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
Month: December 2011
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
Time to redeem the old pledge
Martyred Intellectuals’ Day today Syed Badrul Ahsan The wounds remain as fresh as they were four decades ago. The memories of those done to death by the murder squads of the collaborators of the Pakistan occupation forces are, forty years on, as agonising as the moment when we first discovered that they had been abducted, ... 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
Risking life to save money
Trucks unload vegetables Flouting laws, a section of truck drivers carry passengers to northern districts from the capital’s Karwan Bazar every night to earn extra bucks. The passengers, most of whom are day labourers and rickshaw pullers, choose to travel by truck risking their lives as it costs them five to eight times less than ... 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
Bangladesh on firm footing in global remittance: WB
Bangladesh has emerged as the eight largest remittance earner, riding on the back of migration in flocks to the Middle East, according to a global survey by the World Bank. Migrant deployments from Bangladesh grew strongly this year, the global lender said in its report after conducting the survey last week
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