Asifur Rahman

Mir Lokman has been a well-known face on Dhaka University (DU) campus since his first-year as a student. He was the founding president of "DU Mime Action" and staged at least 300 mime dramas at that time at various government and non-government institutes.

Abul Kashem, 45, used to drive buses owned by others for 25 years and dreamed of one day owning his own bus.

Two teachers of the anthropology department of Chattogram University have withdrawn their applications for promotions after being accused of plagiarising paragraphs from someone else’s Master’s dissertation in a research paper published in an international journal.

It has long been debated whether it is true that Dhaka University is the “Oxford of the East”.

Lack of support for research and a dearth of quality publications are the main reasons for Bangladeshi universities lagging behind in most of the world rankings, said educationists.

The “ideal town” planned in Purbachal to ease Dhaka’s burden of overgrowing population is likely to become yet another extension of the unplanned capital, thanks to the long delay in implementation and constant changes in project design, according to urban planners.

The government has shifted its focus from power generation to transmission and distribution as the sector is struggling with overcapacity even though consumers are yet to receive a credible supply of electricity.

The name of Haris Ahmed, younger brother of army chief Gen Aziz Ahmed, has been removed from the list of “wanted person” in the police website following his application in March.

Thousands of USA-aspirant students are worried about the future as visa-related services have been halted in Bangladesh amid Covid-19 related restrictions. Despite securing scholarships and funding for their degrees, the students remain unsure whether they will be able to pursue higher education in the United States.

Irked by Hefajat’s violent activities starting with the protest against Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit last month, the government has decided to bring to book everyone involved in the mayhem in different parts of the country, especially Brahmanbaria.

Over the last few months, plagiarism at the country’s premier university has been a hotly debated topic in the world of academia.

Three individuals and an international organisation have been nominated for the International Mother Language Award, due to be handed over today in a virtual programme by the International Mother Language Institute (IMLI).

Bangla has long been neglected in the country’s higher education as a medium of teaching and learning mainly because of a lack of textbooks and adequate research work.

Along with her son Rezaur Rahman and his wife Farhana Hossain, 84-year-old Rizia Khatun, an osteoporosis patient, went to the capital’s Mugda Medical College Hospital to take the Covid-19 vaccine yesterday.

Mehedi Hasan took his weak and elderly mother to the Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University vaccination centre around noon yesterday.

In line with the resumption of secondary-level schools and colleges, the government is also planning to reopen primary schools and kindergartens after 10 months of shutdown.

As much as 60 percent of the country’s power generation capacity remained unutilised in 2020 because of a lack of demand for electricity.

Residents of many areas in the capital have been facing an acute gas crisis for the last few weeks due to an inadequate supply of piped gas.

Right after graduating in 2017, Hamim (not his real name) started submitting scholarship applications for master’s programmes abroad. In the meantime, he kept working as a marketing officer for a private organisation.

A master’s student of chemistry at Dhaka College who was planning to finish post-graduation a while ago, he is now waiting impatiently for his remaining exams to be over so that he can shoulder some of the family responsibilities that his father bears alone.