The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court (SC) has cleared the way for the National Board of Revenue (NBR) to collect income tax from the private universities. The apex court on Thursday rejected three separate appeal petitions filed by the three private universities challenging a notice issue
Independent University, Bangladesh (IUB) welcomed over 1,300 new students during its Summer 2024 Orientation programme for undergraduate admissions at the university Auditorium in Dhaka on Thursday. More than 45 per cent of the new intake was female. The demographics of the new students show that
For the first time in the country, successful identification of the genome sequence of local Shing fish and the potential identification of gender-specific genes in female-male Shing fish has been achieved by a team of researchers led by Prof Dr Taslima Khanam, Department of Fisheries Biology and G
The Department of Economics at North South University (NSU) in collaboration with the NSU Young Economists’ Forum (YEF) recently hosted a workshop titled "Writing Economics for the Media: A Conversion with an Academic Economist". The main speaker was Professor Niaz Asadullah, a visiting acad
After an eight-year hiatus, Jahangirnagar University (JU) saw the election of deans for its six faculties through direct voting by faculty members. Polling took place on Wednesday from 9:00 am to 2:00 pm, followed by the announcement of results at 4:00 pm by the election returning officer an
