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JU sacks professor for locking up students, teachers Suspends lecturer for sexually harassing a female student Main entrance of Jahangirnagar University in Savar. Photo: Facebook/ Jahangirnagar University News News Desk: The Jahangirnagar University authorities have terminated a professor of Botany for locking up students and teachers inside department building on several occasions and suspended a lecturer pending probe into allegation of sexually harassing a female student. The decision to terminate Md Ali Akondo Mamun, a professor of Botany department, came at a syndicate meeting last night as he confined teachers and students inside the department on March 14 this year following a row over formation of an admission committee for 2013-14 sessions, the syndicate members said. The s...

BBC Online: Health workers wearing protective clothing prepare to carry an abandoned dead body presenting with Ebola symptoms at Duwala market in Monrovia. Liberia has imposed a night-time curfew and has quarantined an area of the capital Monrovia in a bid to halt the deadly Ebola outbreak. President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf said the curfew would be from 21:00 local time to 06:00 (21:00-06:00 GMT). She said all movement would be blocked in and out of the West Point area. Meanwhile, three doctors with Ebola who started taking an experimental drug last week showed remarkable signs of improvement, a Liberian minister said. Information Minister Lewis Brown said the drug was given to one Nigerian and two Liberian doctors who had caught Ebola while helping to save the lives of other victi...

Online Report: Photo taken from Hootsuite Blog With social media use among adults growing more common every year, it seems like a natural solution to harness those online activities into a potential career, reports Hootsuite Blog. However, being a social media expert requires more than just growing up in a slow transition from a Myspace to a Facebook profile - turning into the so-called social natives. In order to ensure the social natives’ skills are used to their full potential, there is a need for a structured social media education program. It’s challenging for educators to find the best ways to teach in a field that is in such a constant state of flux as social media. In the past, Hootsuite has reached out to Karen Freberg, the Assistant Professor of Strategic Communications at t...

Online Report: Rapid Action Battalion members have nabbed a ringleader and six members of a carjackers' gang from Dhaka and Sylhet. The elite force also seized seven stolen cars and one motorcycle during the drives, said Captain Maksudul Alam, assistant director of Rab’s Legal and Media Wing. Ringleader Abdul Alim and his two associates -- Al-Amin Islam Rubel and Jashim Uddin – were held on Friday while Md Bachchu Miah, Shohag Miah, Md Imran Hossain Shamim and Ajam Khan were detained early today. Rab conducted the drives after receiving a complaint from one Abdullah Al Mamun saying that his car was stolen from Mirpur area in the capital on July 8. Seven private cars seized by Rapid Action Battalion from carjackers possession are kept at its headquarters in the capital Saturday. Photo: ...