If the Bangladesh cricket team needed inspiration to face up to a massive challenge, there is none more qualified to give them a pep talk than Musa Ibrahim. The first Bangladeshi to reach the summit of Mount Everest, the mountaineer met the Tigers for a brief exchange during their team meeting at the team hotel ... Read more
Month: February 2011
Charming Fatullah
After the rigours and hectic pace of Mirpur’s Sher-e-Bangla National Stadium, Fatullah is a sigh of relief. The ground is reached through a narrow road that trails off from the Dhaka-Narayanganj highway, lending the approach an almost rustic feel. Yesterday, as the World Cup warm-up match between England and Pakistan started,
Dhaka, Ottawa to sign edn, agri deals
Bangladesh and Canada will sign agreements on educational and agricultural cooperation for mutual advantage of the two countries, according to a press release received from Ottawa yesterday. Foreign Minister Dipu Moni, who concluded a five-day bilateral visit to Canada yesterday, said Bangladesh may benefit from such agreements in the areas of human capacity
595-bigha arable land being lost a day: Study
Bangladesh has been losing about 595.87 bighas (197 acres) of cultivable land a day with a huge number of farmers leaving their occupation over the last four decades, says a study. Economist Prof Dr Abul Barakat revealed the highlights of his recent research titled “Commercialisation of agricultural land and waterbodies and disempowerment of
Child worker tortured, locked in lavatory
A nine-year-old housemaid was injured critically following torture allegedly by her employer in Rajshahi Cantonment, according to the victim’s family and hospital sources. Injured Sonia, daughter of Nobab Ali of Paschim Vatapara of Godagari, was admitted to One Stop Crisis Centre (OCC) of Rajshahi Medical College Hospital (RMCH) on
College girl ‘kills’ herself
A college girl allegedly committed suicide by hanging herself from a ceiling fan with a scarf at her boyfriend’s house at Dakhhingaon area of Sabujbagh in the capital on Wednesday. Police recovered the body of Arpana Akhtar alias Orpa, 18, a first year HSC student of Kamalapur School and College, from her boyfriend Md Rubel’s ... Read more
Cattle trader killed by BSF
Indian border security force (BSF) have killed a cattle trader at Putkhali border early yesterday. The dead was identified as Israfil, 30, son of Abdul Momin, hailed from Syamlagachhi village in Sharsha upazila. Local BGB sources said a small group of traders was returning with cattle they purchased in the Indian side. Israfil was caught ... Read more
Schoolteacher detained for assaulting girl
A schoolteacher was detained for his alleged connection for assaulting a 10-year-old girl in the port city yesterday. The victim is a student of class five of C&B Colony Primary School. Her mother Rajia Sultana said the teacher assaulted her daughter while she was teaching
Young woman stakes life to escape arrest
A 22-year-old girl suffered severe head injuries after two cars in a moment’s succession hit her as she was trying to escape police chase at Farmgate in the city last night. The young woman is now fighting for life at Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH). According to locals and traders, she is a sex worker ... Read more
Telenor crosses 100m mark in Asia
Norway’s Telenor Group now boasts over 100 million subscribers in Asia, achieving a milestone in business advancement in the region, said the world’s front ranking mobile operator yesterday. Sigve Brekke, executive vice president of Telenor Group and head of its Asian Operations, made the announcement at GSMA World Congress 2011 in
Stocks pass chaotic week
Govt sits with merchant bankers today The government sits today with merchant bankers to find ways to bring stability to the troubled stockmarket. The officials of the market regulator will also be present during the talks. The last week went through chaos, as the general index of the prime bourse plunged 9.21 percent amid credit ... Read more
Sundarbans best habitat
Finds joint study The Bangladesh portion of Sundarbans is the best habitat for tigers as this beast of prey here can hunt within the radius of only 15 square kilometres, one of the smallest home range in the globe. This reflects that a tigress here has ample supply food and the forest can potentially support ... Read more
Cricket gala begins
The 10th Cricket World Cup, a 49-match six-week sporting marathon was formally launched by Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina amidst thunderous cheers here this evening in the renovated Bangabandhu National Stadium in a blaze of colour and pageantry. “ It gives me great pleasure to declare the 2011 ICC Cricket World Cup open,” said Sheikh ... Read more
Skippers in rickshaws as World Cup opens
Captains of the 14 competing teams at the World Cup paraded through Dhaka’s historic Bangabandhu Stadium on Thursday in brightly coloured rickshaws, the transport of choice in this teeming city. Protected by a sheet of bullet-proof glass, Bangladesh prime minister Sheikh Hasina watched as home skipper Shakib Al Hasan brought up the rear of the ... Read more
Huge support for Yunus
Former Irish president Mary Robinson has joined the development partners, prominent personalities and corporations in vowing to protect Nobel Laureate Muhammad Yunus from “politically orchestrated” attacks. As many as 50 charities and public figures, including James Wolfensohn, former World Bank president, Jagdish Sharan Verma, former Chief Justice of India, and Yeardley Smith, a
Girl missing on Valentine’s Day found dead
Police recovered the body of a 15-year-old girl from the Dhaka-Narayanganj-Demra (DND) dam on Wednesday night. Ayesha Akhter Tumpa, a student of class-X of Segun Bagicha Rahima High School had been missing since she went out in the evening of
3 tigers poisoned to death
One of poaching gang held with 4 skulls, 3 skins, bones Posing as buyers, forest officials have arrested a member of an organised gang of poachers with four skulls, three hides and 138 bones of tigers at Sharankhola upazila of Bagerhat. The arrested, Jamal Fakir, admitted that he poisoned three tigers to death, and claimed ... Read more
Tourist Police unit this year
Bangladesh police has decided to form a new wing – Tourist Police – within this year, with a view to provide better security to tourists and help develop the sector as an industry. An initial organogram of the new police unit, headed by an additional inspector-general – who will be the director-general – has been ... Read more
UK toughens work visa
The British government has toughened work visa requirements for jobseekers outside the European Union, doing away with the provision for them to settle in the UK. The British Home Office on February 16 unveiled the details of the UK government’s reforms in work visa route. The shake-up is part of the new annual limit on ... Read more
Enchantment at Bangabandhu
The Bangabandhu National Stadium (BNS) has a special place in the hearts of Bangladeshis, as it is where Bangladesh took its first tentative steps in top flight cricket. It had faded a bit when cricket was transferred to the Sher-e-Bangla National Stadium in 2005, but all the passion came roaring back as the revamped venue ... Read more