DU to celebrate Management Day tomorrow
The department of management, University of Dhaka, is set to celebrate the 55th Management Day 2025 with daylong festivities at the DU on Wednesday...
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DU mourning day today
The University of Dhaka will observe Mourning Day on Wednesday with solemn programmes in remembrance of the tragic incident that occurred at Jagannath Hall on this day in 1985.
DU, JU, DIU, GAU, NSU jointly rank first in Bangladesh in THE rankings
The University of Dhaka, Jahangirnagar University, Daffodil International University, Gazipur Agricultural University and the North South University have jointly ranked first among all universities in Bangladesh in the United Kingdom-based Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2026...
Inter-university debate fests concluded at DU
The two-day ActionAid-DUDS Inter-University Debate Festival concluded at the University of Dhaka on Saturday.
Promises born out of failures
A UNIVERSITY for students of the seven colleges earlier affiliated to the University of Dhaka raises its head, born out of government failures but with promises. A full sight is still forthcoming. The seven colleges, placed under the National University, founded in 1992, from the custody of the University of Dhaka, placed back under the University of Dhaka in 2017...
DU holds symposium on industry, academia partnership
The faculty of pharmacy, in collaboration with the faculty of engineering and technology, University of Dhaka, and DAAD, Germany, have jointly organised a symposium on strengthening industry-academia partnership in healthcare and materials...
Weak oversight fuels surge in motorcycle mishap deaths
AN ALARMING increase in motorcycle accidents and consequent fatalities suggests both lax enforcement of traffic regulations and motorcyclists鈥� proclivity to disregard them. The photograph that 抖阴精品 published on September 9 shows three teenagers, in school uniforms and without helmets, riding a motorcycle in the rain near the Teacher-Student Centre on the...
A humiliating DU decision that can also prove costly
THE University of Dhaka authorities鈥� decision to deploy the army as a 鈥榮triking force鈥� during the Dhaka University Central Students鈥� Union elections, scheduled for September 9, is both humiliating and alarming. The announcement came at an exchange of views between the returning officers and the candidates for the positions of vice-president, general secretary and...
DU VC urges students to acquire knowledge
Vice-chancellor of the University of Dhaka Professor Niaz Ahmed Khan at a programme on Sunday urged the students to acquire knowledge of different disciplines to build themselves as skilled workforce...
Living through uprising days 鈥� I
JULY of 2024 was a happening month, in national sphere, in the newsroom and in my personal life. It did begin as other months do, but, for me, three events happened 鈥� two, in fact, did and one did not. I did not anticipate the two that happened and I was eagerly looking forward to the one that did not happen. I stepped into the University of Dhaka in July 1989 and 34...
Dhaka Univ should see to safety issues of hall residents
PLASTERS having flaked off the ceiling in several rooms of the Dr Muhammad Shahidullah Hall in the University of Dhaka has once again exposed the neglect of student safety. A large chunk of plaster came off the ceiling of a bathroom in an extension building of the hall early July 29. While no injuries were reported, resident students say that such incidents are far from...
Preserving July uprising history called for
The first-ever international conference on the July uprising was held at the University of Dhaka on Sunday, with researchers and analysts from home and abroad calling for a national commitment to documenting and preserving the history of the 2024 student-led mass uprising...
Dhaka University Day today
The University of Dhaka celebrates Dhaka University Day today, marking its journey of 104 years since it inception in 1921...
DU seeks info on irregularities in teachers鈥� recruitment, promotion
Authorities of the University of Dhaka on Thursday called for information and evidence regarding any irregularities in teacher recruitment and promotion that might have occurred between 2009 and August 2024 under the regime of the ousted prime minister Sheikh Hasina...
Both Dhaka Univ, UGC should mind research allocation issues
RESEARCH allocation in the budget of the University of Dhaka has always been a poor show of the authorities as it has happened, too, in the budget for the 2025鈥�2026 financial year. The university鈥檚 syndicate on June 16 approved the 2026 budget with Tk 215.7 million set aside for research, which accounts for 2.08 per cent of the total outlay of about Tk 10.35 billion. The...
