Mushfiqur Rahim, the tiny boy from Bogra, had never touched a cricket ball until early 2000 when a camp at the Bangladesh Krira Shikha Protishthan got under way in his home town. His uncle Badal, who had been a great source of motivation in his life apart from his parents, took him to the sports ... Read more
Month: February 2011
Sraboni the golden girl
Sraboni the golden girl Sraboni Biswas brought laurel for the nation when she won the gold medal in the 5th Commonwealth Taekwondo Championship beating her Indian counterpart in Chennai yesterday. Sraboni defeated Indian Sonam Rajput 7-5 to win the gold medal in the 67-kg category after her teammate Shahnaj Khatun won a silver medal in ... Read more
Usha to make hockey return
Usha Krira Chakra are set to return to hockey after nine months as the Old Dhaka outfit take part in the Chowdhury Group Shaheed Smriti Hockey tournament, beginning on February 5 at the Maulana Bhasani Hockey Stadium. Usha Krira Chakra, who finished behind Mohammedan in the controversial final of
Street cricket semis tomorrow
Cricket Kids, Tauqeer Sporting Club, Amigos and Orient Sporting Club reached the semifinals of the Polar Street Cricket held at the Sheikh Jamal Dhanmondi Club ground yesterday. The best six teams were divided into two groups and played each other in the quarter final. The two semifinals along with the final will be played tomorrow ... Read more
U-15s win two-dayer
The Bangladesh under-15 cricket team defeated hosts Cricket Association of Bengal Under-15s by an innings and 52 runs in the two-day match at the CAB Academy ground yesterday. Put into bat first, the visitors piled up a huge total on the first day (Saturday) before declaring their innings at 300 for five. Three half-centuries by ... Read more
SSC exams start today
Secondary School Certificate (SSC) and equivalent examinations begin today involving some 13,15,002 examinees from 26,297 educational institutions across the country. Education Minister Nurul Islam Nahid yesterday said the government has taken all-out measures to ensure a peaceful environment and prevent cheating at the examination
Curtain goes up on Amar Ekushey Book Fair today
Curtain goes up on the Amar Ekushey Book Fair 2011, on the Bangla Academy premises today to showcase a month-long festival commemorating the historic language movement of 1952. The prime minister, Sheikh Hasina, will inaugurate the annual event, organised by the Bangla Academy and the Bangladesh Book Publishers and Sellers’ Association, at
Maiden arrests over Buriganga grabbing
3 fined, sued by DoE The Department of Environment (DoE) in a special drive yesterday realised Tk 3.21 lakh in fines from three river grabbers, filed cases and arrested two of them for filling up the Buriganga at three points. This was the first time river grabbers were arrested. The arrestees are Haji Mahbubur Rahman ... Read more
Metro rail route faces modification
The communications ministry is going to modify a part of the first-phase route of Dhaka metro rail considering commuters’ convenience. The route from Uttara Third Phase to TSC of Dhaka University via Pallabi, Farmgate, Sonargaon Hotel will remain unchanged. From TSC, the route will divert towards Curzon Hall, the
Bangladeshis in Egypt safe
Says foreign ministry Bangladeshis living in Egypt faced no troubles so far in the African country where tens of thousands of people are taking to the streets demanding the president’s resignation. “Our people in their workplaces in Egypt are safe,” Wahidur Rahman, director general (Africa) at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs told The Daily Star ... Read more
Star reaches out to students
Launches first-ever e-learning website for Bangla medium students The first ever e-learning website for Bangla medium school students was launched yesterday in a bid to bridge digital divide and boost online education. A joint initiative by The Daily Star and TeamCreative, the site will provide interactive examination papers for mathematics and science-related subjects from class ... Read more
Drive to free Kalyanpur canal in city
Dhaka Water Supply and Sewerage Authority (Wasa) with the help of the district administration yesterday demolished nearly two dozen illegal structures in a drive to free the city’s Kalyanpur canal from encroachers. The eviction team knocked down at least 23 illegal structures including two houses but spared two mosques that encroached upon the
Driver shot dead, microbus hijacked
Hijackers shot dead a driver and stabbed a passenger of a microbus and took it away in the city’s Lalmatia yesterday. The injured passenger, Ivan Ahmed, 25, is taking treatment at Dhaka Medical College Hospital. He introduced himself as a nephew of Shipping Minister Shahjahan Khan and said the owner of the microbus is Azizur ... Read more
Comilla rape victim dies
A sixteen-year-old rape victim, who had 76 percent of her body burnt, succumbed to her wounds early yesterday after fighting for life for seven days at Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH). The deceased, a student of class eight, was seven months into pregnancy following rape by her 35-year-old neighbour Abu Taleb in Comilla Sadar