Mostafa Kamal Majumder Dhaka College wore a festive look one day with posters of candidates contesting the students’ union election hanging from ropes tied to temporary poles from the main gate to the college building and on two sides of…
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Special book fairs arranged in 16 disgtricts: Noor
Cultural Affairs Minister Asaduzzaman Noor on Friday said the government has taken steps to arrange special book fairs in 16 districts of the country with the participation of 70-80 publishers from Dhaka. He came up with the disclosure while addressing…
Corporal punishment doesn’t work: Time for change
“We are saying that (corporal punishment) is a horrible thing that does not work” – Professor of Psychology Alan Kazdin, Ph.D., Child Psychiatry at Yale University Sir Frank Peters Seemingly, it’s hard for some school ‘teachers’ to imagine or appreciate…
Man’s 1944 love letter found within remodeled home’s walls
Greenfield, Dec 24 (AP/UNB) — Massachusetts police have a new mystery to solve: Who wrote a 1944 love letter discovered within the walls of a house being remodeled?
World Arabic Language Day observed on RU campus
Rajshahi, 18 Dec – The World Arabic Language Day was observed on Rajshahi University (RU) campus on Monday amid much enthusiasm.
South Asian Thinkers’ Workshop report launched
To discuss and deliberate the emerging issues and concerns in South Asia in the context of fallouts of neo-liberal economic policies adopted by all South Asian countries, SAAPE in collaboration with Social Scientists’ Association (SSA, Colombo) and Centre for Labour…
25 children’s books growing young minds
Danielle Nierenberg Wondering how to teach kids to eat better, especially during the holidays? Books can be a great way to tell the stories of food, farmers, and food and agriculture workers across the globe.
World Philosophy Day observed at RU
Rajshahi – The World Philosophy Day was observed at Rajshahi University (RU) on Wednesday with the theme ‘mutual sympathy to overcome the crisis of civilization’ amid festivity and fanfare on campus. Over three hundred teachers and students of the RU…
JnU E-unit admission test result published
Dhaka – The result of the admission test for the first year honours courses of Jagannath University (JnU) E-unit (Fine Arts, Music and Drama Department) under the academic session 2017-18 has been published.
BAU admission 30 Nov: test result published
Mymensingh – The results of the admission test for first-year honours courses under academic session 2017-18 at Bangladesh Agricultural University (BAU) in Mymensingh was published on Sunday.
RU teacher invents new golden fibre
Rajshahi – New way of producing golden fibre has been invented by a scholar of Pharmacy department of Rajshahi University (RU) Professor Dr Md. Anwarul Islam.
Bangladesh Agricultural University admission test held
Mymensingh – The first year honours admission test under the academic session 2017-18 of Bangladesh Agricultural University (BAU), Mymensingh was held peacefully on Saturday.
Only 12,214 to appear at BAU admission test Saturday
Mymensingh – Admission test committee of Bangladesh Agricultural University (BAU) in Mymensingh selected only 12,214 students in the honours first-year admission tests under the academic session 2017-18. On an average 10 students will fight for a seat in BAU first-year…
BRAC Boat School Project gets global award
Masum Billah The children of hard to reach area exclusively the ‘ haor’ areas witness a special way of having education by virtue of the innovative idea of BRAC that has recently gained an award from HundrED, a Finland-based organization.…
Assange confirms Cambridge analytica sought wikileaks help
A data-mining firm that worked for Donald Trump’s election campaign made an approach to WikiLeaks, founder Julian Assange said on Wednesday. The statement followed a report in the Daily Beast that Cambridge Analytica chief executive Alexander Nix made contact with…
Asserting media persons’ rights in India
By Nava Thakuria Guwahati, Assam – More than one reason, India remains a hazardous place for hardcore journalists irrespective of the regimes in power at the national or province capitals. The populous country witnesses the murder of around five media…
Everything you know about Neoliberalism is wrong
by William Mitchell and Thomas Fazi Let’s face it: national sovereignty has become irrelevant in today’s increasingly complex and interdependent international economy. The deepening of economic globalisation has rendered individual states increasingly powerless vis-à-vis market forces. The internationalisation of finance…
George Saunders’ ‘Lincoln in the Bardo’ wins 2017 Man Booker prize
Saunders takes American author George Saunders has won the 2017 Man Booker Prize, a high-profile literary award, for his first novel, “Lincoln in the Bardo,” – a fictional account of US President Abraham Lincoln burying his young son.
Book: What Is Russia up to in the Middle East?
Dmitri Trenin The eyes of the world are on the Middle East. Today, more than ever, this deeply-troubled region is the focus of power games between major global players vying for international influence. Absent from this scene for the past…
Intellectual property: Draft texts on IGC dilute mandate
Geneva, 11 Oct (K M Gopakumar) – The draft decision text on the mandate and work program of the Intergovernmental Committee on Intellectual Property and Genetic Resources, Traditional Knowledge and Folklore (IGC) dilutes the existing mandate given by the General…
Kazuo Ishiguro’s Nobel Literature Prize
Masum Billah Hats off to Kazuo Ishiguro, a Japanese origin British novelist who has been awarded the prestigious Nobel Prize for Literature for the year 2017, for highlighting the curse of war, its aftermath and the background. Waging war is…
BAU observes 57 th founding anniversary
Mymensingh – The Bangladesh Agricultural University (BAU), Mymensingh observed its 57 th founding anniversary on Saturday with much enthusiasm and festivity.
british author Kazou Ishiguro wins Nobel Price for Literature
British author Kazuo Ishiguro, best known for his novel “The Remains of the Day”, won the Nobel Literature Prize on Thursday, the Swedish Academy said. The 62-year-old, “in novels of great emotional force, has uncovered the abyss beneath our illusory…
‘Our Rivers, Our Water Future’: International Rivers
International Rivers has just prepared a strategic plan named ‘Our Rivers, Our Water Future. Let’s hear the story from the organisations executive director Kate Horner. – “I’m excited to share International Rivers’ vision for the movement for rivers over the next…
Training for university journalists begins at BAU
Mymensingh – An eight-day long training for the university journalists, titled ‘Training on Crime Reporting and Photo Journalism’ has begun on Monday to increase the efficiency and skills in reporting of the journalists working in different media houses.
Mistakes in math textbook
Numbers reading in other languages are comparatively easy. Once you know the numbers up to ten or twenty then you can read the other numbers easily. For example, Arabic language: wahid (1), ithnan (2), salasa (3), arba’a (4), khamsa (5),…
When primary education receive due attention?
Masum Billah Dhaka – Out of about sixty-four thousand government primary schools, twenty-one thousand have been running without their head teachers. A Bengali daily has highlighted this news making it much enriched with many relevant data and information. Though the…
BAU admission test Nov 4
Mymensingh – Bangladesh Agricultural University (BAU) admission test for 2017-18 students in the first year courses under academic session 2017-18 will be held on 4 Nov.
Transformative power of literacy in today’s digitalized society
By Dr Hanif Hassan Al Qassim Geneva, Sept (IPS) – The vision of a literate world has guided the United Nations in its efforts to eliminate illiteracy worldwide. According to UNESCO, the world literacy rate now stands at 91% up…
Indian journalist’s murder: The ultimate form of press censorship?
By Manipadma Jena Bhubaneswar, India, Sep 7 (IPS) – Dauntlessly crusading against curbs on freedom of speech, fifty-five-year-old Indian journalist Gauri Lankesh was gunned down at her very doorstep in Bengaluru city on the evening of Sep. 5, taking three…