The month-long Amar Ekushey Book Fair has been an income source, besides being a means of gathering experience, for many young people. There are a few stalls among a total of 274 participating publishing houses where young people, mainly students of bachelor and masters
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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
BTRC to bring int’l calls on single platform
Asks IGW operators to form clearing house for better monitoring The Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Authority has directed the international gateway operators to form a clearing house in a bid to curb illegal international call termination and unhealthy competition among the service providers. The BTRC in a directive asked the IGW operators to from the central platform ... Read more
Book price pinches publishers, readers
Both the publishers and the readers feel the pinch of increased prices of books in Amar Ekushey Book Fair as most of the readers are turning away from books because of the price hike, leaving the publishers with little turnover. Talking to New Age, owners of different publishing houses said prices of books have been
Rajuk conducts drive at Gulshan Lake
The city development authorities, Rajdhani Unnayan Kartripakkha, conducted a drive on Sunday at Gulshan 1-Badda Link Road to reclaim the Gulshan Lake area from encroachment. An enforcement team of Rajuk, led by its executive magistrate Rokon-Ud Dowla, conducted the drive. Rajuk executive engineer Nurul Islam said during the drive that they demolished some
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
Post offices fight back
They are going electronic and now being used for money transfer The government’s postal department, which was losing both its glory and business to the fast growing private courier services, fought back well in the last few years. Now the post offices are going electronic, setting up ATMs (automated teller machines) and issuing thousands of ... 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
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
Rooftop gardening growing popular in capital
City gardeners, experts for making roof gardening compulsory Rooftop gardening becomes growingly popular in the Dhaka city as the land for gardening shrinks every day with construction of more and more new buildings. City’s gardeners and agriculturists, however, cite yet another reason why more house owners getting keen on having a patch of greenery on ... 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
Children enjoy first Shishu Prahar
Amar Ekushey Book Fair Children enjoy first Shishu Prahar Children on Friday enjoyed the first Shishu Prahar (children’s hour) at the month-long Amar Ekushey Book Fair 2013 on the Bangla Academy premises in the capital. Selling of books for children was also better on the day than that of the previous days since the beginning ... 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
Google to launch street view for Dhaka, Ctg
People around the globe will soon see online the streets of Dhaka and Chittagong, and all the establishments — including restaurants, offices and beautiful places — on both sides of the streets. And this is going to happen due to Google Inc as the search engine giant through its “street view” will explore places in ... Read more
Dhaka to request Delhi to open up more land ports
Electronic Goods Export Dhaka to request Delhi to open up more land ports The government is going to request India during the Indian foreign minister’s visit to Dhaka in mid-February to allow export of electronic products from Bangladesh through more land ports and customs stations, officials said. India earlier imposed a restriction on export of electronics ... Read more
New era begins as govt auditing goes digital
A new era begins in the auditing culture of Bangladesh as the supreme audit institution of the country yesterday launched a digital audit management system to prepare quality reports within a short time. The Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General (OCAG) has installed an integrated software system to connect all its departments and also ... Read more
Mobile Financial Service
BB asks banks to follow bank-led model Bangladesh Bank has asked scheduled banks to follow the bank-led model of mobile financial service to avoid confusion over who is the principal provider of the service, said BB officials. A central bank official told New Age on Thursday that the BB on Monday issued letters to the ... Read more
Urs being held at Anwara Park flouting HC order
A two-day urs began at Anwara Park at Farmgate in the city flouting a High Court order. Kutubbagh Darbar Sharif covered the entire park, facing Jatiya Sangsad Bhaban, and put up a big stage damaging trees and the environment of the green space. The organizers blocked the park to store materials for last for or ... Read more
Number of new books falls
First Week of Book Fair Number of new books falls Quite unusual with the Ekushey Book Fair, the number of new books arriving at the fair in the first week of the month-long even fell because of political unrest. A total of 490 new titles hit the stalls in the fair during the first week ... Read more