MA Muhit, a Bangladeshi and a member of Bangladesh Mountaineering and Trekking Club (BMTC), is set to start an expedition to the Mount Everest next month. If he can make it, Muhit will be the first Bangladeshi to conquer the Everest, the 8850-metre (29,035ft) giant lying across the Nepal-Tibet
Month: March 2010
Qatar pledges $100m to save Buriganga
Qatar has pledged $100 million assistance to rejuvenate the River Buriganga by diverting water from the River Jamuna. The chief of planning of the Bangladesh Water Development Board, Abdul Wadud Bhuiyan, told BSS that a eight-member delegation from Qatar led by the international relations minister, Mohammad Al Atiyah, made the
BAU Germ Plasm Centre develops 48 fruit varieties
The Germ Plasm Centre of Bangladesh Agricultural University (BAU) has been playing a significant role in the country’s fruit sector by developing new varieties of delicious fruits. The centre has so far developed 48 varieties of fruits including local and foreign varieties while many small and marginal farmers have brought their fortunes by cultivating those ... Read more
Independence award 2010 announced
The government has nominated 10 distinguished persons and an organisation for Swadhinata Puroshkar (Independence Award) 2010 in recognition of their glorious contributions to the nation. The nominated persons and organisation are AKM Samsul Haque Khan (posthumously), Syeda Sajeda Chowdhury and Belal Mohammad in the
Abahani-MSC grudge tie today
Dhaka Mohamme-dan SC will be looking for their first win against Dhaka Abahani in the Bangladesh League when the arch-foes face off at the Bangabandhu National Stadium at 5:00 pm today. Satellite channel Ntv will telecast the match live from the venue. Mohammedan badly need to win the game to stay in the title race ... Read more
Toyota Prius to hit Dhaka roads
Toyota Prius is set to join Bangladesh traffic in May. A Toyota Prius-2010 is already on display at a motor show at Bangabandhu International Conference Centre in Dhaka. The hybrid will sell at around Tk 47 lakh, said officials of Navana Ltd, the distributor of Toyota cars in Bangladesh,
BTCL reduces charges for internet services
Bangladesh Telecommunication Company Limited (BTCL) has decided to reduce further broadband internet service charges with effect from April 1. BTCL Managing Director SM Khabiruzzaman disclosed the decision to reporters at BTCL conference room in the city on Thursday. He said, as per the changed rates, the registration charge for any type of ADCL package would
Sex.com auction postponed due to bankruptcy claim
The sex.com domain name auction scheduled for Thursday 18 March has been postponed due to an Involuntary Chapter 11 petition, or involuntary bankruptcy, against the current holder of the domain. The petition, published on the Domain Name Wire website, notes three claimants for a total
Kate Winslet splits from husband
Kate Winslet and Sam Mendes have split. The 34-year-old actress split from the American Beauty director earlier this year after six years of marriage. A statement from law firm Schillings said: “Kate and Sam are saddened to announce that they separated earlier this year. The split is entirely amicable and is by mutual agreement. “Both ... Read more
TV presenter Sian Williams ‘willing to read news naked’
TV presenter Sian Williams’s accountant told a tax tribunal she would be willing to present her BBC show naked, but BBC bosses would not let her. However the man who brought the case has now admitted the BBC Breakfast host had made no such suggestion. The tribunal was to establish whether costs for hairstyling, clothing ... Read more
I have grown up in awe of Sushmita Sen: Amrita Rao
She has completely revamped her looks and broken out of her shy and coy image, but for actress Amrita Rao, her “Main Hoon Na” co-star Sushmita Sen is the ultimate style icon and someone she has grown up in awe of. “According to me the most stylish person in Bollywood is none other than Sushmita ... Read more
Aishwarya Rai, the 50 kg Taj Mahal!
Bollywood actress Aishwarya Rai made a rare appearance at an audio launch here and took many by surprise when she broke into fluent Tamil. It wasn’t just any audio launch but that of Tamil film “Rettaichuzhi” produced by Shankar, who is directing her opposite superstar Rajnikanth in “Endhiran: The Robot”. Draped in a white sari, ... Read more
Yunus for standard interest rate on micro-credit
3-day int’l microfinance conf concludes Grameen Bank founder and Nobel laureate Muhammad Younus on Wednesday urged the government to fix a standard rate of interest for all microfinance organisations, rebutting criticism that micro-credit borrowers were charged ‘higher interests’. ‘Let us know what the interest rate is. Because people often say that it is high but ... Read more
Deal for elevated expressway by June: FM
The finance minister, AMA Muhith, on Wednesday said that the contract for the much talked about Elevated Expressway might be given by this fiscal year (2009-10). ‘One big project is ready under the Public-Private Partnership and there are also some 2-4 projects. The contract for elevated expressway may be
Rokibul desires to return
Rokibul Hasan took another step yesterday in his bid to return to competitive cricket. The retired cricketer has submitted a letter in this regard to the Bangladesh team’s operations manager Shafiqul Haque, informed a Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) director. “Yes he has submitted a letter,” confirmed Enayet Hussain Siraj, the BCB’s cricket operations
Dotcom Celebrates its Silver Anniversary
The internet celebrates a landmark event on the 15th March 2010, as it’s the 25th anniversary of the day the first dotcom domain was registered. Back in March 1985, Symbolics computers of Cambridge, Massachusetts entered the history books as the first internet address ending with dotcom. In that same year only a further five companies ... Read more
Human chain formed for cold storages
Leaders of Bangladesh Krishak Samity formed a human chain and staged demonstrations demanding construction of sufficient cold storage facilities and potato and tomato purchase at state initiative immediately. The Samity organised the demonstration in the city’s Muktangan with its president Morshed Ali in the chair. The programme was addressed, among others, by general secretary of ... Read more
1st position of Bakar pains his friends in DU
Everything was okay on Tuesday morning at the gate of Registrar Building of Dhaka University. Result of 4th semester examination of the Department of Islamic History was published. All students were gazing on the board to find their much awaited results. But gazing sight on the result sheet, everybody was geting quiet No celebration, no
Two found dead in city bus counter
Two men were found dead, one with the throat slit and another strangled, in the waiting room of a bus company at Arambagh in Dhaka early Tuesday. On of the deceased was Ilias Hossain alias Kanchan, 25, an employee of the bus operator Saudia S Alam, located in the Eden Complex at Arambagh. The other ... Read more
80pc billboards unauthorised
Offenders cash in on HC order that stays dismantling of rooftop hoardings Four out of every five hoardings in the capital are unauthorised, posing threat to public safety in inclement weather, says the Dhaka City Corporation, reports The Daily Star. DCC Estate Officer Khalil Ahmed told The Daily Star Tuesday that almost 80 percent of ... Read more