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Dhaka Int'l Education Fair opens: 20,000 students go abroad for higher studies each year
Staff Reporter
A four-day long "Dhaka International Education fair 2007" organised by Your Exhibitions and Event Solutions Ltd (YEES) was inaugurated at the Bashundhara City yesterday.
More than 55 educational institutions from home and abroad, student-counselling firms, immigration consultants, language learning institutions, commercial bank and IT institute were participating in the fair.
About 100 stalls offered various facilities to prospective students, including spot admission, 50 to 75 per cent discount on admission, course offers, application format and other related information for higher education in the country and in foreign lands.  |
Benazir under house arrest: 5,000 PPP supporters held, protest rally foiled
AP, Islamabad
Pakistani police placed opposition leader Benazir Bhutto under house arrest Friday, uncoiling barbed wire in front of her Islamabad villa, and reportedly rounded up 5,000 of her supporters to block a mass protest against emergency rule.
Benazir tried to leave by car but was blocked by police after a scuffle with her supporters who tried to remove a barricade. The former prime minister had planned to address a rally in nearby Rawalpindi, defying a ban on public gatherings. |
Noor Hossain Day today
BSS, Dhaka
Shaheed Noor Hossain Day, commemorating the martyrdom of Noor Hossain on this day in 1987 during the mass struggle against the autocratic regime of HM Ershad will be observed in the country in a befitting manner today.
Jubo League leader Noor Hossain was shot dead at the Zero Point area in the city when he was leading a procession inscribed with 'Let democracy be free' on his bare chest and 'Destroy the autocrat' on his back.
His martyrdom accelerated the movement, which turned into a mass upsurge in 1990 and forced the autocratic Ershad regime to quit power. |
Blasphemous act: Islamic parties stage demos
Staff Reporter
Several Islamic parties and organisations yesterday staged angry demonstrations demanding ban on the daily Prothom Alo and weekly magazine 2000 and also the immediate arrest of the editors.
After parading several city roads after the juma prayer, they also held a rally in front of the north gate of Baitul Mukarram National Mosque from where they announced to submit a memorandum to the Chief Adviser of the Caretaker Government in this regard.They staged demonstration and held rally in protest against the publication of a cartoon story dishonouring Prophet Muhammad (SM). |
MA Aziz, Qamrul Islam made AL city unit acting president, GS
Staff Reporter
Dhaka City Awami League vice-president MA Aziz and joint secretary Advocate Qumrul Islam have been made acting president and acting general secretary as part of efforts to revitalise party activity in the capital.
The decision was taken unanimously at a meeting between the leaders of the central and city unit of the Awami League with acting AL president Zillur Rahman in the chair yesterday.
The meeting asked the new leaders to strengthen its organizational activities ahead of the city corporation elections. |
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Internet Edition. November 10, 2007, Updated: Bangladesh Time 12:00 AM 
