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...
Day: May 26, 2024
City Desk : Speakers at a workshop on Saturday said that Feni can become a major industrial hub by utilizing the advantage of its location and improvement in its logistical facilities. They called for establishing adequate technical and vocational education and training facilities at the grassroots level for developing the required skilled human resource pool for the post-LDC graduation scenario of the country, reports BSS. Support to Sustainable Graduation Project (SSGP) of the Economic Relations Division (ERD) organized the workshop...
AFP : China has ended two days of military drills around Taiwan that saw jets loaded with live munitions and warships practise seizing and isolating the self-ruled island. The exercises simulated strikes targeting Taiwan’s leaders as well as its ports and airports to “cut off the island’s ‘blood vessels'”, Chinese military analysts told state media. Beijing considers the democratic island part of its territory and has not ruled out using force to bring it under its control. The war games...
BBC : They were shadow people, moving beyond the light of small fires on a winter dawn. There was no hint then that I was about to encounter one of the most extraordinary sights of my time in South Africa. In this part of the country, winter is a cold, dry season that burns the veld brown. The ground is hard like flint and when the wind blows across the plains, dust covers the squatters and all that they carry....
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...
BBC : Months after some Israelis started to protest against aid lorries entering Gaza at the main Kerem Shalom crossing,...
Sr. Staff Reporter, Kishoreganj : An old man named Shanu Bhuiyan (70) was killed in a clash in Itna haor upazila of Kishoreganj on Friday noon over land dispute. At this time, victim’s son Liton (40) and younger brother Babul (55) were injured. The locals and police sources, Shanu Bhuiyan of Thaneswar Barogaria village in Badla Union and neighbor Muktu Mia had a long-standing dispute over the construction of a boundary wall and tube well. On Friday noon, both sides...
Business Desk : Kabir Steel Re-Rolling Mills (KSRM) one of the leading steel manufacturing groups in the country, has brought its employees under the Universal Pension Scheme, becoming the first industrial group to do so. Around 1,000 employees of the KSRM Steel Plant in Sitakunda were brought under the pension scheme during an event in Chattogram on Saturday. Other employees of the organisation will gradually be brought under this programme. As part of the company’s corporate social responsibility, KSRM authorities...
Sr. Staff Reporter, Rangpur : The Rangpur division level prize distribution ceremony of National Education Week 2024 was held at Rangpur District School Auditorium on Saturday. Rangpur Additional Divisional Commissioner Md. Abu Jafar was the chief guest on the occasion yesterday, Rangpur Regional Deputy Director College Branch Md. Omar Farooq; Additional Deputy Commissioner Revenue Md. Rezaul Islam presided over Secondary and Higher Education. The regional director of Rangpur region of the department is Prof. SM Abdul Matin Lashkar. On this...