Resignation deadline extended BUET students on Sunday continued holding protests, giving the vice-chancellor and the pro-vice-chancellor a fresh deadline of 11:00am today to resign. Activists of the disbanded university unit of the Chhatra League, the ruling Awami League-backed student organisation, meanwhile on the day, faced off the students, who were rallying for the removal
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H&M chief to visit Bangladesh
Karl-Johan Persson, chief executive officer of the Swedish retail chain H&M, is due in Bangladesh tomorrow to attend important meetings with the readymade garment manufacturers and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina. Three officials from H&M, including the chief financial officer and chief of global marketing, will accompany Persson for the two-day visit, said Siddiqur Rahman, vice-president of ... Read more
BUET students give VC, pro-VC till 10am today to quit
BUET students on Saturday gave the university vice-chancellor, SM Nazrul Islam, and the pro-vice-chancellor, Habibur Rahman, till 10:00am today to resign. They said that they would, otherwise, wage a tough movement to push for the removal of the two top officials of Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology
Univs running without elected representatives
Govt-appointed partisans occupying top positions and making vital decisions Public universities are being run by non-elected and government-nominated vice-chancellors, without elections of students unions and with unelected representatives of registered graduates in the Senate. No election to the vice-chancellor panel in the Chittagong University has been held for the last 20 years, in Rajshahi University ... Read more
A new formula for polls time government
Unveils citizens’ body The next parliamentary election cannot be free and fair if held under the present government and without dissolving the incumbent parliament. And the Election Commission, no matter how strong it is, alone will not be able to hold free and fair polls with the administration
Honda coming to Bangladesh
Plans to set up motorbike plant Japan’s automobile and motorcycle manufacturer Honda Motor Co plans to form a joint venture in Bangladesh this year to produce motorcycles, the Reuters reported on Saturday quoting a Nikkei report. Honda used to sell motorcycles in Bangladesh through Indian motorcycle maker Hero MotoCorp Ltd. The Japanese company cancelled its ... Read more
Minister sits with admission-seekers today
Medical, Dental Course Admission Minister sits with admission-seekers today The health minister, AFM Ruhal Haque, will sit with representatives of medical admission-seekers, who have been rallying for about 20 days against a government decision on holding no intake test, in his office at 9:30am today to discuss the issue. The government on August 12 decided ... Read more
Low quality urea being supplied to farmers in N-region
Dissatisfaction has been prevailing among hundreds of fertiliser dealers and farmers of 16 districts in northern region, as huge quantity of sub-standard fertiliser is being supplied to them from the buffer godown at Baghabari river port in Shahzadpur upazila of Sirajganj district in the peak season of Aman cultivation. They are apprehending that, the production ... Read more
BUET stalemate takes new turn
No classes held after Eid holidays; now students prepare to stage demo for removal of VC and pro-VC The deadlock at Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (Buet) appears to deepen further as the students resume demonstration today demanding removal of the vice chancellor and his deputy. Meanwhile, even though the Buet authorities insist the ... Read more
Bishwa Sahitya Kendra awards 583 for reading books
Students need to read creative literary books along with text and academic books for realisation of life, said founder chairman of Bishwa Sahitya Kendra and noted litterateur Prof Abdullah Abu Sayeed yesterday. He said this at a prize giving ceremony of the third “Citi Agamir Alo Protijogita” jointly organised by Bishwa Sahitya Kendra and Citi ... Read more
Three mobile cos deposit Tk 2,372cr in fees, VAT
Licence renewal fee installment Three mobile cos deposit Tk 2,372cr in fees, VAT Mobile companies Grameenphone, Robi and Banglalink on Thursday gave a total sum of Tk 2,372 crore to the Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission as the second instalment of licence renewal fee, spectrum charge and VAT. However Citycell submitted an application to the BTRC ... Read more
Power price to go up again from Sept 1
The Bangladesh Energy Regulatory Commission on Thursday decided to raise both the bulk and retail prices of electricity for the third time this year with effect from 1 September, said officials. The BERC, however, has not yet fixed the new rate. It will announce the new price of electricity between September 7 and September 10 ... Read more
South Korea introduces skills test
Migrant Workers South Korea introduces skills test South Korea has introduced a skills test aimed at assessing and improving the competence of Bangladeshi migrants to that country, officials of the country’s human resources development (HRD) said yesterday. The test involves evaluating Bangladeshi workers at three different levels — intelligence, physical fitness and language competence
Withdrawal of case against 13 RU students demanded
Rajshahi University teachers and students observed “Student-Teacher Repression Day” yesterday, calling upon the government and authorities concerned to withdraw the case filed against 13 RU students over the August 22, 2007 unrest on the campus. That day, law enforcers assaulted RU teachers, students and staff who were protesting
Mashiur must go
Padma Bridge Loan Revival Mashiur must go WB may tell govt today if it can give time until primary probe into graft allegation completes; US envoy upbeat; Muhith tight-lipped Mashiur Rahman, adviser to the prime minister, has to resign to meet the conditions the World Bank has laid down to revive its credit for Padma ... Read more
Grameen Bank owners demand cancellation of ordinance amendment
Members of the Grameen Bank’s board and shareholders on Wednesday demanded cancellation of the amendment to the Ordinance which has stripped the board of its power to appoint the managing director. They said that since the inception of Grameen Bank, all changes in laws and regulations concerning it were aimed at empowering the women, but the ... Read more
Witness says his brother was killed by Kamaruzzaman
War crimes trial Witness says his brother was killed by Kamaruzzaman A prosecution witness on Wednesday testified that the detained assistant secretary general of Jamaat, Mohammad Kamaruzzaman, and his Al-Badr thugs caught his freedom-fighter brother and killed him on 23 August, 1971. Mosharraf Hossain Talukdar, who is the fifth prosecution witness against Kamaruzzaman, told the International ... Read more
1.3m children engaged in most hazardous jobs
NHRC workshop told Around 7.4 million children in the country are labourers, of which 1.3 million are engaged in the most hazardous work, said country director of Save the Children at a human rights review workshop yesterday in the capital. The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) organised the workshop on child labour and trafficking as part ... Read more
Enforcement deadline now Sept 15
10-Sec Pulse Enforcement deadline now Sept 15 The telecom regulator yesterday said it extended the deadline to enforce its 10-second pulse directive for all carriers to September 15. Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission (BTRC) said it extended the deadline by one month following appeals from the
Bangladeshi woman tortured by BSF at Benapole
A Bangladeshi woman was badly injured from beating allegedly by Indian Border Security Force in the no-man’s-land at Petrapole border in Jessore on Tuesday evening. The victim was identified as Achhia Khatun, 42, wife of Swapan of Jhikargachha upazila. Achhia said she entered the area to buy fruits when the BSF jawans of Petrapole camp ... Read more