Raped Girl Whipped to Death Police, post-mortem miss injury marks Neither the police inquest nor the post-mortem found any injury marks on Hena’s body though the entire national media quoting numerous witnesses reported she had been whipped to death following a fatwa at Chamta village of the district. The Daily Star studied both the reports ... Read more
Month: February 2011
Stock plunge sparks fresh protests
Hundreds of general investors took to the streets and blocked the busy road at Motijheel in the capital on Sunday as the general index of the Dhaka Stock Exchange plunged by 406.29 points three weeks after another massive collapse on January 20. Investors came out of brokerage houses to assemble on the road passing by ... Read more
BTRC to dog fake IMEI users
Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission (BTRC) has told all private mobile telephone operators to install equipment identify register (EIR) devices, by November this year, to track and identify handsets using fake International Mobile Equipment Identity (IMEI) numbers. According to a BTRC official, the regulatory body issued the instruction to the mobile operators following failure
Nipah death toll reaches 25
Death toll from encephalitis caused by nipah virus at Hatibandha in Lalmonirhat reached 25 with two who died on Sunday, local people said. The Institute of Epidemiology, Disease Control and Research director, Mahmudur Rahman, in Dhaka confirmed the death of two more patients at Hatibandha on Sunday, taking the
Climate fallout to trigger migration
ADB study focuses on more challenges for Bangladesh Bangladesh will face mounting challenge of resettling and rehabilitating the people displaced by climate change, says an Asian Development Bank study. The country is already at high risk of catastrophic environmental hazards and floods from sea surges, river flow, rainfall and coastal and riverbank erosion that are ... Read more
Frequent changes in directives unnerve investors: experts
Frequent changes in the directives by the stock market regulators and a decreased participation of large and institutional investors have resulted in the current crisis in the Dhaka bourse which collapsed again on Sunday, analysts said. They said a section of institutional investors, who had already taken away from the market
GMG increases flights from Ctg to Kolkata
Private carrier GMG Airlines has increased flight frequencies on Chittagong-Kolkata route recently, GMG said in a statement yesterday. The daily flights will start from Shah Amanat International Airport in Chittagong to Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose International Airport in Kolkata. Earlier there were three flights a
Siddons not interested in ‘unfit’ Mashrafee
The return of paceman Mashrafee bin Murtaza to competitive cricket hardly impressed coach Jamie Siddons despite the injury-prone bowler performing decently in his comeback match for Abahani in the Dhaka Premier League on Saturday. Mashrafee bowled all 10 overs of his quota to return with a wicket conceding 55 runs and
Siddik clinches title
Siddikur Rahman’s remarkable performance won him the title of the Grameenphone Bangladesh Masters after conclusion of the final day’s play at the Kurmitola Golf Club on Sunday. Siddik completed an incredible wire-to-wire triumph to collect $13,125 (Tk 93 lakh) from the first ever Asian Development Tour tournament in
Opening ceremony tickets from Feb 10
The tickets for the ICC World Cup 2011 opening ceremony will go on sale from February 10 at different branches of Dhaka Bank, Bangladesh Cricket Board president AHM Mustafa Kamal said on Sunday. Around 10,000 tickets for the opening ceremony will be sold through the bank while the rest 15,000 will be distributed among the ... Read more
Shakib champions Think Wise
Bangladesh cricket captain and Think Wise Champion Shakib Al Hasan said it becomes his duty to inform the youth about the horrors of HIV and AIDs and to make others informed about the human rights the afflicted people are entitled to. “I have recently joined Think Wise Campaign as a part of my social responsibility. ... Read more
Rahmatganj, Brothers win away
Rahmatganj MFS and Brothers Union won their away matches of the Grameenphone Bangladesh League beating respective rivals at different venues yesterday. A first-half goal from Idris Kasirye helped Rahmatganj edge past neighbouring Farashganj SC to maintain their third position with 13 points from seven matches, one point less
Messi hat-trick puts Barça 10 points clear
Lionel Messi’s brilliant hat-trick fired Barcelona to a 3-0 win over Atlético Madrid that set a record for consecutive La Liga victories of 16 and stretched their lead over Real Madrid at the top to 10 points. The Argentine World Player of the Year struck twice in 12 first-half minutes and again in the 79th ... Read more
Mini World Cup begins
Mirpur Bangla School and College beat Scholastica in the opening match of the Mini Cricket World Cup, a tournament for the different schools of Dhaka and Chittagong, at the Dhanmondi Cricket Stadium yesterday. In the other matches, Dhaka Ideal School, Willes Little Flower School and Rayer Bazar High School won their respective
2 centres get separate question sets
SSC Exams 2 centres get separate question sets Two examination centres under Dhaka Education Board received separate question sets on the third day of Secondary School Certificate (SSC) and equivalent examinations yesterday. The examinees under Keraniganj and Netrakona centres discovered that they received another question set when they compared theirs with other centres, said some ... Read more
Feast of Saint Anthony celebrated
The feast of Saint Anthony was celebrated at Nagori Church in Kaliganj on Friday, says a press release. The programme began with a procession, leading to offering and prayer with religious songs. The 30,000 attendants prayed to Saint Anthony for blessing. Archbishop Paulnus Costa offered the mass (prayer) participated by 50
Chernobyl birds small brained
Birds living around the site of the Chernobyl nuclear accident have 5 percent smaller brains, an effect directly linked to lingering background radiation. The finding comes from a study of 550 birds belonging to 48 different species living in the region, published in the journal PLoS One. Brain size was significantly smaller in yearlings compared ... Read more
Retirement age to be increased to 60 years
Civil service law draft finalised The government has proposed to increase the retirement age of civil service members to 60 years from the existing 57 years in the draft of the Civil Service Bill 2010 as it has put the draft into the final form. The draft also proposes that the civil service members would ... Read more
Nipah kills 4 more
Prevention stressed as no specific treatment or vaccine available Nipah encephalitis claimed four more lives in Rangpur and Lalmonirhat, raising the death toll to 24. The government sources, however, said 16 people died of the disease in last few days and 23 people are taking treatment at Rangpur Medical College and Hospital (RMCH) and Hatibandha ... Read more
Floating people lose shelter
City facelift for Cricket World Cup With the capital city getting a facelift on the eve of World Cup Cricket the floating population were dislodged from their make shift shanties, mostly on the roadsides. The ultra poor numbering about 30,000 suddenly woke up to the stark reality of losing the last shelter. They have just ... Read more