Pre-Eid-ul-Fitr sales of clothes, footwear, electronic gadgets, jewellery and cosmetics in the capital all appear to be above last year’s tally, as the year’s biggest spending season is close to its end. Businesspeople at malls, shopping centres and unauthorised footpath shops are reporting better sales than last year in both men’s and women’s
Month: September 2010
Online income tax returns filing launched
The National Board of Revenue on Sunday introduced online income tax returns in its Zone-8 on an experimental basis to maximise utilisation of the digital devices. Finance minister Abul Maal Abdul Muhith inaugurated the system at his secretariat office by submitting his own income tax returns for
Dhaka metro rail to be mostly elevated
First phase to link Sonargaon crossing with Pallabi; project likely to end by 2015 The first part of a mostly elevated metro rail system in the capital will be built mainly over government land and existing roads, based on a Japanese study, said Communications Minister Syed Abul Hossain. Japan showed interest in financing 80 percent ... Read more
Tk 750cr move planned to free Mirpur Road of signals
The communication ministry has planned to turn Azimpur-Gabtoli route into a signal-free road at a cost of Tk 750 crore for easing traffic congestions in the city’s western fringe, ministry officials said. It has already drawn the layout of a project with the help of Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology to upgrade about two ... Read more
Number of infected people reaches 298 : Anthrax spreads menacingly
Despite the distribution of vaccine, the Anthrax is continuously spreading in different districts of the country, infecting more people with the disease. As per the latest reports, the Anthrax has been spreading every day in many districts including Kushtia and Meherpur following Pabna, Sirajganj and Tangail
Most schools miss basics
Survey on 512 schools reveals the institutions lack environment for education A countrywide sample survey targeting 512 schools found shabby buildings, noisy environment and surroundings posing threat to mental health of students to be common features of most of the institutions. The survey, all done by children, also reveals teachers at majority of schools inflict ... Read more
Extortions reign markets
The law and order situation has deteriorated seriously across the country for collecting extortion money ahead of Eid-ul-Fiter. Source said some quarters of the police, different gangs of criminals, hawker leaders and local ruling party activists, were regularly taking tolls from footpath
Bangladeshi workers protest torture in Libya
Nearly 200 Bangladeshi workers, who had gone to work in Libya, have taken to streets to protest alleged torture by the recruiter. More than one worker alleged that 196 Bangladeshi workers and 30 Indian workers had been living under open sky with empty pockets without food for four days in front of a police station ... Read more
Passengers suffer for hrs in Padma
2 stranded ferries salvaged after prolonged efforts Two ferries, stranded in the shoals of the Padma, were salvaged yesterday after prolonged rescue efforts on Mawa-Kawrakandi route. RO-RO ferry Shah Mokhdum, with 10 buses, eight private cars, two trucks and around 600 passengers on board, sailed from Mawa around 6:30am yesterday and got stuck in a ... Read more
Housewife killed for dowry in city
A housewife was strangled allegedly by her husband over dowry at Rasulpur of Kamrangirchar in Dhaka early Saturday. The deceased was Brishti alias Laila, wife of Delwar Hossain. She was found dead in her room of a ground-floor flat in a three-storey building about 11:00
Consumers’ rising purchasing power boosts festival sales
The growing purchasing power of Bangladeshi consumers gave a tremendous boost to its retail trade in recent years, said economists, retailers as well as top lifestyle brand business houses. An obvious upshot is a huge festival economy, they said. Eid time sales, they said, were an eloquent testimony to the rising strength of the national
Rice mill goes mobile
Babul Mia, 34, a resident of Nageswari in Kurigram, was unemployed two years ago. But an innovative idea of Babul to manufacture a mobile rice mill has now changed his life. He collected some money by selling a major part of his 20 decimals of land and bought a shallow pump with Tk 26,500 as ... Read more
Razzak’s slide after changed action
The general perception on Abdur Razzak recently among the cricket fraternity has been that the left-arm spinner has lost his bite after his bowling action went through a change, but the bowler sees it quite differently. He believes that it is the introduction of Twenty20 cricket which has made the bowler’s job difficult these
New football coach arrives on Wednesday
Robert Rubcic, the new Croatian coach of Bangladesh national football team, will arrive on Wednesday to join his job. Rubcic will be the third foreign coach for the national side in two years since the present committee of the Bangladesh Football Federation took the helm in April, 2008. Rubecic is the 14th foreign national coach ... Read more
Twitter tops 145 million registered users
Nearly 300,000 apps, current top ten chart revealed Twitter CEO Evan Williams has revealed that Twitter now has over 145 million users and nearly 300,000 apps. Williams posted on the Twitter blog this week about the state of Twitter on mobile phones, outlining the top ten apps. Interestingly, Twitter for Android does not even make ... Read more
Rajshahi market swarm with Eid shoppers
Eid-shopping in Rajshahi markets has picked up with people rushing to the shops, shopping centres, markets, business centres and makeshift shops on roads. A huge number of people of different ages from every walk of life are coming to the market to buy dresses, clothes and others products for celebrating Eid, sellers
Newspaper holiday on Sept 9-11
Newspaper Owners Association of Bangladesh (NOAB) members will observe holiday on September 9, 10 and 11 on account of Eid-ul-Fitr. Therefore, no newspaper will be published on September 10, 11 and 12, said a press release here yesterday. If Eid is celebrated on September 11, holiday will be observed on September 12 as well, in
Mobile court fines five business houses Tk 5.75 lakh
An anti-adulteration mobile court on Saturday fined five business houses and seized a huge quantity of papaya and destroyed 1,500 kilograms of dates at Shyambazar and Waizghat in the Dhaka city. The mobile court, led by executive magistrate Muhammad Al Amin, also awarded two months’ imprisonment to a fruit wholesaler Russell Enterprise’s manager Jahirul Islam. ... Read more
Bangladesh Army to replace contingents in Sudan
Bangladesh Army is going to replace its contingents at United Nations Mission in Sudan. A total of 315 members of two contingents BANEN-GINEER-10 (Demining) and BANEN-GINEER-11 (Construction) will be deployed in Sudan by two flights, said an ISPR release. In the first flight, a total of 165 army personnel including officers led by Lt Colonel ... Read more
Tailbacks take toll on commuters
Trip time almost doubles on heavily congested Dhaka-Ctg highway It took less than six hours to Chittagong from Dhaka by bus a few years ago but in recent times it is around 10 hours and sometimes more due to worsening congestion. Azadul Haque left for Dhaka from Chittagong around 10:30pm on a bus but the ... Read more