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    Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Monday urged the public university teachers not to hamper the aca-demic activities of students by enforcing any strike in their universities. Prime Minister warned today to the agitating public university teachers against causing any damage to the education life of thousands of students.Students will not accept it if you continue protests against the new pay scale boycotting classes, Hasina said while addressing a rally marking Bangabandhu’s Homecoming Day in Dhaka. There’s no reason to be unhappy after a salary hike by 123 percent … teachers shouldn’t continue movement hampering the students’ academic life, she said while addressing a rally at Suhrawardy Udyan marking the Bangabandhu’s Homecoming Day. Over the recent protests by students an...

    The cabinet today approved the drafts of the 'National Hajj and Omrah Policy-2016' and Hajj Package-2016. The approval was given in the weekly meeting of the cabinet held at Bangladesh Secretariat with Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina in the chair. Briefing reporters after the meeting Cabinet Secretary Mohammad Shafiul Alam said the cabinet also approved a proposal of the Minister of Public Administration to fill up some 2,475 tech-nical/professional posts of the government from 34th and 35th Bangladesh Civil Service (BCS) exami-nation. Under the Hajj Package-2016, a total of 1,13,868 pilgrims including 5,000 ballotee hajjis could perform holy hajj this year under two packages. In the first package a pilgrim would cost Taka 3,60,028 including Kurbani and in the second package ...

    Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of Biman Bangladesh Airlines Kyle Haywood refused to contin-ue his job from today. Kyle who is now on a leave, sent an email expressing his inability to continue as the MD and CEO of Biman on health grounds, Biman’s acting MD Wing Commander (retd) MM Asaduzzaman told The Bangla Media. Recently the Board of Directors extended his service for another year and on return he was supposed to sign a new contract, Biman sources said. The South African-born British citizen took over the responsibility on January 6 last year. He was appointed on a one-year contract which had provision of extension of his service.

    Industries Minister Amir Hossain Amu has directed to relocate tanneries from Hazaribagh within next 72 hours. He said the tanneries would be shut down unless the factories are shifted within the stipulated time. The minister also asked BSCIC to send legal notice to the tannery owners by Sunday. If the tanneries fail to shift their factories after 72 hours of the legal notice, the allocation of the plots they have been given in the leather industrial park in Savar will be cancelled, according to the instruction of the minister.