JICA, DU arrange 5th JICA chair lecture
Japan International Cooperation Agency and the department of Japanese studies at the University of Dhaka collaborated to organise the 5th JICA chair lecture on the 鈥楬istory and future of nursing in Japan and Bangladesh,鈥� on DU campus Tuesday...
Univs should hold students鈥� union polls early, regularly
UNIVERSITY of Dhaka students demanding elections to the Dhaka University Central Students鈥� Union and hall unions in three to six months is a legitimate demand. The demand came once again through a survey that the advisory committee formed by the university administration conducted in March 23鈥揂pril 6. About 75 per cent of the respondents say that the authorities...
75pc students for DUCSU polls by June
Seventy-five per cent of students at the University of Dhaka believe that organising the Dhaka University聽 Central Students鈥� Union elections by June will ensure the most peaceful and widely accepted outcome, according to a recent survey.
The procession of Pahela Baishakh
1989. It had already been way more than five years since Hussein Muhammad Ershad assumed office in December 1983. A political gloom filled the air. Not only in the capital Dhaka, but everywhere. We could feel the fearfulness, the gloom and the repression, then still living in a western small town, eagerly hoping to step in the University of Dhaka as a student...
DU to reintroduce vehicle restrictions at entry points from today
The University of Dhaka authorities have again decided to restrict vehicular movement at seven entry points on the university campus from today...
JULY UPRISING: DU finds 122 students鈥� involvement in campus attack
The fact-finding committee formed to investigate violent attacks on the July-August protesters at the University of Dhaka from July 15, 2024, to August 5, 2024, said on Thursday that they identified 122 DU students who were allegedly involved in the violent attacks in the period.
DU mathematics department holds orientation
The mathematics department of the University of Dhaka held an orientation programme for the first year undergraduate students at the Mathematics Building of the university on Wednesday...
COLLEGE AFFILIATION CRISIS: Identity, bureaucracy and broken promises
IF THERE were ever a time to pitch a Netflix drama based on the chaos of Bangladesh鈥檚 education system, the current saga of the University of Dhaka and its seven affiliated colleges would be it. We can call it campus wars or the bureaucratic labyrinth. The tale has everything: students in revolt, high-stakes drama, a pro-vice chancellor with a penchant...
Govt should deal early with affiliation of seven colleges
he issue have been drawn long enough, warranting early government efforts for a meaningful resolution. The seven colleges 鈥� Begum Badrunnessa Government Girls鈥� College, Dhaka College, Eden Girls鈥� College, Government Bangla College...
Sorry state of university medical centres unacceptable
This is unacceptable that medical centres at most universities are in bad shape as they are crippled by a shortage of human resources, infrastructure and other facilities. The sorry state of the centres has limited the access of students, teachers and officials to quality and timely treatment. The centres are also supposed to provide for diagnostic facilities, but...
Delft ceramic portrays Bangladesh鈥檚 cultural heritage
A six-day exhibition titled Exhibition on Delft Ceramic ended at the Zainul Gallery of faculty of fine art, University of Dhaka on Thursday...
DU advances 28 notches in QS Asia Rankings
The University of Dhaka has moved up 28 positions in the United Kingdom-based education and research organisation Quacquarelli Symonds Asia University Rankings.
DU Persian dept holds orientation, farewell programme
The Department of Persian Language and Literature of the University of Dhaka held an orientation and farewell programme of the new and outgoing students of the department at the Teacher-Student Centre auditorium of the university on Wednesday...
DU celebrates World Philosophy Day
The University of Dhaka celebrated the World Philosophy Day on the campus in the capital on Thursday...
DU MCJ dept discusses July uprising graffiti
A presentation and discussion titled 鈥楪raffiti in the July Mass Uprising鈥� was held by the Department of Mass Communication and Journalism at the University of Dhaka on Wednesday...
