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The three-day 12th annual education UK Exhibition began Thursday in the city to help the students with the admission information to different colleges and universities in the UK and find out how a UK education will prepare the students for an exciting career of their choice. Adviser to the Prime Minister Dr Alauddin Ahmed inaugurated

The Dhaka Education Board authorities yesterday posted the revised schedule of the upcoming Higher Secondary Certificate (HSC) examinations on its website (http://www.dhakaedu-cationboard.gov.bd/). According to the revised routine, the examination of logic 1st paper will be held on May 16 instead of March 19 and the examination of logic 2nd

Govt to create pool of 20,000 primary teachers for filling in leave vacancies The government plans to create a pool of 20,000 primary school teachers to tackle teacher shortages due to leaves of absence. A vast number of teaching posts fall vacant for a temporary but significant amount of time due to maternity leave, professional ... Read more

To be effective from May 1 The government, in its bid to increase non-tax revenue, has decided to double the official price of land, sources in the law ministry told New Age on Monday. The decision, to be in effect from May, will reduce undisclosed money, sources added. The flat registration fees will also be ... Read more

33,000 posts of public health professionals vacant  Public health services across the country are being severely hampered by a staggering shortage of health professionals. According to officials from the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS), there are currently 33,000 vacant posts, which is more than a fifth of the total workforce, reports The Daily Star. The ... Read more

Polls in the Dhaka City Corporation will be held in the last week of May, chief election commissioner (CEC) ATM Shamsul Huda said on Friday, reports bdnews24.com. His statement came after five writ petitions filed over demarcation of DCC wards were rejected by the High Court. The CEC said the commission plans to conduct bye-election ... Read more

Presence of the increasing number of tourists with traditional and modern electronic devices are creating various problems for wildlife living and reproductive cycle in the Sundarbans, reports BSS. Preservation of the forest is possible checking unnatural sound. A number of steps, including freeing the Sundarbans from the sound pollution, have been

Access to adequate, safe and nutritious food is essential to achieve economic and social development in the country, said an expert, reports UNB. “Safe and balanced food is essential to ensure productive human resources – a precondition of economic growth and development of a nation,” said Dr. AFM Saiful Islam, the executive director of

CHITTAGONG, Feb 26: Shipping Minister Shahjahan Khan here today said that process was underway to carry pilgrims from Chittagong by sea routes at an affordable cost from October 1 next, reports BSS. The Shipping Minister informed this while talking to reporters after inaugural function of Free Medical Camp under the auspices of

One killed in fresh violence The administration in Khagrachari ordered curfew of the town after at least one person had been killed and more than 50 injured and dozens of houses burnt down on Tuesday as fresh violence erupted in the town three days after the ethnic violence at Baghaichhari in Rangamati on Friday. Troops ... Read more

The renaming of the Zia International Airport as Shah Jalal International Airport was performed on Monday by putting up printed banners on the entrance and departure sides of the main terminal building, but the entire process of change would reportedly cost the exchequer Taka 1400 crore . The process of name changing would involve not ... Read more

Prosecution tells court about the bloodbath as BDR court starts first trial in Pilkhana Darbar hall of BDR Pilkhana headquarters, where a 33-hour carnage set in just shy of a year ago, turned into a courtroom yesterday with Bangladesh Rifles beginning its first mutiny trial in the capital. On the opening day, the three-member Special ... Read more

A special court accepted charges against 86 soldiers of Bangladesh Rifles in the first mutiny trial that began at the Darbar Hall of the border guards’ headquarters at Peelkhana yesterday, exactly a day before the first anniversary of the bloody carnage of February 25-26 of last year in which

The High Court Tuesday rejected a petition filed by Fazlur Rahman, the Managing Director of City Group of Industries, challenging a government order to remove illegal structures from the bank of the river Shitalakhya. The structures include three jetties on the river

Structures on Shitalakkhya HC rejects City Group’s petition The High Court yesterday summarily rejected a writ petition challenging a government notice that asked the authorities of the City Group of Industries to remove their structures, including three jetties, from the river Shitalakkhya. Following the HC order, now there remains no bar in demolishing jetties and ... Read more

The ban imposed by the UK on student visa application will be lifted “as soon as possible””, a British council director said Tuesday, after announcing the schedule of annual UK exhibition in Bangladesh. “This suspension will come to an end as soon as possible. The door would be wide open and we

BDR Mutiny Around 800 to be charged with BDR carnage CID to submit charge sheet soon; first mutiny trial in Pilkhana starts today Criminal Investigation Department is all set to submit a charge sheet in the BDR carnage case, accusing around 800 border guards of murder, looting, arson and hiding bodies in

Non-functioning of the CHT Land Commission, designed to settle longstanding disputes over land ownership in the Chittagong Hill Tracts, is mainly responsible for the recurrence of ethnic violence in the once conflict-ridden south-eastern hills, said ethnic leaders and

The cabinet on Monday approved the draft of ‘Climate Change Trust Fund Act, 2010’ to create a permanent fund for ‘protecting lives and property of the people from adverse effects of climate change’. The environment and forests ministry placed the draft in the weekly meeting of the cabinet at

The Supreme Court authorities have taken administrative reforms programme to bring back discipline and improve the overall environment of court activities, and infuse dynamism in dispensing justice. Along with the administrative reforms, the authorities are also carrying out cleanliness