Dhaka University (DU) and Asian University for Women (AUW) will share academic activities with each other to promote their research and standard of education. A delegation of teachers of AUW met DU VC AAMS Arefin Siddique Sunday. Dr Georgia Guldan (USA), Dr ANM Moinul Islam (Bangladesh), Dr Yan Gao (China), Dr Tomomi Naka (Japan), Dr Ibrahim [...]

Women leaders Saturday called for a global movement for freeing detained Myanmar democratic leader Aung San Suu Kyi. “Suu Kyi is not only a political leader, but also a symbol of democracy. National development in Myanmar will not be possible by keeping her in captivity,” they said. The leaders were addressing a press conference on [...]

Violence against women with disabilities should be addressed from the perspective of citizens’ rights along with steps to enhance their mobility and security, speakers at a roundtable said yesterday. They also said that integrating physically challenged women into mainstream of society is crucial to ensure their rights.

There are many women scientists in the world who are responsible for making discoveries and advances in a wide variety of areas — biology, medicine, chemistry, astronomy, mathematics, and research. From the dawn of civilization women and men worked together to make the future brighter. Why aren’t there more women in science in Bangladesh? Their [...]

Findings from a study yesterday revealed that women health workers have been found to be acting as change makers of society at the community level since the sixties of last century. The study conducted over community health programmes of the government, ICDDR,B, BRAC and Gonoswasthya Kendra in Matlab, Savar and Jamalpur said that the recruitment [...]

Citibank, N.A., Bangla-desh in collaboration with Grameen Shikkha has launched a scholarship programme called ‘Citi Scholarship for Young Women’ targeting the female university students of the country. Under the programme, scholarships will be given to 35 female students from six public institutions including Dhaka Medical College, Dhaka University, Bangladesh University of Engineering and Tech-nology (BUET), [...]

“I won against Pakistan but lost to poverty” said Kakat Heninchita. Few Bangladeshis have heard of this valiant freedom fighter, known to the villagers as Kakon Bibi. Carrying ammunition to the Mukti Bahini in a ‘kolar bhela’ this poor Khashya woman from Shunamganj helped blow up a bridge in 1971. She fought with the Mukti [...]

Speakers at a book launching ceremony Thurs­day said that although women’s empowerment is now a top development agenda but surprisingly little work is seen done on how women themselves experience the implementation process as discrimination exists between women classes. They were speaking on the occasion of a launching ceremony of a book titled “Mapping Women’s [...]

Etcetera and JetSet Public Relations (JPR) organised a fashion show at Dhaka Sheraton Hotel on May 09, in order to launch ETC-Fashion Exclusives, a clothes and accessory store by Etcetera Bangladesh.

Al Gore and his wife broke up after 40 years of marriage. The guy who stars in The Bachelor reality show broke up with his fiancé last week after being together for a lifetime by the standards of vacuous celebrities, ie, days. BP boss Tony Hayward parted company with his dividend paycheck. So I was [...]

Rozina Khatun (30) is a visually impaired woman of the village, Nayagola under the police station and district Chapai Nwabganj. She studied up to class five in Nayagola primary school. During her study one of the eyes was partially well After one year of her birth, she suffered from chicken pox. Due to financial insolvency [...]

Eve teasing has recently been growing like an epidemic throughout the country. The term is presently very common to the younger generations. It means “to excite girls with objectionable questions, annoyance, irritating, ambling limbs and by creating blockade on the way without showing any courtesy.” Eve-teasing actually means nonsensical gestures use of slang language in [...]

Gafargoan railway police rescued four girls from the clutches of child traffickers during a raid on a Dhaka-bound train from Mymensingh