Unhappy education minister presses for doubling budgetary allocation Education Minister Nurul Islam Nahid yesterday decried shortage of budgetary allocation for education sector and said it is impossible to achieve the goals of this sector with such allocation. During the question hour in parliament, the minister said allocation for education sector is now 14 to 15 ... Read more
Month: February 2011
Local admin slaps ban on rallies around Felani’s house
Tension mounted in the bordering Ramkhana village in Nageshwari of Kurigram as the local unit of Awami League has called a programme at the venue where some BNP leaning freedom fighters and intellectuals are scheduled to hold a rally today in protest at the killing of Felani, a teenage girl, by the Indian border guards. ... Read more
Chandpur rapist held
Madrasa teachers try to bury crime by asking the 11-yr-old victim’s father to marry her off to the 60-yr-old rapist Police yesterday arrested a madrasa teacher from Hajiganj Bazar in Chandpur on charges of raping an 11-year-old girl. Chandpur Additional Police Super Amir Jafar said the accused, Abdul Jalil, had
UP elections schedule this month
The Election Commission at the end of this month will announce the union parishad polls schedule, said Election Commissioner Muhammed Sohul Hussein yesterday. He said the staggered elections would kick off with polls to union parishads in coastal and haor areas. The last elections to over 4,000 union parishads were held in January-March of
Students block road over fellow’s death
Government BL College students on Tuesday blocked the Khulna-Jessore Highway for an hour after one of their fellows died and another was injured in a road accident in the Khulna city. The deceased was identified as Md Abu Shahin, 20, son of Abu Sufian of village Uttar Bdhkashi under Koyra in Khulna and also a ... Read more
Shakib eyes quarterfinals
There is hardly any cricketer in this country equivalent of Shakib Al Hasan on the field and there is not a single man who can be as effervescent as he gets in front of the microphone. In the first official press conference of the World Cup at Hotel Sheraton yesterday, the Bangladesh captain was typically ... Read more
The secret behind the stumps
During every Tigers practice session it is a common scene that computer analyst Nasir Ahmed is seen working with wicketkeeper Mushfiqur Rahim. The reason was simple; the former wicketkeeper has got the additional task of making sure that the young stumper improves his keeping skill. When the Bogra-lad was picked in the World Cup team ... Read more
Mashrafee, Siddons fall apart
Former captain Mashrafee bin Murtaza exchanged some heated words with coach Jamie Siddons on Tuesday following a recent comment of the Australian about his fitness. They fell apart after the coach told reporters on Sunday that he had no interest in Mashrafee, who is not in the World Cup squad and was yet to regain ... Read more
Good luck Tigers
Let’s start with my regular conversations with Pakistani legend Javed Miandad. While working together with him for the development of Chinese cricket I have the chance to meet him regularly and we often share our views about many cricketing issues. It makes me really proud when he speaks so highly about the current Bangladesh side. ... Read more
‘Potter’ Tamim’s favourite
Room to Read, an organisation which focuses on increasing literacy and gender equality in education will be partnered by the ICC in promoting the global literacy campaign during the 2011 World Cup. Among the cricket-playing countries in which Room to Read publishes books, establishes libraries and builds schools are Cricket World Cup hosts Bangladesh, India ... Read more
AB Bank TT
Mahbub and Saleha lifted singles titles of the 31st AB Bank Table Tennis Championship in Chittagong yesterday. Mahbub defeated his Ansar teamate Manosh 3-2 in the men’s singles final while Saleha defeated Soma 3-2 in the women’s singles
Canada arrive today
Canada will be the first World Cup team to arrive in Dhaka when they land at the Hazarat Shahjalal International Airport through an Emirates flight today at 7:30pm. The team, led by right-handed batsman Ashish Bagai will play their first warm-up match against hosts Bangladesh at the Zahur Ahmed Chowdhury Stadium in Chittagong on February ... Read more
National Tennis
Three participants confirmed their place in the quarter-finals of the men’s singles in the Sony National Tennis Championship at the Ramna Tennis Complex on Tuesday. Top seeded Amol Roy defeated Khandakar Mamun 6-3, 6-4, Lakhsman Lal beat Mizanur Rahman 7-6, 6-0 and Delwar Hossaing overcame Henry Prethul 4-6, 7-6, 5-0 to move to the quarter-finals. ... Read more
DU students grapple with acute residential crisis
Dhaka University is facing an acute residential crisis due to inadequate spaces in residential halls and hostels, according to the last annual report of the University Grants Commission. Nearly 58 per cent of Dhaka University’s students are not allocated a room in the residential halls. As a result, the students live in a poor condition ... Read more
Girl addicted to eating soap
You may have heard about 19-year-old Floridian Tempestt Henderson, the young woman known for eating soap. In the past few weeks, she’s appeared on TLC’s My Strange Addiction, and she’s also been featured on the Daily Mail. IT’S the toxic compulsion that doctors claim could kill her. But this 19-year-old girl claims she is hopelessly ... Read more
How did Katy Perry keep THAT dress on?
It takes a brave woman to step out in almost any of the outfits Katy Perry squeezes her curves into but her latest dress was daring even by her standards. The 26-year-old singer was promoting her newly-released fragrance, Purr, in Mexico City but it was her purple frock that drew most of the attention. Low-cut ... Read more
Australia’s Hussey & Hauritz out of World Cup
MIKE Hussey and Nathan Hauritz are out of this month’s cricket World Cup after selectors decided they were too much of an injury risk. They will be replaced by South Australian batsman Callum Ferguson and spin bolter Jason Krejza in the 15-man squad which is aiming for Australia’s fourth successive World Cup
Soothsayers on its latest Dhaka tour
Soothsayers, the band from South London, came to liven up the international music festival in Dhaka which ended on Saturday at Sultana Kamal Women Complex in Dhanmondi. The band performed on both days of the festival. The members of Soothsayers include Idris Rahman, a Bangladeshi expatriate living in UK on saxophone and vocal, Robin on ... Read more
Exports post robust growth
Bangladesh registered almost 40 percent growth in exports in the first seven months of the current fiscal year, compared to the same period a year ago. According to the Export Promotion Bureau (EPB), the country exported goods worth $12.18 billion during July-January of fiscal 2010-11, up from $8.7 billion during the same
Investment scenario remains depressed
The investment scenario in the country remained depressed during the second quarter (October-December) of the current fiscal year, but the situation is improving steadily this quarter, said the Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce and Industries in its quarterly economic review on Monday. ‘[But] the acceleration of growth would depend on a speedier implementation of the