Senior journalist NM Harun passes away
Veteran journalist NM Harun passed away on Thursday. He was 81.
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Rafiqul made acting director of DU PRO
Md Rafiqul Islam Panna, deputy director of public relations office of Dhaka University has been appointed as the acting director of the same office...
DU holds meeting with UGC, WB for dev projects
The Dhaka University held a meeting with the University Grants Commission of Bangladesh and World Bank about issues, including the implementation of different development projects at the DU with the financial assistance from the WB at DU vice-chancellor鈥檚 meeting room on Sunday...
Chinese professor calls on DU VC
Shanghai Institutes for International Studies director Professor Jiemian Yang called on the Dhaka University vice-chancellor Professor Niaz Ahmed Khan at his office on Saturday...
Journalist Obaidul Huq death anniv today
Today is the 17th anniversary of the death of writer and journalist Obaidul Huq, said a press release...
Red July: Bangladesh diaspora activism
EARLY on July 15, I woke up in Washington, DC to Facebook posts from Dhaka friends about Bangladesh Chhhatra League members ruthlessly attacking and beating up students at Dhaka University who were peacefully protesting to reform an outdated and regressive job quota system which shut them out of employment...
Restoring dignity of students
THE saying 鈥榓 bad apple spoils the whole barrel鈥� perhaps applies to any group of people. This means that, in certain circumstances, it takes only one or a few elements to ruin the reputation of an entire community...
Students for Sovereignty protests at sectarian violence in CHT
Students for Sovereignty, a student organisation of Dhaka University, on Friday protested at spreading sectarian violence in the Chittagong Hill Tracts.
Dhaka University unit of Shibir announces committee
Dhaka University unit of Bangladesh Islami Chhatrashibir has announced its 14-member committee for 2024.
DU mathematics department holds orientation
The orientation ceremony for the 128 students admitted to mathematics department of Dhaka University under the academic year 2023-2024 was held at the Rezaur Rahman auditorium of the...
Students protest at labelling teacher as 鈥業slamophobic鈥櫬�
A section of Dhaka University sociology department students on Monday protested against labelling the university鈥檚 associate professor Samina Luthfa as 鈥業slamophobic鈥�.
DU students protest against cancellation of textbook revision committee
Some students of Dhaka University have protested against the cancellation of the textbook revision committee and labelling Professor Samina Luthfa of sociology department of the university as 鈥榓nti-Islam鈥� on Monday.
DU committee to probe violence on campus from July 15 to Aug 5
A four-member fact-finding committee was formed on Sunday evening by the vice-chancellor of Dhaka University, Niaz Ahmed, to identify those involved in the violent incidents that took place on Dhaka University campus during student-led mass uprising between July 15 and August 5, 2024.
India opens barrage on Teesta without prior notice: rally
Member secretary of the National Citizens鈥� Committee and former social welfare secretary of Dhaka University Central Student Union, Akhter Hossen, at a rally on Sunday said that India used to open barrage on Teesta without prior notice...
Govt urged to clear stance on intolerant, hateful incidents
The University Teachers鈥� Network on Saturday urged the chief adviser, Professor Muhammad Yunus, to clear the government鈥檚 stance on the countrywide intolerant, hatred and hateful behaviours against some targeted communities and people...
Students, people throw shoes at Hasina鈥檚 portrait
Students and people on Saturday threw their shoes at ousted prime minister Sheikh Hasina鈥檚 portrait near the Anti-Terrorism Raju Memorial Sculpture on the Dhaka University campus...
Case filed against DU hall provost, others over mob lynching of Tofazzal
A case has been filed against 15 people including the removed provost of Fazlul Huq Muslim Hall, Professor Shah Muhammad Masum, on charges of beating to death a man on suspicion of theft at the dorm of Dhaka University...
DU Shibir secretary clarifies his BCL post
SM Farhad, general secretary of the Dhaka University unit Islami Chhatra Shibir, has come into the spotlight after his political identity was revealed on Sunday night.
Time to rewrite university ordinances
IT IS the bravery of our youths from both public and private schools, colleges, madrassas, and universities that Bangladesh is having a much-needed rebirth, which is allowing us to have a serious introspection of our existing structure, law, and policies. More than three dozen vice chancellors from both public and private universities have resigned already,...
Nakib M Nasrullah to helm Islamic Univ in Bangladesh
Dhaka University鈥檚 law faculty dean Professor Nakib M Nasrullah was made the new vice-chancellor of Islamic University in Kushtia on Monday.
Student movement organiser Shadik exposed as Shibir president
Dhaka University administration鈥檚 meeting with the leaders of several student organisations on Saturday exposed that Shadik Kayem, whom general students identified as an organiser of the...
Classes resume at DU after four months
After about four months, academic activities at Dhaka University resumed on Sunday...
Academic activities resumed on DU campus after more than 3 months
Classes at Dhaka University resumed on Sunday after more than three months of closure due to unrest centering student-led movement...
DU forms body on demands for DUCSU, outsider-free campus
The authorities of Dhaka University on Saturday formed a committee to evaluate different demands of the students, including activation of the central students鈥� union by banning partisan politics, a campus free from outsiders, and actions against those involved in attacking students during the mass uprising...
DU suspends聽8 students, removes provost
Dhaka University on Saturday temporarily suspended eight students and cancelled their residential accommodations over their alleged involvement in lynching a mentally unstable youth on the campus.
Protests at DU, JU lynching continue
Protests continued on Friday over the lynching of two people on the campuses of Dhaka University and Jahangirnagar University, while six activists of Bangladesh Chhatra League, the student wing of...
DU politics ban gets flak
Former and present student leaders from different political organisations have rejected the Dhaka University authorities鈥� decision to ban all political activities on students, teachers and...
Protests erupt as two beaten to death at DU, JU
Protests erupted in Dhaka on Thursday as two men were beaten to death in separate incidents on the campuses of Dhaka University in the city and Jahangirnagar University in...
DU bans politics on campus
Dhaka University on Thursday banned political activities of the university鈥檚 students, teachers, officers and employees on the campus, following demand of the students.
Citizens should not take law into their own hands, home adviser says
Home affairs adviser Lt Gen, retd, Mohammad Jahangir Alam Chowdhury on Thursday emphasised the need to raise public awareness about mob justice, saying citizens have no right to take the law into their own hands.
