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JU entry test viva-voce from Dec 19

The viva voce for the selected candidates to enroll in the first year honors’ under admission test 2015-16 session of Jahangirnagar University (JU) will begin on December 19 and continue till 21. The decision was made by the Central Admission Conducting Committee meeting on Thursday -confirmed deputy ju 22registrar (education) Mohammad Ali. Chaired by Prof Farzana Islam, Vice- Chancellor of JU and the chairman of Admission Committee, meeting was held at the Administration Building. The viva-voce of upcoming students under 34 departments and 2 institutes w...

CIU Business students visit CSE

A group of undergraduate students of Independent Business School, Chittagong Independent University (CIU) led by Mr. Manzur Quader, PhD, Associate Professor, CIU visited CSE recently. CIU visitThe purpose of the visit was to get an insight of the functionalities of Chittagong Stock Exchange and the stock market of Bangladesh in general. Mr. Shahroze Alam, Assistant General Manager & Head of Training of Awareness of CSE welcomed the students and senior faculties of CIU at CSE head office in Chittagong. Arif Ahmad, Assistant General Manger &...

Exports in October up 21pc on garment sales

Bangladesh's exports rose 21.15 percent to $2.37 billion in October from a year earlier, driven by stronger overseas sales of garments, official data showed on Thursday. Import_Export_0-450x252Exports from July to October, the first four months of the 2015-16 financial year, rose nearly 5 percent to $10.13 billion from the same period a year earlier, 3 percent short of the target, the Export Promotion Bureau said. Sales of garments, comprising knitwear and woven items, totalled $8.24 billion in the July-October period, ...

Robi contributes to Govt Labour Welfare Fund

Leading mobile phone operator Robi has recently contributed to the Government’s Labour Welfare Fund (Shramik Kalyan Tahabil) for the profit made by the company in 2014. The contribution was made from Robi’s Workers’ Profit Participation Fund (WPPF). Robi’s Chief Corporate and People Officer Matiul Islam Nowshad handed over a cheque worth BDT 44,416,635 to WPPF PrHon’ble State Minister for Labour and Employment, Mr. Md. Mujibul Haque. Mr. Md. Faizur Rahman, Joint Secretary, Ministry of Labour and Employment was also present at the cheque handover cerem...

India’s cotton exports to rise

India, the world’s biggest cotton producer, is likely to export 6.8 million bales in the 2015/16 season, up 18 percent from a year ago as demand from Asia is expected to improve, a senior government official told reporters on Tuesday. Higher exports will cap global prices, but raise domestic prices and help bring down government purchases at the support price. [caption id="attachment_20622" align="alignleft" width="540"]s2.reutersmedia.net A farmer harvests cotton in his field at Nani Kadi village in Gujarat, India, October 20, 2015. R...

Bangladesh on the brink

Over the last few weeks, the body count of intolerance has been unbearably high in Bangladesh. It started when an Italian aid worker named Cesare Tavella was shot to death in the capital, Dhaka, at the end of September. Days later, a Japanese man by the name of Konio Hoshi was gunned down in the northern district of Rangpur. At a procession to mark Ashura, the Shiite festival commemorating the martyrdom of the Prophet Muhammad’s grandson Imam Hussein, a series of bomb blasts caused scores of injuries and the death of a 16-year-old boy named Sajjad Hossain Sanju. And this past weekend, in two separate incidents, two publishers and two bloggers were viciously attacked. One has died of his wounds, and the other three men are in critical condition. [caption id="attachment_20006" align...
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