The Summerfield International School has celebrated its 36th anniversary recently with two-day programmes, including science fair, art competition, cultural activities and Summerfield Debating Championship, says a press release. Maple Leaf International School won the debating championship and Scholastica became the
Month: February 2010
Hosts’ best ever finish
Bangladesh signed off their campaign in the 11th SA Games on Monday winning as many as 18 gold medals that included key events of football and cricket. The hosts added four gold medals on the penultimate day from football, boxing and wusu which sealed their third position in medals table something which has never happened ... Read more
Tigers crash again
Bangladesh’s abysmal batting performance continued in New Zealand as they suffered a five-wicket defeat in the second one-dayer at the University Oval in Dunedin yesterday. With this win New Zealand clinched the three match series. It was a painful experience for the ardent fans in the country who had switched on their
Victoria Beckham’s Fashion Test
Victoria Beckham will only design clothes she would wear. The former Spice Girl-turned-fashion designer – whose upmarket clothing ranges have been critically acclaimed – admits she’s a perfectionist when it comes to her work so creates outfits she would be prepared to buy. She said: “The sales have been phenomenal. It’s been a challenge – ... Read more
Hosts’ gold rush
It was a gold rush for Bangladesh on the tenth day of the 11th South Asian Games yesterday. And believe it or not the ladies picked up more than the men on a day Bangladesh crossed their previous best effort in the regional showpiece event by winning six gold — an astonishing four in karate, ... Read more
Cricket glory Bangladesh’s
Bangladesh posted an exciting six-run victory over Sri Lanka to delight the country with a gold in the cricket event of the 11th South Asian Games at the Sher-e-Bangla National Stadium in Mirpur yesterday. The young Bangladeshi cricketers made history by becoming the first team to win the cricket gold included for the first time ... Read more
Air pollution in city takes alarming turn
Air pollution in the capital has taken an alarming turn, posing serious health problems for city dwellers. Things get worse in dry season as air, thick with particulates, becomes a prevalent cause of chest and respiratory diseases, say health experts, reports The Daily Star. According to some sources of Department of Environment (DoE), the density ... Read more
India deal on Tipai likely next month: Stakeholders sit in Manipur today
A joint venture agreement between Indian hydro power producers NHPC Ltd and Satluj Jal Vidyut Nigam Ltd (SJVN) and the government of Manipur to develop the Rs 8,138-crore Tipaimukh power project in the north-eastern state is likely to be signed by the end of the current financial year ending in March, The Business Standard reported
Cell phone crime goes unabated
Extortion and threat to high profile people using cell phones is going unabated as law enforcers could hardly trace the criminals who manage their SIM cards without following proper registration procedure. Sources observe that the menace has reached an intolerable level as even Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and her nephew lawmaker Fazle Noor Taposh could
18,000 pilgrims can go by ship to perform Hajj this year
The government has taken initiative to send 18,000 pilgrims to Saudi Arabia this year by ship so people can perform the holy Hajj at lower expenses than airfares. Meanwhile, a private shipping corporation has made some proposals to the government for carrying the pilgrim passengers at 40 percent less than the cost of travel by ... Read more
95 titles hit Ekushey Book Fair
Ninety-five new titles hit the Amar Ekushey Book Fair on the Bangla Academy premises in the city yesterday. With yesterday’s new titles, 791 new books hit the month-long annual fair in the first seven days as against 606 in the first one week of the fair last year, academy sources said. Twenty-nine collections of poems, ... Read more
3 rivers now biologically dead: DoE
Experts at the Department of Environment have classified three rivers in the capital as “biologically dead.” Laboratory tests have proven that the water in most parts of the Buriganga, Turag and Balu rivers contains no dissolved oxygen and is therefore totally devoid of aquatic life. A senior DoE scientific official said, “According to official standards, ... Read more
20,000 Bangladeshi students to get scope for edn in US a year
Says US Under Secretary Judith A Mchale Visiting US under secretary of State Judith A McHale on Sunday assured Bangladesh of providing more assistance from her country. He also praised the programmes of the present government for overall development of the people as well as the country. Judith gave the assurance and appreciated the works ... Read more
Climate change: Whispering from the Sunderbans
Dr. Md. Mizanur Rahman Due to increased rate of emissions of greenhouse gases (carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, ozone and chlorofluorocarbons) from different sources such as burning of fossil fuels, deforestation and other human activities, the rate of global temperature increase accelerated from +0.6°C over the past century to an equivalent rate of +1.0°C per ... Read more
Avatar–Film Review
Bottom Line: A titanic entertainment– movie magic is back! A dozen years later, James Cameron has proven his point: He is king of the world. As commander-in-chief of an army of visual-effects technicians, creature designers, motion-capture mavens, stunt performers, dancers, actors and music and sound magicians, he brings science-fiction movies into the 21st century with ... Read more
Emotion in Black: Solo Print Exhibition of Sadek Ahmed
‘Image of Life”, the first solo print exhibition of Sadek Ahmed, began on February 1 at Zainul Gallery, Faculty of Fine Arts. Most of the paintings revolve around the ubiquitous rickshaws and the lives of the rickshaw-pullers. As Ahmed explains,” I will not, as an artist, sit in the luxury of a Dhanmondi or Gulshan ... Read more
40,000 die of kidney failure a year
Experts at a seminar yesterday termed chronic kidney disease as a major public health concern in the country as its 90 percent people are unable to bear treatment cost. About two crore people are somehow suffering from the disease, while 40,000 die of longtime kidney failure a year in the country, they
Biman flies to London non-stop
Biman opened its non-stop Dhaka-London flight yesterday with 297 travellers on board. It was a journey without a break, officials said. An aircraft, 323-seater Boeing 777-200 ER, leased by the state-owned carrier, took off from Zia International Airport at 9.20am, said a senior Biman official. The carrier will operate three non-stop flights a week on ... Read more
Software, ITES export rises by 32pc in 2009
Five-day SoftExpo in city from Feb 10 The export volume of software and information technology-enabled services increased by 32.17 per cent last year with a sale worth some $ 32.91 million in 2008-09, while the industry has fixed a target for $ 38 million in 2009-10 fiscal. ‘Bangladesh earned $ 24.9 million from export of ... Read more
No room for new vehicles
Vehicles already 7 times the road capacity The number of vehicles is around seven times the capacity of the roads in the capital. In last six years, the volume of motorised and non-motorised vehicles has almost doubled, while the city has seen only two new thoroughfares–Doyaganj-Jurain and Bijoy Sarani-Agargaon–built in last two decades, said traffic