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US, Bangladesh relations to see new height: Nisha Desai
Diplomatic Correspondent
Bangladesh Ambassador to the US Mohammad Ziauddin met with Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asia Nisha Desai Biswal at the US Department of State on Wednesday.
Biswal welcomed the newly appointed ambassador and expressed her hope, based on the existing strong bilateral bond achieved over the years, that the relations between the two counties would see a new height during Ziauddin's tenure.
The courtesy call discussed a wide range of issues of mutual interests, said a press release of Bangladesh Embassy in Washington DC.
D-8 chief's 4-day visit starts today
Staff Correspondent
D-8 Secretary General Dr Seyed Ali Mohammad Mousavi is scheduled to pay a four-day visit to Bangladesh from today.
During his visit, Mousavi will attend the eighth D-8 meeting of Directors-General and Expert Group on Civil Aviation on August 24-25 in Dhaka.
Mousavi is expected to call on the prime minister, the foreign minister, the finance minister, the commerce minister, the industries minister, the civil aviation and tourism minister, the state minister for foreign affairs and the foreign secretary.
D-8 countries are Bangladesh, Egypt, Indonesia, Iran, Malaysia, Nigeria, Pakistan and Turkey.
Bangladesh to get ITPEC membership
Bss, Dhaka
Bangladesh is set to get Information Technology Professional Examination Council (ITPEC) membership that would enable it to give internationally recognised certificate to IT professionals and graduates, official sources said.
They said Japan based Information Technology Promotion Agency (IPA), a regulatory body for evaluating the Information Technology Engineers Examination (ITEE), will confer the ITPEC membership on Bangladesh at a function to be held on September 1 at the auditorium of Bangladesh Computer Council (BCC).
AL leader shot in Satkania
Staff Correspondent, Ctg
A local Awami League leader of Satkania upazila of Chittagong was shot in his village early yesterday.
Md Ayub Rahman, 48, joint secretary of Eochia Union unit, and a former union council member is undergoing treatment at Chittagong Medical College Hospital.
Ayub claimed that three Islami Chhatra Shibir cadres, Jahedul Islam and Md Manjur, shot him in his arm and leg before his house at Paschim Eochia village. Hearing gunshots, neighbours rescued Ayub.
Contacted Towfik-e Elahi, president of Shibir Satkania upazila unit, said the two were not Shibir members.
Employer kills domestic help's son
Our Correspondent, Pabna
A woman strangled a son of her domestic help in Shara Gopalpur village in Ishwardi upazila of Pabna yesterday.
Mehedi Hassan, 3, was crying as his mother Jhumur Begum went outside. Failing to soothe the baby, Asia Khatun, 32, wife of Kepen Hossain, first beat him up and then strangled him, said Iswardi police.
Asia was sent to Jail.
The body was sent to Pabna Medical College Hospital morgue for an autopsy.
Woman murdered in house
Our Correspondent, Thakurgaon
A woman was found dead with her throat slit in her house at Dehatta village in Ranishankoil upazila in Thakurgaon on Thursday night.
Abu Bakkar, rickshaw-van puller, after returning from work, found Nargis Akhter, 29, on the floor and their two children in sleep, said police.
Hearing Bakkar's hue and cry neighbours informed police.
Police sent the body to Thakurgaon Sadar Hospital morgue for autopsy.
Police, refusing to disclose the killer's name, said they are conducting drives to arrest the murderer.
Freedom fighters' interviews available on mjgobeshona.org
Staff Correspondent, Ctg
The Research Centre of Bangladesh Freedom Struggle and Liberation War, Chittagong, is preserving the interviews of 1,000 freedom fighters and organisers.
Till now, the interviews of 34 have been uploaded on the centre's website: www.mjgobeshona.org
Dr Mahfuzur Rahman, chairman of the research centre, told The Daily Star that they had launched the website to protect the 1971 Liberation War history from distortion and to let the present generation know the fact.
Scholastica kids to join event in India
Staff Correspondent
Five class IX students of the Mirpur campus of Scholastica are attending the 6th Odyssey International 2014, a platform to enhance English literary and linguistic skills to develop aptitude for English.
The four-day event, organised by the City Montessori School of India, will begin in Lucknow today, said a press release.
The objective of Odyssey is to widen the importance of English language and relationships irrespective of cultural and language barriers.
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