Md Abbas

Administrative and academic activities at Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman Science and Technology University (BSMRSTU) in Gopalganj have been halted since February 9, as students of history department are demonstrating, demanding University Grants Commission (UGC) approve their department.

More often than not, we see only the change happening around us in the city. But sometimes, there are silent revolutions happening outside our own hub by people away from the limelight of capital.

Over 200 students from history department of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman Science and Technology University (BSMRTSTU) in Gopalganj are facing serious uncertainty about their academic future.

Students of different educational institutions formed human chain at the base of Raju Sculpture on Dhaka University campus yesterday, demanding removal of vice-chancellor of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman Science and Technology University (BSMRSTU), Gopalganj, for “running the university in an autocratic manner”.

Five months have passed since a review committee was formed to prepare a policy for Chittagong University Central Students Union (Cucsu), but there has been no progress.

Fahima Akther Sumona, 12, stood second in a drawing competition organised at Chittagong University (CU) three years ago.

Students of 346 primary schools in Chattogram are attending classes risking their lives as the school buildings are in a dilapidated condition. Despite the risk, authorities concerned are yet to take any visible step in this regard.

The alleys of Jahur Hawkers’ Market in the port city are never this quiet on the third week of Ramadan, particularly at night. The familiar sight of the market and the road in front teeming with shoppers is replaced by only a few strolling about even before midnight.

In the last 40 days, Bangladesh Chhatra League’s Chittagong University unit has hogged headlines at least eight times for engaging in clashes that resulted into injuries to at least 40 people including policemen.

A Chattogram hospital yesterday formed a committee to look into the allegation that a doctor misbehaved with a patient from an ethnic minority community, for not speaking Bangla.

He dreamt of being a university teacher one day, and worked hard towards it. He secured the highest CGPA in his honours and masters exams, and published three research papers in international journals last year.

Amid the ongoing demand for CU Central Students' Union (Cucsu) election, Chittagong University authorities have said there is no congenial atmosphere on the campus to hold the polls.

Laboratory College in Chattogram started its journey in 1976 with a handful of students.

The academic committee meeting of the sociology department of Chittagong University has not been held for more than three months due to quorum crisis, hampering academic activities.

A six-day sculpture exhibition titled, International Celebration of Contemporary Sculpture, featuring the works of promising artistes from across the country concluded at Artist Rashid Chowdhury Art Gallery, Fine Arts Institute of Chittagong University (CU) recently.

The Chittagong University authorities are yet to take any step to hold CU Central Students Union (Cucsu) election, taking no heed of the student organisations' demand.

After the death of her father, Chhobi Das Gupta started working as a garment worker at the age of 12. She dropped out of school and became the bread winner of a family of seven struck hard by poverty.

Constructing a new bridge over Karnaphuli river in Kalurghat area has remained a major demand of voters of Chattogram-8 constituency (Boalkhali).

Theatre enthusiasts of Chattogram were mesmerised by the performance of Nayporayonota, the Bangla adaptation of Albert Camus's play, Les Justes, recently at the city's Alliance Française auditorium.

It has been two years. The body of Diaz Irfan Chowdhury, assistant secretary of Bangladesh Chhatra League's (BCL) central committee, was mysteriously found hanging in his flat near Chittagong University (CU) campus on today's date.