Public universities can accommodate only half of successful HSC candidates Over half of the students who came out successful in this year’s HSC and equivalent examinations will be denied enrolment at the public universities due to shortage of seats. According to the latest annual report of the University Grants Commission, 229,491 students this year will ... Read more
Month: July 2011
Operators of PSTN fight uneven battle
The absence of competitive tariffs and licences for multiple revenue schemes hinders the level-playing field of the privately owned public switched telephone network (PSTN)-commonly known as fixed land phone operators, who have already become pawn in the country’s telecom chess-board. The telecom ministry and the Bangladesh Telecommuni-cation Regulatory Commission (BTRC) have recently
HC summons RAJUK head, others over student death
The High Court on Wednesday asked the RAJUK chairman, two officers-in-charge (OCs) and sub-inspectors (SIs) of Sher-e-Bangla Nagar and Pallabi police stations, managing director and a director of the Sagufta group and contractors Osman Ali and Sazzad to appear before it on August 2 in connection with the death of a college student. The HC ... Read more
Too good, but too late
Bangladesh Win World Cup Pre-Qualifier 2nd-Leg 2-0 Too good, but too late So the World Cup dream of Bangladesh is over. But not before the boys of Nikola Ilievski put up a show that was spectacularly daring. The only thing missing was perhaps the belief that they could overturn Lebanon’s impressive 4-0 home leg advantage. ... Read more
Tamim gets a chance to hit three successive tons
Tamim Iqbal might have missed the golden opportunity to score 1000 runs in Test cricket as first Bangladeshi batsman in 2010 but another record beckons the country’s swashbuckling opener. When the one-off Test against Zimbabwe will begin on August 4, Tamim, arguably the best opener Bangladesh has ever produced will get the chance to hit ... Read more
Tigers’ travel hassle
The Bangladesh cricket team ran into some complications on their journey to Zimbabwe for a Test and five-ODI tour in Doha yesterday. After their long stopover in Doha the Tigers and the accompanying journalists were denied passage to Johannesburg because they were without South African transit visas, the possession of which is a new regulation ... Read more
BB aims at squeezing credit growth in pvt sector
The Bangladesh Bank announced Wednesday its six-monthly monetary policy aiming at squeezing money supply to unproductive sectors and discouraging speculative usage of money to reduce the credit growth in the private sector to 18 per cent by June 30, 2012 from the present 25.5 per cent. BB governor Atiur Rahman announced what he termed an ... Read more
Stocks suffer swings, end in the red
Stocks fluctuated yesterday before settled in the negative zone as the investors went for selling shares to pocket profit. The benchmark general index of Dhaka Stock Exchange, DGEN, shed 14 points or 0.22 percent to end at 6,627. On the port city’s bourse, the selective categories index, CSCX, the main yardstick
Top 20 under Dhaka Board in HSC Exams
City colleges dominate list The educational institutions in the capital dominate the list of top 20 institutions in this year’s HSC examination results under Dhaka Board published yesterday. Only five colleges outside the capital have secured positions in the list of top 20 colleges, prepared by the education ministry, on the basis of five
Fate of 100000 students uncertain for seat crisis
University Admissions Fate of 100000 students uncertain for seat crisis Around 100,000 students who have passed the Higher Secondary Certificate (HSC) and equivalent examinations this year would not be able to get admitted into the country’s public and private universities due to lack of sufficient seats. A total of 574,261 students—310,849 male and 263,412 female—came ... Read more
SM Sultan Utsab begins in Narail tomorrow
SM Sultan Utsab 2011, an event sponsored and supported by mobile phone operator Banglalink, will begin in Narail tomorrow. Sheikh Mohammed Sultan (1923-1994) was one of the legendary painters in Bangladesh. He won the Ekushey Padak in 1982, Bangladesh Charu Shilpi Sangsad award in 1986 and the Independence Award
Hillol sails for silver screen
‘Straightforward’ and ‘jovial’ are the best two words to describe actor Adnan Faruque Hillol, who is widely known as Hillol in the country’s film industry. In a recent conversation with daily sun Hillol talked about himself, his upcoming projects and future plans. Hillol, a familiar face to TV viewers, said, “Confidence and courage are key ... Read more
Hasin tops ‘Veet-Channel i Top Model 2011’
Hasin Rowshan Jahan, an honours student of the Department ofHistory of Dhaka University, has won the country’s first and only female modelhunt contest ‘Veet-Channel i Top Model 2011’ award. She was declared as the top model after performing in thecolourful grand finale of the contest, which was held at a city hotel onTuesday night. Sanzida ... Read more
Class VIII student to appear soon as singer, music director
Prottoy Khan, younger brother of promising singer Hridoy Khan, is going to appear as a singer and music director soon by launching hisdebut album “Prottoy Khan’s FnF”. The album will be released under the banner of Laser Visionin the middle of the month of Ramzan. The album will contain eight songs among which Prottoy will ... Read more
Milon performs in Barisal language
Popular actor Anisur Rahman Milon, for the first time, has performed in the local language of Barisalin a drama serial titled ‘Fourth Class Society’. The serial was directed by Saif Chandan while its story waswritten by Nawmin Kamrun Bidhu. Popular actor Rawnak Hasan has given the ideaof the story. Milon will appear in the serial ... Read more
Boys defeat girls in pass rates
Female students lag behind male students in terms of pass percentage in Higher Secondary Certificate (HSC) and its equivalent examinations this year. The pass percentage of female examinees is 75.01 with 2,63,412 coming out successful among 3,51,153 while 75.14 percent of male students passed the
Madrasa students mark 89pc pass rate
For six straight years, Madrasa Education Board has topped the success charts, among the 10 education boards achieving an astounding 89.57 percent pass rate in this year’s Higher Secondary Certificate (HSC) and equivalent examinations. The average success rate of the board has increased by more than three percent this year compared
Six robbery suspects lynched
Six men said to be getting away after committing a robbery and killing a grocer were beaten to death at Companyganj in Noakhali early Wednesday. The police arrested three other robbery suspects at the place at Miarteka of Charkakra in the upazila. The Companyganj police officer-in-charge, Moham-mad Rafique Ullah, and the local people said that
Police out to ‘frame’ youth
Good to All, Bad to Cops Police out to ‘frame’ youth File third case against DU student Instead of withdrawing two “false” cases against him, police have now implicated Abdul Quader, a biochemistry master’s student of Dhaka University, in a carjacking. Known as a gentle, caring person to his classmates and teachers, Quader has been ... Read more
11 greater dists to be made city corporations
The present government will upgrade the municipalities of 11 remaining old districts to city corporations within its tenure to ensure better civic facilities. LGRD and Cooperatives Minister Syed Ashraful Islam told this to newsmen yesterday emerging from the deputy commissioners’ conference at the cabinet division of