With the government allowing four private universities to set up in Dhaka in the past two years, the University Grants Commission officials and educationalists have expressed concern about the regional inequality in the provision of higher education. The approval in the past week of a Dhaka-based private university brought the total number of universities in Dhaka to 58 — 46 […]

Suspected al-Qaeda fighters killed at least 54 soldiers and police in a wave of dawn attacks Friday, the deadliest day for Yemeni security forces since jihadist strongholds fell last year. The militant assaults came in the lawless southern province of Shabwa, a bastion of al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) and the scene of regular US drone attacks targeting the […]

Children as young as eight are being blackmailed into performing sex acts live on webcams, causing some of them to self-harm or even commit suicide, a British watchdog warned on Friday. The Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre said it had conducted 12 investigations over the last two years which involved this worrying trend — and suggested British children are […]

Central leaders of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party who recently visited the party’s organisational districts witnessed deep rivalries among local leaders over nomination for contesting the next general elections. The leaders think the disputes should be settled quickly for attaining desired results both in the ongoing movement and next general elections. ‘There are problems in local leadership over the party tickets […]

UN secretary general Ban Ki-moon is likely to meet prime minister Sheikh Hasina on September 28 on the sidelines of the 68th UN general assembly session in New York. The meeting is considered important before the upcoming parliamentary elections in Bangladesh as the UN chief is closely watching the developments here. Ban phoned both the prime minister and opposition leader […]

Three workers were electrocuted in the capital’s Sutrapur and Mirpur on Friday. At Sutrapur, two workers were killed as an elevator of an under-construction building collapsed early Friday. The deceased were identified as Habibur Rahman, 25, and Md Nawab, 26. Sutrapur police officer-in-charge Rafiqul Islam said the accident took place around 1:00am as the cable of the embroidery machine-carrying crane […]

The Election Commission is mulling framing an electoral code of conduct for the 10th parliamentary polls in light with the Indian electoral code of conduct if the national elections are finally held keeping a political party in power. The commission is scrutinising the Indian electoral code of conduct as Indian general elections are held keeping the incumbents in power, an […]

The prime minister, Sheikh Hasina, on Friday said the Awami League would pick candidates for contesting the next general elections on the basis of the opinions of grassroots leaders as well as survey reports of the party. ‘I do not want to impose anything on you [grassroots]. Prospective candidates will be chosen on the basis of your opinions and the […]

The movement of condemned war crimes convict Abdul Quader Molla was restricted to a room in the jail for security reason, a prison official said. Earlier, Quader was allowed to go out of the room while he was employed on his duty as a gardener. ‘He [Quader] is now locked up alone in a room and not employed on any […]

The Bangladesh Bank has rejected a proposal for the establishment of a rural savings bank as its goal said to be boosting the rural economy could not be achieved after other such specialised banks have faltered. The central bank conveyed its opinion on the proposal to the finance ministry on Wednesday. The LGRD and cooperative ministry was pursuing the matter […]