Machine readable passports (MRPs) are set for launch on March 31 in a move to speed border clearance and improve security for travellers. “We will issue the three categories of MRPs – red for diplomats, navy blue for government officials and green for the general people starting the last day of March from the Dhaka ... Read more
Month: March 2010
Plan to check birth boom
The government has taken up a nine-point plan to check population boom in the country. Health and family welfare minister AFM Ruhal Haque informed the Jatiya Sangsad yesterday. The minister was replying to a scripted question of Awami League legislator Sukumar Ranjan Ghosh from the Munshiganj-2 constituency during the
Top 10 women honoured
Top ten women of the country, who were the first to occupy centre stage at the top of their professions, received lifetime achievement awards of Channel i yesterday. First female editor of the country Nurjahan Begum, editor of Begum, first female deputy leader of parliament Syeda Sajeda Chowdhury, first home minister Advocate Sahara Khatun, also ... Read more
Int’l Women’s Day programmes
Different government, socio-cultural and development organisations across the country have chalked out elaborate programmes to celebrate the International Women’s Day today. Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will formally inaugurate the celebrations at the Bangabandhu International Conference Centre in the city at 10:00am. She will also unveil a stamp to mark the day. State Minister for Women ... Read more
Call to implement CEDAW for ensuring women dev
The government should implement the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women for ensuring development of the country’s women. The call was made at a news briefing organised by Barendra Unnayan Prachesta, a non-governmental organisation in Rajshahi, on Sunday to mark 100 years of
Women making progress in entrepreneurship
Bangladeshi businesswomen have come a long way overcoming social barriers to joining business in the past three decades or so, say many of them. Some of them have transformed themselves from housewives to entrepreneurs and even to business leaders, showing the way for a generation of female businesspeople to take
Citycell’s Zoom™ Ultra is now available in Ctg
Citycell has launched Zoom™ Ultra, in Chittagong the fastest mobile internet in Bangladesh. On the eve of this occasion, Zoom™ Ultra Night was held at Chittagong Club on Thursday. The event was attended by top corporate executives, government officials, loyal Citycell customers and members of print and electronic media of
Digital innovation fair: An assessment
Habibullah N Karim Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on March 4 inaugurated the first-ever government sponsored ICT fair of the country at Bangabandhu Novo Theatre complex in Dhaka. The country has had many ICT fairs since the late eighties but those are all sponsored and organised by the private sector. The Digital Innovation Fair is the ... Read more
Forest Dept starts first-ever ‘bird ringing’
For the first time, the forest department has started bird ringing and strapping satellite transmitter to migratory birds to carry out a study on them. The study will be conducted to determine if migratory birds spread avian influenza virus from one country to another. It will also be able to locate their migration
Animals in Sundarbans face scarcity of sweet water
There is no natural food crisis for animals living in the Sundarbans but there are symptoms of dying up sweet water sources gradually. Besides, the trees are suffering from diseases called top dying which has been recorded officially two decades back, according to officials. The UNESCO declared the Sundarbans — 6,017 square kilometers including three ... Read more
Int’l Women’s Day today
The 100th International Women’s Day will be observed in the country as elsewhere in the world today with the theme of equal rights and opportunity for women and men as a commitment for development and changing the days. On this day in 1857, female workers of a sewing factory in New York clashed with local ... Read more
MNIK conquers new territories for Bollywood!
It is old news that Karan Johar’s MY NAME IS KHAN is re-writing history and creating box-office records in the Overseas market, wherever it has opened. And we will not give the details about how MNIK has broken all the records held by previous SRK movies in US or state that MNIK has already set ... Read more
Kajol favourite Bollywood daughter-in-law, says poll
Acclaimed Bollywood actress Kajol who is married to actor Ajay Devgn for 11 years now, was voted the favourite bahu (daughter-in law) in a poll conducted by matrimonial site shaadi.com. As part of the upcoming International Women’s Day celebrations on Monday, shaadi.com conducted a poll in which 250,000 women participated. In the poll, 43.08 percent ... Read more
Kareena gifts Mercedes to sister Karisma
Kareena Kapoor not only believes in working hard but also enjoying the fruits of her hard work. Reports are that the actress has become one of the highest paid female stars in bollywood; Kareena Kapoor is splashing cash at the moment. Buzz, is that the actress has bought herself a swanky S-class Mercedes that has ... Read more
DST will start from Mar 31
Country would observe daylight saving time again from midnight 31 as per the decision of the cabinet by moving the clocks one hour forward. ‘The clock will again be put forward by one hour from March 31, and it will remain so until October 31, 2010. The decision was made in light of factors such ... Read more
RAK Ceramics launches book-building method
The RAK Ceramics (Bangladesh) Ltd has successfully completed the price discovery of its shares through bidding by Eligible Institutional Investors (EII) under the book- building method, the first of its kind in Bangladesh. IDLC Finance Ltd is the lead issue manager while BRAC EPL Investments Ltd is the joint
Connectivity on target
The government has set up 100 information and services centres at union parishads (UPs) in an effort to bring the country’s lowest tier of administration under an online networking system and link up to the information super highway by 2012. The number of such centres is likely to hit 1,000 by June and 2,000 by ... Read more
BTCL adds 1.12 lakh subscribers in one year: Razu
Post and Telecommunications Minister Raziuddin Ahmed Razu told the House yesterday that after the present government coming to power, the state-run Bangladesh Telecommunication Company Ltd (BTCL) was able to add 1.12 lakh more subscribers in the last one year till January 2010. Responding to a question raised by treasury bench member Mollah Jalal Uddin, the
International Women’s Day
South Asian women’s theatre festival Leela, the first South Asian women’ s theatre festival, begins in Delhi on March 8, International Women’s Day, says a press release. The festival brings together theatre groups from Aghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Maldives, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and India. The festival organisers are the Indian Council for Cultural Relations ... Read more
Call to recognise women’s contribution
International Women’s Day on March 8 Call to recognise women’s contribution Different organisations chalked out a number of programmes yesterday to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the International Women’s Day on March 8 this year. Karmojibi Nari (KN) organised a rally with the slogan ‘Recognition and equal rights of women in a world free from ... Read more