The officials from the National Board of Revenue (NBR) have alleged that the mobile phone operators in Bangladesh evade SIM tax, by hiding the number of their actual subscriber base. The NBR officials said that some investigations of the board had revealed that lots of mobile numbers, from different operators, were found “active”, while as ... Read more
Month: October 2011
GP, Jaago to launch pilot ‘online classroom’
Grameenphone (GP) in partnership with Jaago Foundation is going to initiate a venture named “Online Classroom” with the aim to ensure high quality education in both sub-urban and rural areas of Bangladesh. A signing ceremony between Grameenphone and Jaago Foundation took place in this regard recently. Tore Johnsen, chief executive officer, GP and Korvi Rakshand, ... Read more
Our own laptop
Telephone Shilpa Sangstha (TSS), Bangladesh, where analogue phone sets were manufactured long before the digital dominance, will now be the hub for assembling Doel netbooks and laptops. Named after the national bird, Doel is the first ever laptop brand to be assembled in Bangladesh, which is believed to revolutionise the high tech industry of the ... Read more
Splendid Simmons keeps Tigers at bay
Expectations got the better of the Tigers yesterday in the first one-dayer against the West Indies at the Sher-e-Bangla National Stadium. A defeat of 40 runs was a justifiable result as Bangladesh was erratic with the ball, slack in the field while ultimately the batsmen too flattered to deceive. The energy and smartness of Tuesday’s ... Read more
Wicket’s faulty: Mushfiq
Smart cricket was found nowhere in Bangladesh’s approach as West Indies bounced back in the series with a comfortable 40-run victory in the first ODI of the three-match series at the Sher-e-Bangla National Stadium in Mirpur yesterday. On a batting track, the home side’s bowling attack that included the slow bowlers, the main
Century-old trees go
Netrakona admin, forest dept defy HC order, keep plundering Birishiri greens Defying a High Court order, the Netrakona Zila Parishad and the forest department continued chopping down century-old trees yesterday beside a road near the Baptist church in Birishiri. The High Court on Tuesday directed the government to maintain status quo for 10 days on ... Read more
‘Low vision leads to 60 deaths per 10,000 accidents’
Speakers at a free eye care camp yesterday said 60 people die in every 10,000 road accidents in Bangladesh which is mainly caused by, among others, low vision and refractive errors. Dhaka Urban Comprehensive Eye Care Project (DUCECP) organised the camp for transport vehicle drivers, supervisors and helpers in the city’s Mohakhali Bus Terminal marking
Stalker stabs teacher to death
Accused held A pregnant school teacher was stabbed to death for resisting unwanted amorous advances by a Jubo League activist in Agoiljhara upazila of Barisal yesterday. Police arrested Sirajul Islam alias Abul Gomosta, 35 in this connection. According to locals, he is known as an errant figure with a position in the upazila unit youth ... Read more
DU Ka unit seat plan published
Seat plan for Ka unit first year honours admission test at Dhaka University (DU) under academic session 2011-2012 has been published, says a press release. Admission test for Ka unit (faculty of science) will be held on October 14 from 10:00 am to 11:45 am in 65 exam centres on and outside the
English language fair generates enthusiasm
The premises of St Joseph Higher Secondary School echoed with loud cheers and much jubilation with the participation of around 700 students in an English Language Fair that kicked off in the city yesterday. Under English in Schools (EIS) programme, The Daily Star and Robi jointly organised the fair in coordination with the education ministry ... Read more
Happy on clean Ctg streets
Omar Faruk, an A-level student of Sunshine Grammar School and College, looked very pleased yesterday as he along with a hundred mates just finished a clean-up campaign on different streets that surround their school compound in the port city. “I am satisfied as I have performed my duty as a citizen of the country,” he ... Read more
PM unveils locally assembled laptop
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday unveiled a locally assembled low-cost laptop — Doel — in a major step towards spreading the uses of ICT across the country as part of her election promise to make the country a “Digital Bangladesh”. The much-talked Doel laptop will be available in four different models at Tk 10,000, Tk
A huge digital step forward
Tk 10,000 Bangladeshi laptop hits market in week The first Bangladesh-assembled laptop “Doel” will take a week to hit the market though Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina launched its marketing yesterday. Telephone Shilpa Sangstha (TSS), a public company assigned to manufacture the laptop, has so far made 6,000 laptops and netbooks for
Smartness in all facets
In the end, it was a matter of choice. With his side needing four runs from two balls, Mushfiqur Rahim was presented with a shorter length ball from Ravi Rampaul. He swung from the hips, a sort of swat-pull that landed over their dressing-room and bounced into the Sher-e-Bangla National Stadium Grandstand. In a similar ... Read more
Mushfiq a captain’s dream
Scarcely had the ball sailed over the thirty-yard circle did Mushfiqur Rahim let out a war cry signalling victory, that too in his first match as captain of the Tigers. It all seemed to be slipping away just as it had in that heartbreaking third ODI against Zimbabwe in Harare in mid-August, when Mushfiq had ... Read more
Captain clinches a cliffhanger
One can dream many things, no matter how big it is, but it’s not always that the dream comes true in real life. But it happens sometimes when someone like Mushfiqur Rahim appears bigger than his stature. When the Bogra-lad hit a length ball over the deep mid-wicket boundary, a memorable chapter was in Bangladesh ... Read more
Metro to follow revised route
PM sees no damage to JS complex Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday said the modified metro rail route would not ruin the main architectural design of the parliament complex. Hasina told the weekly cabinet meeting that the modified route would not cut through the preserved area of the structural masterpiece designed by Louis I Kahn ... Read more
Myanmar to stop road construction
Bandarban Border Myanmar to stop road construction Assures it will remove barbed wire fencing from zero line Myanmar yesterday assured Bangladesh of postponing the construction of a road close to the zero line of Tambru frontier under Ghumdhum union of Naikkhongchhari upazila in Bandarban. The neighbouring country has also pledged to relocate the barbed wire ... Read more
Light not thrown on graft allegations yet
Muhith admits World Bank halts Padma Bridge funding; bins propaganda against Yunus The World Bank has “temporarily halted” funding the Padma Bridge project and is waiting for the government’s response to its allegations of corruption in the tender process for the project. The government has not yet made it clear what the graft allegations are, ... Read more
Stalkers on the rampage
Assault victim, mother, two brothers over protest A group of stalkers beat up an eighth-grader, her mother and two brothers for protesting harassment of the girl at Kalachandpur of the city’s Gulshan Sunday night. Police detained two persons including one of the alleged stalkers Jamal in this connection. The injured are Bipasha Rani Barman, 14, ... Read more