Dhaka-Chittagong Highway Four-lane scheme delayed by a year New consultancy firm awaits govt nod Launching of the construction works to upgrade Dhaka-Chittagong highway would take more time although 11 months since the signing of the job contract have already been passed over consultancy glitch. Arifur Rahman Zinnah, director of the Tk 1,655 crore project, claimed ... Read more
Month: November 2010
A risky ride to Ctg
A speeding bus from the opposite direction overtook a CNG-run auto-rickshaw and whizzed past the bus these correspondents were travelling by, missing a collision by a whisker. For a second it looked like there would be a head-on crash and those who watched it began to scream. This was one of six such close shaves ... Read more
Businessman killed in city
A 23-year-old businessman was beaten to death by some assailants on Nasir Uddin Sardar Lane in the Dhaka city’s Sutrapur area Friday night, the hospital sources said. The victim, businessman Mahbubur Rahman Robin, was running a video-game shop at the area. He was beaten up by some assailants on Nasir Uddin Sardar Lane on Friday ... Read more
Saving tigers
Bangladesh, 12 other countries meet in Russia today to draw up plan Leaders of a few countries, where tigers are still found in the wild, have gathered for a make or break summit in Russia to save the critically endangered animal and thrash out a global recovery plan to double its numbers by 2022. Premiers ... Read more
Trade on sacrificial meat
Monwara Begum and Rahima Begum, aged over 40, arrived in the city along with their two boys the day before the Eid day by a train from Mymensingh. On Eid day, they collected meat from different houses in the city and left for homes by another train on that night. Monwara and Rahima, two siblings, ... Read more
Ras Utsav begins in Kuakata
About 200 years old three nights and two days long traditional Ras ustav and Ras mela, one of the biggest festival for the communities living in the country’s southern region, began in Kuakata coast yesterday. The festival also opens the fishing season in the region. Several thousands of people join and enjoy
Int’l film festival starts in Ctg today
A weeklong film festival kicks off in the port city today. Alliance Française de Chittagong in collaboration with Chittagong Film Center (CFC) will organise the screening of 13 documentary films. As a part of international film festival, the festival will be arranged in 46 countries all over
Garos celebrate Wangala festival
The Garo people residing in the city yesterday celebrated their traditional Wangala festival amid singing, dancing and performing various traditional arts at Banani Biddyaniketon High School ground in the city. The school playground wore a different look as it was vividly decorated while Garo people of all ages participated in the festival wearing colourful traditional dresses
Eves settle for cricket silver
Bangladesh’s hopes of winning the first Asian gold medal were severely dented when its women’s cricket team crashed to a 10-wicket defeat against Pakistan in the final at Guanggong International Cricket Stadium in Guangzhou on Friday. The defeat meant Bangladesh has to remain content with silver, which is, however, still one
Poor show all around
16th Asian Games-Guangzhou 2010 Poor show all around Apart from the silver won by the women’s cricket team, Bangladesh’s ordinary Asian Games continued in all the other events. Shooting, the perennial medal hope event, was the worst with none of the country’s shooters making it even close to the top fifteen of any of the
ICC Cricket World cup history
Calypso stars in a global ensemble The 1979 World Cup saw in the West Indian line-up the formation of one of the greatest teams of all time. The West Indian pace battery that terrorized batsman through the 80s took shape with Andy Roberts (in his second tournament), Michael Holding, Joel Garner and Colin Croft. Besides ... Read more
Siddikur’s brilliant 2nd round
Siddikur Rahman produced a splendid second round score of 6-under-par foran overall score of 4-under par and leap to 36th on the leaderboard of the UBS Hong Kong Open yesterday. Siddiukur had a disappointing opening day on Thursday when he shot a 2-over-par in the first round and was tied at 121th position among 144 ... Read more
Dhaka rivers to get lifeline
Tk 945cr project work starts next month to keep them flowing round-the-year Water in the capital’s river system — the Buriganga, Turag, Balu and Shitalakkhya rivers — will flow unceasingly round the year in three years, said Humayun Kabir, chief engineer (central) of Water Development Board. The inspiring news came with the launching of Tk ... Read more
Road crashes kill 44
Highways turn into death traps during Eid holidays At least 44 people were killed and scores of others were injured in road accidents across the country during the Eid holidays. In Pabna, five people were killed and 30 injured when a bus plunged into a roadside ditch at Baokola in Atgharia upazila
Stalkers kill elderly man on Eid day
Attacked after he protested harassment of his granddaughter Stalkers strangled an elderly person for protesting the harassment of his granddaughter on Eid day in Kurigram. The victim, Abdus Sobhan, 74, of Noleya village under Bhurungamari upazila of the district, was killed by two local youths, Mostafa, 20, and Ripon, 24, said Sobhan’s family members and
A field day for drugging gangs
At least 27 people, most of them cattle traders, landed in hospital after being drugged unconscious by organised gangs since Tuesday morning, the police and hospital sources said. Sources in Dhaka Medical College Hospital said 27 people who had been drugged unconscious received treatment at the hospital from the day before Eid-ul-Azha to
3 murdered, 2 beaten to death
Five persons were killed in separate incidents in the capital and its suburbs during the three-day Eid holiday. A group of unruly youths beat up a 73-year-old retired bank official, Mahfujul Haque Khan, for protesting their gathering in front of his house in the city’s North Bashabo around 10:40pm on Wednesday. Mahfujul, a cardiac patient, became ... Read more
Eid-ul-Azha celebrated
Eid-ul-Azha, one of the two major religious festivals of the Muslims, was celebrated across the country on Wednesday amid religious fervour, spirit of sacrifice and festivity. Affluent Muslims celebrated the day by sacrificing animals in remembrance of the sacrifice of Hazrat Ibrahim (AS), who was instructed by almighty Allah
4 flats looted during Eid vacation
Burglars stole valuables from four flats of a building while the residents were on Eid vacation and a gang of robbers looted a house at gunpoint in the city’s Sutrapur on Thursday night. Locals and police sources said a gang of thieves stole valuables from flats of Abdur Razzak and Hossain Miah on the ground ... Read more
Silver for women cricketers
Asian Games Silver for women cricketers The Bangladesh women’s cricket team made sure that the national anthem would be played in the 16th Asian Games in Guangzhou despite their ten-wicket defeat to Pakistan in the final yesterday. The silver medal was confirmed for Bangladesh when they raced to a comfortable nine-wicket win over China to ... Read more