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MNA Education Desk: The successful young leaders expressed their views on the nature of future leadership in the event “Next Generation Leadership”, held recently at North South University, organized by the Office of External Affairs (OEA) under the leadership of the Director, Dr. Katherine Li. In this event, NSU alumni talked about their success and leadership in their respective sectors of work. The panelists of the seminar were Ziauddin Adil, media personality and CEO of Top of Mind, Rehnuma Karim, founder and CEO of Heroes for All, Dr. M. Masrur Reaz, senior economist and program manager of International Finance Corporation, ...

MNA National Desk: Hasnat Karim, a former teacher of NSU (North South University), has been shown arrested in a case filed in linking with the militant attack at a Gulshan cafe in Dhaka on July 1. Metropolitan Magistrate in Dhaka Imdadul Haque placed Hasnat on an eight-day fresh remand after showing him arrested in the case. Hasnat and Tahmid(a student of University of Toronto) have been under an eight-day remand since August 4 after they were both shown arrested under section 54 of the Code of Criminal Procedure (CrPC). However, Hasnat Karim was arrested from in front of Aarong in ...

MNA National Desk: The authorities of North South University (NSU) yesterday suspended the acting pro-VC, Gias Uddin Ahsan, who was arrested on charges of renting out a flat to Gulshan cafe attackers and withholding tenants’ information from the police. The NSU authorities took the action against Gias Uddin Ahsan, dean of the private university’s School of Health and Life Sciences, NSU Vice-Chancellor Prof. Atiqul Islam told to media. On Sunday, the VC at a view exchange meeting with government officials termed militants “cancer” and announced that his university would root it out from the campus through “operations”. Gias Uddin Ahsan, ...

MNA National Desk: Gias Uddin Ahsan, acting pro vice chancellor (pro-VC) of North South University (NSU), has been detained here along with two others for sheltering militants who carried out Bangladesh’s worst terror attack at a cafe in which 22 people were killed by suspected Islamic State militants. Masudur Rahman, deputy commissioner of Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP), said “North South University’s (NSU) acting pro-VC Gias Uddin Ahsan was arrested yesterday for renting out a flat to the attackers of Holey Artisan Bakery.” Meantime, Dhaka court has given police eight days to interrogate the acting pro-VC Ahsan. Counter terrorism Unit’s Additional ...

MNA Editorial Desk: Education Minister Nurul Islam Nahid has said that the government is alert on the condition in the North South University (NSU), a reputed private university, from where some students have got mixed up in terrorist activities. Missing students are found to be getting connected in terrorism, Nahid said at a meeting with the UGC chairman in the Secretariat on Tuesday. The minister also witnessed that this trend appeared more marked among smart and meritorious student from well-to-do families. “Such allegations against NSU teachers and students had risen earlier. We are aware of this university. We also held ...

MNA National Desk: Law enforcement agency has recognized the suspected attacker of Sholakia Eidgah massacre as he was a student of North South University (NSU). Anwar Hossain Khan, Kishoreganj SP, confirmed to media that Abir Rahman, who was killed in a firefight, is a BBA final-year student of the private university, had been missing since March. Abir hailed from Comilla’s Debidwar and his father is Sirajul Islam. The family lived in Block-D at Bashundhara Residential Area in capital Dhaka. Ashikur Rahman, Abir’s elder brother, identified him from the photos and videos published in the media. Ashikur also said the family ...