Just a few hours prior to the entry tests of Arts, Law and Social Science faculties, the Dhaka University (DU) authority defended itself regarding the allegations of admission test question paper leakage, saying it just a rumour spread on social media including Facebook on Thursday morning.
The admission tests of the three faculties under a single unit are scheduled to be held between 11 am to 12.30 pm on Friday in the country eight divisional headquarters including Dhaka.
DU student suspected to be militant operative detained at Jagannath University
On Thursday morning, rumours spread on social media that the question paper of the entry test was available in exchange for money and the admission aspirants were asked to contact through Telegrams to have those.
The aspirants were asked to pay Tk 20, 000 in advance and the rest Tk 30, 000 will have to be paid post the examination.
President Mohammed Shahabuddin today asked judges and others concerned to be careful not to abuse their power as he addressed an international conference on the Bangladesh Supreme Court premises here.
"Power is inextricably linked with responsibility . . , Strict care should be taken to ensure that power is not misused," he told judges and other concerned.
The Head of the State said this at the opening ceremony of the two-day long conference titled "SOUTH ASIAN CONSTITUTIONAL COURTS IN THE TWENTY FIRST CENTURY: LESSONS FROM BANGLADESH AND INDIA" at the SC Inner Court Yard here.
Dhaka North City Corporation Mayor Atiqul Islam has directed authorities concerned to reduce the fares of Gulshan Chaka and Dhaka Chaka- passenger buses plying in the Gulshan-Banani-Baridhara-Niketon areas by Tk5 for each stoppage.
The directive will come into effect tomorrow (23 February), he said while addressing a meeting at his conference room in the Nagar Bhaban at Gulshan on making community bus services in Dhaka South today (22 February).
Officials of the Dhaka Metropolitan Police, Gulshan Society, Banani Society and Baridhara Society were present in the meeting along with representatives of Dhaka Chaka and Gulshan Chaka.
The government has opened three AI software based on Bangla language, enabling users to convert Bengali text to speech and speech to text and extract text from unedited documents.
State Minister for Posts, Telecommunications and ICT Zunaid Ahmed Palak on Wednesday launched the software for users at a function organized by his ministry at BCC auditorium here coinciding with International Mother Language Day, according to an official release.
He also unveiled a Bangla font, digitally representing the Bangla characters, symbols and glyphs, announced a special affordable package of BTCL Broadband Internet Bandwidth Zipon and opened Teletalk Bangladesh Limited E-SIM.