Speakers urge govt Speakers at a seminar yesterday demanded of the government to form a food and drug administration department to implement the laws to ensure food and drug safety as well as to check adulterated and toxic food. They placed the demand while addressing a seminar titled “Vision statement and necessity
Month: October 2010
Woman murdered in city
A woman was strangled in her own flat at the city’s Mirpur Shah Ali yesterday afternoon. Aleya Begum, 35, wife of late Akkas Ali, a forest official lived in a flat on the top floor of a six-storey building at Mirpur Section-1. A woman living on the third floor said she saw three people were ... Read more
EWU clinches first prize in inter-univ debate championship
The East West University team has won the first prize in the inter-university debating competition’s Bangla event while the London College of Legal Studies ‘S’ group has won the first prize in the English event. The final round of the debating championship was held at East West University in the city on September 30, said ... Read more
German radio to launch Bangla programme
Deutsche Welle (DW), Germany’s international broadcaster, will officially launch Bangla programme in DW-Radio from next Wednesday in Bangladesh, says a press release. The programme will be broadcasted via Bangladesh Betar’s FM network in Dhaka, Chittagong, Sylhet, Khulna, Rajshahi and Rangpur daily from 8:00am to 8:30am and from 8:00pm to
Second warm-up called off, too
The second warm-up match between New Zealand and the Bangladesh Cricket Board XI, scheduled to be held at the BKSP on Saturday, was called off as persistent rain over the last few days has made the ground condition unplayable. The decision meant New Zealand will go into the five-match one-day series without any
Hockey players to reunite on Monday
Bangladesh national hockey players, who are currently playing for different German clubs, will reunite on Monday to start the final part of their preparations for the Asian Games, said Anvir Adil Khan, the co-coordinator of the national team. A total of 19 players from the 30-member preliminary squad went to Germany on August
Ticket goes digital
Micromax ODI Cup, Bangladesh vs Newzealand, 2010 Ticket goes digital The ticketing system goes digital for the five-match one-day series between Bangladesh and New Zealand to be held at the Sher-e-Bangla National Stadium in Mirpur from October 5. “Ticket will be available in different outlets of Grameenphone and for the first time we have introduced ... Read more
Golfers leave for Japan today
A four-member Bangla-desh golf team will leave Dhaka today to participate in the upcoming Asian Amateur Golf Championship 2010, which will be held in the west course of Kasumigaseki Country Club in Tokyo. Kasumigaseki Country Club was the venue for the Japan Open in 1933, 1956, 1995 and 2006 and the Japan Women’s Open in ... Read more
TT Leagues
Molar Table Tennis Club, Bangladesh Boys, Promising Juniors and Dhaka Wanderers Club won their respective Group A matches in the First Division Table Tennis League at the Wooden Floor Gymnasium yesterday. In Group B, TT Academy, Cynthia Sporting Club and Monsur Sporting also
Danone Nations Cup
The Danone Nations Cup in Pretoria, South Africa has been a mixed fortune so far for the boys from Khulna and Tangail. Both the teams won their opening matches, Khulna beating Colombia 2-0 and Tangail defeating Australia 3-0. But both trams lost their next three matches. Earlier on Thursday, the boys had
Govt to evict hawkers from footpaths next month
The government is planning to evict hawkers from footpaths in the busy and crowded areas of the capital to ease traffic congestion. ‘The drive to free the footpaths of makeshift shops and other types of illegal occupation would begin from November in the capital. The Dhaka Metropolitan Police has been instructed to make
Chairmen give govt till Nov 30 to make upazila parishads functional
Upazila chairmen and vice-chairmen on Saturday gave the government until November 30 to make the upazila parishads functional, or they threatened to take to the streets. Leaders of the Bangladesh Upazila Parishad Association, Bangladesh Chairman-Vice-Chairman Oikya Parishad, Bangladesh Vice-Chairman Samanway Parishad and
Stalked, burnt, she dies finally
After fighting for life for five days, a teenage girl yesterday died of burn injuries inflicted on her by three youths for refusing to accept love proposal of one of the youths. Aneza Akhter, 17, succumbed to her injuries at the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) of Dhaka Medical College Hospital’s burn unit around 3:00pm. Seventy ... Read more
CNG filling stations to go on strike from Nov 1
The CNG filling station owners’ association on Saturday announced to shut all filling stations and conversion workshops across the country for an indefinite period from November 1 if the government did not change its decision to keep the stations closed for six hours a day. ‘We cannot afford to continue with the six-hour suspension of ... Read more
People’s sufferings mount at Mawa
At least 600 vehicles stranded at terminal as half of ferries go out of order Thousands of passengers remained stranded at Mawa and Kawrakandi ferry terminals for the last few days as six out of twelve ferries went out of order. At least 600 vehicles of different kinds were stuck at the terminals yesterday, said ... Read more
3 Ctg girls acid-burnt
Police yet to find reason Three young girls of the same family suffered burns in their sleep, as miscreants poured acid on them at city’s Joynagar early yesterday. The victims Muntahar Tarin, 20, her sister Salsarin Tasnim, 16, and their cousin Sharmin Farzana, 18, sustained burn injuries to their faces and other parts of their
1 every 3 days in last 9 months
Extra-judicial Killing 1 every 3 days in last 9 months Says Odhikar Law enforces killed one person extra-judicially on an average in every three days during the last nine months, revealed Odhikar, a human rights organisation. A report of the body published on Friday said at least 90 people allegedly faced extra-judicial deaths across the ... Read more
Organic matter deficiency erodes farmland fertility
Farmers these days need to use more fertiliser to produce crops as the land is losing fertilely because of deficiency in organic elements. About 40 per cent of the country’s land area has become deficient in organic elements and other soil nutrients over a decade, according to experts at the Soil Research and Development Institute
Biman’s risky NY venture
Plans to resume flight despite fear of losses Biman is likely to resume its New York flight apparently to meet the government pledge despite fears of losses again due to tough competition on the transatlantic routes, insiders say. Though the airliner carried a relatively good number of passengers last time, it counted between Tk 35-40 ... Read more
Rajuk, DCC make no headway in identifying risky city buildings
Neither Rajdhani Unnayan Kartripakkha nor Dhaka City Corporation could make any headway in identifying or pulling down the risky structures in capital city, as the two organisations had promised to do after a number of residential and other buildings collapsed in June claiming many lives. Officials attributed the failures to absence of needed expertise and ... Read more