The fourth edition of the Bangladesh League will start in the last week of December at the Birshreshtha Shaheed Mostafa Kamal Stadium while the second edition of the Super Cup will be held in April next year at the Bangabandhu National Stadium after the conclusion of the ICC Cricket World Cup. The decision was taken ... Read more
Month: December 2010
BHF an ‘old town mafia’
Gerhard Peter Rach, Bangladesh’s temperamental hockey coach, blasted the hockey federation branding it ‘old town mafia’ for its mismanagement in his Asian Games report to the Bangladesh Olympic Association. In the report, the German claimed that he was not responsible for the debacle in the Guangzhou Asiad saying that he was not a part of ... Read more
Yuree breaks world record
Martial arts grandmaster and security management expert Dr. Mak Yuree has set a new world record by breaking two baseball bats with a single shin kick in the biggest martial arts exhibition in Great Britain on November 14. He was presented with the official World Record Certificate on November 14 in presence of
Dhaka Int’l Book Fair begins today
The Dhaka International Book Fair-2010 begins today on the Dhaka University campus with the theme ‘books for achieving Vision-2021’. A total of 151 publishing houses, including three foreign institutions National Book Trust of India, Iran Cultural Centre and the World Bank’s
Tk 956m projects to fight climate impacts okayed
Digital map to be used to save forests The government is going to develop a digital map of the country’s forest to build a stronger forest monitoring system. “Once we have a digital mapping of the forests, we can monitor if forests are destroyed anywhere just sitting in the ministry or the forest department. We ... Read more
DU Gha unit exam Friday
The admission test for Gha unit (the unit for changing group) first year honours courses at Dhaka University for the session 2010-11 will be held on Friday. A total of 54,568 students will sit for the one-hour exam scheduled to start at 10:00am, says a press release. Seat plan of exam is available on the ... Read more
RU admission rescheduled for Dec 11
The admission process for the first year honours courses under the session 2010-11 at Rajshahi University will begin on December 11 instead of December 1. The process will continue till January 6, which was supposed to end on December 30 earlier, said a press release yesterday
RCC asks hawkers to remove makeshift shops from footpath
Rajshahi City Corporation authorities on Tuesday issued notice to the hawkers, who carried on businesses by building makeshifts on footpath from Saheb Bazar Zero Point to Ganakpara More in the city, to remove their shops to another place. The city corporation authorities have leased a portion of the footpath recently to a businessman for
Four killed, 11 injured in road accidents
At least four people were killed and 11 others injured in separate road accidents in Chpainawabganj and Gaibandha districts yesterday. Our correspondent from Chapainawabganj reports: Two people were killed and eight others injured in a road accident on Shibpur- Porsha road at Matindor village of Patnitala upazila in Naogaon
Viqarunnisa draws admission lottery in Dec 21-22
Viqarunnisa Noon School and College will draw the admission lottery for Class I in December 21–22, authorities said. The principal, Husne Ara Begum, told New Age on Tuesday the authorities had made all the preparations for the draw