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Becoming a Teaching Assistant: When and why?

Becoming a Teaching Assistant: When and why?

Faija Tasfia  2023-02-16 16:31:03

University life is one of the most stressful phases in one’s life. As a young adult, you have to deal with new responsibilities and dynamics. Most students look for extra income to support thems...

Visual pollution

Visual pollution

-- 2023-02-15 22:16:45

That visual pollution adversely affects people's lives, particularly leaving as many as 270,000 children with eye fatigue and headache in the capital city Dhaka may be mistaken for yet another eye dis...

Introduction of one-time TINs

Introduction of one-time TINs

-- 2023-02-14 22:05:00

Of the country's 8.5 million Tax Identification Number (TIN) holders, only 2.8 million, which is about one third of the total potential taxpayers, did actually file their tax returns until December 31...

Obaidul Quader says BNP now afraid of joining next general elections

Obaidul Quader says BNP now afraid of joining next general elections

-- 2023-02-14 21:06:35

Awami League (AL) General Secretary Obaidul Quader says BNP is now afraid of joining the next general elections sensing defeat. Obaidul Quader also accused the party of beginning a road march after l...

BNP reschedules its road march in capital to February 17

BNP reschedules its road march in capital to February 17

-- 2023-02-14 21:05:07

The BNP has moved up its road march in the capital city by a day, deciding to organise the programme on February 17 instead of February 18 ‘due to unavoidable reasons’. BNP acting office...

Boosting export of MMF apparel

Boosting export of MMF apparel

-- 2023-02-13 22:47:03

Fashion of and taste for outfits continuously go through changes. Apparel made of man-made fibre (MMF) had started becoming trendy well before the pandemic and the trend seems to have received a furth...

Awami League nominates honest, qualified presidential candidate: Obaidul Quader

Awami League nominates honest, qualified presidential candidate: Obaidul Quader

-- 2023-02-13 20:32:36

Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader on Monday said the ruling party nominated a well-educated, honest, efficient, and skilled person for the post of the country's President. "We did not nom...

BNP says govt launches fresh crackdown to arrest its leaders and activists

BNP says govt launches fresh crackdown to arrest its leaders and activists

-- 2023-02-13 20:28:29

BNP on Monday alleged that the government has launched a fresh drive to arrest the leaders and activists of the party and its associate bodies across the country ahead of the 12th parliamentary electi...

Plight of highways, roads

Plight of highways, roads

-- 2023-02-12 22:50:35

That the country's highways and roads show wear and tear within years or, in some cases, even months of their construction is not uncommon. After the post-construction hype begins subsiding, the unpal...

BNP-Jamaat starts arson terrorism again: Obaidul Quader

BNP-Jamaat starts arson terrorism again: Obaidul Quader

-- 2023-02-12 20:56:21

Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader has said BNP-Jamaat has started arson terrorism once again in the country. "BNP-Jamaat has started the arson terrorism once again in the country. They ca...

Cross-border e-commerce potential needs to be tapped

Cross-border e-commerce potential needs to be tapped

-- 2023-02-11 20:06:38

Bangladesh's recent experience with e-commerce has shown the latter's great potential. The usefulness of e-commerce became more evident during  the Covid-19 pandemic. The enforced lockdowns for p...

AL, BNP rallies clash in Sirajganj

AL, BNP rallies clash in Sirajganj

-- 2023-02-11 18:10:22

Separate rallies held by the Awami League and BNP in close proximity have escalated into a skirmish in Sirajganj Sadar Upazila. Supporters from both sides chased each other and threw brickbats during...

Four CMC students injured in attack by BCL

Four CMC students injured in attack by BCL

OUR CORRESPONDENT 2023-02-11 09:08:36

CHATTOGRAM: Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) activists beat up four students of Chattogram Medical College (CMC) on Friday. Of the four students two were admitted to ICU of Chittagong Medical College H...

Creating skilled workforce for  local and overseas markets

Creating skilled workforce for local and overseas markets

-- 2023-02-10 20:02:10

Though Bangladesh is the world's sixth largest exporter of migrant workers, its place as a remittance earner is the eighth. The reason is that the migrant workers going abroad every year are mostly un...

Salvaging the refinery project

Salvaging the refinery project

-- 2023-02-09 22:17:17

That Bangladesh, after half a century of its independence, is yet to have a well-equipped refinery to treat imported crude fuel is strangely unusual. Despite the high investment required for setting u...

