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Exams rescheduled for hartal

 New Nation
 Published: 12:00 AM, 30 October 2014

UNB, Dhaka :Jamaat-e-Islami’s 72-hour countrywide hartal to be enforced in two phases from Thursday protesting its chief Motiur Rahman Nizami’s death sentence for his war crimes has forced authorities to reschedule various examinations, including university admissions tests.All the examinations under the National University (NU), scheduled to be held on Thursday, Sunday and Monday, have been postponed due to unavoidable reasons.An NU press release on Wednesday said the fresh dates for the postponed examinations will be announced later. However, the schedules for all other examinations would remain unchanged, it added. Chittagong University authorities also rescheduled its examinations for the three days.The intake tests under ‘G’ unit will be held on Friday instead of Thursday while that of ‘E’ unit on November 4 instead of November 2 and Sunday’s examinations will be held on November 6, said CU deputy registrar Farhad Hossain Khan.Meanwhile, the Khulna University authorities on Wednesday decided to take its admissions tests for first year honours courses under 2014-15 academic sessions on Friday and Saturday.The decision came at a meeting of the KU Central Admissions Committee held in the afternoon with its Vice-chancellor Prof Dr Mohammad Fayek Uzzaman in the chair.As per the new timetables, admissions tests for Arts, Humanities, Social Science and Zoology will be held on Friday while that for Management and Business Administration, Science, Engineering and Technology School, Fine Arts Institute on Saturday.Earlier, the admissions tests were scheduled to be held on Thursday, Friday and Saturday.