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Combined test likely from next year

The government is committed to introducing the combined system of admission test in all public universities from next year, considering hassles faced by students and guardians during admission to public universities. The chairman of the University Grants Commission (UGC), Prof. Abdul Mannan, said yesterday that some public universities, in particular agricultural universities, have agreed to introduce the combined system of admission test from next year. Prof. Mannan said this while inaugurating a two-day long international seminar on "Strategies for Sustainable Research and Education Networks", organised by Higher Education Quality Enhancement Project (HEQEP), at Dhaka Club in the capital. He was the chief guest. “We have been…

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HC for making local govt representatives liable

The High Court (HC) yesterday asked the authorities concerned to explain in four weeks why union parishad…

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News

Confce on diarrhoeal disease begins in India

The three-day 14th Asian Conference on Diarrhoeal Disease and Nutrition (ASCODD) began in Kochi, India yesterday offering a platform to the participating researchers and scientists from 14 countries to discuss and seek out solutions to the pressing public health challenges of diarrhoeal illness and…

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Metro

BUET students boycott class demanding justice

General students of Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET) have boycotted their classes in protest against the incident happened last Friday on the campus. They took to the street demanding proper punishment to the attackers. They said they have boycotted classes since three days…

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Editorial

Dust pollution

It is very much worrying to note that road dust has become the biggest source of pollution in the capital city, inhabited by about 15 million people. According to a report of this newspaper on Sunday, green activists have asked the authorities concerned to take monitoring initiatives to check dust pollution…

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Op-ed

Choose healthy food to keep you healthy and to protect the environment

To maintain nutrition of the body we need to consume adequate amount of the right foods. Nutritious foods keep our body healthy and active. Everyone should take the required amount of food from all the food groups based on his/her need at different age, sex, and physical activities. Different foods…

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Business

Certain changes made in 4G guideline

The telecom division has made certain changes in 4G guideline and it will to be placed before the Prime Minister again for her approval of the annex of the guideline. The decision was taken at a meeting with the presence of the Prime Minister’s ICT affair’s adviser at the Posts and Telecommuni-cations…

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Worldwide

Kim tours cosmetics plant with wife, sister

SEOUL: North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un took his stylish wife and powerful sister to a make-up plant for a "field guidance trip" amid the country's nuclear standoff with the US, reports AFP. During a visit to the Pyongyang Cosmetics Factory in the capital, Kim hailed its "world-level"…

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Dhakalive

Palakar stages ‘Banglar Mati Banglar Jol’ today

Theatre troupe Palakar will bring their play ‘Banglar Mati Banglar Jol’, produced based on Rabindranath Tagore’s ‘Chinnapatra’, on stage today at the National Theatre Hall of Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy, Segun Bagicha in the capital. The play is scripted by Syed Shamsul…

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Sports

BPL to witness stiff competition: Rubel

Local players of Bangladesh Premier League (BPL) thinks that the intensity of the competition between team to team coupled with local and foreign players will be intensified more than the last four editions. They also think that the local players obviously have to be mentally prepared to sustain in…

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Nationwide

16 community clinics vulnerable

Medicare services have been badly hampered in Sakhipur upazila of Tangail district as 16 community clinics are currently in a rather vulnerable condition. Sources said there are 37 community clinics in Sakhipur upazila. Since there are no power connections and the buildings are vulnerable, neonatal…

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Flood-hit people in haor dists to get food for 3 more months

The government will continue to provide food to 3.8 lakh flood-hit families in six haor districts for three more months under the Vulnerable Group Feeding (VGF) programme. The Department of Disaster Management (DDM) has already allocated 34,200 tonnes of rice to Sunamganj, Sylhet, Netrokona, Kishoreganj,…

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Panorama

Lithuania’s miraculous hill of 100,000 crosses

Around 11km outside the city of Siauliai in northern Lithuania, an old, earthen mound hunches under the weight of thousands of crosses. As the wind blows across the fields of rural Siauliai County, ornate rosaries clink against metal and wooden crucifixes, filling the air with eerie chimes. Known as…

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