Elevated Expressway 9 foreign firms show interest Nine foreign investors have shown interest in the government’s plan to construct an elevated expressway in the capital, Communications Minister Syed Abul Hossain said yesterday. Replying to queries in parliament, he also said the government will build railways to connect Mongla and
Month: March 2010
IP phones ring
Eighteen companies launch service Bangladesh’s internet users are now allowed to talk through VoIP (voice over internet protocol) technology within the country, as 18 local companies yesterday launched IP (internet protocol) telephony services. The existing users, connected by local internet service providers (ISPs), will get the chance to
Stocks return to green zone
Dhaka and Chittagong stocks rebounded, breaking a losing streak on Tuesday with a 2.30-per cent gain after the Securities and Exchange Commission’s decision to increase margin loan facility. The stock market regulator on Monday raised the ratio from 1:1 to 1:1.5 effective from
HSBC donates sewing machines to disadvantaged women
HSBC Bangladesh marked International Women’s Day (IWD), celebrated March 8 every year, by donating 38 sewing machines to disadvantaged women of the society. A ceremony was held in this regard at HSBCs Banani branch. The donation which was the brainchild of a HSBC staff, was made possible through the
Bank Asia opens capital market division
Bank Asia opened its first branch of capital market division at Dhanmondi in Dhaka on Monday. President and managing director of the bank Erfanuddin Ahmed inaugurated the branch which will also assist opening of BO accounts, said a
B’desh Malaria Research Group wins UK award
CHITTAGONG, Mar 16: Malaria Research Group of Bangladesh in collaboration with Tanzania and Ghana won British Medical Journal (BMJ) Group Award- 2010 for the best scientific research publication. BMJ Group Award, an international unique recognition for service in research and
Int’l Education Fair Starts
The three-day ‘International Education Fair-2010’ organised by Prominent-Band Alliance began at the Marble Hall of the Dhaka Sheraton Hotel yesterday. State Minister for Land Advocate Mostafizur Rahman MP inaugurated the fair at 11am on the day. He said that to ensure the international standard of the higher education of the country, cooperation between public and ... Read more
4-day children’s festival begins in city today
A four-day children’s festival titled “Sajib Children’s Festival” begins at the city’s Kalabagan playground today. Artist Hashem Khan will inaugurate the festival while filmmaker Morshedul Islam will be present at the inaugural ceremony as a special guest. The festival remains open from 10:00am to 8:00pm till March 20. The festival aims to introduce the children ... Read more
Bees Can Say ‘Stop’
The finding shows that bee colonies behave more like giant, single beasts than as individual insects. THE GIST: 0 Bees can tell others in their colony to avoid troublesome places. 0 This is the first time a “negative” bee signal has been identified. 0 The bees doing the warning can target the bees who are ... Read more
Shakib climbs
Now the second best ODI bowler Bangladesh captain Shakib Al Hasan jumped one place to become the second best one-day bowler when the International Cricket Council (ICC) released the latest ODI rankings in Dubai yesterday. The left-hander with 711 rating points edged out Zimbabwean Ray Price who slipped to third
Test Dhaka’s supply water
HC asks govt also to obtain WHO report on purity The High Court yesterday directed the government to get water supplied in eight areas of the capital tested by Bangladesh Standards and Testing Institution and Bangladesh Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, and submit the test reports to it within two weeks. The areas include Azimpur, ... Read more
DCC poll schedule to be announced in April
Election commissioner M Sohul Hussain said yesterday that the election commission (EC) would announce schedule for the Dhaka City Corporation (DCC) election at mid-April and the schedule for the by-poll to Bhola-3 constituency will be announced within a day or two. “The local government ministry started the works of delimitation of DCC wards last week. ... Read more
Manpower export dips
Despite the government’s hectic diplomatic efforts, the country’s manpower export witnessed a drastic fall by 58.80 per cent in the first eight months (July-February) of the current fiscal, official sources said. Some 285,242 Bangladeshis secured overseas jobs during July-February period of the
List of 42 top criminals revealed in parliament
Govt apparently knows nothing about 21 absconding criminals The home affairs minister, Sahara Khatun, revealed in the Parliament an updated list of the country’s 42 top criminals who are believed to have fled abroad. Sahara, answering a question from Hafiz Uddin Ahmed of the Jatiya Party, said that there is a list of 42 top
Dhaka Phone executives sent to jail
Illegal VoIP business A Dhaka court yesterday sent five top officials, including chairman of a private land phone operator Dhaka Phone, to jail, hours after their arrest on a charge of running illegal Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) business. Police produced company chairman ATM Hayatuzzaman, director general (engineering) Harun-al-Atahar, director KM Shahidullah, senior
Gen Abdul Mubeen spends busy day in Delhi
NEW DELHI, Mar 15: The visiting Bangladesh Chief of Army Staff General Mohammad Abdul Mubeen began his official engagements here Monday by placing a wreath at the Aamar Jawan Jyoti (AJJ) at the India Gate, in memory of the members of the soldiers who laid down their lives during India’s
Rid Pharma MD granted bail
A Brahmanbaria court yesterday granted bail to the managing director of Rid Pharmaceuticals Ltd in a case filed for manufacturing adulterated paracetamol syrup that caused the deaths of 28 children last year. District and Sessions Judge AFM Mustafa passed the order after the counsel for the Rid Pharma
Muhith decries high interest rate on microcredit
A three-day international conference on microfinance began in the capital yesterday with a call to rationalise the high interest rate on microcredit that puts the poor people into debt and low-level technology traps. “We’ll have to think how to get out of these traps,” Finance Minister AMA Muhith told the
DSE website off-limits to BB employees
Bangladesh Bank (BB) has made the Dhaka Stock Exchange website off-limits to its employees during office hours from Thursday. The central bank instruction came after it found its officials busy surfing the DSE website, a senior BB official told The Daily Star
Singapore narrows door for foreign workers
Migration Singapore narrows door for foreign workers Construction workers from Bangladesh, hotel staff from the Philippines, waitresses from China, shipyard welders from Myanmar, technology professionals from India — Singapore has them all. For years the rich but worker-starved city-state, built by mainly Chinese immigrants, had