With DU and JU gearing up for student union elections, the student bodies are now sharply divided over when the polls should be held.
The Students Against Discrimination is set to proclaim on December 31 the July mass uprising as a revolution.
After a six-year gap since the last Ducsu polls in 2019, the Dhaka University authorities are now gearing up for an election early next year.
Anti-Discrimination Student Movement and Jatiya Nagorik Committee will jointly lead the process
The government has drafted a list of around 3,500 cadre posts to be filled through the 47th Bangladesh Civil Service (BCS) examination. The number may increase, making it the largest BCS circular in the last 11 cycles, confirmed sources at the Chief Adviser’s Office and the Public Service Commission.
Say student coordinators after nationwide discussions
The public administration ministry is yet to publish the gazette notification of the 43rd BCS, even nine months after the Public Service Commission (PSC) recommended the appointment of 2,805 candidates, causing frustration among the aspirants.
Buet authorities have announced that students cannot be members of any political organisation, be it on campus or outside.
Ignoring the party’s decision of boycotting the polls, at least two dozen leaders of the BNP and its associate bodies are likely to run for councillor in the June 12 Barishal city elections.
Despite the ruling Awami League’s repeated warning of taking stern action against him, suspended Gazipur city mayor Zahangir Alam is adamant to back his mother in the mayoral race.
Imdadul Haque Soofi, information and research affairs secretary of Dhaka’s ward-18 unit of Awami League, is a beneficiary of the Dhaka South City Corporation Mayor’s discretionary funds.
Suspended Gazipur mayor Zahangir Alam’s decision on participating the May 25 city polls may become the determining factor in the success of Awami League mayoral nominee Azmat Ullah Khan, say local leaders of the ruling party.
The mayors of Khulna and Rajshahi cities are likely to get Awami League nominations to run for mayor in the coming elections.
In the absence of a policy to act as a deterrent, ragging goes on unchecked at some public universities, as the authorities concerned seem indifferent to the need for curbing the menace.
During today’s iftar, Bangabazar traders and firefighters were seen breaking fast amid chaos and ruins caused by the devastating fire.
During today’s Iftar, Bangabazar traders and the firefighters were seen breaking fast amid chaos and ruins of the devastating fire. .Sagor Hasan, who had two shops at Bangabazar market and three shops in the adjacent Anexco Tower, recounted his overwhelming experience to The Daily Star.
“Maa, by your grace I got a house…. I don’t have any more worries. I don’t have to beg anymore,” Mohammad Hanif, a beneficiary of the Ashrayan-2 project, told Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina when she virtually handed houses over to the beneficiaries of the project in Gazipur’s Nayapara on Wednesday.
After living for 70 years under the open sky or at others’ residences, Neyamot Ali’s fate has finally changed. Thanks to the Ashrayan-2 project, he has been gifted with a semi-pucca house and two-decimal land in Gazipur.
