Dhaka – Stressing the need for the involvement of private sector in expanding higher education, Chairman of the University Grants Commission (UGC) Prof Abdul Mannan said the entrepreneurs of private universities must stick to their purpose to ensure quality education.
Dhaka – The cyclonic storm ‘Vardah’ over southeast bay and adjoining area moved slightly north-northwestwards over the same area. It was centred at 6 pm on Friday about 1115 kms south of Chittagong port, 1035 kms south of Cox’s Bazar…
Dr. Wakar Uddin PA, USA – The present situation in Arakan is dire as the Myanmar armed forces are continuing the brutal assaults on Rohingya civilian population in Maungdaw and Buthidaung in Northern Arakan/Rakhine state. The growing humanitarian crisis in…
Dhaka – The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court on Thursday asked journalist Shafik Rehman to move the lower court for extending his bail in a case filed over an alleged plot to abduct and kill Prime Minister’s son Sajeeb…
A sociologist who predicted the collapse of the Soviet Union and 9/11 attacks warns that American global power will collapse under Donald Trump. Johan Galtung, a Norwegian professor at the University of Hawaii and Transcend Peace University, first predicted in…
By Matt McGrath A dramatic drop in giraffe populations over the past 30 years has seen the world’s tallest land mammal classified as vulnerable to extinction. Numbers have gone from around 155,000 in 1985 to 97,000 in 2015 according to…
An Egyptian woman, believed to be the world’s heaviest woman at 500kg (1,102lb), will soon be flown to India for weight reduction surgery. Eman Ahmed Abd El Aty, 36, will be flown on a chartered plane to Mumbai where bariatric…
Robert Mackey I made a mistake on Twitter on Sunday night. When I learned that a man with an assault rifle had stormed into a Washington pizzeria to “self-investigate” an online conspiracy theory for which there is no evidence —…
Did you know that a 14-year-old child can legally marry in New York State?Ending child marriage is urgent, because it is deeply harmful to children, wherever they live. Married children often drop out of school, and are locked in poverty…
Dhaka – Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s special assistant Mahbubul Hoque Shakil passed away at a Japanese restaurant in the ctiy’s Gulshan area on Tuesday. He was 47. Shakil, former vice-president of Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL), breathed his last at Samdado…
Dhaka – State Minister for Posts and Telecommunications Tarana Halim on Tuesday said she asked the Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission (BTRC) to take effective steps so that mobile phone subscribers get compensation for dropped calls from January next. UNB news…
Dhaka- Medical Equipment suppliers will observe three days’ strike starting from Tuesday demanding a stop to harassment by the Drug Administration. Bangladesh Medical Association Instruments and Hospital Equipment Dealers and Manufacturers Association announced the programme at a press conference at…
Dhaka – Members of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) seized various contraband items, including Yaba tablets, heroin and foreign wine, worth over Tk 919.45 crore in the last 11 months. UNB news agency reported
By Lyndal Rowlands United Nations (IPS) – Eighteen million people, just slightly under half of the people living with HIV and AIDS globally, are now taking life-saving medication, but global efforts to end the disease still largely depend on prevention.…
Dhaka: Under US pressure, Pakistan had in November agreed to grant independence to what was then East Pakistan, former US diplomat Henry Kissinger has revealed in an interview in the latest issue of The Atlantic magazine. Instead, Pakistan attacked India…
New York (AP/UNB) — You might have thought about it, heard it. A lot. You might have even felt it: Dictionary.com’s word of the year is “xenophobia.” While it’s difficult to get at exactly why people look words up in…
Dhaka – The University Grants Commission (UGC) has recommended limiting the master’s course to only meritorious students to ensure the high quality of education, UNB news agency has reported. “It’s desirable that master’s courses will remain open only for selected…
Dhaka – Sylhet college student Khadiza Begum Nargis on Saturday sought blessings from everyone to help her recover early. “I am well. Please pray for my early and full recovery,” she said at a press conference at Square Hospital in…
Each year on November 25, the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women is commemorated. A commemoration in essence is an opportunity to reflect on the challenges, prove that progress can be made and celebrate victories. It is…
Japan (AP/UNB) – At a public bath in a Yokohama slum in the 1950s, a red-haired girl scrubs her skin with a pumice stone, hard, to try to get the white out. Other kids sometimes taunt her. “American, American.” She…
Marrakech (Hilary Chiew) – Parties at the climate talks on 17 Nov supported the call issued by the President of the Conference of Parties to the UNFCCC entitled the ‘Marrakech Action Proclamation for our Climate and Sustainable Development’. The President…
Globally acclaimed American philosopher Noam Chomsky who predicted rise of rightwing leader six years ago said Donald Trump’s presidency and his denial of climate change is catastrophic for human race.Chomsky particular warned of catastrophic effects of global warming on South…
Dhaka – Four students of Dhaka University (DU) have been awarded ‘Mustafizur Rahman Khan–Saleha Khanam Memorial Scholarship’ for their outstanding academic results in MBA and MSS examinations held in 2014. DU Vice-chancellor Prof Dr AAMS Arefin Siddique distributed the scholarships…
Shaila Mahmud The second week of November has been no less than a ‘roller coaster ride’ for global climate change action. The month kicked off on a high note with Paris Agreement coming into force on last Friday, just two…
Hate crimes against Muslims in the U.S. surged in 2015 in the biggest increase since 9/11, according to FBI data released Monday. The increase from 2014 to 2015, as a racially charged presidential campaign got under way, was second only…
Dhaka – The World Diabetes Day was observed on Monday in the country as elsewhere in the world aiming to make people aware of the disease, with its theme as ‘Eyes on Diabetes’. Different government and non-government organisations arranged various…
By Olivia Becker In the hours after Donald Trump won the U.S. presidential election, anecdotal evidence pointed to a surge of support for an organization that will likely find itself the target of a Trump administration: Planned Parenthood. And sure…
Mexico was the foreign country with the most riding on the 2016 U.S. presidential election. Eventual winner Donald Trump launched his campaign last year by declaring he’d “build a wall” on the border between the two countries and force Mexico…
By Jason Leopold In August, 50 former senior national security and foreign policy officials who worked in administrations from Richard Nixon to George W. Bush signed a letter vehemently opposing a Donald Trump presidency. He would be, they said, “a…
It is a Tuesday afternoon and only a handful of devotees have flocked to the Meera Grand Mosque in Katankuddi, about 300 kms east of the capital Colombo.As they prostrate in prayer, the wall in front of them is anything…