Sunday, October 26th, 2008The deans committee of Dhaka University (DU) yesterday decided to review the admission rules for seven departments after discussing the matter with the authorities concerned.The progressive teachers of the university said the move was taken considering the political interest of the BNP-Jamaat-backed teachers and ignoring the departments' rights.DU Vice-chancellor (VC) Prof SMA Faiz in the wake of admission row over some rules called the emergency meeting following a written request from Arts Faculty Dean Prof Sadrul Amin, also convener of BNP-Jamaat-backed White Panel.Ten deans of the university -- eight from White Panel and two from progressive teachers' Blue Panel -- ...
(read more) Thursday, January 24th, 2008The five-month long tension between the military backed caretaker government and the Dhaka University (DU) community that had started last August following the beating up of some students by army men on the campus came to an apparent end yesterday with the release of all DU detainees.The release of the students, on the heels of the release of their teachers the day before, brought the entire DU community together in a celebration on the campus following five months of a tumultuous movement for their peers freedom.The eight DU students who were released yesterday in three phases are, Bangladesh Chhatra ...
(read more) Tuesday, December 18th, 2007A freedom fighter yesterday accused Jamaat-e-Islami Amir Matiur Rahman Nizami, Secretary General Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mojaheed and seven of their party men of killing two freedom fighters during the liberation war.Mozaffar Ahmad Khan, Dhaka district unit Muktijoddha commander, filed the murder case, stating that the Jamaat men killed his nephew Osman Gani and fellow freedom fighter Golam Mostafa alias Tukub Ali on November 25 in 1971.Meantime, another Dhaka court will give order today on whether to approve of registering a sedition case against Mojaheed, Abdul Quader Mollah and Shah Mohammad Hannan, former chairman of Islami Bank, as a regular one.On ...
(read more) Tuesday, December 18th, 2007The complainant, who lodged the case against teachers and students of Dhaka University (DU) for breaching emergency power rules (EPR), during hearing of the case yesterday did not specify who violated the rules.Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Golam Rabbani recorded the deposition of the complainant Sergeant Shawkat Ahmed of Nilkhet police camp as the trial of the case began yesterday. Defence lawyers of one of the accused, Prof Neem Chandra Bhowmik, also cross-examined the complainant.On August 22, the case was filed against some 6,000 unnamed students and teachers of DU and outsiders for violating the EPR, vandalising public and ...
(read more) Thursday, December 13th, 2007Another Dhaka court yesterday framed charges against four teachers and 15 students of Dhaka University (DU) of breaching the emergency power rules during the August violence on campus.The same day two Rajshahi University (RU) teachers and an official were acquitted on charges of torching a DGFI vehicle on August 22 while 10 students and an employee of the university were sentenced to three years' rigorous imprisonment.In Dhaka, Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Habibur Rahman Siddiqui set December 19 for recording statements of the witnesses. Before that, he read out details of the charges. Five of the accused were in the dock ...
(read more) Wednesday, November 14th, 2007The Dhaka University (DU) is going to take initiatives to have its Tk 1.80 crore returned, which a number of teachers owe the university authorities. The teachers took loans from the university for education abroad but did not return the money or join their jobs afterwards."We have already started the process of getting back the money; if we do not get response soon, we would go for all possible steps to get the money back," Vice-chancellor Prof SMA Faiz said.As many as 102 DU teachers who went abroad on study leave owe Tk 1.80 crore to the university as they ...
(read more) Monday, May 21st, 2007 Dhaka University (DU) authorities have identified 84 more students at the Department of International Relations (IR) and Institute of Social Welfare and Research, who got admitted by fraudulent means. With the latest findings, the total cases of fraud in admission in the varsity rose to 160. Earlier, 76 such cases were detected by a university probe committee."We have identified 80 cases of fraud at the department after scrutinising the documents of all students excluding the masters and the first year students of 2006-2007 sessions," Muhammad Azhar Zafer Shah, assistant professor of IR department and the convenor of the department probe ...
(read more) Wednesday, April 25th, 2007Dhaka University (DU) that once was the breeding ground for all national movements is now losing the memories of its glorious past as the authorities have yet to take coordinated measures to protect and preserve those. Students of this premier educational institution of the country have been deprived for long of the proper information about the contribution of the university family -- students, teachers and others -- to the cause of the nation.The DU authorities have not even put on record the identities of all the martyrs from the university family during the movements.The name of this university is ...
(read more) Sunday, April 8th, 2007Speakers at a discussion yesterday said students and teachers should not have direct involvement with the political parties.At the open discussion titled "UGC's 20-year plan on higher education" that was organised by Nagorik Sanghati at the National Press Club, they expressed their opinion against interference with the autonomy of the universities under the University Order 1973.University teachers and students should not be directly involved with the political parties, said Prof M Moniruzzaman Miah, former vice-chancellor (VC) of Dhaka University (DU).Getting involved in any organisation is one's basic right but students' and teachers' direct link with the political parties hampers ...
(read more) Thursday, April 5th, 2007The government has initiated a move for a permanent ban on politics of students and teachers in public universities and colleges, in a significant bid to restore proper atmosphere for education. Since January 11, all political activities have remained banned under the emergency rules while the University Grants Commission (UGC) is drafting a law that will restrict politics in educational institutions even after the state of emergency is withdrawn, sources said.The education ministry that directed drafting the law, identified students' and teachers' politics as a major obstacle to suitable atmosphere for education.A seven-member high-powered committee headed by UGC Chairman Prof ...
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