Hill Cutting at Cox’s Bazar Fine slapped on realtor A housing company has been fined about Tk 3 crore for wiping out hills and forests on an area of 100 acres to develop a housing project at Jhilongja in Cox’s Bazar. The Department of Environment in a drive yesterday slapped the fine on Uttaran Grihayan ... Read more
Month: January 2011
Net providers calls one-hr strike Tuesday
Internet Service Providers Association of Bangladesh yesterday called an hour’s strike from 11:00am Tuesday to protest the removal of overhead cables on utility poles on Dhaka’s thoroughfares. Demanding that the government ensure them all facilities to install the cables underground, the ISPAB also threatened an indefinite strike from next week if the government did not ... Read more
Boyfriend leads gang rape
Pushes victim from hilltop A teenage girl was allegedly raped and pushed from hilltop by a gang of youths in the port city late night Saturday. The victim, a 15-year-old garment worker, was under treatment in Chittagong Medical College Hospital yesterday
Waterfowl census on
Nature Conservation Committee (NCC) began a month-long Waterfowl Census yesterday at Dighirpar char in Tongibari upazila in the district. The month-long census will be conducted in 30 wetlands across the country. President of NCC, ornithologist Shahjahan Sarder said, around 25,000 birds live in the lower basin of River Padma
Women take just 3 minutes to decide on Mr Right
It takes a woman just three minutes to make up her mind about whether she likes a man or not, a study has revealed. The research showed that the average female spends the time sizing up looks, physique and dress-sense as well as taking in scent, accent and eloquence of a potential suitor. Women also ... Read more
Eating orange is better than popping vitamin pills
Eating an orange is much better for one’s health than simply taking vitamin C pills. Food scientists have identified why eating an orange is much better for you than simply popping vitamin C and other pills. Its unique mix of antioxidants work much more effectively together than they do separately, found researchers at Brigham Young ... Read more
‘Save Dumni- Boalia canal’
Environmentalists yesterday demanded that the government take immediate steps to protect the Dumni-Boalia canal from the grabbers. They made the demand at a human chain programme jointly organised by the Poribesh Bachao Andolon (Poba) and Greenbelt Trust in front of the Institute of Fine Arts of Dhaka University, said a press release. The speakers said ... Read more
BSMMU signs MoU with Chicago Univ
Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University on Saturday signed a memorandum of understanding with the University of Chicago of United Stats of America to exchange new technology and research works. ‘Under the contact the pathology department experts of Chicago University will come to train
Sabuj, Abdal elected NPC president, general secy
Kamal Uddin Sabuj, news editor of Bangladesh Sangbad Sangstha (BSS), and Sayed Abdal Ahmed, deputy editor of the daily Amar Desh, were elected president and general secretary of the National Press Club (NPC) on Friday. Other office-bearers are: Senior Vice President: Kazi Rounak Hossain (Sargam),
Sufian, Rouf re-elected CPC president, secy
Editor of Weekly Chattala Abu Sufian and Rashed Rouf of The Daily Azadi were re-elected the president and secretary of Chittagong Press Club (CPC) in the polls held yesterday. The other office bearers are Nurul Amin, senior vice-president; Khorshed Alam, vice-president; Mohossin Chowdhury, joint secretary; S M Ibrahim, treasurer;
Green Delta turns 25, relaunches website
Green Delta Insurance Company Ltd, one of the leading private non-life insurers, yesterday celebrated its 25th founding anniversary and relaunched its newly designed website. The company has also designed a couple of events this month for its stakeholders to celebrate the occasion, said Nasir A Choudhury, managing director of the
StanChart gets new MD
Abrar A Anwar recently joined Standard Chartered Bank as managing director of wholesale banking. Prior to this appointment, Anwar was the managing director and head of global corporate and commercial banking of Citibank NA, said a statement. He started his 19-year corporate and investment banking career with ANZ Grindlays Bank in
Orion Laboratories renames itself
From now on, Orion Laboratories will manufacture and market its products under the name of Orion Pharma Ltd, said a statement. Orion Group Chairman Mohammad Obaidul Karim chaired the new logo launch ceremony of the pharmaceutical company at its corporate head office at Tejgaon in
BCB only complicated ticket issue
The Bangladesh Cricket Board on Saturday came up with a new breakdown of World Cup tickets, which indicates that the number of tickets for public consumption might be lesser than what was anticipated earlier. The tickets of the World Cup will go on sale from today at 80 booths of two banks – The City ... Read more
Fans go crazy for WC tickets
Cricket lovers flocked to the entrances of “The City Bank” for the tickets of the World Cup Cricket Saturday evening though the sale of tickets was scheduled to start from 10:00am on Sunday. All the premises of the branches of the bank declared earlier as ticket outlets saw hundreds of people taking position at the ... Read more
Bangladeshi spirit excites captains
With the World Cup 2011 tickets for the matches in Bangladesh going on sale across the country today the World Cup captains have hailed the passion of the local fans and the unique atmosphere for playing cricket in this part of the world. Bangladesh skipper Sakib al Hasan said the home fans are an integral ... Read more
Riding on a lenient law
The domestic cricket continued to lose its discipline as yet another unsavoury incident marred a Premier League match on Friday. Surjo Tarun’s Rajin Saleh and Asif Hossain of Orient Sporting Club were handed one-match suspensions each after they were involved in an ugly scuffle at the Shaheed Kamruzzaman Stadium in
R’ganj make winning start
Rahmatganj MFS started their Bangladesh League campaign with a 2-1 win over Arambagh KS at the Kamalapur stadium on Saturday. Arambagh were unlucky to lose the game as they conceded an own goal in the 55th minute giving Rahmatganj all three points from their opening
Metropolis School Football
A quadruple from Sohag powered AK International School to a 6-1 victory over Kamuchan Shah High School in a match of the Asian City Dhaka Metropolis School Football Tournament at the Rahmatganj MFS Ground yesterday. At the Khilgaon Jorpukur venue, Siddeshwari High School smothered Motijheel Model High School 5-0, courtesy of a Tamal hattrick and ... Read more
BTI Golf C’ship from today
The four-day BTI Profe-ssional Golf Champion-ship starts at the Kurmitola Golf Club today. Spon-sored by Buildin Techno-logy and Ideas Ltd, one of the prominent real estate developers of the country, and organised by Bangla-desh professional Golfers’ Association (BPGA), this event is expected to draw a number of young, up and coming as well as professional ... Read more