A Dhaka Court yesterday allowed Mirpur police to interrogate Dhaka City Corporation (DCC) Ward Councillor and film actor Monwar Hossain Dipjol at jail gate within two days in a case filed for snatching Tk 5 lakh from a businessman on August 1 this year. Metropolitan Magistrate Mohammad Ismail Hossain passed the order after Sub-Inspector
Month: December 2010
1,300 tickets unaccounted for in BCB breakdown
The local organising committee for the World Cup 2011 made public the breakdown for tickets on Tuesday, but still about 1, 300 tickets for each game to be held in Dhaka remained unaccounted for. The breakdown was given after a controversy, triggered by a statement of GS Hasan Tamim, a local committee member responsible for ... Read more
Hard fought win for MSC
Dhaka Mohammedan SC overcame a 10-man Chittagong Abahani by a single goal margin in their first match of the Grameenphone Bangladesh League 2010 at the Kamalapur Stadium on Tuesday. The black-and-white’s Rwandan forward Habumugisha Ismail scored the all-important goal in their 1–0 triumph to earn full three points for his
Victoria, Surjo Tarun, CCS wins
Rajin Saleh’s dashing unbeaten half century steered Surja Tarun to an effortless seven-wicket win against Prime Doleshwar in the Dhaka Premier League in Rajshahi on Tuesday. CCS, riding on Mahmudaul Hasan’s half century won by 33 runs against Kalabagan KC in BKSP and in the other match of the day, Victoria won by four wickets ... Read more
ICC Cricket World Cup History
Nazir & Hall’s best shows The 2007 cricket World Cup held for the first time in the West Indies was the biggest event in terms of teams participating. In addition to the ten Test nations and one-day status holders Kenya, five associate nations took part. The sixteen teams were divided into four groups of four ... Read more
Nat’l kabaddi
Border Guards Bangladesh and Bangladesh Police will meet in the final of the National Kabaddi Championship as they won their respective semifinals at the Kabaddi Stadium in Paltan yesterday. Border Guards beat Dhaka 42-22 while Police outplayed Tangail 32-14. Earlier, Border Guards had defeated Khulna 36-24 while Police beat Rajshahi 46-26 to move
Dhaka school soccer from today
Ashiyan City Dhaka Metropolis School Football tournament gets underway today at Birshreshtha Mostafa Kamal Stadium with Sena Palli High School taking on St Joseph High School. Some forty-one Dhaka schools, split into four venues, will play the knockout matches and two teams from each venue will advance into the round robin
Siddikur to begin 2011 with home pro-tournament
Golfing maestro Siddikur Rahman, after a successful professional year, will begin 2011 at home with a professional golf tournament, organised by the Bangladesh Professional Golfers’ Association at the Kurmitola Golf Club, beginning on January 2. Siddikur, who turned professional in 2007, participated in 16 pro-tournaments in Bangladesh. In 2009, he took part in all of ... Read more
V-Day Tennis
Double for Ishita Ishita Afroze of BKSP claimed a double as she won both the women’s and the girls’ singles titles in the Runner Group Victory Day Tennis Cham-pionship at the Naogaon Tennis Club yesterday. Ishita beat Sathi Sarker of National Tennis Complex 2-6, 7-5, 6-1 to take the women’s title and later triumphed in ... Read more
Circular waterway service verges on closure
The government initiative to revive the capital’s circular waterway communication in a bid to reduce pressure on the Dhaka city roads has fallen through for lack of adequate number of waterbuses and proper government initiatives. According to official sources in the Bangladesh Inland Water Transport Corporation, BIWTC
Engineer Murder: DBBL gives family Tk 5 lakh
Dutch-Bangla Bank Limited donated Tk 5 lakh to the widow of diploma engineer Kazi Altaf Hossain who was abducted and killed by unknown men at Mazar-e-Sharif in Afghanistan on December 17, says a press release. Meanwhile, Institute of Diploma Engineers Bangladesh (IDEB) yesterday expressed deep shock over the death of Altaf, who was working with a ... Read more
Digital innovation fair launched in Barisal
A two-day ‘digital innovation fair’ inaugurated on Barisal Zilla School premises on Monday with a view to creating accountability and transparency in the country. A seminar styled ‘preferences in preparing strategy for digital Bangladesh’ was also organised on the occasion
Housewife murdered
Husband and in-laws allegedly beat a housewife to death in city’s Kadamtoli area early hours yesterday. Deceased 35-year-old Shilpi alias Shahinur Sarker, her husband Ripon Sarker and their children lived at a house in Muradpur High School Road. Shilpi’s sister-in-law Lipi and others brought her to Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH)
Kalim Sharafi remembered
Aliya Sharafi started the musical component of a programme organised by Bengal Foundation on Sunday commemorating her father, the late exponent of Tagore song Kalim Sharafi, by rendering the song ‘Tomari jharna tolar nirjoney’. After her, Tagore singer Mita Haque rendered two songs – ‘Koto ajanare janaile tumi’ and
Boishakhi TV celebrates birthday
Boishakhi Television, a private television channel, has stepped into the sixth year of its journey yesterday. Information Minister Abul Kalam Azad and Managing Director of Boishakhi Rafiqul Amin inaugurated the anniversary by cutting a cake at 12:01am yesterday, says a press release. Mohammad Hossain, chairman of Destiny Group; Farid Akter, executive director of
Khulna Univ convocation today
The fourth convocation of Khulna University will be held on the university campus today. The university authorities will confer degrees on 2,526 students in the convocation, said university vice-chancellor Professor Md Saifuddin Shah at a press conference at the university on Monday. Twenty graduates of different departments from 2006 to 2010 sessions will be awarded ... Read more
Registration for polio vaccines starts
Japan Bangladesh Friendship Hospital (JBFH) has organised a fortnight programme to motivate parents of under-five children to provide their children with polio vaccine and Vitamin A capsule. On the eve of National Immunisation Day on January 8, JBFH has started registration of under-five children at Dhanmondi and its adjacent areas in the city, says
Teletalk, CMEC sign deal for introduction of 3G services
Teletalk Bangladesh, the state-owned mobile phone company, on Monday signed an agreement with China National Machinery and Equipment and Export Corporation for introduction of 3G services in the company and expansion of its existing 2.5G services. Managing director of Teletalk Majibur Rahman and Yang Yinchin of CMEC signed the deal in the
Water Park in Cox’s Bazar
Leading Bangladeshi business conglomerates Intraco Group has signed a mem-orandum of understanding with Nicco Park and Resorts Ltd, India to set up a water park at the popular sea resort of Cox’s Bazar at Chittagong. “The water park will come up in an area of four acre already earmarked. The total
StanChart opens financial kiosk at Hajipara
Standard Chartered Bank has recently opened another financial kiosk in Dhaka. This kiosk, located at Hajipara, is equipped with an ATM, a Billspay machine, a contact centre hotline and an internet banking kiosk. In addition, there are service staff at the kiosk to address customer queries and requests, said a news release