The 20th anniversary of the death of Dr Shamsul Alam Khan Milon, whose killing fuelled the anti-autocracy movement in 1990 and led to the fall of the Ershad regime, will be observed today. Milon, the then joint secretary general of the Bangladesh Medical Association, was shot dead on the Dhaka University campus on this day ... Read more
Month: November 2010
A public hospital with a difference
DMCH burn unit achieves commendable recovery rate, reduces number of deaths When success story is rare in public service institutions, the Burn and Plastic Surgery unit at Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH) is an exception with increasing recovery rate and sliding death toll since its inception in December 2003. The specialised unit can now cure ... Read more
6 lakh die every year from passive smoking
The first global study into the effects of passive smoking has found it causes 6,00,000 deaths every year. One-third of those killed are children, often exposed to smoke at home, the World Health Organization (WHO) found. The study, in 192 countries, found that passive smoking is particularly dangerous for children,
82 sued over cheating in pry terminal exams
Sixty-seven primary terminal exams candidates, 12 schoolteachers and three non-governmental agency officials were sued in Jaipurhat on Thursday in connection with cheating in the exams hall. The acting RB Government High School headmaster Afzal Hossain, also in charge of the primary terminal examinations centre, filed the
Teacher jailed for harassing student
A mobile court yesterday sentenced a college teacher to one-year imprisonment for harassing a female admission seeker at Dhaka University. Saiful Islam, lecturer of physical education department of University Laboratory School and College, was accused of passing indecent
All arrestees released
DU Vandalism All arrestees released Police yesterday released all the detainees of Thursday’s car accident and the subsequent vandalism on Dhaka University campus following a negotiation between the car owner and the DU authorities. They were freed around 12:30am yesterday when the owner of the car that hit Sadhan Kumar Ghosh, a fourth year DU ... Read more
Bangladesh end 36 years of gold jinx
Bangladesh ended their 36-years wait for a gold medal in the Asian Games when its cricket team romped to a five-wicket victory over Afghanistan in the final in Guangzhou on Friday. The journey began with the 1974 Tehran Games, but Bangladesh’s name was not in the medals list until boxer Mosharraf Hossain broke the deadlock ... Read more
No lack of confidence
Zimbabwe arrive in Dhaka The Zimbabwe cricket team arrived in Dhaka yesterday hoping for some competitive cricket against the in-form Tigers during their five-match one-day international series. Despite Bangladesh’s recent 4-0 drubbing of New Zealand on home soil, Zimbabwe’s leading batsman Hamilton Masakadza believes the Africans have a
Razzak, Sakib on brink of milestone
Sakib al Hasan and Abdur Razzak will have a chance to achieve personal milestones and give their fans something extra to cheer about in the five-match one-day international series against Zimbabwe starting on December 1. Razzak, already the leading wicket-taker for the country, is just one wicket shy of becoming
ICC Cricket World Cup History
An upset, and a strike that deprived the world With Sri Lanka becoming a full member of the International Cricket Council (ICC), the 1983 World Cup had space for only one Associate member. Formerly known as Rhodesia, the newly independent Zimbabwe was the eighth team in the Cup, having won the qualifying tournament involving the ... Read more
BJMC back with a bang
After a three-year gap, the Bangladesh Jute Mills Corporation (BJMC) returned to cycling with a bang winning all four events on the opening day of the NCC Bank 34th Cycling Championship at the Bangabandhu National Stadium yesterday. BJMC were away from cycling for three years since 2006 following the then
Div I cricket
Uttara Sporting Club, Azad Sporting Club and Sheikh Jamal Dhanmondi Club won their respective matches of the First Division Cricket League yesterday. At the Jahangirnagar University ground, Uttara Sporting (151-4) beat Agrani Bank (150 all out) by six wickets, thanks to Swapan’s
DU students on rampage over road accident
Several hundred Dhaka University students rampaged through the campus by damaging vehicles and setting two of the on fire in protest at reckless driving after a car had hit one of their fellows on Thursday. Residents of halls of residence brought out a procession and marched down the campus roads in protest at the accident, ... Read more
RU students block highway as bus staff stabs fellow pupil
Angry students of the Rajshahi University on Thursday evening blocked the Rajshahi-Dhaka highway in front the university’s main entrance after a bus supervisor allegedly stabbed their fellow pupil. Sources said that the bus supervisor of Tuhin Paribahan assaulted Anisur Rahman, a third year student of political science in Rajshahi University, over a trifling matter while ... Read more
People want pvt univs outside residential areas
Neighbours are asking for private universities in the capital city to move out of residential areas, as the law requires. People living around said that the private universities were causing them problems. Residents complained to New Age about violence from student demonstrations and the bad
ADB, IDB okay $755m credit
Padma Bridge ADB, IDB okay $755m credit WB’s $1.5b in process Asian Development Bank (ADB) and Islamic Development Bank have approved loans of $615 million and $140 million for the construction of Padma Multipurpose Bridge. The development partners took the decisions at their board meetings yesterday, said Communications Minister Syed Abul Hossain
Victim’s father assaulted
9 more youths jailed The father of a stalking victim was assaulted yesterday while nine stalkers were jailed and another nine were fined in Sirajganj, Bagerhat, Tangail, Netrokona and Madaripur. SSC examinee Bipasha of Belkuchi upazila was harassed by Babu, a local youth, on her way home from a coaching centre yesterday morning, reports our
Bangladesh’s chance for cricket gold
Bangladesh men’s cricket team stand on the brink of bringing the country’s first-ever Asian Games gold home when they take on surprise package Afghanistan in the final in Guangzhou today. Mohammad Ashraful’s boys confirmed the title clash with a five-wicket defeat of a strong Sri Lankan team in the second semifinal of the 16th Asian ... Read more
King Khan to vote for Sundarbans
Bollywood superstar Shahrukh Khan is going to perform live at Army Stadium in Dhaka and campaign for the Sundarbans to help it become one of the Seven Wonders of the World on December 10. He will vote for the largest mangrove forest on stage. Local private television channel Boishakhi TV will telecast the megastar’s voting ... Read more
Student killed in city level crossing
A 25-year-old student of the Government Bangla College at Mirpur was killed as train hit him in the Kuril-Bishwa Road level crossing in Dhaka on Thursday, the police said. The victim, Billal Hossain, of Bhola, was a first-year student of mathematics and had lived in Gazipur. The police said a train had hit Billal in ... Read more