DMP

Dhaka Metropolitan Police hosted an Iftar party yesterday on the occasion of its 22nd founding anniversary.

Among others. Speaker Hu mayun Rasheed Chowdhury, Home Minister Rafiqul Islam, MPs Sultan Mohammad Mansur Ahmed, HBM Iqbal and Saber Hossain Chowdhury. VC Prof AK Azad Chowdhury. IG (Police ) M Azizul Haq. Acting IG (Prisons) Uaquat All Khan and DMP Commissionet AK Al Mamun were present.

IUBAT

i An agreement of formal af-; filiation has been recently signed between International University of Business Agriculture and Technology (IUBAT) and University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB). Birmingham. Alabama USA. This agreement of formal affiliation

is for the purpose of carrying out programmes of faculty exchange. student exchange. Joint research and any other programmes which may be deemed . to be mutually beneficial.

ITI

State Minister for Youth and Sports and Cultural Affairs Obaidul Quader yesterday said that the present government was committed to breaking all shackles for the uplift of the women folk in the society under the leadership of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.

He was speaking as the chief guest at a concluding session of a three day international seminar on "Women in Theatre. ’ held at Hotel Purbani ’ in the city.

Bangladesh Centre of the International Theatre Institute (ITI) organised the seminar, while UNESCO and Royal Nor wegian Embassy sponsored it.