A group of agitating teachers and students of Jahangirnagar University (JU) besieged two administrative buildings of the university yesterday for the second consecutive days demanding resignation of Vice-chancellor Prof Farzana Islam for her alleged involvement in corruption. As a part of ongoing movement…

UNICEF Bangladesh honoured 45 media professionals for their outstanding reporting on child issue at a city hotel yesterday. The awards were designed to inspire better and objective reporting on child rights and other issues relevant to the wellbeing of children across the country. The awardees have…

Enamul Haque Arman sent to jail BSS, Dhaka A Dhaka court yesterday sent former Dhaka South unit Juba League vice-president Enamul Haque Arman to jail as police produced him after end of his five-day remand in a narcotics case filed with capital’s Ramna Police Station. Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate…

Medical practitioners and health experts at a participatory discussion mentioned the number of patients suffering from hypothyroidism has gradually been rising in the society due to various reasons. They defined that hypothyroidism is a common condition of thyroid hormone deficiency, which is readily…

A day-long festival to mark the distribution of awards titled ‘Jibanananda Pursuhkar’ in memory of Jibanananda Das, the ‘Poet of Ruposhi Bangla’ was on Saturday night at Abdul Khalek Auditorium of Kheayali group theatre in the ancestral city of the poet. It was organised by Adda…

 Socio-cultural and literary personalities at a discussion on Saturday called upon all to nurture Bengali literature and culture for building a healthy society through preventing drug abuse, militancy and terrorism. They expressed the views at the discussion arranged by ‘Mouchak Family’…

Four held over kidnapping girl BSS, Rangpur Four abductors were arrested while kidnapping a college girl on Saturday evening from Badhukamola Sahapara point on the Sahebganj-Chankuthi road under Haragachh Thana of Rangpur Metropolitan Police (RpMP).  “The abductors were held while they were…

Global Media and Information literacy week observed at East West University Staff Reporter, Dhaka Department of Information Studies and Library Management, East West University (EWU) organised a week-long programme on Global Media and Information literacy week, 2019. The programme was inaugurated with…