Ignores pilferage and system loss Dhaka Water Supply and Sewerage Authority is considering raising the water tariff instead of taking any substantial steps to end water pilferage and reduce system loss to make itself a sustainable organisation. The Dhaka WASA has already submitted a proposal to the government for increasing the water price by about ... Read more
Month: March 2011
Dhaka-Aricha Road blocked as woman dies in road mishap
A mob blocked the Dhaka-Aricha Road and set fire to a bus after an unnamed woman died in a road accident at Radio Colony of Savar in Dhaka on Friday morning. Sources said local people had set on fire the bus that killed the woman and vandalised some other buses. Traffic on the road remained ... Read more
Train crushes university student
A private university student was crushed under the wheels of a train Wednesday night at the city’s Khilkhet rail crossing. The dead identified as Tanjid Hossain Mohan, 23, son of Mohammad Mojibur Rahman and a student of American International University, used to reside with his family at Nikunja-2. The body sliced into four pieces was ... Read more
Angry fans vandalise vehicles
Attack Shakib’s Magura house Cricket fans vented anger on their ‘beloved’ team by smashing windshields of several cars and calling the Tigers ‘Royal Bengal Goats’ after the Bangladesh team was bundled out for petty 58 runs by West Indies at the Sher-e-Bangla Stadium in Dhaka on Friday. The nine-wicket loss to West Indies prompted irate ... Read more
Dejected Sakib sad for fans
Sakib al Hasan perhaps never expected to come to a press conference so early on a day that he started so perfectly after calling the coin correctly against West Indies on Friday. But the game was over in a flash, even before many of the fans could realise what had happened, forcing Sakib to walk ... Read more
We had a point to prove: Sammy
West Indies skipper Darren Sammy said they deserved to be treated as a better team than Bangladesh despite their recent drop in ranking and defeat to the Tigers on home soil. West Indies bowled out Bangladesh for their lowest ever total of 58 runs before completing a nine-wicket victory inside 13 overs, which Sammy hoped ... Read more
Thinking it was the Tigers
The West Indies cricket team yesterday fell victim to a case of mistaken identity amidst widespread frustration when their team bus was hit by rocks and stones near the roundabout at Mirpur 10 by fans who thought that that it was carrying the Bangladesh side. Two windows of the bus were shattered, according to police ... Read more
‘Removal’ rolls into HC
Order on Yunus’ petition Sunday; Nobel hero wants a ‘graceful solution’ to his departure from Grameen Professor Muhammad Yunus yesterday went to court challenging the central bank order that removed him from the post of managing director of Grameen Bank, while the wider international community showed its displeasure at the way the Nobel prize winner ... Read more
Border wait gets longer
When thousands of Bangladeshis are crowding the Tunisian and Egyptian borders to escape the Libyan conflict, and international agencies are struggling for evacuation, the Bangladesh government is still “assessing its capacity” to bring the Bangladeshis home. Ever since the violent conflict began in mid-February in the North African country to oust its
US deeply troubled
Moriarty says Hillary-Yunus meet Mar 28; diplomats, donors worried, frustrated Foreign diplomats in Bangladesh have sharply reacted to the government’s move to remove Nobel laureate Prof Muhammad Yunus from Grameen Bank and none of them took it positively. They said they never thought that the government could make such an extreme move against an internationally ... Read more
Tigers await a cracker of contest
In a crucial match for their quarter-final bid, Bangladesh will meet West Indies today at the Sher-e-Bangla National Stadium hoping to keep up the momentum they had gained in a nail-biting finish against Ireland. If there is any game that holds the fate of the group, this is the one, which will be contested between the ... Read more
Arguments at court
Appearing for Prof Muhammad Yunus, eminent jurist Dr Kamal Hossain prayed for a ruling on the government to explain why the Bangladesh Bank’s “letter of removal” should not be declared illegal. He also prayed for a stay order on the effectiveness of the central bank’s letter. Nobel laureate Yunus at the High Court yesterday challenged ... Read more
Image dented
Admits Muhith, but says ‘we had no other alternative’ Bangladesh’s image has been dented due to the government’s “removal” of Nobel laureate Professor Muhammad Yunus from Grameen Bank, Finance Minister AMA Muhith admitted yesterday. “It has not lifted the country’s image at all, but we had no other alternative,” he told journalists after a meeting ... Read more
Waiting in agony and love
A sexagenarian was standing at the security barrier outside the arrival lounge at Hazrat Shahjajal International Airport on Thursday. Whenever any man came out from inside, his eyes was darting towards his face and then his face was breaking into a mask of disappointment, anxiety, fear, and extreme tiredness. He is Kazi Fazlu, a dealer ... Read more
7 car thieves held with stolen cars
Police arrested seven car thieves and seized two private cars and two motor bikes from their possessions in separate drives at Gazipur Chowrasta and Mirpur in the capital yesterday. Kazi Wazed Ali, officer-in-charge of Mirpur Police Station, said acting on a tip-off, a patrol team waylaid a private car at Technical of Mirpur and arrested ... Read more
Amur tigers in population crisis
The effective population of the critically endangered Amur tiger is now fewer than 14 animals, say scientists. Approximately 500 Amur tigers actually survive in the wild, but the effective population is a measure of the genetic diversity of the world’s largest cat. Very low diversity means any vulnerability to disease or rare genetic disorders is ... Read more
Yunus ‘removed’
Central Bank issues letter to Grameen Bank; Grameen terms it a legal issue, insists the Nobel hero still holds office Dr Muhammad Yunus, the man who brought a Nobel Prize for Bangladesh, and the most celebrated living Bangladeshi around the globe, was unceremoniously relieved of his duties at Grameen Bank yesterday through a Bangladesh Bank ... Read more
8,000 out on Libya borders
348 arrive on IOM-arranged flight, 36 others fly in on their own Around 8,000 Bangladeshis who could get evacuated troubled Libya are now languishing at the Egyptian and Tunisian borders with little food and water coupled with extreme night chill, only to get back home. The aggrieved evacuees said the Bangladesh government has not done ... Read more
Micro-credit borrowers baffled
Prof Muhammad Yunus’ removal from the post of Grameen Bank’s managing director surprised many of its borrowers, who dubbed him the pathfinder in elevating them from poverty. Ayesha Khatun of Noorpur in Pabna took a Tk 130,000 loan from Grameen Bank on November 10, 2009 to help her son run a computer
Unfair, ominous
Say economists, Yunus admirers; US embassy ‘deeply troubled’ by move Economists with huge policy-making experience denounced the way the government decided to remove Prof Muhammad Yunus from the Nobel Prize winning Grameen Bank. Prof Wahiduddin Mahmud, Dr Hossain Zillur Rahman, and Dr Debapriya Bhattacharya said the move will send a negative signal to the country’s ... Read more