Mashrafee retained as captain, BCB gives green light for day-night Test The Bangladesh Cricket Board has decided to extend the contract of Australian cricket coach Jamie Siddons until the World Cup 2011. The decision was made at a meeting of its Board of Directors on Wednesday. The BCB directors have given their president Lt General ... Read more
Month: September 2009
Fed Cup begins today
Reigning champions Dhaka Mohammedan Sporting Club faces newcomer Feni Soccer Club in the inaugural match of the Citycell Federation Cup, the curtain raiser tournament of the season at the Bangabandhu national Stadium at 4:00pm today. In the other match of the day, Brothers Union take on BKSP at the Army Stadium. The black-and-white outfit, as ... Read more
A dream dinner
Participants of the Pepsi First Ball-er Captain contest were treated to a dinner with the former Bangladesh cricket captain and brand ambassador of Pepsi, Mohammad Ashraful, at a local hotel in the city on Monday night. Apart from Mohammad Ashraful, other distinguished guests present at the dinner were General Manager of
Reefat, Rajib bounce back
GM Ziaur Rahman dropped point again in the ninth round of the 4th Kolkata Open International Grandmasters Chess tournament when he drew with GM Vladislav Tkachiev of France at the Gorky Sadan yesterday. Zia, who won his eighth round game after losing two successive matches, has secured 5.5 points while GM Enamul Hossain Rajib and
BD to remain isolated if not linked with Asian Highway: PM
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina Wednesday said Bangladesh would remain isolated from rest of the world without being linked with the proposed Asian Highway. Replying to both main and supplementary questions raised by the lawmakers in the House during the Prime Minister’s question-answer session, she made it clear that her government doesn’t believe the country’s sovereignty ... Read more
No ETP plan in 4 years
Environment ministry blames industrialists, seeks help from the top to end river pollution After over four years’ futile negotiations with factory owners on preparing an action plan on setting up effluent treatment plant (ETP), the environment ministry is now seeking intervention from the highest level of the government. State minister for forest and environment in ... Read more
No headway in retrieving siphoned off wealth: Corrupt ones continue to thrive
The government is yet to make any significant progress in retrieving the money, which was smuggled out of the country by a section of people including some politicians. It is widely believed that the corrupt goons have siphoned off a huge amount of money and kept it illegally in different countries, including Malaysia, Singapore, Switzerland, ... Read more
Traffic signal system made spectator of total chaos
It is none but the traffic police who violate the automated traffic signal themselves in the city, which encourages drivers and commuters to disobey the rules. The encouragement further comes from the total inaction of traffic police in stopping and penalising violators, especially public motor vehicles that stop to drop and pick passengers at traffic ... Read more
Plan to construct subway to ease traffic jam
The government plans to construct subway in the city to ease the acute traffic congestion and reduce transportation costs. The subway project proposal is likely to be placed at the meeting of the Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs today for approval, sources in the Ministry of Communications said. This will be the second project under ... Read more
PDB tender goes online
8 Rental Plants PDB tender goes online The Power Development Board debuts in floating its tender notice online today for eight rental power projects totalling 530MW capacity on its website www.bpdb.gov.bd. Power Secretary Mohammad Abul Kalam Azad inaugurated the launching of the online tender yesterday evening at the PDB office. PDB Chairman ASM Alamgir Kabir ... Read more
Unabated extortion before Eid
Extortion in the transport as well business sectors continues ahead of the Eid-ul-Fitr, despite various measures taken by the law enforcing agencies, according the transport owners and businessmen of different city markets. The transport owners and employees alleged that they have to pay tolls regularly to extortionists at different spots on the highway. Traffic police ... Read more
Two-man team to probe graft charges against Gen Matin
The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) is to appoint a two-member team within a week to investigate the allegations of corruption brought by a JS body against former shipping adviser Maj Gen (retd) MA Matin and eight others in the Tk 9-crore container handling deal for Chittagong Port. “We received the findings of the Parliamentary Standing Committee ... Read more
30,000 children withdrawn from hazordous works in last 5yrs
As many as 30,000 children, who were engaged in various hazardous works, have been imparted training on non-formal education (NFE) and skill development training (SDT) after withdrawing them from their workplaces in the country. They were also given six-month skill development training under a five-year project titled ‘Elimination of Child Labour in Hazardous Works Phase-II’ ... Read more
US missile attack kills 10 Taliban militants
Pak troops kill 24 extremists A US missile strike from a drone aircraft Tuesday killed at least 10 militants in a tribal area of Pakistan bordering Afghanistan while 24 other militants were killed in fighting in Khyber district, Pakistani officials said. “The strike targeted a Taliban compound in Dargamandi village of North Waziristan, killing 10 ... Read more
Obama invites Hasina to join meeting on UN peacekeepers
US President Barack Obama has invited Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina to join a meeting of heads of the governments of 10 UN peacekeeper contributing nations with him in New York on
Sircar petition hearing deferred as two amici curiae feel embarrassed
The High Court yesterday deferred till October 14 the hearing on a writ petition filed by former speaker Jamiruddin Sircar challenging the legality of formation of a parliamentary
Extortion, mugging go unabated
Gangs, political elements active ahead of Eid Petty crimes–extortion and mugging–have increased at an alarming rate in the capital in recent times as criminal gangs and a section of ruling party men are desperate to make a quick buck
41pc DU students, teachers, employees tobacco addicts
Some 41.27 percent of the teachers, students, officers and employees of Dhaka University (DU) on an average are addicted to tobacco products, reveals a survey of a DU-based
Steps taken to build 2nd Padma bridge
The government has taken initiative to build the second ‘Padma Bridge’ at Paturia -Daulatdhia point for smooth road communication from the capital to the southwestern
BCS cadre for primary edn underway
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday in parliament said formation of a BCS (primary education) cadre for officials involved in primary education management is under