BRAC Bank steps into 11th year BRAC Bank to touch millions through mobile financial service BRAC Bank, one of the leading private banks of the country, at a press conference disclosed that millions of banked and unbanked people of the country will get access to banking services through mobile phones from subsidiary of BRAC Bank, ... Read more
Month: July 2011
ICAB training course on IFRS begins
A training course on IFRS organised by the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Bangladesh (ICAB) has begun at ICAB auditorium in the city on Friday. Dr. Atiur Rahman, governor of Bangladesh Bank, inaugurated the training course as the chief guest, says a press release. Jamal Uddin Ahmad, past president of ICAB and conducted the course ... Read more
‘One falls victim every 4 days’
Extrajudicial Killing ‘One falls victim every 4 days’ At least one person on an average becomes the victim of extra-judicial killing in every four days, a human rights watchdog reveals in a report. Odhikar, the rights organisation, on Friday, disclosed the report prepared on the basis of news published in the country’s 12 dailies, says
College girl dies of snake bite
A female college student died from a snake bite followed by wrong treatment in the city’s Meherchandi area yesterday. The victim Jamila Akhtar Jhuma was in her first year at Arabic department of Rajshahi Government College and daughter of rickshaw-van puller
Govt plans smart card for ultra-poor
The government has planned to introduce “smart card” for the ultra-poor to bolster its social safety net schemes and strengthen cooperation among ministries directly linked with such programmes. A meeting chaired by Cabinet Secretary A Abdul Aziz last month discussed in this regard and instructed the ministries and divisions concerned to work on it. The ... Read more
Rajuk corruption makes Dhaka an unplanned city
TIB research reveals Although it is the responsibility of the Rajuk to ensure sustainable development of Dhaka city, the capital has turned into a haphazard, unplanned and unmanageable city due to ineptness and limitless corruption of the authority. Besides, irregularities in plan permission, land use clearance, building permission and other
The story & esoteric significance of Rath Yatra
By Dr. Subrato Ghosh for The News Today The story of the origin of Rath Yatra given by the Goswamis is practically unknown. As the gopis think and cry for Krishna, so He too was always immersed in their thought and would feel acute pangs of separation. HISTORY OF RATHA-YATRA Once Krishna was deeply thinking ... Read more
Faulty work blamed for wall collapse
4 engineers suspended; death toll in Ctg landslide rises to 17 Faulty construction and lack of maintenance of the wall built by the Chittagong City Corporation to protect the Batali hill caused Friday’s tragic death of 17 people living in the foothill shanties. “Just by looking at the wall, we can easily find some faults ... Read more
Six students, driver killed in Noakhali road accident
Six students, who included two siblings, were killed in a traffic accident on their way to school and college at Begumganj on the Maijdee-Choumuhani Road in Noakhali on Saturday morning. The accident took place between Ekhlaspur and Maijdee, five kilometres off the district headquarters, about 9:30am when a bus rammed into a human hauler which ... Read more
No students’ elections in DU for 20 years
90 years of Dhaka University No students’ elections in DU for 20 years No Dhaka University Central Students’ Union elections for more than 21 years have prevented the university students from exercising their democratic rights to elect leaders to represent their interest and from organising extracurricular activities important for their development, academics claimed. It has, ... Read more
Oil-gas body observes strike today
The national committee to protect, oil, gas, mineral resources, power and ports observes a general strike in the capital for six hours today to press home its seven-point demand including cancellation of the deals signed with ConocoPhillips for the exploration and extraction of gas in two offshore gas fields. Leaders of the organisation at a ... Read more
Shab-e-Barat July 17
Shab-e-Barat, the night of divine blessings for the Muslims, will be observed on the night of July 17, according to a decision of National Moon Sighting Committee Saturday. The committee, which held a meeting with the religious affairs secretary, Quazi Habibul Awal, in the chair, also decided to count Arabic month of ‘Shaban’ from July ... Read more
3 die in city building fire3 die in city building fire
Three employees of an event management firm died in a multi-storey building at Bijoy Nagar in Dhaka early Saturday. Minarul Sheikh, 25, and Yakub, 25, of Sirajganj, and Rahat, 32, of Jamalpur, who died in the fire, were asleep in their office, Step Media Limited, on the fifth floor of Skylark Point when the fire
4 killed, 7 injured as train rams into 3-wheeler in Natore
Four people were killed and six injured on Saturday morning as a train hit a three-wheeler at a level crossing in Natore. Sources said the accident happened as the train, Chilahati-bound Titumeer Express coming from Rajshahi, rammed into a locally made three-wheeler known as bhotbhoty carrying 10 to 12 passengers
BSF kills 1, injures another on Sylhet border
The Indian Border Security Force shot and killed Ashraful Islam, an 18-year old Bangladeshi day-labourer and left another injured at Companiganj border in Sylhet Friday night. Son of Abdul Ahad, the victim hailed from the village Bagarpar in Companiganj upazila. Ilas Miah, 24, was admitted to the Sylhet Osmani Medical College Hospital, sources in
Jamalpur school girl gang-raped
Her family under threat from offenders A school girl in the district town of Jamalpur was gang raped by three men, two them neighbours for three days beginning June 25 who later fled leaving her at a relative’s house. A student of class IX at Bogabaid High School, the victims is the daughter of rickshaw ... Read more
Banks’ profits beat expectations
Most private banks clocked up significant growth in profit in the six months to June despite a fall in contributions from the stockmarket although they claimed a liquidity crisis over the period. Data from 23 private commercial banks shows that 16 of them logged profit growth ranging between 8 percent and 125 percent. Thirty private ... Read more
Wimbledon title goes to Kvitova
Petra Kvitova stunned favourite Maria Sharapova to win her first Grand Slam title with a 6-3, 6-4 victory in the women’s singles final at Wimbledon here Saturday. The 21-year-old eighth seed became only the third Czech woman to triumph at Wimbledon after nine-time champion Martina Navratilova and Jana Novotna, who were both in Centre Court’s ... Read more
No NCL one-dayer in domestic calendar
Bangladesh Cricket Board has dropped the one-day version of National Cricket League from the calendar of the coming season on the pretext of too much cricket. The domestic cricket calendar for the 2011-12 season, prepared by cricket operations committee, was approved on Saturday without the one-day version of
L’Equipe cleared
Nicolas Anelka has lost his legal action against L’Equipe, the French sports daily the Chelsea star had accused of libel after it published his foul-mouthed World Cup tirade at Raymond Domenech. L’Equipe found itself in the dock after publishing a front page account of Anelka’s outburst at Domenech at half-time of France’s Group A game ... Read more