The teachers of the 37 public universities are scheduled to begin their collective work abstention from today as part of their ongoing eight-month-long movement demanding removal of salary and grade discrepancies in the Eighth National Pay Scale. This will affect over 2.4 lakh students at a time when…

Observing that cyber crime is more serious than murder and rape, Law Minister Anisul Huq yesterday said there will be provisions of maximum 14 years’ imprisonment in the proposed ‘Digital Security Act-2016’, aiming to tackle the menace, reports UNB. He revealed this while talking to…

The Indian state-owned Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) Videsh Ltd and its partner, Oil India Ltd (OIL), will begin seismic survey in Block-SS-4 and SS-9 in the Bay of Bengal from the beginning of February, sources in the state-run Petrobangla said.  The Chinese geophysical service firm,…

A Bangladesh Bank official was allegedly beaten and harassed by a police team led by Sub Inspector Masud Sikder of Mohammadpur Police Station in Geneva Camp area on Saturday night. Victim Golam Rabby, an assistant director of Bangladesh Bank, filed a written complaint against the police officer to the…

The government has given the permission to open six new private universities in different parts of the country, including the capital. With these six, the total number of private universities in the country will stand at 89. Additional Secretary (university) of the Ministry of Education Helal Uddin…

The first phase of the three-day-long Biswa Ijtema concluded with the offering of Akheri Munajat (final prayer) on the banks of the Turag river at Tongi…