Friday, July 11, 2025

Shakib, Tamim biggest draws

When the country’s two traditionally popular clubs Abahani and Mohammedan completed their formalities in the Premier League’s inter-club players’ transfers almost silently, Victoria Sporting Club and the newly-promoted Sheikh Jamal Club made their presence felt on the final day bourse at the Bangabandhu National Stadium yesterday

Nokia brings entry-level smartphone

Nokia announced the introduction of Nokia 500, an entry level touchscreen smartphone, in the local market, said a press release. Despite being an entry level smarphone, Nokia 500 is said not to have compromised with quality or performance. It has the Nokia’s fastest processor to date, a 5MP camera, a music and entertainment

Ashraful axed finally for second Test

Shafiul replaces Rubel Mohammad Ashraful has finally been axed from the Bangladesh squad for the second Test match against Pakistan beginning in Dhaka on Saturday. The news came from the man himself who told reporters about his omission on the eve of his transfer to Old DOHS from CCS for the forthcoming

10 pirates killed by Bhola mob

Fishermen, locals in Monpura estuary join police in 3-hour gunfight with pirates Ten pirates wounded in a gunfight with police were later beaten to death by a mob in Bhola’s Bhashan Char on Monpura estuary yesterday afternoon, police said. Also, the police recovered the body of an abducted fisherman from the scene. But it could ... Read more

All she wanted was to study

Husband blindfolds, chops off her hand as punishment, culprit sent to jail She was blindfolded and gagged. Her hands tied. Her husband took out a machete and hacked off her right hand. Her only fault was that she would pursue studies despite her husband’s objections. “I was waiting for a surprise from my expatriate husband ... Read more

Is Ashraful dropped?

BCB yet to name 2nd Test squad Mohammad Ashraful is going to face the music again for his poor batting in the first Test against Pakistan in Chittagong. The national selectors have decided on the 14-member squad without Ashraful for the second and final Test to be held at the Sher-e-Bangla National Stadium in Mirpur ... Read more

Nation pays tributes to martyred intellectuals today

The nation will observe the Martyred Intellectuals’ Day today (Wednesday)  commemorating the  killing of the illustrated sons of the soil  two days before the country’s victory  through a nine month bloody war in 1971. Sensing a humiliating defeat, Pakistani forces with their local collaborators–Rajakar, Al-Badr and Al-Shams– picked up leading  Bengali intellectuals and professionals on ... Read more

Nafees likely to face the chop

Left-handed batsman Shahriar Nafees is likely to face the chop when Bangladesh take on Pakistan in the second Test in Dhaka from Saturday. Nafees was out for a duck in the first innings of the first Test in Chittagong and followed it with a nervy 28 that saw few catches being put down by the ... Read more

Kabir Chowdhury passes away

Kabir Chowdhury, a national professor who became the icon of anti-communalism through his decades-long active stance against the forces of evil and injustice, succumbed to a cardiac arrest in the capital yesterday. The reputed academic, considered as a voice of conscience during many national crises, was 89. According to the family members, Prof Chowdhury breathed ... Read more

Criminal database underway

Rab hopes for quick crime-busting The government is working on a highly-sophisticated criminal database, the first of its kind, to facilitate law enforcers in detecting criminal elements quickly by cross-checking the bank of biometrics and other records. The Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) began implementing the Tk 2.5 crore-project in June last year in cooperation with ... Read more

Unemployment world’s fastest rising fear

Unemployment is the world’s fastest-rising worry, a BBC World Service survey covering 11,000 people in 23 countries suggests. The annual poll, called The World Speaks, gave people a list of concerns and asked which they had discussed with friends or family in the past month. Corruption and poverty still ranked the highest, but unemployment was ... Read more

Highway police seldom seen on highways

Even after six years in operation, the highway police have failed to check road accidents and discipline traffic on highways across the country.  The government in 2005 launched the police unit to ensure a safer highway network and a smooth traffic management system. Highway police officials, however, put the blame on the shortage of manpower ... Read more

Human traffickers to get death

Cabinet okays max punishment in draft bill The cabinet yesterday approved the draft bill on human trafficking with the provision of capital punishment for the heinous offence. The weekly cabinet meeting chaired by Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina at the secretariat also okayed a list of 124 foreign nationals including politicians, artists and intellectuals, and institutions

Public healthcare in sorry state in DMCH

Despite efforts to lift Bangladesh from the status of developing nations, the country refuses to make any progress in its healthcare sector. Everyday, emergency patients in Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH) are facing harassment, due to mismanagement, poor doctor-patient ratio, and unavailability of beds. A visit to the hospital would inevitably show patients undergoing treatment ... Read more

Three bridges in danger of collapse

Three major bridges — Kanchpur, Meghna and Gumti — on the Dhaka-Chittagong highway may collapse anytime, said Communications Minister Obaidul Quader yesterday. “The soil around the bases of the bridges have almost been washed away due to overloading, sand extraction and movement of overloaded cargo vessels on the water, he told The Daily Star after ... Read more

ICMAB awards best corporate players

The Institute of Cost and Management Accountants of Bangladesh (ICMAB) yesterday awarded 23 financial institutions, insurers and pharmaceuticals and telecoms companies for their efforts to establish corporate governance in their entities. Finance Minister AMA Muhith gave away the ICMAB Best Corporate Award 2011 at a

New market chief for Robi

Pradeep Shrivastava has recently been appointed as the chief market officer of Robi Axiata Ltd, the mobile operator said in a statement yesterday. Shrivastava will succeed Bidyut Kumar Basu who moved to the corporate centre of Axiata Group Berhad in Kuala Lumpur. Prior to joining Robi, he was the operations director at