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Giving a voice to women representatives

Around 2,000 female public representatives of rural Bangladesh will be trained this year for promoting their leadership skills, says Unicef. The UN body and the National Institute of Local Government (NILG) have initiated the programme for the elected women representatives of Union Parishads (UPs) and Upazila Parishads (UZPs) in 20 women bdselected districts. The overall goal of the initiative is to build capacity of elected women representatives and officials of local government institutions focussing on improved awareness of child rights...

BCL job seekers at IU withdraw blockade

At last the job seekers of Bangladesh Chattra league (BCL) Islamic university (IU) unit have withdrawn their blockade. They announced their withdrawal after a successful meeting with IU administration held at Wednesday evening, sources said. iu kustiaVice chancellor Prof Dr Abdul Hakim and Pro Vice Chancellor Prof Dr M Shahinur Rahman, and the job seekers led by some former BCL leaders of IU were present in the meeting. Ashikur Rahman Japan, a former BCL leader and also a job seeker, said, ‘We had three demands to the authority. Those are - the ad...

Nat’l academy for varsity teachers soon: UGC Chair

Sufficient number of national academy for university teachers needs to be established for their professional development. At the same time, ethics, morality, motivation and communication skills also need to be laid emphasized in the foundation training course for young university teachers’ skills development, observed UGC Chairman Prof Abdul Mannan. He made the observation while speaking as the chief guest at a certificate awarding ceremony of the 15th foundation training for university teachers at UGC auditorium on Wednesday. UGC UGCMembers...

BD must demand UN political body on global tax matter: NGOs

Several non-governmental organisations here on Wednesday demanded that Bangladesh delegation to the UN Addis Ababa Conference on Finance for Development should propose a UN political body on global tax matter that will support elimination of all sorts of loophole for an equal taxing and stop illicit finance flow. They also demanded inclusion of political leadership in the Bangladesh delegation to the conference. ngosThe demands came at a seminar jointly organised by 30 organisations at the Jatiya Press Club in the capital. The organisatons include Online...

Workshop on EU-BD cooperation in aquaculture sector

A consultative workshop organised by the delegation of the European Union to Bangladesh was held in the city on Wednesday to explore the potential for EU-Bangladesh cooperation in the aquaculture sector and exchanging views among representative counterparts. The workshop presentations focused on challenges and interests in seafood security issues in Europe and Asia: identification of common areas of interest and scope for cooperation with bd-euBangladesh; EU instruments for international cooperation, and European Aquaculture technology and Innovation platfor...

Thai-BD FOC in city Thursday

Trade issues, including duty-free, quota-free (DFQF) market access, direct port connectivity and signing of a number of new MoUs will be the key agenda at the first-ever Foreign Office Consultation (FOC) between Bangladesh and Thailand to be held here on Thursday. According to a senior official, bilateral trade, investment and technical cooperation, road, air and seaports connectivity, employment of Bangladeshi workers in Thailand, introduction of Buddhist circuit tourism between Bangladesh and Thailand, cooperation in defence, culture and sports and collaboration in regional for a, including Bimstec, ARF and ASEM are also
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