Grades Posted!

Grades have been posted into the system. You may log into the Student Information System (SIS) to know your grade. You may email me to know your grade as well. Following is a summary of the grades for the semester (Spring 2011).


Special Mention:

Following students showed outstanding performance in my courses this semester. Heartiest congratulations to them for their achievement.

Syeda Nowrin Shibly 0910141030 (ACT201)
Tahsin Reza Abrar 1010011030 (FIN254)

Thanks.

Self-Confidence!

Value of Time!

To realize the value of one year
Ask a student who has failed a final exam

To realize the value of a month
Ask a mother who has given birth to a premature baby

To realize the value of one week
Ask an Editor of a weekly newspaper

To realize the value of one hour
Ask the lover who are waiting to meet

To realize the value of one minute
Ask a person who has missed the train

To realize the value of one second
Ask a person who has survived a fatal accident

To realize the value of one mili – second
Ask a person who has won a silver medal in the Olympic

- collected from internet.

Marksheets Available!

Please find the marksheets in respective course folders. Let all your classmates know about this. If you find any problem in recording your marks, please let me know by email or send SMS to my TA informing details.

Grades would be assessed on 28th of April based on these marksheets.

Thanks.

Summer 2011 Academic Calendar!

You may visit the following link to get the Academic Calendar for Summer 2011, which was approved in the Coordination Meeting held on 19 April 2011 in the Vice Chancellors Conference Room.

Academic Calendar for Summer 2011

Thank you.

Sad and Unfortunate!

How could people be so cruel toward such poor and starving children?

NSU Features Published!

The Daily SUN published features on NSU. Please visit the following links.

A General Feature on Academia

An Interview of VC Sir

Thanks.

Q/A Session!

Question: Sir, change of tires of a truck. is it capital or revenue expenditure? and in the ratio of return on common stock holder equity (if there is preferred dividends) we need to minus it from net income.but do we need to minus the price of those shares (preferred ones) from total common stock holders"equity to identify avg common stock holders equity??? and borrowing loans from bank .is it under the investing activity on cash flow statement??

Answer: Following are the answers to your questions.
1. Change of tires is a revenue expenditure as it will not change the original feature of the truck.
2. There is no preferred shares within "total common stock holders' equity". So, there is no need for any such deductions.
3. Borrowing money from banks or anyone else for long term is financing activity in cash flow statement.

শুভ বাংলা নববর্ষ ১৪১৮!

সবাইকে জানাই নববর্ষের শুভেচ্ছা। নতুন বছর হউক আরো বেশি আনন্দের, সফলতার, আর সমৃদ্ধিতে ভরপুর।

Govt Bans Cellphones in Classrooms!

Dhaka, Apr 11 (bdnews24.com) — The government has imposed a blanket ban on the use of mobile phones in classrooms.

The education ministry issued a circular on Monday banning use of cell phones in classrooms either by students or teachers.

The government move comes a day after child parliamentarians suggested taking steps in this regard.

Class Cancellation Notice!

The Registrar's Office issued a class cancellation notice yesterday cancelling all classes of today (Monday, 11th of April, 2011) starting from 1 pm and onwards due to convocation rehearsal.

There would be no classes tomorrow on the Convocation Day. Regular MW classes would be held on Wednesday as usual.

Official Notice

Thanks.

No Classes Today for MW Sessions!

Hartal has been observed on the streets. Although NSU authority is yet to make any announcements, for the greater good and safety of students, I am cancelling my MW (ACT201) classes of today (4th of April, 2011).

I am sorry for any inconveniences caused. Make-up details would be discussed later in class. Thanks.

Blood Donation Drive!

North South University Social Services Club (NSUSSC) is organizing a Blood Donation Drive in the recreation center. It will be a day long drive (from 10 am to 05 pm) which will be continued for 3 days till March 23, 2011.

For saving human life, all of us should participate in this kind of program. Please support it spontaneously. Please provide your utmost cooperation in this regard and encourage others talking positively about blood donation. Your donation can save a life.

Last year’s blood donation campaign through this club was a big success and it secured 1st place in all over Bangladesh. There were 463 bags of blood collected through this campaign.

Thanks.

