Friday’s cancellation of the National Cricket League matches is just the tip of the iceberg in Bangladesh Cricket Board’s (BCB) continuous disregard for the first-class game. During the first part of the 2011-12 season, the BCB scheduled the NCL into two parts (split by the Eid-ul-Fitr break in mid-November), both of which had domestic international ... Read more
Month: December 2011
Third Bangla Blog Day observed
The word Blog is one of the most spoken words of the year 2011 in the field of social media and communication. Blog has gained increased notice and exposure for their role in breaking, shaping, and spinning news around the world. It is being considered as one of the most alternative powerful tools of the ... Read more
Samsung to roll out Galaxy Note
Samsung rolls out Galaxy Note, latest addition to its Galaxy family, in the local market next week, says a press release. The Note is a combination of tablet and smartphone that reflects the South Korean tech giant’s continuous implementation of innovative ideas. Galaxy Note has been designed for the
Romana Swarna to play in duet roles
Promising TV actress Romana Swarna will be seen playing duet roles in the play titled “Ekjon Ostittohin Manusher Golpo,” which will be scripted and directed by Hanif Palwan. In this play, she will be seen performing as the wife of popular actor Mosharaf Karim and also as his dream girl before their marriage. Romana, for ... Read more
Qubee gets 100,000 likes on FB
Qubee, a WiMax internet service provider, has crossed 100,000 fan base of Qubeezone, its Facebook page. The feat said to be the first for any corporate house in the country. Officials said in addition to traditional ways of promoting (press, radio and billboards), they chose Facebook as it is the perfect way to reach the ... Read more
Abdur Razzak passes away
Veteran Awami League leader Abdur Razzak, one of the key organisers of Bangladesh’s Liberation War in 1971, breathed his last at a London hospital yesterday, thus bringing a 50-year illustrious career in politics to a close. He was 69. Razzak, who was considered a “living history” of the birth of Bangladesh, was suffering
Increased living, production costs feared
Manjurul Ahsan The series of increase in prices of fuel oils and power has kept inflation going up, putting fixed and lower- to middle-income people into misery and adding to industrial production cost After the government has increased fuel oil prices on several occasions in a year, the Bangladesh Energy Regulatory Commission on Thursday increased ... Read more
Silts clog 36 river routes
Lack of funds, dredgers delay cleaning Without ensuring necessary funding, the government seems to be going ahead with its decision to approve a number of dredging projects of the Bangladesh Inland Water Transport Authority (BIWTA) under the shipping ministry, said sources. “The project work is stalled due to lack of dredgers and paucity of funds,” ... Read more
Checking dropouts in a unique way
Children’s parks set up in primary schools in Patuakhali Baufal upazila parishad has taken an innovative approach to help bring down dropouts in government primary schools. It is setting up children’s parks in schools and constructing roads to give students easy access to schools. Encouraged by cent percent pass rate in last year’s class-V terminal ... Read more
Cold wave to continue
People in northern region worst sufferers The mild cold wave that is sweeping over Rajshahi and Rangpur divisions and the regions of Jessore and Kushtia may continue for a few more days, Met Office said. The bone-chilling cold spell with dense fog and biting wind has paralysed normal life mainly in the northern part of ... Read more
Death of worker sparks vandalism
Road Crash in Gazipur Death of worker sparks vandalism Death of a garment worker in a road accident at Shalna in Gazipur yesterday sparked a violent protest from fellow workers, disrupting vehicular movement on the Dhaka-Mymensingh highway for over two hours. Meanwhile, traffic halted on the Dhaka-Mawa highway as well for around an hour after ... Read more
Shakib, a cut above
It was always going to take a very special cricketer to replace a man of Jacques Kallis’s stature. The South African is already regarded as a legend of the game with his unparalleled record with the bat and ball in all formats. By sheer number, Kallis has defeated competition for his throne and has kept ... Read more
Power tariff hiked again
Retail level users to pay 13pc higher effective from Dec 1, another 7pc hike from Feb 1; rise draws flak Electricity price has gone up by Tk 0.55 per unit from December 1 for all retail customers across the country, dealing a blow to general users who consume less. The price of per kilowatt hour ... Read more
Three lakh cases now pending with SC, HC
More than three lakh cases — civil, writ, original and criminal — are pending with the High Court (HC) division and the Appellate Division is yet to dispose of more than 11,000 cases, official sources said. The sources also said the cases were piling up every year due to the poor logistics of the judiciary. ... Read more
Cold-related diseases spread across country
More people succumbed to cold-related ailments yesterday as a severe cold wave with dense fog is sweeping through length and breadth of the country for more than a week. In the last four days, at least 27 people died of cold-related afflictions in Thakurgaon, Jamalpur, Jessore, Rangpur and Satkhira, report our district
A third of South Asians made to pay bribes
Finds Transparency Int’l survey More than one in three South Asians say they were forced to bribe officials in the last year, mainly for services they were legally entitled to, an international anti-graft watchdog said yesterday. A survey released by Berlin-based Transparency International in the Nepalese capital Kathmandu showed bribery has become so endemic that ... Read more
Realtor fined Tk 27 lakh
The Department of Environment (DoE) yesterday fined Rupayan Housing Estate Ltd Tk 27.13 lakh for setting up an unauthorised project in Narayanganj Sadar upazila and violating the environment law. A DoE team led by Muhammad Munir Chowdhury, director (enforcement), conducted the drive in Bhuingargh area of Fatullah. Munir Chowdhury said that in 2009, the company ... Read more
Recovery of Barisal waterbodies demanded
Recovery, re-excavating and preservation of rapidly disappearing major waterbodies in the city and its outskirts were demanded by local elites in Barisal on Thursday. The demands were placed in a meet the press progamme, jointly organised by non-government organisations Parjatan Trust, Campaign for Sustainable Rural Livelihood (CSRL) and Uttarayan, at Barisal Reporters Unity on Thursday. ... Read more
Another accolade for Shakib
Shakib Al Hasan yet again brought up some respect for the struggling Bangladesh cricket team as he became the number-one ranked all-rounder in the Reliance ICC Test Player Rankings, an ICC press release said on Thursday. His outstanding achievement came at the moment when critics raised their vocal high following Bangladesh’s calamitous performance in longer ... Read more
Tarasankar’s Kobi on ntv
A new drama serial based on Tarasankar Bandyopadhyay’s much acclaimed novel “Kobi” goes on air from tonight on ntv. Titled “Kobi”, the serial will be aired on Fridays at 9:45pm. Arif Khan and Shadhon Ahmed have jointly directed the serial. The latter along with Aktaruzzaman has dramatised the serial. Kamol Khalid did the music direction. ... Read more