Police assaulted two senior journalists and confined them to Farmgate Traffic Police Box under Tejgaon Police Station in the city yesterday. The journalists are Nikhil Bhadra, senior journalist of Jaijaidin and Amitosh Pal of Kaler Kantho. Meanwhile, Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) yesterday closed three traffic police
Month: October 2010
Reintroduction of zebra crossing in city urged
Drive to compel the use of foot bridge opposed Civil society groups held a demonstration on Monday demanding restoration of sidewalks and reintroduction of zebra crossings in the city for pedestrians’ safety instead of compelling people to use the foot bridge. They said that Dhaka was possibly the lone city in the world to deny ... Read more
Results of Medical College admission test published
Results of combined admission test for 61 public and private medical colleges across the country for the session 2010-11 have been published yesterday. The results were posted on the website (http://www.dghs.gov.bd/). Candidates with a mobile phone connection can find their results by typing
Fake student held at DU
The Dhaka University authorities early Monday handed over a young man to the police for passing himself off as a university student. The arrestee was identified as Kamruzzaman Shohag of village Shagata in Gaibandha. The university proctor, KM Saiful Islam, told newsmen that, informed by some students,
Ansar platoon commander held with fake certificates
Members of Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) arrested an Ansar platoon commander with some fake fundamental training certificates and seals from his possession at the Ansar camp of Gulistan Shopping Complex in city’s Paltan on Sunday. Platoon commander Moktarul Hossain, 25, also commander of the camp, hails from
Road accidents kill 4, injure 10
Four people were killed and 10 others seriously injured in separate road accidents in Faridpur and Narsingdi. Our Correspondent from Faridpur reports: At least two people were killed and six others injured in two separate road accident in Madhukhali and Nagarkanda upazilas of Faridpur yesterday. The deceased were identified as Nazmul Sheikh, 24, a rickshaw ... Read more
Int’l phone call rates changed
Call charges of economy international subscribers’ dialling (EISD) have been changed since last August, said a press release of Bangladesh Tele-communication Company Ltd (BTCL) yesterday. The statement said the call rates have been changed as directed by Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission (BTRC)
Girl ‘commits suicide’
A 13-year-old girl allegedly committed suicide by hanging with a rope from the ceiling at her house in Mirajnagar Paschim Para under Keraniganj Model Police Station yesterday afternoon. Police recovered the hanging body of Rozina Akhter, daughter of Afsar Ali at 2:00pm. Rozina’s mother Sufia Khatun said she went to collect grass for cows at ... Read more
Katie Price wants to have babies after she dies
Katie Price wants to have babies after she dies. The former glamour model – who has sons Harvey, eight, Junior, five and daughter Princess, three, from previous relationships – and her cage-fighter husband Alex Reid had fertility treatment to try and conceive a child of their own and Katie wants him to use the embryos ... Read more
Russell Brand buys tiger for new bride Katy Perry
Russell Brand bought Katy Perry a tiger as a wedding gift. The couple were married at the luxury Aman-i-Khas resort in Rajasthan, India on Saturday and Russell reportedly surprised his new wife by splashing out thousands of pounds on Machli, a female Bengal tiger who lives in the Ranthambore National Park near where they tied ... Read more
Katy Perry And Russell Brand Tie The Knot
Russell Brand and Katy Perry tied the knot Saturday night in India. The couple “were pronounced Mr. and Mrs. Brand on Saturday, October 23,” they said after marrying in a private ceremony attended by close family and friends and performed by a Christian minister and longtime friend of Katy’s family. We couldn’t be happier for ... Read more
Shahrukh’s rendezvous with Dhaka well underway
Known the world over as “King Khan”, Bollywood superstar Shakrukh Khan will be in Bangladesh to perform at a show in the Army Stadium, Dhaka. Event management group Antar Showbiz is organising the event. A press conference was held yesterday at the Marble Room of Dhaka Sheraton Hotel in this regard. Chairman of Antar Showbiz, ... Read more
Mahurat of Humayun Ahmed’s latest film “Ghetu Putro Komola”
Shedding light on a bygone era The mahurat (formal launch) of Humayun Ahmed’s film “Ghetu Putro Komola” was held on October 23 at Channel i’s Tejgaon office, in the capital. A press conference was held on the occasion as well. Impress Telefilm is the producer of the movie and will eventually arrange its world premiere. ... Read more
Persona to open Chittagong branch
Leading beauty salon Persona will open an office in Chittagong in December to cater to the growing market in the port city. “We have a strong customer base in Chittagong. As we don’t have any branch there, many fly to the capital in the morning, take service throughout the day and fly out in the ... Read more
StanChart notches up high-end banking
Standard Chartered Bangladesh yesterday re-launched its priority banking and platinum card offerings with a range of benefits and privileges to cater to growing consumer banking. The bank introduced the new offerings at an event at Sonargaon Hotel in Dhaka. Jim McCabe, chief executive of Standard Chartered Bangladesh, said: “The new and enhanced
4000 sued, bullet-hit villager dies, addl forces deployed Rupganj situation still tense
Jamaluddin, one of the bullet wound victims from Rupganj succumbed to injuries at Shaheed Suhrawardy Hospital yesterday afternoon. Jamaluddin (26), was among 14 who sustained bullet wounds during the fierce clashes between villagers and law-enforcers in Rupganj .upzila under Naryanganj on
Justice denied to cheated workers
Manpower bureau fails to deliver service, discipline fraudulent agencies The Bureau of Manpower Employment and Training (BMET), the only place for cheated migrant workers to seek redress, is continuously failing to deliver the goods to the victims whose lives are devastated in shoddy immigration process. Taking advantage of weak rules and their loose enforcement by ... Read more
Many villagers flee homes
Most males in Rupganj and Kayetpara unions in Narayanganj fled homes last night for fear of arrest with links to Saturday’s violence. Police filed a case against over 3,000 unidentified villagers following the clash between locals and law enforcers over “forced purchase of land” for an army housing project in the
Sourav confesses killing Sarima
Sourav, the prime accused of Mridhat Sarima Rahman murder case, confessed to the killing before a Chittagong court yesterday. Chittagong Metropolitan Magistrate Azizul Hoque recorded the 15-page confessional statement of Sourav under section 164 in the
Missing in violence
Swapan Molla asked everyone he came across about his missing brother. He carried a newspaper with the picture of a bullet-hit man in bloodstained shirt at the Moushuri army camp in Narayanganj. “The injured person in the picture might be my brother. The face of the person is not clear in the picture. Like him, ... Read more