Extra Admission Fee 24 top schools found guilty An admission monitoring committee has found that 24 out of 32 prominent non-government schools in the capital charged fees much higher than the amount stipulated in the admission policy. The committee said the 24 schools charged extra mostly in case of admission to class I. Monipur High ... Read more
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Fake driving licences to be legalised
The government may issue driving licences to individuals now in possession of fake ones after relaxing the related rules, Communications Minister Obaidul Quader said yesterday. He was speaking to leading transport owners and workers at a views-exchange meeting on “Problems and prospects in the transport sector” at the Bangladesh Road Transport Authority office in
19 private universities without VCs
It is a violation of Private University Act Nineteen out of 52 private universities don’t have vice-chancellors appointed by the government, which is adding to the woes of students, officials of the education ministry told The Independent, on Sunday. Over the years, most universities have been running with acting or nominated vice-chancellors, though the Private ... Read more
Bishwa Ijtema concludes with Akheri Munajat
Thousands of people from home and abroad sought forgiveness from the Almighty Allah and prayed for peace, progress and prosperity of the Muslims in the final prayers (Akheri Munajat) of the three-day second-phase Bishwa Ijtema that ended at Tongi in Gazipur on Sunday. Maulana Jobaerul Hasan from Delhi, a member of the Tabligh Jamaat advisory ... Read more
337 out of 426 call centres out of business
Lack of fluency in spoken English blamed After getting their licences only three and a half years ago, more than 80 per cent of the country’s call centres have gone out of business. This has created a void in the potential sector, which was supposed to fetch a considerable amount of foreign currency every year, ... Read more
First phase Ijtema ends with Akheri Munajat
The first phase of Biswa Ijtema at Tongi near the capital ended yesterday afternoon with the offering of Akheri Munajat (concluding prayers) seeking divine blessings for the people of Bangladesh and the Muslim Ummah. The Ijtema venue on the banks of the Turag river and its adjoining areas reverberated with the word ”Amin” repeatedly uttered ... Read more
Tigress rescued, to be released in safari park
A stray Bengal tigress was rescued yesterday morning near Khashitana camp of the Sundarbans. It is seven and a half feet in length and has one of its hind legs cut off from the knee joint, forest officials said. Wife of Sujuddin, a fisherman at Angtihara village near the forest, saw it first around 6:00pm ... Read more
Mother pushed off roof
Father hands over addicted son to cops A father on Saturday handed over to the police his 22-year-old drug addict son who pushed his mother off the rooftop of their one-storey house in the capital’s Jurain. The mother, Rahima Begum, 50, was admitted to National Institute of Traumatology and Orthopaedic Rehabilitation (Nitor) for knee fractures ... Read more
Concluding prayers today
Biswa Ijtema Concluding prayers today The three-day-long first phase of Biswa Ijtema, the second largest congregation of the Muslims, will conclude today through offering Akheri Munajat (concluding prayers) on the banks of the Turag. Hundreds of thousands of devotees from home and abroad will pray for spiritual progress, exaltation and welfare of the Muslim community
Studies she can now carry on with
CRP restructures Jui’s hand chopped off by husband, prepares her to sit in HSC exams in April Yes, she is going to sit for the HSC examinations staring from April 1, but this is not the only news. Hawa Akhter Jui will be answering the tests using her right hand. The 21-year-old did not lose ... Read more
Pvt school teachers among the lowest paid
Govt urged to regulate teachers’ salaries at pvt schools The government should set a binding guideline on the salaries for teachers at privately-run schools and colleges which pay a lower amount to teachers but charge students high tuition fees, experts said. They said that low salaries were resulting in a reduction in the quality of ... Read more
A millionaire veg vendor
A vegetable vendor turned drug dealer did very well for 14 years but yesterday he finally got arrested along with his wife. The couple owns a four-storey building in Narayanganj, several flats in Dhaka, and an array of motor vehicles. The vendor is not your average shabjiwala (vegetables monger) you see on the streets or ... Read more
Groundwater loss puts city at risk
Study says Dhaka subsiding 14mm a year Dhaka is sinking over half an inch a year on average because of excessive extraction of groundwater and inadequate recharging of the vacuum it creates below the surface, found a recent study. Prof Syed Humayun Akhter, a geology teacher at Dhaka University, conducted the study by analysing data ... Read more
Children get New Year gift
Textbook distribution begins at schools The New Year of school children began with smells of new books. As the students of primary and secondary grades went to schools in the first morning of 2012, they were handed over a new set of textbooks. Some started jumping in joy; some were flipping through the pages. There ... Read more
Buet erupts in protests
Students lay siege to administrative building after BCL men beat up student; 3 expelled from university; academic activities suspended Three Buet students and activists of Bangladesh Chhatra League were suspended from the institute yesterday for beating up a senior student on Saturday. The assault on Tousif Ahmed Eshan, student of the computer science and technology ... Read more
Sajjad still waits for his father
Missing Since 2008 Sajjad still waits for his father Every night Sajjad goes to sleep in the hope that his father will come the next morning. Morning comes a little more harshly — he finds that his hope has been misplaced. Yet he does not lose heart. He puts his father’s T-shirt on the pillow ... Read more
10 killed in two road accidents
Ten people, including six of a family, were killed in separate road accidents in Noakhali and Keraniganj on Sunday. Seven people were killed when their car plunged into a roadside pond in Sonaimuri upazila of Noakhali on Sunday morning while they were going to Noakhali to attend the namaz-e-janaza of a relative. Of the seven ... Read more
Quader for army help to tackle traffic jam
Communications Minister Obaidul Quader yesterday said he might take help of the army to tackle traffic congestion and stop plying of overloaded vehicles in the city. “If necessary, I will take assistance from the army upon approval of the prime minister to give people relief by tackling the nagging traffic congestion,” Quader said while inaugurating ... Read more
Long-route bus fare hiked by 13pc
The government on Saturday increased the long-route bus fare by 15 paisa a kilometre a day after the fourth round of fuel price hike in 2011. But the fares of buses and minibuses operating in Dhaka and Chittagong metropolitan cities were not raised. The new fare would come into effect from January 2, 2012, said ... Read more
80pc nat’l minority children drop out of pry education
About four in five students, which accounts 80 per cent, of the national minority children dropout of primary education mainly because of linguistic problems and discriminatory behaviours, researches and experts said. The national drop-out rate in primary education is 45, according to the Bangladesh Primary Education Annual Sector Performance Report 2009