প্রেমের কবিতা

সাধারণত আমি যতটা পান করি, আজ আমি তার চেয়ে
দুই-তিন পেগ বেশি পান করেছি।
আপনারা সবাই আমার ব্যাপারে একটু সাবধান থাকবেন।
আপনারা সবাই যদি আমার সম্পর্কে সাবধান থাকেন,
তাহলে আমাকে নিজের সর্ম্পকে সাবধান থাকতে হয় না।
এই ফাঁকে আমি বরং আমার প্রিয় রমনীদের নিয়ে
একটু স্বাধীনভাবে ভাবনা-চিন্তা করতে পারি।
কিন্তু মুশকিল হয়েছে এই যে, অতিরিক্ত পানহেতু
আজ আপনারাও আমার মতই মাতাল।
কেউ কেউ আমার চেয়েও একটু বেশি।
এমতাবস্থায় আমি কী করবো ঠিক বুঝে উঠতে পারছিনা।

অতিরিক্ত পান করা থেকে আমাকে নিবৃত্ত করার জন্য
সঙ্গে করে যাকে নিয়ে এসেছিলাম, সেই খোদা বখশকেই বা
আমি দোষ দিই কী করে? যথাসময়ে হয়তো নয়, কিন্তু
এতে কোনো ভুল নেই যে, পানের এক পর্যায়ে আমার বন্ধু
খোদা বখশ, আমাকে একবার সাবধান করে দিয়ে বলেছিল:
‘ও মানিক, আর খাইস না, তোরে ঝাপসা-ঝাপসা লাগে।’

তখন, হায় তখন কেন যে আমি খোদা বখশের কথা শুনি নি।
তা হলে কি আর বেইজ্জতি হবার জন্য এই রাতদুপুরে
আমি তোমার বাড়িতে এসে উপস্থিত হই?
তুমি আমার কে?

- তুহিন ডি. খোকন

Airtel Future Leader Program!

The Department of Career & Professional Development Services (CPDS) cordially invites you to attend the corporate presentation of Airtel Bangladesh. This corporate presentation basically focuses on career development opportunities in Airtel Bangladesh. Please find the detailed information below:

Speaker: Mr. Sugata Halder, Head – Talent Acquisition & Talent Management
Time: 11:00 am – 1:30 pm
Date: 16 March 2011
Venue: OAT 801

Your presence will be highly appreciated. Thanks.

Invitation to Exhibition!

City of an Architect - an exhibition of sketches of historic buildings of Dhaka by the students of architecture of the North South University and Universiti Teknologi Malaysia.

The sketches are used in 'City of an Architect', a book by Prof. Mahbubur Rahman on sale at architecture department.

Venue: Recreation Center, NSU
Time: 10 am - 6 pm
Day: March 13-16, 2011

You are all cordially invited.

Registration for Cervical Cancer Vaccination!

The Dept of Life Sciences, NSU in association with GlaxoSmithKline Bangladesh (GSK) has successfully organized a seminar titled “Cervical Cancer in Global Perspective and Its Implications in Bangladesh” on 02 February, 2011 in NSU Plaza at 3.00 pm onwards.  There they offered a discount rate @ Tk. 2100 per dosage (whereas the market rate is @Tk. 4040 per dosage) only for NSU student, Faculty Member, and their family members.

You may be aware that Cervical Cancer is one of the biggest killers on caner causing diseases of Women all around the world. This fatal disease claims the lives of 18 women in Bangladesh every day and 1.1 million women globally every year. It is nevertheless to say that community-based education and screening should be the future direction of prevention of controllable cancers. NSU is proud to take an institution based initiative which can improve student’s as well as NSU family’s awareness about cervical cancer and willing for cancer screening and further prevention.

Therefore, the department of Life Sciences, NSU in association with “RUNNINGMATE” (working as Glaxo Smith Kline Vaccination partner) are going to set up a booth on 09 March (Wednesday), 2011 in the open space of NSU premise from 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. The registration is for successful vaccination activities on cervical cancer on 15 and 16 March 2011 in our NSU premise.

You are cordially requested for your registration.

Classes on Thursday (10th of March, 2011)!

Due to shifting of the date of Convocation from 10th of March to 12th of April, classes of Tuesday 12th of April, will now be held on Thursday 10th of March, 2011 according to ST schedule.

You may visit the following link for official notice. Thanks.
http://www.northsouth.edu/php/notice/view_details.php?d=589

Invitation to Public Lecture!

I would like to invite all to a Lecture "Addressing the Challenge of Jobless Growth in Developing Countries" by Dr. Rizwanul Islam, Former Director,Employment Department, ILO, Geneva.

Dr. Rizwanul Islam has been a brilliant student of his generation. He has been working on employment issues since his PhD dissertation in London School of Economics (LSE) under Amartya Sen's supervision(1973-76).

Although he started his career as an academic in Dhaka University, his working life has been largely with ILO regional offices in Bangkok and New Delhi and finally with ILO head office in Geneva.

Schedule: 07 March 2011 (Monday) at 11:30 am, Venue: NAC 311

Look forward to seeing you in the lecture.

Invitation to Seminar!

The Department of Life Sciences is organizing a seminar on 6th of March, 2011 (Sunday) at 4:00 PM in SAC 407. The topic of the seminar is "Molecular characterization of V. parahaemolyticus and their interactions with C. elegans" that will be presented by Dr. Jinath Sultana Jime, Department of Biology & Chemistry, City University of Hong Kong.

All of you are cordially invited to attend the seminar. Thanks.