Atish Dipankar University of Science & Technology (ADUST) has organsed an Admission Fair for its spring session 2014 on Panthapath, Palton unit and Banani main campus.

The university offers a special waiver for the students, who are willing to get themselves admitted in different disciplines, says a press release.
The Fair will commence from the beginning of December and shall run till from January 15, 2014.
Special concessions like waiver to the extent of 30 to 100 per cent are...
A medley of vast conflicts and far-reaching consequences, there’s very little confidence in in future of Afghanistan these days. Karzai, the only president the Afghans have known since the Taliban were driven out, is keen to lose the backing of the American military and close the open checkbook that ensures salaries and benefits for the Afghan army and police forces. Instead, he is insisting on the US supporting a peace deal with the Taliban. The recent Loya Jirga of almost 2500 tribal leaders also supported the US alliance but Karzai is betting the promise of 2014 in signing an accord with the Taliban, which according to him might bring more peace to the nation than a deal with the US military.
This is the year that will deter...
Bangladesh is one of the first countries to legislate on acid attacks with the enactment of the Acid Control Act in 2002 while the Supreme Court of India directed earlier this week to all States and Union Territories to put in place draft rules to regulate the sale of acid by this fiscal-end has once again brought to light India’s sluggishness in addressing acid crime.

In fact, India has long lagged behind first Bangladesh and then Pakistan in spec...
About 2,000 men toil over huge, half-finished ships in a shipyard on the coast of southern Bangladesh. The clatter of grinders, drills and hammers fills the air and the smell of fuel, dust and sweat is everywhere. Workers are building vessels that will be used to ferry thousands of passengers along the maze of waterways that make up the delta that runs through the Sundarbans, the largest mangrove forest in the world.

One of the workers is a little different from the rest. Her long dark...
A New York (NY) based investment firm namely Tau Investment Management Inc., has announced the commitment to raise $ 1 billion help for Bangladesh and other garment-manufacturing nations in order to construct factories with better safety and protection of workers.
According to a statement issued by Tau Investment Management Inc., the NY firm announced its commitment at the 9th Annual Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) Meeting in September 2013, a four-day annual meeting, organized by former US President Bill Clinton’s foundation, that brings together sitting heads of state, business leaders, non-profit organizations and celebrities from around the globe to discuss the world’s most pressing problems.
Oliver Niedermaier, founder ...
Leaders of Bangladesh Garment Manufacturer and Exporters Association (BGMEA) said, if the deadlock political is not resolved immediately, they would bring out white flag procession across the country on December 15.
Sounding a note of caution, they said, they would take to the streets together with their workers if the country’ s prevailing political crisis is not resolved within next five days.
The warning came on Saturday from a ‘ human-chain’ protesting for a political consensus to end the current crisis.