It all began on the 50th anniversary of man’s Everest summit in 2003 when Nishat Majumder, first Bangladeshi woman Everest conqueror, went to the country’s highest peak Keokradong to attend a programme. The now 31-year-old accountant came back from Keokradong, all inspired to climb
Month: May 2012
Buildings to fetch rains
Wasa wary of groundwater depletion, want provision of harvesting rainwater in building code, plans to recharge natural water reservoir below the surface Dhaka Wasa is considering a plan to recharge the underground aquifers with rain water in eight areas across the capital this year to top up the rapidly depleting groundwater table. As the city’s ... Read more
Teachers’ part-time job hampers public univ education: UGC
Public university teachers taking up part-time teaching in private universities and consultancy job in organisations in an uncontrolled manner largely hampers academic activities in the universities, the University Grants Commission has said. It is a matter of concern that some public university teachers are working part-time
Petrobangla to extract oil from 2 old fields
Petrobangla—the Oil, Gas and Mineral Resources Corporation—has finally decided to extract oil from the country’s first two oil fields at Haripur and Kailashtila in Sylhet discovered more than two decades ago. Petrobangla chairman Hossain Monsur at a press briefing on Sunday said production
Fatal ride on son’s bike
Mother slips onto road, crushed by van A mother was thrown to her death after she accidentally slipped from the back seat of her son’s running motorbike and was crushed under the wheels of a covered van in the capital’s Merul Badda yesterday. The 55-year-old Masuda Begum was going to meet her brother in Gulshan-2 ... Read more
Curtain falls on Safiuddin Ahmed
Eminent painter and printmaker Safiuddin Ahmed passed away at Square Hospital in Dhaka early on Sunday. He was 90. He had been suffering from old age complications. He was admitted to Square Hospital when he suddenly fell sick on Tuesday (May 17) evening. Later, he was put on life support as his condition
Sultana Zaman passes away
Sultana Zaman, a leading actress in Bangladesh’s movie world of the 1960s, passed away yesterday at her Gulshan residence owing to old age complications at the age of 76, says a press release. She left behind a daughter, a son and a host of admirers to mourn her
Tigers excited to start training
The Tigers returned to business yesterday at the Sher-e-Bangla National Stadium in Mirpur to prepare for the tri-nation T20 tournament in Zimbabwe in June. Captain Mushfiqur Rahim, Shakib Al Hasan, Tamim Iqbal, Mohammad Ashraful and Alok Kapali did not join the conditioning camp for the 27 selected cricketers. Shakib and
A chance that never came
Bangladesh opener Tamim Iqbal had to end his first season in the Indian Premier League as a spectator with Pune Warriors, who ended their campaign with a 34-run home defeat to Kolkata Knight Riders on Saturday. Tamim had been kept waiting for his turn, which never came, with the Warriors and
Muktis trounce R’ganj
Sunday Chizoba and Mithun Chowdhury scored two goals each as Muktijoddha Sangsad KC trounced Rahmatganj MFS 4-0 in an ill-tempered Grameenphone Bangladesh Premier League match at the Bangabandhu National Stadium on Sunday. One player from each side was shown red cards in the game including in-form Mithun, who had
Miley Cyrus had biggest heartbreak at 14
Miley Cyrus has revealed that her split from ex-boyfriend Nick Jonas was her “biggest heartbreak”. The Hannah Montana star said she dated the Jonas Brothers singer when she was just 14, and their break-up affected her deeply. Cyrus said: “I was in love with this person that I thought was perfect, and so amazing and ... Read more
Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg marries girlfriend
Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg has ended a hectic week which saw his company valued at £106bn after a stock market flotation by getting married. He wed his long-time girlfriend Priscilla Chan, 27, in a ceremony at his home in Palo Alto, California. Chan also had a busy week, graduating from medical school on Monday, as ... Read more
Alumni holds mass wedding at university
A total of 128 couples took part in a mass wedding at Zhejiang University in China. The event was held to mark the 115th anniversary of the institution. The couples, from all over China, gathered at their school once again for the biggest event of their lives, after their graduation ceremony. To participate in the mass ... Read more
3G, VAS guidelines not friendly for business: Orascom CEO
The visiting Orascom Telecom chief executive officer Ahmed Abou Doma on Saturday said that the draft 3G licensing and value added-service guidelines ‘will put many foreign investments off the country.’ Abou Doma, addressing a press conference at the Westin hotel in the capital, also asked the regulator and the government to reach a consensus with ... Read more
StanChart, Citibank, SBI, Prime slip from top position
BB CAMELS rating StanChart, Citibank, SBI, Prime slip from top position Four banks, including multinational Standard Chartered and Citibank NA, slipped from the top position in the latest CAMELS rating of the Bangladesh Bank. The composite CAMELS (capital adequacy, asset quality, management, earning, liquidity and sensitivity) rating for July–December 2011 showed that StanChart, Citibank, State ... Read more
Stocks fall for fourth week amid political, legal battle worries
Dhaka stocks extended losses last week, fourth week in a row, as tensions on the political front and worries over a legal battle on mandatory shareholding continued to haunt investors. DGEN, the benchmark general index of Dhaka Stock Exchange, lost 1.67 per cent, or 84.84 points, to close the week at 4,991.79 points
Herbal medicine market to exceed Tk 2,500cr by 2020: herbalists
The country’s herbal medicine market, which has been expanding gradually since 1980 as a safe treatment system, will exceed Tk 2,500 crore by 2020, herbalists told a workshop in the city on Saturday. The sales volume of herbal medicines jumped to Tk 1,000 crore in 2010 against an insignificant Tk 1 crore in 1980. Bangladesh ... Read more
Tigers return to training sans coach, captain
The preliminary camp of the national cricket team for a tri-nation Twenty20 tournament in Zimbabwe begins today without interim coach Shane Jurgenson and skipper Mushfiqur Rahim. Jurgenson is currently on leave and is expected to take the charge once the players start their skill training next week while Mushfiq is away with his family after ... Read more
Sk Jamal win at Feni
Sheikh Jamal Dhanmondi Club returned to winning ways in the Grameenphone Bangladesh Premier League as they outplayed Feni Sooccer Club 3-0 at the Shaheed Salam Stadium yesterday. The defending champions, who came into this match on the back of a 0-2 defeat at the hands of Farashganj, dominated proceedings from the beginning and came away
Rubel undergoes successful surgery
Bangladeshi pace bowler Rubel Hossain had a lengthy but successful operation on his injured right shoulder in South Africa on Friday, said the Bangladesh Cricket Board on Saturday. ‘He had an arthroscopy operation on his right shoulder that took nearly three hours and a half but it was successful,’ said Monirul Amin, a physician of ... Read more