Recent by-polls prove that vote can be fair under AL govt, says PM

Recent by-polls prove that vote can be fair under AL govt, says PM

-- 2023-02-08 21:30:31

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Wednesday said no one should raise any concern about the election being free and fair under the AL government following the recent by-elections in six parliamentary sea...

Newly-elected six MPs take oath

Newly-elected six MPs take oath

-- 2023-02-08 21:00:51

Newly-elected six Members of Parliament (MPs) took oath at the Jatiya Sangsad Bhaban in Dhaka on Wednesday. Jatiya Sangsad (JS) Speaker Dr Shirin Sharmin Chaudhury administered the oath to the six la...

Mirza Fakhrul demands withdrawal of cases against Khaleda Zia

Mirza Fakhrul demands withdrawal of cases against Khaleda Zia

-- 2023-02-08 20:53:22

BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Wednesday demanded the withdrawal of conspiratorial cases against BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia as the party claims the government imprisoned her thr...

Cataclysmic earthquake

Cataclysmic earthquake

-- 2023-02-08 20:29:20

The cataclysm that has befallen southern Turkey and north-west Syria does so once in a century or even centuries. But never has such an apocalyptic event taken place at a time when the planet is at it...

Awami League carrying out programmes without any conflict: Obaidul Quader

Awami League carrying out programmes without any conflict: Obaidul Quader

-- 2023-02-07 21:23:59

Awami League (AL) General Secretary Obaidul Quader has said the ruling party will hold programmes every day ahead of national elections. He said the upcoming union-level programmes were not announced...

Mirza Fakhrul says Awami League announces programme to counter BNP’s rally

Mirza Fakhrul says Awami League announces programme to counter BNP’s rally

-- 2023-02-07 21:13:23

BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Tuesday alleged that Awami League is trying to harm democracy and destroy the country's stability by announcing counter-political programmes. Spea...

Easing workers' migration to Malaysia

Easing workers' migration to Malaysia

-- 2023-02-07 20:11:49

The two-day's visit to Bangladesh by the home minister of the newly elected Malaysian government is learnt to have ended on a positive note. As expected from the Bangladesh side, the main focus of the...

Hasina will pick presidential candidate from Awami League, says Quader

Hasina will pick presidential candidate from Awami League, says Quader

-- 2023-02-07 15:41:27

The parliamentary group of the Awami League may not choose the presidential candidate of the ruling party at its meeting on Tuesday, according to Awami League’s General Secretary Obaidul Quader....

BNP announces fresh march programme in Dhaka on Feb 9, 12

BNP announces fresh march programme in Dhaka on Feb 9, 12

FE Online Desk 2023-02-07 15:09:52

BNP will again march in the capital on February 9 and 12 to press home their 10-point demand,  including holding the next general election under a non-party caretaker government. BNP Secretary G...

Need for speedy reforms   

Need for speedy reforms  

-- 2023-02-06 21:34:28

There is and was a consensus on the need for social and economic reforms Bangladesh needs. But these vital issues hardly received the attention it deserved at the government's policy level until the c...

Underground metro rail

Underground metro rail

-- 2023-02-05 20:33:46

Just over a month after the grand inauguration of Dhaka's Uttara-Agargaon elevated metro rail, a segment of the Uttara-Motijheel line, Bangladesh entered the age of underground metro rail on February...

Pathao is looking for a Business Intelligence intern

Pathao is looking for a Business Intelligence intern

FE Online 2023-02-05 20:24:48

Pathao is a team of young dreamers and doers delivering on-demand technologysolutions through a super app we all love, serving millions and creating opportunities. Vacancy: 01 Vacancy Type: Full-Tim...

High Court stays lower court ban on GM Quader’s party politics

High Court stays lower court ban on GM Quader’s party politics

-- 2023-02-05 17:33:54

The High Court (HC) has stayed a lower court order imposing a temporary ban on party activities of Jatiya Party (JaPa) Chairman Ghulam Muhammad (GM) Quader. A High Court division bench of Justice Muh...

Caretaker government will never come back: Hasan Mahmud

Caretaker government will never come back: Hasan Mahmud

-- 2023-02-04 22:43:34

Information and Broadcasting Minister Dr Hasan Mahmud has dismissed the opposition BNP's principal demand of a non-party government to oversee the next elections, and said that although BNP is now pre...

Record hike in LPG price

Record hike in LPG price

-- 2023-02-04 21:23:42

Bangladesh Energy Regulatory Commission (BERC) has just hiked the price of liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) by 21.59 per cent. This is the highest jump in LPG price in a single go, in the history of LPG...