BSS : Prime Minister and Awami League (AL) President Sheikh Hasina on Sunday reiterated her firm determination to execute the...
Mokarram Hossain (back from Pakistan) : It had been drizzling outside since early morning. The day was Sunday, the 12th...
DU Correspondent : Teachers at public universities nationwide have erupted in protest against their inclusion in the Universal Pension Scheme (UPS), demanding the cancellation of the Finance Ministry’s notification. Terming the pension scheme as discriminatory, educators from various public universities, including the four autonomous institutions—Dhaka University, Jahangirnagar University, Rajshahi University, and Chittagong University—staged human chains and protests on Sunday. The protests were organized under the respective teachers’ associations as part of a pre-scheduled program by the Federation of Bangladesh University...
UNB : Bangladesh Sangbadpatra Shilpa Parishad, an organization of newspaper owners, placed a 14-point demand including the payment of all outstanding advertisement bills owed to newspapers by government agencies, including Department of Films and Publications (DFP), by next June. If not, the leaders of this organisation and publishers warned of waging a systematic movement to realise their demands from next July. The demands were read out during a regular meeting addressing the ongoing problems of the newspaper industry and its...
UNB : Nagorik Oikya President Mahmudur Rahman Manna on Saturday urged Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina to clarify which country is conspiring to create a Christian state taking parts of Chattogram Hill Tracts (CHT) and Myanmar’s Rakhine. Addressing a sit-in program, he also expressed scepticism about whether any foreign nation actually approached the Prime Minister with such an offer or if it was merely a fabricated story. The Jatiyatabadi Motor Chalak Dal organised the program in front of the Jatiya Press...
BSS : Climate experts at a seminar in the city opined that the continuous heatwave in Bangladesh in April this year has broken a 76-year record for high temperatures, affecting all sectors, including agriculture, fisheries, livestock and health. BRAC’s Climate Change Programme organized the seminar on Thursday at Renaissance Hotel to inform and sensitise policymakers, academics, media and civil society on the science-policy-practice nexus of heatwaves, said a press release. BRAC Executive Director Asif Saleh chaired the seminar while Dr....
Staff Reporter : Awami League General Secretary and Road Transport and Bridges Minister, Obaidul Quader, reaffirmed the government’s commitment to public and national interest by stressing the necessity of taking decisive action against wrongdoers. Quader assured that the government harbors no agenda to arbitrarily incarcerate political leaders or activists, including those from opposition parties. “Persons who are miscreants, offenders, and wrongdoers must land in jail,” Quader stated firmly. “If anybody is involved with crimes, he or she must be indicted...
UNB : After a temporary gap, Chuadanga on Saturday again experienced the country’s highest temperature at 41.7 degrees Celsius. People are experiencing the blistering heat as a mild to moderate heat wave is sweeping over Dhaka, Rajshahi, Rangpur, Mymensingh, Khulna, Barishal, Chattogram and Sylhet divisions and it may continue. Rakibul Hasan, senior observer of Chuadanga First Class Meteorological Observatory, said that from May 6 to May 24, the temperature was ranging from 34 degrees to 40.0 (zero) degrees Celsius. “But...
Staff Reporter : Private medical colleges in Bangladesh are currently grappling with a severe shortage of students due to procedural issues, according to leaders of the Bangladesh Private Medical College Association (BPMCA). President MA Mubin Khan highlighted that approximately 1,200 seats in private medical colleges remained vacant this year. Similar issues were faced last year as well, he added. The BPMCA organized a discussion on Saturday to address these challenges and ensure quality in medical education. State Minister for Health...
Al Amin : The long-standing demand of Bangladeshi researchers for increased research and development (R&D) funding, ideally at 3 percent of the country’s GDP, remains unmet. Bangladesh currently lags behind its South Asian peers, including Sri Lanka, in R&D investments. In a bid to address the needs of the fourth industrial revolution, the upcoming 2024–25 budget is expected to emphasise the research sector. Sources from the Finance Ministry have indicated that past budgets have neglected this sector, but the new...