Fresh anthrax infection reported; govt says many are panic-driven The country remains on high anthrax alert as reports of fresh infections in different districts continue to swell amid significant fall in consumption of beef and mutton. Three more people have been infected with anthrax in Meherpur and Lalmonirhat yesterday raising the number of confirmed infections ... Read more
Month: September 2010
Lakhs of people marooned : Floods spread downstream
Water in the Brahmaputra-Jamuna and the Ganges are in falling trend while the Padma and the Meghna follows a rising trend thus further deteriorating the flood situation of the country, according to the Flood Forecasting and Warning Center (FFWC). The flood situation in low-lying areas of Kurigram, Gaibandha, Bogra, Sherpur, Jamalpur,
Mother, daughter crushed under bus wheels
The thirst for speed claimed the lives of a mother and her daughter on a Dhaka street yesterday. Taking the opportunity of relatively light traffic after the Eid holidays, a speeding bus crushed Jahura Begum, 35 and Asma Akhter, 10, a class-III student of Angel Academy in Jagannathpur, against the central reservation of Progati Sarani ... Read more
Pont arrives with a mission
The newly-appointed bowling coach of the Bangladesh cricket team, Ian Pont, arrived on Thursday and took no time to meet his pupils practising at the Sher-e-Bangla National Stadium. Pont, the former bowling consultant of county side Northamptonshire, reached Dhaka in the morning and just dropped his luggage at the hotel before rushing to stadium to ... Read more
AFC U-19 Women’s Football Qualifiers from September 20
Bangladesh Football Federation will arrange the AFC Under-19 Football Championship (Qualification Round) in Dhaka from September 20. The five-day long football meet for women will be staged in Bir Sreshtha Shaheed Sepoy Mohammad Mostafa Kamal stadium in Kamalapur. Host Bangladesh, Iran, India and Jordan will participate in the
More officials than athletes!
C’wealth Games More officials than athletes! Ratna to carry flag Sharmin Akhter Ratna, gold medalist in the South Asian Games and Commonwealth Shooting Championship, will carry the national flag during the march past in the Commonwealth Games to be held in New Delhi over October 3-14. The decision was taken yesterday during a meeting between ... Read more
Shakib’s quiet end to county stint
Shakib Al Hasan might have only made 14 in his final county innings of the season but his team Worcestershire set themselves on course for promotion into Division One of the County Championship, beating Sussex by four wickets yesterday. Worcestershire’s promotion would depend on the result of the match between Derbyshire and
National Women’s Kabaddi begins today
The Meizan National Women’s Kabaddi Competition begins today at the Dhanmondi Sultana Kamal Women’s Sports Complex. Bangladesh Kabaddi Federation will arrange the three-day long kabaddi meet under auspices of Bangladesh Edible Oil Limited. Marking the ensuing kabaddi meet, a press conference was held at the Kabaddi Stadium on
Bangladesh slips one place in global competitiveness
Poor infrastructure blamed Bangladesh was demoted one place from the last year’s ranking among 139 countries in the global Competitiveness Report 2009-10 of the World Economic Forum, thanks to the country’s poor infrastructure. Besides, the Geneva based organisation was told by the local businessmen that the level of corruption increased and the government was not ... Read more
Green banking comes to focus
Banks should focus on environment-friendly initiatives by providing innovative financial products to help offset the impacts of climate change and ensure sustainable development, senior economists and bankers said yesterday. They were speaking at a seminar on “Green Banking Initiatives: Opportunities for Bangladesh”
TNT awarded global ‘supersector leader’
TNT NV was again awarded ‘supersector leader’ for industrial goods and services (including industrial transportation) of the 2010 Dow Jones sustainability indexes recently. This was the conclusion of a report published in Zurich by SAM, a sustainability investment specialist, which assessed the sustainability performance of over 1,300 listed companies, said a
Call to create awareness on ozone depletion
International Ozone Day Observed Call to create awareness on ozone depletion International Ozone Day was observed in the country yesterday with colourful programmes emphasising on creating awareness about depletion of the ozone layer and its adverse effects on this planet’s environment. This year’s theme of the day was ‘Ozone layer protection: governance and compliance at ... Read more
‘Bid on to start work early next year’
Padma Bridge ‘Bid on to start work early next year’ Communications Minister Syed Abul Hossain yesterday said the government is making all out efforts to start the construction of Padma Bridge at the beginning of next year. Once this construction starts, initiatives would be taken to build another bridge at the
Eid frenzy on TV
But is the audience satisfied? When BTV was the sole Bangladeshi channel on air, Eid programmes extended to three days. With the introduction of more private stations, Eid programmes have become more elaborate, stretching to six-seven days. This Eid over a 100 TV plays, almost 20 tele-films and four mini-series were aired on the numerous ... Read more
Gono Bishwabidyalay offers new courses for underprivileged
Gono Bishwabidyalay, in order to bridge the gap between education in village and town, is going to introduce four new subjects for its four-year bachelor degree courses from the coming session, said a press release on Tuesday. The new subjects are Bengali language, literature and culture, English, applied mathematics
Housing fair begins in Cox’s Bazar
A three-day Prantik-Cox’s Bazar real estate fair organised by Prantik Communication began at the Hotel Sea Palace in Cox’s Bazar on Wednesday. Md Gias Uddin Ahmed, deputy commissioner of Cox’s Bazar, inaugurated the fair as chief guest. Mohammad Mahadi Hasan, chief executive of Prantik Cmmunication, and MA Elahi Simol, secretary of
SRK is Bollywood’s top tax payer
Among actresses, Katrina pays the most Shahrukh Khan has emerged as the top tax payer from Bollywood after paying the tax of Rs. 5 crore for the second quarter of the financial year 2011. Last year, SRK had paid Rs. 3.5 crore for the same quarter. Akshay Kumar, who was the number one tax payer ... Read more
Dabangg Movie Review
More than anything Dabangg promised to be a fultoo out-and-out masala-filled paisa vasool film. From the promos itself, Dabangg looked and reminded viewers of old school nineties films which basically needed a number of insane stunt-filled action sequences to sort out a conflict in the film, some great tunes, emotions, sassy dialogues packed with foul ... Read more
Robots to get sensitive artificial skin
A new type of artificial skin with a sense of touch that rivals the human variety could lead to next-generation robotic and prosthetic devices. When covered with the electronic skin, or “e-skin” as the researchers call it, robots would be able to touch and move objects with the appropriate force. For example, the e-skin would ... Read more
Ban on children’s use in politics, risky jobs proposed
Anyone under 18 years considered children in child policy draft The government has drafted the National Child Policy-2010 with provisions for prohibiting use of children in political activities and their employment in hazardous jobs. The draft proposes that anyone under 18 years of age would be treated as a child, updating the child policy of ... Read more