Bangladesh Cricket Board president AHM Mustafa Kamal handed over the cheques for Tk 1,00,000 to each of the 15 members of the Asian Games silver medal winning women’s cricket team at a function at the GP-BCB Cricket Academy Complex on Monday. He also gave Tk 50,000 each to the seven officials of the squad. Kamal ... Read more
Month: December 2010
BCB hails fans’ passion
The Bangladesh Cricket Board praised the passion and dedication of all the spectators who came to watch the third ODI match between Bangladesh and Zimbabwe on Monday despite having some time adjusting problems. The match was originally scheduled to start at 2:30pm but later it was held a daytime because of poor floodlight conditions at ... Read more
Hason Raja’s 87th death anniversary today
Today is the 87th death anniversary of legendary bard Hason Raja (1854-1922), whose full name was Dewan Hasan Raja Chowdhury, claimed at least three researchers. Born on December 21, 1854 in a zamindar family in the village of Lakshmansree in Sunamganj, his father, Dewan Ali Raza Chowdhury, traced his ancestry to Ayodhya. Originally Hindus, they ... Read more
Bangla Academy celebrates 55th anniversary
The 55th founding anniversary of the Bangla Academy, a centre that promotes the country’s literature, culture and language, was observed through a discussion and a cultural programme on the academy premises on December 3. The programme began with placing a wreath at the Central Shaheed Minar in the morning. A commemorative speech styled ‘Ekhon Rabindranath’
Becoming Lalon
Prosenjit talks about “Moner Manush” and expanding the horizons of Bangla cinema For Bengali superstar Prosenjit, essaying the role of Lalon in Goutam Ghosh-directed “Moner Manush” was like a dream come true. The 48-year-old actor, who has worked in nearly 300 Bangla films and a few Hindi movies, said he was eagerly waiting to be ... Read more
Dreaming beyond unforgiving life
How many diamonds in the rough have ended as ordinary pebbles in the heat and pressure of life unforgiving? Well, in the havens of poverty, a mind boggling many. Let us put it this way, a child yoked to an oil-expeller (ghani) spends three to four hours on schooldays and agonisingly longer hours on holidays, ... Read more
Exports surge 36pc
Export earnings crossed the $8.27 billion mark in the July-November period, registering nearly 36 percent growth over the same period a year earlier, according to the latest Export Promotion Bureau (EPB) data. Exports of the country’s main foreign-exchange earner, knitwear, grew nearly 37 percent, to $3.53 billion, while woven exports grew nearly 36 percent, to ... Read more
Keya Detergent, Keya Soap to be merged with Keya Cosmetics
Keya Detergent and Keya Soap, sister concerns of Khaleque Group of Industries, will be merged with its another sister concern Keya Cosmetics Ltd. The decision was taken at the board meetings of the three different companies of Khaleque Group. When contacted, Nurul Islam, company secretary of Khaleque Group told the FE that the
DSE indices, turnover set records
All indices of Dhaka stock exchange scaled new heights and turnover set a new mark Sunday as banks surged in anticipation of a bumper year-end profit, luring more investors to the overheated market. Dealers said over-enthusiastic retail investors have shoveled in fresh funds into the market to steer its benchmark index closer to 9,000, defying ... Read more
Denmark pins high hopes on Bangladesh
Bangladesh is no longer an aid receiving country for Denmark, it is a also a trade partner and a place where the Danish investors can do business, said Jan Moller Hansen, deputy head of mission of the Danish embassy in Dhaka. “Bangladesh in recent years showed a steady growth of nearly 6 percent despite the ... Read more
Rajuk to call application for Jhilmil project by Feb
Rajdhani Unnayan Kartipakkha (RAJUK) is going to offer more plots and apartments at its Jhilmil Residential Project by Feb next. RAJUK chairman Engineer Md Nurul Huda told newsmen that they would call applications for plot distribution through advertisement in the newspapers by February next. He said 80 per cent work of the Jhilmil project has ... Read more
Canals for grabbers
Haikkar Khal disappearing as encroachment goes unabated Natural canals crisscrossing the low-lying areas along the Mohammadpur flood protection dam are disappearing fast due to encroachment by land grabbers. The famous Haikkar Khal, which links the Turag river with the Buriganga, faces obliteration as the “so-called” landowners continue to fill it
6-month maternity leave
Proposal gets finance ministry nod The finance minister, AMA Muhith, approved a proposal on Sunday to increase maternity leave to six months, despite the fact that most female workers now are not receiving the statutory required current minimum of four months. Finance ministry officials told New Age that now that the minister had signed the ... Read more
50,000 apartments within 5 years
Targets Rajuk for housing of middle income group The Rajdhani Unnayan Kartripakkha (Rajuk) is going to build more than 50,000 apartments in three different housing projects for middle and lower-middle income groups in the capital in next three to five years. As many as 22,500 apartments will be ready for handover in Uttara model town ... Read more
Stalker gone wild
Left daughter, father injured An exasperated stalker went wild and attacked the girl and her father with a sharp weapon in Barguna. Her father Yunus Howlader was escorting Shormi Akhter Suma, 18, a higher secondary student of Ghatbaria Adarsha College in Barguna, to college Saturday morning when stalker Mohsin Shikder, 29, attacked them. Critically injured ... Read more
Tigers take on Zimbabwe today
Bangladesh will play the 3rd One Day International (ODI) against visiting Zimbabwe in the five-match ODI series today (Monday) at the Sher-e-Bangla National Stadium (SBNS) in the city, reports UNB. The scheduled day/night match will now begin at 9:00 am (BST) due to fault in the flood light system. Earlier, Zimbabwe took 1-0 lead in ... Read more
Five jailed for harassing girls
Five people were jailed for varying terms on charges of harassing girls in Sylhet and Nilphamari on Saturday and Sunday. The New Age correspondent in Sylhet said two young men were jailed by a mobile court in the district for harassing schoolgirls
One shot dead in city
A trader was shot dead on Noorjahan Road in the capital’s Mohammadpur area last night. The motive behind the murder was not clear. A gang of three fired shots at Tazzil Hossain Johny, 28, son of Mokbul Hossain in Mohammadpur, on his way back home from a tea stall on Noorjahan Road
2.1 million people jobless in the country
The total number of unemployed people in the country is 2.1 million, labour and employment minister Khandakar Mosharraf Hossain said in parliament on Sunday Answering to a question from Moshtak Ahmed Rumi, the minister gave the information quoting the labour force survey of the statistics bureau
30th BCS written tests from Jan 11
The 30th BCS written exam will be held from Jan 11 simultaneously in Dhaka, Rajshahi, Chittagong, Khulna, Barisal and Sylhet centres, public service commission public relations officer Mir Mosharraf Hossain has said. “The exam centres and schedules will be published in newspapers,” he told bdnews24.com on Sunday. The preliminary test results of 30th BCS were ... Read more