Eighteen people, including a child and five women, were killed and 25 others injured in a road accident at Chakoria of Cox’s Bazar early Monday on the Cox’s Bazar-Chittagong highway. Police and witnesses said the accident took place as a Cox’s Bazar-bound bus coming from Fatikchari Nanopour Maizbhandar Shrine in Chittagong hit a railing of ... Read more
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Accreditation body for pvt univs nearing launch
Establishment of an autonomous accreditation council to ensure quality and standard of education offered by the county’s private universities is at its final stage, despite serious opposition faced from some university owners. All the 71 private universities of Bangladesh will have to be members of the ‘Accreditation Council for Private Universities of Bangladesh’ proposed
Journalists call strike in media on March 11
Journalists have called a 24-hour strike in all media outlets on March 11 to press for their three-point demands. The demands include holding trials of the killers of all journalists including Sagar-Runi, ensuring safety of the journalists and ensuring freedom of the news media. The strike will start at 6am on March 11 and end at ... Read more
PM wants Shahbagh protests not round the clock
The prime minister, Sheikh Hasina, on Monday called upon the protesters at Shahbagh not to continue their protests round the clock blocking the entrances to two big hospitals at the intersection. Presiding over the weekly cabinet meeting, she, however, expressed her solidarity with the Shahbagh protests, demanding maximum punishment for the perpetrators of crimes
BNP asks Shahbagh protesters not to be used as ‘pawns’
The Bangladesh Nationalist Party has expressed hope that the youth movement at Shahbagh Square would encompass the issues of ‘democracy’ and ‘corruption’ apart from their demand for death sentence to all war criminals. The BNP high command in a meeting with party chairperson Khaleda Zia in the chair at her Gulshan office on Monday night took stock of ... Read more
Tk 1123cr duty waived on vehicles imported by 315 MPs
Only 37 lawmakers of the ninth parliament, including leader of the house Sheikh Hasina, opposition leader Khaleda Zia, and 15 ministers, have refrained from availing themselves the facility of importing duty-free vehicles. The state has waived a total duty of around Tk 1,123 crore on vehicles imported by 315 lawmakers, including 37 ministers, under the facility,
Gloom grips Gazipur
A pal of gloom descended on Naogoan, Harinal, Lagalia, Titarkul, Prahladpur and the adjacent villages under Gazipur Sadar and Shreepur upazilas as the news of 18 people including seven of a family from the area getting killed and 25 more injured in a road accident in Cox’s Bazar early Monday. The seven members of a ... Read more
Gloom grips Gazipur
A pal of gloom descended on Naogoan, Harinal, Lagalia, Titarkul, Prahladpur and the adjacent villages under Gazipur Sadar and Shreepur upazilas as the news of 18 people including seven of a family from the area getting killed and 25 more injured in a road accident in Cox’s Bazar early Monday. The seven members of a ... Read more
PM asks judges to consider people’s aspirations
War Crimes Trial PM asks judges to consider people’s aspirations The prime minister, Sheikh Hasina, on Sunday urged judges of the international crimes tribunals to ‘consider the aspiration of the people while delivering verdicts’ and vowed to do ‘everything to ensure the maximum punishment of war criminals.’ Hasina, also the leader of the house, said ... Read more
People in other places jump onto bandwagon
Shahbagh Protests People in other places jump onto bandwagon Protests at Shahbagh seeking death penalty for all who have committed crimes against humanity in 1971 passed the sixth consecutive day on Sunday with national cricketers expressing solidarity. Protests spilled over to Chittagong, Rajshahi, Barisal, Rangpur, Mymansingh, Sherpur, Kishoreganj, Sylhet, Chandpur, Brahmanbaria, Bandarban, Dinajpur, Moulvibazar, Sunamganj, ... Read more
Pvt univs hedge research
Eleven private universities spent nothing on research in 2011, a feature that does not go with such institutions as there is no alternative to conducting research for maintaining the standard of tertiary and higher education, said the University Grants Commission. The UGC in its yet-to-be-published report for 2011 also said research in many
Appeal against ‘Inadequate Sentence
Govt to change ICT law The state minister for law, Quamrul Islam, on Saturday said that the government had initiated an amendment to the International Crimes (Tribunals) Act 1973 to allow the prosecution to appeal against inadequate sentence by war crime tribunals. Section 21(2) of the act stipulates: ‘The government shall have the right of ... Read more
Shahbagh thunder rumbles on
The popular protests spearheaded by youths from Shahbagh Square on the fifth day on Saturday saw huge torch and candlelight processions after dusk as people from all walks of life continued streaming into the heart of the city all day taking a fresh vow not to leave the square until all war criminals, including Jamaat-e-Islami ... Read more
Private univs driven by profiteering
Ignores humanities, social sciences negating UGC directive Almost all the private universities are market-driven, offering only those courses that sell the best and yield the highest returns in terms of tuition fee. Courses in humanities and social sciences are marginalised by business, computer science, and information and communication technology courses in exact negation of the ... Read more
Meghna launch capsize death toll 14
The death toll from Friday’s launch capsize in Meghna rose to 14 as rescuers recovered 12 more bodies on Saturday. Rescuers recovered two bodies in the place after the launch, the ML Saros, had capsized in the river at Gazaria in Munshiganj after being hit with a cargo vessel carrying sand about 7:30am Friday. The launch ... Read more
Teachers still appointed without registration
Almost all non-government schools, madrassahs and colleges are still recruiting teachers having no certificates from the Non-Government Teachers Recruitment and Certification Authority in breach of the law. The Non-government Teachers Recruitment and Certification Authority Act was enacted on February 15, 2005 stipulating mandatory provisions for qualifying tests conducted
Human sea wants war criminals hanged
Shahbagh rally calls for nat’l unity People in their thousands continued pouring in ‘Shahbagh Square’ turning the area and its surroundings into a human sea on Friday afternoon, calling for a national unity of political parties, professionals, cultural, students and youth organisations for ensuring death penalty for the war criminals of 1971. They also demanded ... Read more
FF’s kids, poor students denied legal rights by pvt univs
All but a mere handful of the country’s private universities are violating the very law under which they operate by choking off access of freedom fighters’ children to get enrolled, let alone free-of-cost education, and not fulfilling the 3 per cent admission quota set for poor but meritorious students. The Section 9(4) of Private University ... Read more
Law more honoured in the breach in pvt univs
Repeated UGC warnings fall flat None of the private universities, set up since 1992, have received permanent certification, or permission, as they they have not fully adhered to the Private University Act in 21 years, the University Grants Commission said. Most of them have continued flouting the law. They have yet to move to own campuses, ... Read more
Thousands pour in for Shahbagh protests
People, mainly students, in their thousands on Thursday continued sitting in at Shahbagh where they have held protests since Tuesday at the imprisonment of Jamaat leader Abdul Quader Molla on war crimes charges and demanded death penalty for Quader Molla and other war criminals. Students of different schools and colleges on Thursday joined in as ... Read more