World Mental Health Day Today Frame law to ease sufferings of 1.4cr mentally ill people Rights activists urge govt World Mental Health Day will be observed today in the country as elsewhere in the world with rights activists urging the government to enact a law immediately to ease the sufferings of the country’s over 1.4 ... Read more
Month: October 2010
Minister says Dhaka uninhabitable
Poor Waste Management Minister says Dhaka uninhabitable Education Minister Nurul Islam Nahid yesterday said Dhaka is now not a liveable city, as it has no effective waste management system. The minister said this while he was speaking at the launching of a book titled “Solid and hazardous waste management” at Bangladesh University of Engineering and ... Read more
Housing financing increases but not for lower-income people: World Bank
Availability of housing finance in Bangladesh is increasing but only for the high-income groups, World Bank said, suggesting policy reforms for ensuring access of the lower-income people to housing finance. Less than 10 per cent of the potential borrowers have access to housing finance, said World Bank in its report titled ‘Expanding Housing Finance to ... Read more
United Airways shores up fleet
United Airways (BD) Ltd has strengthened its fleet by adding two aircraft last week to cement its foothold on domestic and international aviation market. The size of the airline’s fleet has now been raised to six from four. “The measures we’ve taken are aimed at expanding our network as well as ensuring
City Bank launches Amex corporate cards
Facilities offered for businessmen, private firm staff The City Bank introduced American Express Corporate Cards in Bangladesh yesterday, targeting a growing number of business travellers. The Amex Corporate Card and Gold Corporate Card, the latest in American Express credit cards, which were launched in the country earlier, offer a range of payment and transaction
Our mothering colleagues
Mamun Rashid In the 1970s to 80s, teaching and nursing were the only largely female professions. Things have changed. Women are now also commonly lawyers, physicians, bankers, investment analysts, journalists, economists, doctors, psychologists, consultants, college/university professors, pilots, defence officials, IT professionals and scientists. Women have dramatically increased their numbers in professional and technical occupations for ... Read more
Job loss harder on men than cheating spouse
Men are more likely to cry over losing their job than if they discover their partner is cheating on them, according to a recent ING Direct Survey. The survey found that 46 percent of men said they would be more upset about losing their job than having an unfaithful spouse. The opposite sex had opposite ... Read more
Regional round of Lux-Channel i Super Star
Eleven out of 350 contestants got ‘Yes’ cards in the Khulna regional round of audition test of Lux-Channel i Super Star held at the Khulna Club recently. The winners are Farzana Akhter Tandra, Raktima Mallick, Mushfika Iffat Toma, Eva Chowdhury, Moushumi Hamid and Tumpa of Khulna, Tania Sultana, Saima Hasan Binoti and Sanjida Afroza Tanni ... Read more
An island to be staffed exclusively by blondes
An island in the Maldives will be staffed exclusively by blondes if a scheme by Lithuanian firm Olialia gets the green light. An island in the Maldives will be staffed exclusively by blondes if a scheme by Lithuanian firm Olialia gets the green light. Olialia (pronounced Ooh La La) is hoping that by opening a ... Read more
Single Women set them into one of 12 categories
There’s a brand-new book out called (deep breath) Seeking Happily Ever After: Navigating the Ups and Downs of Being Single Without Losing Your Mind (and Finding Lasting Love Along the Way). To write it, author Michelle Cove interviewed more than 100 women and talked to them about how relationships based on what they think they ... Read more
Second ODI rained off
Persistent rain caused by the depression over Bay of Bengal washed out the second one-day international match between Bangladesh and New Zealand at the Sher-e-Bangla National Stadium on Friday. Match referee Javagal Sreenath and two umpires Enamul Haque and SK Tarapore finally called off the game at 11:00am after a brief inspection of the pitch ... Read more
Sakib remains captain
All-rounder Sakib al Hasan will lead Bangladesh in the remaining three one-day internationals against the touring New Zealand, the Bangladesh Cricket Board confirmed on Friday. The decision to appoint Sakib as captain for the series was taken in a special meeting of the BCB’s technical evaluation committee after confusion arose following a comment of the
Federation Cup delayed
The Grameen-phone Federation Cup football tournament will start from Sunday after Friday’s inaugural match was called off due to inclement weather and incessant rain. Chittagong Abahani were scheduled to face Bangladesh Police in the first match of the curtain raiser tournament to the football season
Int’l Club Cup kabaddi
Three more teams reached the semifinals of the Meizan International Club Cup Kabaddi eliminating their rivals at the Kabaddi Stadium yesterday. The three teams are Bangladesh Prisons, Assam and West Bengal. The semifinals will be held today before the final at 4 pm the same day t the same
Rain cripples life in cities
Continuous rainfall under the influence of depression in the Bay has been disrupting life in the metropolitan cities of the country for the past tow days. Our Chittagong correspondent adds: Many parts of the city have gone under ankle to knee-deep water because of the rainfall in the last two
51 educationists nominated for pvt varsities’ syndicates
The government, for the first time, has included its representatives in the management of the private universities of the country to ensure monitoring over the universities. The University Grants Commission (UGC) finalised a list of 51 educationalists to function as syndicate members of 51 private universities, said UGC sources. It has been sent to the
Minority communities complain of disparity
Dozens of minority-community members in Dhaka on Friday said they have been facing discrimination and exploitation in workplaces and in society because of their place of birth and professional identities. People from the community at a human chain also urged the government to take initiatives to eliminate disparity between the community members and other people ... Read more
Admission form submission begins at RUET
The registration for admission to Rajshahi University Engineering and Technology BSc honours courses under the academic session 2010-11 started on Friday and will continue till October 25 through mobile phone short message service. The admission test will be held on November 8 at 9:30am to 1:30pm, a RUET press
Santinekatan may be listed as world heritage
A Unesco delegation has wrapped up a two-day visit to Santinekatan in West Bengal state to assess whether Rabindranath Tagore’s abode of peace, which also hosts Visva Bharati University, could be listed as a world heritage site, officials said yesterday. Led by Kai Wisa, head of the International Council for Monuments and Sites (ICMOS),
Criminals now attack son, daughter-in-law
Gulshan Couple Murder Criminals now attack son, daughter-in-law Six months into the killing of their parents, Shihab and his wife Momtaj Begum came under attack by the killers’ cohorts in the city’s Badda yesterday. The couple, Sadequr Rahman and Romana Nargis, was killed on March 24 at their Gulshan residence after they refused to marry ... Read more