Blistering summer makes Dhaka life unbearable The mercury is threatening to hit a new height this summer making life in the capital utterly miserable amid the prevailing power, gas and water crisis. Except for the north-eastern region, people all over the country have been experiencing moderate heat wave since the beginning of this week. The ... Read more
Month: May 2010
Licences of five telephone firms cancelled
Administrator may be appointed The Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission (BTRC) yesterday cancelled the licences of five private telecommunications firms for violation of telecommunications rules. The companies are: Dhaka Phone, World Tel, Peoples Tel, RanksTel and National Phones Limited. Five different circulars of cancelling the licences of the five private telecommunications
Agents push up costs of migration
IOM releases first remittance household survey Intermediaries eat up 60 percent of the migration costs in Bangladesh, pushing up the total expenses to the highest in South Asia, according to a national survey released yesterday. The intermediaries, followed by relatives, emerged as the major agents helping migrants with
Paradise Cables gets BASEC certificate
The Paradise Cables Limited, a sister concern of Paradise Group, has recently received certificate of the British Approvals Service for Cables for its environment friendly and high quality products. The group’s chairman, Mosherraf Hossain, told a press conference at the Dhaka Club that the prestigious BASEC certificate brought pride for
StanChart launches financial kiosk at Banasree
Standard Chartered Bank has launched its financial kiosk at Banasree of Rampura in the city on Monday. It is equipped with an ATM, a Billspay machine, a contact centre hotline and an Internet banking kiosk and there are service staff to support customer queries and requests, said a
Chairman should have highest status in upazila parishad
Says Prof Muzaffer Chairman of the Upazila Parishad should be given the highest status in the upazila parishad and no one should have the similar status, Prof Muzaffer Ahmad said yesterday. “According to the amendments brought to the Upazila Parishad Act, the upazila chairman and the Upazila Nirbahi Officer (UNO) will enjoy the same status ... Read more
15,000 mothers die at child birth a year
Around 15,000 mothers die every year in Bangladesh during delivery because of their poor health condition. Speakers in a daylong advocacy workshop styled ‘mother, infant and child health’ organised by BRAC at the Chillies Chinese Restaurant in Dhaka on Wednesday, revealed this data. The chief health officer of Rajshahi City Corporation, Abul Fazal, joined the ... Read more
Gender fair calls for awareness among youths
A two-day gender fair, organised by Democracywatch to raise awareness of gender issue among the young generation, began in the Dhaka city on Wednesday. Twelve rights organisations including NGO Forum, Transparency International Bangladesh, International Organisation for Migration, ICDDR,B, Nari Maitri, Karmajibi Nari,
Harijans face hard time as others take away jobs
The professional sweepers, widely known as Harijans, are facing hard times as city corporations and different government offices are replacing them with mainstream population depriving them of the only occupation they have done for more than one hundred years. Highlighting the social discrimination against them at a press conference yesterday, Bangladesh
Sultry weather causing sufferings to Ctg city people
May 12: The sultry weather coupled with extreme power outage, water and gas crisis is causing untold sufferings to the people in the port city. The suffering of the people has intensified mainly due to the frequent power outage. Power Development Board (PDB) sources said that they could only supply half against the existing
Orientation of EWU held
The orientation programme of the newly admitted students for Summer 2010 in MBA, EMBA, MBM and MDS programmes of East West University was held at the university auditorium on Tuesday at 5pm. Jalaluddin Ahmed, president, board of directors, East West University graced the occasion as the chief guest while Prof Dr Mohammed Sharif, vice chancellor ... Read more
DU arts faculty holds freshers’ reception
Reception ceremony of the freshers of arts faculty of Dhaka University (DU) was held yesterday at the Teacher Student Centre (TSC) auditorium of the university. A large number of students from 17 departments under the faculty took part in the ceremony. Addressing the ceremony as chief guest DU Vice Chancellor Prof Dr AAMS Arefin Siddique ... Read more
Easy wins for Abahani, Bishkek
Abahani Limited and Dordoi Bishkek of Kyrgyzstan started their AFC President’s Cup Group A campaigns with facile victories respectively over New Road Team of Nepal and Hasus NTCPE at the Bangabandhu National Stadium on Wednesday. Abahani defeated the Nepalese outfit 2-0 with Enamul scoring a brace while two-time champions
Hong Kong dent hosts’ hopes
Bangladesh’s hopes of qualifying for the Asian Games hockey finals took a severe dent when they stumbled to a 2-2 draw against Hong Kong in the qualifiers at the Maulana Bhasani Hockey Stadium on Wednesday. Bangladesh had defeated Hong Kong 2-0 in the previous edition of the Asian Games Qualifiers in
StanChart Qatar donates funds to ‘Seeing is Believing’ projects in Bangladesh
Standard Chartered Bank, Qatar has committed USD 68,000/- to Standard Chartered Bank in Bangladesh for its local ‘Seeing is Believing’ projects in Dhaka. David Godwin, CEO, Standard Chartered Bank, Qatar recently visited Bangladesh to officially handed over the cheque to Jim McCabe, CEO, Standard Chartered Bank, Bangladesh and meet
Bates 141 starts functioning in Bangladesh
Bates 141 – the world’s largest Asia-devoted marketing communications network, formally entered the Bangladesh advertising arena with the launch of ‘Bates 141 Bangladesh’ on May 6, 2010 at Khazana, Dhaka. Bates 141 Bangladesh is a 100% WPP Company and plans to offer an array of ATL and BTL services, including Activation, CRM, digital and mobile ... Read more
CCC polls June 17
Army to be deployed June 14-18: CEC The Election Commission on Tuesday announced the election schedule for Chittagong City Corporation polls, fixing the polling day on June 17. ‘Election to the CCC will be held on June 17 amid the presence of army,’ said the chief election commissioner, ATM Shamsul Huda, while announcing the election ... Read more
More medical colleges to be turned into universities
The government is planning to turn more medical colleges into universities in the country aiming to improve the quality of medical education and create high quality doctors. “Initially, the oldest medical college Dhaka Medical College (DMC) and Chittagong Medical College will be turned into universities,” health and population affairs secretary of the ruling
S Korea to hire more workers
Offers to invest heavily ahead of Hasina’s trip South Korea will increase its quota for Bangladeshi workers from this year and make an investment that will generate jobs for 3.5 lakh people in the country. Newly appointed Korean Ambassador in Dhaka Taiyoung Chao said this yesterday at a press conference called ahead of Prime Minister ... Read more
Licence of 2 Operators BTRC gets 7 days to decide
The High Court yesterday directed the Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission (BTRC) to decide within seven days whether it will cancel the licences of RanksTel and National Telecom Ltd. The BTRC had shut down operations of these landline operators in March this year on charges of running illegal Voice Over Internet Protocol (VoIP)