication Technology Act. Metropolitan magistrate Mustafa Shahriar Khan granted the bail after Anwar surrendered to the court seeking bail. Anwar’s defence counsel

More than four years have passed since Shakhari Bazar was announced a national heritage site but indifference of the authorities concerned was turning the historic neighbourhood of old Dhaka into a pile of wreckage. The life of the people living in the neighbourhood is at stake as no step for the restoration or renovation of ... Read more

The district administration of Khulna is set to pull down by the next month illegal structures developed on 1.87 acres of land of the Roads and Highways Division. The land was grabbed by 98 influential people of the city. The decision was made at a recent meeting at the deputy

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday assured Chittagong business leaders of allocating Tk 20 crore to resolve the waterlogging problem of Moheskhal in Agrabad area. She assured the leaders of Chittagong Chamber of Commerce and Industry (CCCI) of the allocation after MA Latif, CCCI’s former president and also MP,

Says Mozena The violence against religious minorities in Bangladesh is seldom about religion, US Ambassador Dan Mozena said yesterday. Rather, it is about the pursuit of power and financial gain of the cheap politicians and greedy land grabbers, he told a seminar on “Religious Tolerance and Peace” organised by Inter-Faith Dialogue Forum (IFDF) at the ... Read more