Moratorium likely on party politics at
public univs soon
The interim government is going to issue a moratorium on political activities by teachers and students of public universities, said sources in the education ministry and University Grants Commission. Mainul Hosein, adviser for law, justice and parliamentary affairs to the interim government, confirmed the moratorium while talking to New Age on Friday night and said they were waiting for a proposal from the UGC...[ + ]
Bangladesh on
the verge
Will this be the day when Bangladesh finally arrives? For today is the Tigers’ day of reckoning. A newspaper as venerable as the Observer of London paid the Bangladesh cricket team a most generous compliment when it wrote, after the Tigers’ upset victory over fancied India on March 17, ‘…and then there were nine...[ + ]
Close surveillance ordered to prevent spread of avian flu
The government has asked local administrations and the livestock authorities to keep poultry farms across the country under close surveillance and report to the control room immediately cases of unusual death of chickens to prevent spread of bird flu, recently detected in Savar...[ + ]
Six suspected militants held in Jamalpur, Rajshahi
The law enforcing agencies arrested six suspected operatives of the banned Islamist outfit Jamaatul Mujahideen Bangladesh in Jamalpur and Rajshahi early Saturday ahead of the execution of six militant kingpins...[ + ]
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Sales and prices of eggs, broilers dropped
The immediate effect of the bird flu outbreak in the country was a drastic fall in the sales as well as prices of broilers and eggs and also uncertainty in the future of several thousand employees of the poultry sector. New Age, after visiting the city’s different markets and adjacent areas including Savar and Gazipur, found that the price of per kilogram broiler meat and per hundred eggs had fallen by Tk 10-20 in the last twenty-four hours...[ + ]
Overall businesses at DSE mark improvement
Overall business at the Dhaka Stock Exchange marked an improvement during the last week that ended on Thursday, as the share prices registered a rise pulling the benchmark price indexes higher...[ + ]
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