Bangladesh has won two silver and three bronze medals in the just concluded 3rd Asian Goju-Rye Karate Championships, which was held in Nepal from December 2 to 4. Raju Rai won silver in -45kg category, Kamrun Nahar also won silver in +60kg weight category while Gobinda Sarkar, Shree Jeet Dutta and Animesh Sarkar won bronze ... Read more
Month: December 2010
Stand against sexual harassment, stalking
Women rights leaders urge all Women rights leaders yesterday called all to stand against sexual harassment and stalking as an alarming 4186 incidents of violence on women took place between January and September this year. Among them 458 women were raped, 82 of them were gang raped and 52 women were killed by the rapists, ... Read more
Female RMG worker found dead in Botanical Garden
Police recovered the body of a female garment worker hanging by the neck from a tree branch at Botanical Garden in the city yesterday morning. The deceased Sharmin Akter Julia, 19, daughter of late Jalal Khan of Rupnagar tin shed colony, was a worker of Banga Garments at section seven of Pallabi in the
Three killed in road crashes
At least three people were killed and another injured in separate road accidents in Madaripur, Gopalganj and Khagrachhari on Saturday night and yesterday. A correspondent from Madaripur reports : A local Sechchhasebok League leader was killed in a road accident when he lost control of his motorcycle and fell into a
DSE suffers record plunge
Investors continue panic selling The benchmark index of Dhaka Stock Exchange on Sunday suffered a record plunge of 284.78 points as small investors rushed to sell off securities in the wake of most of the institutional investors withdrawing their investments from the capital market. The DSE general index fell by 3.31 per cent to close ... Read more
Robi IPO falters on licence renewal
Telecom operator Robi said yesterday it might have to backtrack on the plan of an initial public offering (IPO) in the near future if the company is to pay huge sums on licence renewal. Robi has seen its revenue jump to record levels in the third quarter of 2010, but it fears a return to ... Read more
Galaxy Tab hits market today
Samsung Electronics, a global leader in mobile technology, launched its latest smartphone Galaxy Tab in Bangladesh yesterday. Galaxy Tab is the first of the company’s tablet devices, combining smartphone and netbook packed with solid business features and vast multimedia
EBL launches new share trading product
Eastern Bank Limited has launched a new product for non-resident Bangladeshis which will enable them to invest in the capital market of Bangladesh through a beneficiary owner’s account which will be funded by non-resident investors taka account. Ali Reza Iftekhar, managing director and chief executive officer of the bank, launched the new
Bangladesh Brand Forum holds conference in UK
Bangladesh Brand Forum organised a conference ‘Meet Bangladesh’ in London on November 26 and 27 to present to British and British Bangladeshi investors sectors including energy, power, infrastructure, garments and textile, ceramics, furniture, pharmaceuticals, capital market, tourism, ICT potential for investment. The two-day event also had a showcase of Bangladeshi business in
Noman Group, Rahimafrooz Renewable Energy sign agreement
Bangladesh Carbon, an initiative of Rahimafrooz Renewable Energy, recently signed a clean development service agreement with textile company Noman Group. Under the agreement, Bangladesh Carbon will act as specialised CDM project developer and help ensure carbon revenues from various carbon emission reduction initiatives of
3 killed as police clash with RMG workers
Three were killed and 225 injured as the police clashed with apparel workers, out on demonstrations for the second consecutive day on Sunday in Chittagong, Dhaka and on its outskirts rallying for wages in the new structure, which came into effect on November 1. About 90 vehicles and several factories were also vandalised and ransacked ... Read more
Errant pvt univs won’t be allowed to enrol students
The government has decided not to allow after September 2011 admission of students to private universities which have failed to shift to permanent campuses by the stipulated time of five years. ‘Out of the 51 private universities, 41 have failed to meet the conditions on which they were given temporary permission. It is a matter ... Read more
Tamim makes it look easy
Tigers lift series 3-1 Tamim Iqbal’s six-hitting spree gave Bangladesh a fine finish to the year, the Tigers clinching the five-match one-day series against Zimbabwe 3-1 through a six-wicket win yesterday at the Zahur Ahmed Chowdhury Stadium. It was the fourth successive series win — and seventh overall — against the African opponents
No wrong done
Says Yunus Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus yesterday re-emphasised that there was no wrongdoing in the fund transfer from Grameen Bank to Grameen Kalyan. The Grameen Bank founder described the disagreement with Norad, the Norwegian aid ministry, as honest disagreement and said it was
Symbolic start to drive
Hanging Cables Symbolic start to drive The crackdown against overhead Internet and cable TV wires on city thoroughfares began yesterday with cables from a pole at Karwan Bazar removed. Cable operators claimed the removal of wires caused 150 cable operators to become dysfunctional whereas Internet service providers said thousands of Internet users experienced disruption to
All aboard hijacked ship doing well
Says owner; Crews’ families tell of ransom demands The families of two crew of hijacked ship MV Jahan Moni yesterday claimed that the pirates demanded ransoms for their release. But the figures vary wildly. Mohammad Shahjahan, owner of the hijacked ship, contradicted them saying the pirates had not yet demanded any ransom
Govt to review RMG pay regime
But BGMEA sees little scope for revision Labour minister Khandaker Mosharraf Hossain said on Sunday that the new pay structure for apparel workers might be reviewed for identifying anomalies that infused a section of workers with grievances, although garment factory owners see little scope for such revision. In the wake of widespread violence at garment ... Read more
Outsiders blamed for YoungOne attack
Vandalism and bloodshed in the Bangladesh apparel industry will cause the message to circulate across the globe that investment here is not safe, remarked Kihak Sung, chairman of the South Korea-based garment manufacturing group YoungOne Corporation, on Sunday. Sung, who is also the president of BEPZA Investors’ Association, claimed at a press conference in
Tiger response team proves a point
A village-based tiger response team has again showed great courage to save a tiger of the Sundarbans. On December 10, a tiger suddenly came out of the forest and entered the village Uttar Rajapur, under Sharankhola range of the Sundarbans. It then killed a cow and returned to the forest, says a Wildlife Trust of ... Read more
All’s well that ends well
If the 3-1 series win over Zimbabwe was the ideal end to 2010 the Tigers had hoped for, the upshot of this success is far more important as they approach the home stretch of their World Cup preparations. Bangladesh have won nine matches out of 27 ODIs they played this year, including the landmark 4-0 ... Read more