Day: November 17, 2014

The students and teachers of Rajshahi University are continuing their classes and examinations boycott programme  on Monday to protest the killing of Professor AKM Shafiul Islam of Sociology Department. Hundreds of teachers and students wore black badges and formed a human chain for half an hour at the gate of the RU senate building. Rajshahi University Teachers’ Association (RUTA) joint general secretary Moshihur Rahman announced the boycott programme for two more days on Sunday after an emergency meeting. Earlier, unidentified assailants hacked Shafiul Islam, a professor of the sociology department at RU, to death near the Bihas residential area when he was returning to his residence on motorbike.

The folding bicycle concept There are currently quite a number of manufacturers and startups developing folding bicycles, and it's an idea that makes a lot of sense: a bike that you can fold up and stow away under your desk means you don't have to look for an outside parking rack or worry about your cycle getting stolen while you're busy inside. It also means you can make journeys using multiple modes of transport more easily — car and bike, train and bike, and so on. Few folding bicycles are quite as compact as the Impossible bike though, which has just appeared on Kickstarter and can fit in a standard-sized backpack.