Climate Change 3000-mile bus ride to raise awareness A group of environmental filmmakers have set to embark on a countrywide bus ride across 64 districts to educate the rural people about climate change. They would travel some 3000 miles explaining the undertones of climate change to the rural people in simple words and help them ... Read more
Month: October 2011
JU admission tests schedule published
Jahangirnagar University has published the schedule of the intake tests of its bachelor’s degree courses under academic session 2011-12. The tests will begin on October 8. The seat plan will be available on mobile phone from October 7. To know the sitting arrangement, the aspirants have been asked to type JU<Space> SP<Space>Roll Number and send
CDA website hacked
The official website of Chittagong Development Authority (CDA) was hacked yesterday. Engineer Mostafa Jaman, CDA systems analyst of IT department, admitted to the incident and said they found that the website was hacked when they opened it around 9:30am. In primary investigation, the timing of the hacking or as to who hacked the website could ... Read more
Speaker vows to save JS premises
Says metro rail route won’t be allowed to run through Sangsad Bhaban complex Jatiya Sangsad Speaker Abdul Hamid has vowed not to allow the proposed metro rail road to run through the parliament premises as it would spoil the architectural splendour of the famed complex. “I will not allow it within the 215-acre premises of ... Read more
Power price hike proposal placed
Two top power distribution companies owned by the government – Power Development Board (PDB) and Dhaka Power distribution Company (DPDC) – on Wednesday placed their respective proposals to raise the price of electricity at the consumers’ level. According to the PDB proposal per unit power tariff for residential use would go up to Tk 2.80 ... Read more
2.68 lakh workers set to be regular
Bangladeshis in Malaysia 2.68 lakh workers set to be regular Malaysian home minister says his country needs all those who get registered under amnesty scheme. All the 2.68 lakh irregular Bangladeshi workers registered under Malaysia’s amnesty programme will be regularised from October 10 and given jobs, officials at the Bangladesh High Commission in Kuala Lumpur ... Read more
Tough act to control MLM business in the offing
Direct sales law in a month: Faruk Khan The government is going to enact a tough law barring Multi-Level Marketing (MLM) companies from running the business of immovable properties like lands, buildings, smuggled goods, extreme fundamentalism books and office spaces. Besides, proposed law will restrict MLM companies conduct buy and sale of 21 products. The
Bangladesh may feel the heat
Grain Exporters’ Protectionism Bangladesh may feel the heat Bangladesh might get hurt by rising world agricultural prices due to protectionism of grain exporting countries. “Export taxes and export restrictions lower prices domestically [in exporting countries] but increases world food prices, thereby affecting food importing countries like Bangladesh,” said Antoine Bouet, a senior research fellow of ... Read more
Durga Puja ends today
The five-day celebration of Durga Puja, the biggest religious festival of Hindus, winds up today with the immersion of the goddess’ idols across the country. Devotees will bid a solemn farewell to their deity Durga and her children Lakshmi, Saraswati, Kartik and Ganesh through immersion after inviting her to return next
1800 secondary schools are under-performing
Around 1,800 secondary schools are performing poorly or not at all, yet the teachers at such institutions are continuing to receive salaries from the public exchequer, the government has found. Education ministry officials said that warnings will be sent to the heads of every blacklisted school. If the schools fail make improvements within a short ... Read more
India launches cheapest tablet PC
India launched what it says is the world’s cheapest touch-screen tablet computer yesterday, priced at just $35. Costing a fraction of Apple’s iPad, the subsidised Aakash is aimed at students. It supports web browsing and video conferencing has a three-hour battery life and two USB ports, but questions remain over how it will
Good start key: Riyad
Mahmudullah Riyad is usually a man of few words, but the newly-appointed vice-captain of the Tigers makes his point precisely. Despite the West Indies having the ICC Emerging Player of the Year, Devender Bishoo, as their leading spinner, the Tigers are concerned of the opposition pace attack. Kemar Roach, Ravi Rampaul and Carlos Brathwaite make ... Read more
An opportunity, not revenge for Sammy
The only two times Darren Sammy played Tests against Bangladesh were during the 2-0 defeat in 2009. But earlier this year, he was at the helm when the Tigers were shot out for 58 runs. Despite the World Cup West Indies would be willing to reverse those Test defeats but are not yet calling this ... Read more
Batsmen vs WI
Shahriar to lead BCB XI Shahriar Nafees will lead a batsman-heavy BCB XI side against West Indies in the first practice match at the Fatullah Cricket Stadium on Friday. The left-handed Nafees, who is part of the Tigers’ ODI plans but was ignored for the only Twenty20 against the tourists, will have Junaed Siddiqui, Mohammad ... Read more
Hungry for more
Siddikur Rahman rose to stardom when he became the first Bangladeshi golfer to win an Asian Tour event (Brunei Open in August 2010). Since then, he has been there or thereabouts amongst the top Asians wherever he played, even though he hasn’t managed to win another tour event. Hungry for more success, Siddikur now feels ... Read more
Fake boobs save woman’s life
Who would have thought that breast implants could be a life-saving device? A Russian woman has survived a potentially fatal attack because of her bagful of jelly. The 40-year-old had a nasty fight with her husband in Moscow before he stabbed her with a knife in the chest. Fortunately, the knife did not go through ... Read more
First super bus made in Holland
The first super bus has been developed in Holland costing 7 million pounds and was flown to the United Arab Emirates where it will be used by a sheikh. The super bus crafted with state-of-the-art materials which seats 23 passengers and had a top speed of 155mph. The hi-tech bus means the sheikh will be ... Read more
Lalon will regale Italians
Italy will be introduced to the works and philosophy of the mystic bard Lalon Fakir when a three-day festival featuring films on him, made by acclaimed director Tanvir Mokammel, and a seminar are held in Rome, from October 14. Mokammel told The Daily Star that his feature film “Lalon” and documentary “Achin Pakhi” will be ... Read more
Varied uses of a flute
The innovative Rethey Tudu Rethey Tudu, an octogenarian Santal of Dinajpur, has developed a new technique to put his six-holed bamboo stick to good use. The invention is now an inseparable part of his life — as a flute, a walking stick and more. “Sometime I use the stick for hunting too,” asserts the elderly ... Read more
Puja in the air
Puja days are here again. A time to look back on what the festival meant in days gone by and how it’s celebrated now. Pijush Bandyopadhyay After a year, Sharodiyo Durga Puja is back again. My heartiest well wishes to all. During our childhood we’d wait eagerly for the Puja festivities to begin. Buying new ... Read more