Business leaders Friday expressed their grave concern over the fast deterioration of law and order, especially in the country’s commercial areas, in recent weeks, saying it will aggravate the economic downturn amid global recession. Terrorists killed one garment entrepreneur and four others in Dhaka and its adjoining areas, mugged and injured many others in the ... Read more
Month: May 2009
EC bid to cut DC, UNO influence on its field staff
Commission asserts its position The Election Commission (EC) has taken initiatives to stop domination of District Commissioners (DCs) and Upazila Nirbahi Officers (UNOs) over the field-level election officials and employees, reliable sources have said. Although the EC is a constitutional institution, and, in accordance with law, the EC Secretariat is independent, the DCs and the ... Read more
BNP yet to announce convening committees due to internal feud
Standing committee meeting today BNP yet to announce convening committees due to internal feud Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) is yet to announce 74 district convening committees due to party internal feud though the committees were likely to be announced early in this month. The party will take final decision today (Saturday) at a standing committee ... Read more
Pedestrians worst victims of road crashes
Almost three quarters of people killed in road accidents in Dhaka city are pedestrians while mostly minibuses are involved in these accidents. Even though pedestrians constitute around 60 percent of the road users in the capital they are one of the least cared for. According to Accident Monitoring Cell of Bangladesh Road Transport Authority (BRTA) ... Read more
Mizan, wife disowned by parents for militancy
Detained Jama’atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) man Mizan alias ‘Boma Mizan’ was disowned by his parents five years ago for his Islamist terrorist connection, and his first wife Sharmin was also disowned by her family three months after they had come to know that her husband is a terrorist. “We got married in 2006 after I ... Read more
ICDDR,B receives 450 diarrhoea patients a day
People advised to avoid roadside sharbat Though the residents of the capital got some respite from the scorching heat as the mercury dipped well below 35 degree Celsius following rainfall that significantly improved the overall situation of water borne diseases, expertes warned people ‘not to be complacent’. International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh (ICDDR,B), ... Read more
Slumdog star’s home demolished
The Mumbai slum home of one of the child stars of the Oscar-winning film Slumdog Millionaire has been demolished by city authorities. Reports say that police smacked the boy, Azharuddin Mohammed Ismail, with a bamboo stick before ordering him out. The authorities claim he and other families were squatting on land that was owned by ... Read more
Violence against women and children continue
Violence against women and children continues across the country as criminals go unpunished in the absence of proper application of law. Women and girls suffer from physical, sexual, psychological and economic abuses while children face corporal punishment at home, school and workplace. A report of Odhikar says 5816 women and children were raped in six ... Read more
Thousands had to leave country in last decade
Claims indigenous people’s body An organisation working with indigenous people claimed that around 50,000 adivashi people were forced to leave the country due to harassment and repression during the last decade. The Adivashi Manobadhikar Report 2008 claimed that non-adivashi people were relocated to the hilly region under a political scheme of “population transfer” and they ... Read more
Quality weeklies are rare
A large number of English and Bangla- weekly magazines come out from Dhaka but it is difficult to ascertain the exact number as most of them are irregular and underground publications. However, a number of weekly magazines-both English and Bangla- are found in the market. The well known weekly English weeklies published regularly from Dhaka ... Read more
Abahani-Ashgabat tussle today
Perfect finishing will be the key in the crucial Group B match of the AFC President’s Cup match between Dhaka Abahani and Ashgabat FC of Turkmenistan at the Bangabandhu National Stadium at 6:00pm today. Both the teams had a perfect warm-up for the crunch tie with victories against Sri Lanka Army, the third team of ... Read more
Sakib scoops player of the year award
All-rounder Sakib al Hasan scooped the Garmeenphone-Prothom Alo player of the year award 2008 on Friday for his outstanding performance with bat and ball last year, especially in Test cricket. Sakib was the runaway winner ahead of weightlifter Fahima Akhter Moina and shooter Asif Hossain Khan, who bagged the runner-up awards for winning international
New drama Neeler Pala staged in city
The maiden show of the play Neeler Pala was held Wednesday evening at the National Theatre Hall of the Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy in the city’s Segun Bagicha area. Theatre group Nagarik Natyangan Ensemble staged the show of their new production. Theatre personality Abul Quasem has directed the play, scripted by Chittaranjan Ghosh, the noted
Unmad, Desh TV cartoon show held
A one-day group cartoon exhibiton titled ‘Unmad Desh TV Cartoon Exhibition’ was held at Sufi Stone Gallary in Magbazar on Wednesday. Eminent cartoonist and also editor of the cartoon magazine Unmad, Ahsan Habib, and eminent cultural personality Syed Hasan Imam jointly inaugurated the show. Syed Hasan Imam said, ‘cartoon is an integrated part of our ... Read more
5th Asian universities debating contest kicks off
The six-day ‘Fifth Asian Universities Debating Championship (AUDC) 2009’ began amid a gala ceremony at a hotel in the city yesterday. A total of 279 debaters comprising 69 teams of 10 Asian countries will participate in the championship. The participating teams are from Bangladesh, China, India, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Thailand and the ... Read more
Sakib back to boost Tigers
Sakib al Hasan returned to cricket after a long injury lay-off to inspire the Bangladesh cricket team to a 49-run victory over the Bangladesh A team in the third warm-up match at the Sher-e-Bangla National Stadium on Thursday. Sakib took the ball after the Tigers had suffered two embarrassing defeats to their second fiddles in ... Read more
Ashgabat FC demolish Sri Lanka Army
Ashgabat FC of Turkmenis-tan demolished Sri Lanka Army 5-1 on Thursday to get the ideal warm-up before playing Dhaka Abahani in the AFC President’s Cup Group B deciding match at the Bangabandhu National Stadium on Saturday. The first-half was almost a one way traffic as the tall and physically stronger players of the Turkmenistan side ... Read more
India drubs Bangladesh 11-1
Bangladesh finished seventh in the 8th Asia Cup hockey tournament after a 11-1 defeat against India in the classification match at Wisma Belia Stadium of Kuantan, Malaysia on Thursday. India, which surprisingly failed to make it to the last four, started the game with an aggressive note and swooped on the Bangladesh team from the ... Read more
Farmers achieve success in cultivating sweet jumbo grass in char areas
Profit of taka 50,000 per acre possible The char people have been attaining remarkable success in eradicating poverty by farming Australian hybrid variety sweet jumbo grass in the sandy char areas on the country’s Brahmaputra basin during the past two years. The distressed char people have been achieving their faster economic self-reliance side by side ... Read more
JMB’s explosives expert Boma Mizan captured
Wife explodes bomb to escape arrest; finally surrenders to Rab with severe injuries after 4-hr midnight raid at a Mirpur house After years in the hunt for him, the Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) last night captured ‘Boma Mizan’, explosives expert of banned Islamist outfit Jama’atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB), at Taltola in the city’s Mirpur area. ... Read more