The University Grants Commission of India invites applications from the eligible Bangladeshi nationals for award of Junior Research Fellowships for the academic session 2013-14. India also invites students for Research Associateships to undertake advanced studies and research in science, humanities and social sciences in Indian Universities,
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Maternal mortality rate shown in govt statistics not proper: NGOs
Non-government organisations working with women-health on Tuesday published a survey report revealing that death-rate of pregnant women during delivery was not properly projected in government statistical report as death-registration was yet to be standardised. The current maternal mortality ratio of 194 in per lakh
Sylhet gas field employees’ demand job regularisation
Employees of the Sylhet Gas Field Limited, a sister concern of the sate-owned Petrobangla, on Tuesday threatened to start fast-unto-death in front of the institution office from June 2 if their job was not regularised by this time. They made the announcement during their daylong
Khulna mayor candidates put forth pledges
Mayoral candidates in the Khulna City Corporation elections in an open programme on Tuesday put forth their electoral pledges for the development of the city and enhancing services for its dwellers. Answering question asked by the city dwellers,
Mobile court fines three businesses in Ctg
A Chittagong mobile court fined three business enterprises Tk 1. 25 lakh on Tuesday on charge of manufacturing and selling food and drinking water in unhygienic condition. The court, led by executive magistrate of the port city corporation Nazia Shirin, fined Apple D Bakeries and Hasan Bakery at Bahaddarhat Tk 50,000 each for manufacturing
Crimes rampant in Sylhet city
Incidence of crimes such as murder and mugging has increased in the Sylhet city ahead the city corporation polls to be held on June 15. The city dwellers have blamed indifference of the law-enforcement agencies for the sudden rise in crimes.
Khulna dev committee forms human chain
The Greater Khulna Development Action Coordination Committee on Monday demanded adequate allocation in the upcoming national budget for implementation of the development projects in the south-western region. They made the demand at a human chain from 11:30am
RMCH staff held for stealing medicine
The police arrested a Rajshahi Medical College Hospital ward boy on Monday on the charge of stealing medicine from the hospital. The arrestee was identified as Lutfor Rahman, police said. The Rajpara police officer-in-charge, ABM Rezaul Islam,
BCL men stab shopkeeper at CU
Activists of the ruling party-backed Bangladesh Chhatra League Sunday night beat up a businessman inside a dormitory at Chittagong University. The injured businessman was under treatment at Chittagong Medical College Hospital. In protest at the attack, the businessmen closed all
Adequate budgetary allocation sought for children
Speakers at a views-exchange meeting on Monday urged the government to take steps for making adequate allocation in the next budget for the children in order to protect their rights. Although there is gender budget for women, there is no specific children budget, they said underscoring the need for establishing a framework to understand
Drive against roadside illegal structures soon: Obaidul
The communications minister, Obaidul Quader, has said a drive will be conducted soon to evict the illegal establishments on both sides of Dhaka-Aricha Highway. The minister said this on Monday while visiting the illegal establishments constructed along Dhaka-Aricha Highway at Hemayetpur in Savar.
Unsafe water puts health of Sylhet people at risk
People in the Sylhet city are contracting different waterborne diseases as the hotels and restaurants are serving their consumers drinking water contaminated with coliform bacteria, an organism injurious to human health. A survey conducted by the divisional environment
Tk 13 lakh snatched in Sylhet city
Miscreants looted Tk 13 lakh after hacking two officers of a private company Transcom Limited Sunday afternoon in the Sylhet city. The injured were Transcom Limited’s Sylhet office account in-charge Mahbubur Rahman and its cash officer Monir Hossain, sources in the company said.
Packaged foods can harm child health: experts
Most packaged foods, which have flooded the market, pose serious health hazards for child health, health experts have said. These packaged foods are being prepared by mixing toxic chemicals and harmful dyes with them to attract consumers, which may cause serious diseases
Schoolgirls drown in Rajshahi
Two schoolgirls drowned in a pond at Seriol in the Rajshahi city Sunday noon. The deceased were identified as Bristy, Class VI student of Seroil Colony School, and Bithy, Class III student of Seroil Government Primary School. Quoting neighbours, police said Bristy and Bithy went to
Ctg gets DEMU railcar service
Bangladesh Railway on Saturday pressed into service three DEMU railcars in Chittagong, two of them for the commuters in the port city. The third DEMU railcar would shuttle between the port city and Laksham, railway officials said.
Vested group blamed for unplanned urbanisation
An unholy alliances between a section of the politicians and businessmen is responsible for the unplanned urbanisation in the capital through grabbing land illegally, said speakers at a roundtable on Saturday. ‘The tragic incidents like collapse of ‘Rana Plaza’
Gender sensitive media reporting stressed to establish women rights
Gender-sensitive media reporting is important to free the society from gender disparity to establish rights of women, speaker said at a journalists’ meeting held in the General Public Library conference hall at Rajshahi on Saturday. They expressed the view that the professional
Concern over high tobacco consumption
Bangladesh is one of the highest tobacco using countries that has now become a matter of grave concern, speakers said at Rajshahi on Saturday. They viewed more than 4.60 crore people use tobacco products, both smoke and smokeless and 12 lakh of them are infected with various diseases like lung
Clinic vandalised over death of newborn in Sylhet
Local people vandalised a private clinic in Sylhet city on Friday night following the death of an infant allegedly due to negligence in providing treatment. The clinic authorities said that the two-month-old baby, Meem, daughter of Abdul Muhith, a resident of Barhal village of Fenchuganj upazila, was admitted