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Pahela Falgun, Valentine’s Day today

Whether flowers bloom or not, today is Spring, (Phul phutuk na phutuk, aaj Boshonto) wrote Subhash Mukhopadhyay, a famous poet of Bangla literature. “If Winter comes, can spring be far behind?” English romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley described the arrival of spring in his famous&...

Education & Culture

A big learning from fieldwork in Khulna

The Department of Anthropology at Shahjalal University of Science and Technology (SUST) since its establishment in 1995, has been initiating several research activities and field works. Therefore, the anthropology department has now become one of the oldest and most successful ones.As the department...

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Transport sector in jeopardy

Since October 28, the BNP continued their political programmes like hartals and blockades throwing the transport sector into a deep crisis.The owners are incurring loss around Tk239 crore per day while the workers are passing in inhuman lives due to serious financial hardship caused by the hartal an...

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Fatema’s last hope burnt to ashes

The image of a widow Fatema Begum along with her 10-month-old baby and a special needs child (son), who lost her husband in a horrific petrol bomb attack in Khagrachari district, has sent a shock wave across the country.Her (widow) husband Belal Hossain, 35, died while undergoing treatment at the Sh...

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Fatema’s last hope burnt to ashes

The image of a widow Fatema Begum along with her 10-month-old baby and a special needs child (son), who lost her husband in a horrific petrol bomb attack in Khagrachari district, has sent a shock wave across the country.Her (widow) husband Belal Hossain, 35, died while undergoing treatment at the Sh...

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No single varsity entry test this year

The Bangladesh University Grants Commission (UGC) will not be able to hold a single admission test for all public universities this 2023-2024 academic year due to unavoidable reasons. “Therefore, like in the last academic session, the public universities this year will enroll students at ...

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Varsity admission to be tough for students

As 10, 67,852 examinees including 92,595 with GPA-5 (maximum grade point average) passed the Higher Secondary Certificate (HSC) and equivalent examinations-2023, there would be tough competition for the students with glorious results to get admission into the prestigious public universities or desir...

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Blockade breeds tourism logjam

When the country’s tourism sector is trying hard to turn around after the disastrous phase of COVID-19 pandemic, the BNP-Jamaat’s hartal and blockade programmes have become another severe blow to the sector. The period from December to February is the peak tourism season. But many local ...

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Students worst sufferers of hartal, blockades

Students have been bearing the brunt of the destructive path of politics since September 28 as BNP and Jamaat continued anarchy in the name of political programmes like hartals and blockades casting a grim shadow over their academic activities across the country.However, amid hartals and blockades c...

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Facility a far cry

The Chattogram Hill Tracts (CHT) of Bangladesh are home to 11 indigenous communities, the majority of whom live in vastly isolated territories.Unfortunately, these areas have limited access to fundamental social services like education and healthcare.The mortality rate is high for diseases primarily...

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Love, melody in the air

Bengali people from every walk of life are set to celebrate and welcome the Pahela Falgun, the first day of the Spring in the Bengali month of Falgun today  (Tuesday) with traditional fanfare and festivity.Besides, many people, mostly young men and women across the country, also get excited and...

City

SUST, a piece of ‘beauty’ of holy land

The entire campus of Shahjalal University of Science and Technology (SUST) has turned into the best place to hang out with friends, family members and beloved ones. With the arrival of winter, the university wears a festive look as all departments, residential hall authorities and different campus b...

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Poor internet service, power cut disrupt online classes at SUST

Poor internet connection is badly hampering the academic activities at Shahjalal University of Science and Technology (SUST).As a result, educational setbacks can have significant impacts on academic success, students said. Besides, frequent power cuts are worsening the situation.As per the decision...

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Death penalty for killers demanded

Three youths have been arrested in connection with the murder of Bulbul, a student of Shahjalal University of Science and Technology (SUST) following a series of raids by police across the campus and its adjacent areas.The arrestees are Kamrul Islam, 22, Abul Hossain, 18 and Mohammad Hassan, 18.Earl...

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3 detained, protesters demand safe campus

At least three outsider youths have been detained in connection with the murder of a student of Shahjalal Science and Technology University (SUST) on Tuesday.“We have detained three persons so far. They are now being interrogated. After the quizzing, if police find their involvement, they will...

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SUST to reach new height, says VC

A large-scale change would take place in the Shahjalal University of Science and Technology (SUST) within the next two months.“We hope that a very remarkable change is going to take place. We are working hard to take our prestigious university to the new height alongside making the institution...

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Pahela Falgun, Valentine’s Day today

Country’s people especially the youths today welcome the Pahela Falgun, the first day of the Spring in the Bengali month of Falgun amid coronavirus crisis across the globe.On Sunday they bade farewell to the outgoing month of Magh with a fresh hope that a new sun will rise that will take ...

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President to decide VC’s fate: Dipu Moni

Education Minister Dipu Moni on Friday said the most of the demands of Shahjalal University of Science and Technology’s (SUST) students are logical.“Students’ most demands are logical. And we are working to solve the problems raised by the students as early as possible,” he t...

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Anti-VC graffiti, songs permeate SUST calm

Sylhet’s Shahjalal University of Science and Technology (SUST) that saw serious student movement for the last 15 days, was calm on Thursday.On Wednesday twenty seven students who had been on hunger strike for 162 hours demanding the resignation of Vice-Chancellor Farid Uddin Ahmed over police ...

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SUST students end hunger strike

Twenty seven Shahjalal University of Science and Technology (SUST) students, who had been on hunger strike for over 162 hours, demanding the Vice-Chancellor Farid Uddin Ahmed’s resignation ended their fast on Wednesday morning.They withdrew their fast-unto-death strike drinking water at the re...