The government often claims that a rising pass percentage in major public exams, such as SSC and HSC, reflects a marked improvement in the education sector. The Independent, however, found the claim to be far removed from the actual scenario. On July 18, education minister Nurul Islam Nahid claimed at a press briefing that the ... Read more
Month: July 2012
Govt asks owners not to close RMG units in Ramadan
Owners agree to ensure workers’ payment before Eid The government on Thursday directed the apparel factory owners not to close any of their units in Ramadan and to pay workers before Eid-ul-Fitr to head off any disorder in the export-oriented sector. Officials told a home ministry meeting that sudden closure of factories and job cuts ... Read more
Govt insists on 60pc increase
Bulk power price Govt insists on 60pc increase The government persistently keeps pressuring the Bangladesh Energy Regulatory Commission to increase the bulk power price by at least 60 per cent at one go to avoid any further hike at the fag end of its five-year tenure, said officials. The government fears mass discontent due to ... Read more
London gears up for grand Olympics opener
The long wait is finally over. After seven years of anticipation, London is finally ready for its third Olympics, which will be formally declared open today in a once shabby area of its eastern part with a grand opening ceremony. Oscar winning film director Danny Boyle will unveil the details of an extravagant
In the land of the blind
London Olympic 2012 In the land of the blind Im Dong-Hyun cannot read the letters on a keyboard. By all accounts, if you dictated this article to him, he could not have typed it up on a computer. His vision is 20/200; in layman’s terms that is vision which is ten times worse than the ... Read more
Milon blessed by Waugh before Lord’s ‘Test’
A meeting with Australian cricket legend Steve Waugh at Lord’s cricket ground is a great dream for any cricketer and perhaps more than that if he happens to be a Bangladeshi. The two times when Bangladesh played a Test match at this hallowed home of cricket none of the cricketers ever had had such opportunities ... Read more
Tigers end tour on losing note
The Tigers ended their tour of Europe with a one-wicket defeat as the Netherlands snatched a last ball victory in the final T20 International at Sportpark Westvliet in The Hague last night. A second upset was inflicted upon Bangladesh by an associate team in the space of three days with Scotland earlier defeating the Tigers ... Read more
U-19s confident heading into WC
Coach Sarwar Imran and captain Anamul Haque said yesterday that the Bangladesh Under-19 team are ready to achieve something big in the ICC U19 Cricket World Cup 2012 to be held in Brisbane, Australia in August. They expressed their optimism despite the team’s recent debacle in the Asia Cup in Malaysia while talking at an ... Read more
A tearful goodbye for Humayun
Celebrated writer Humayun Ahmed was laid to rest under a litchi tree at Nuhash Palli in Gazipur on Tuesday with thousands of mourners watching the funeral in tears in heavy rain. Amid prayer hymns, Humayun’s body was lowered into the grave at around 2:00pm, after the third namaz-e-janaza at Nuhash Palli in village Pirujali, the ... Read more
Goodbye Humayun
Sea of mourners pays tributes to writer of hearts; burial today It was a sweltering day and traffic jam was no less troubling. But nothing could prevent thousands of people from flocking to the Central Shaheed Minar yesterday. Irrespective of caste and creed, religion and political parties, people with flowers, many of them in tears, ... Read more
Whitewash pleases Pybus
Head coach Richard Pybus was happy with the workout the Bangladesh team had in Ireland after they completed a 3-0 whitewash in the Twenty20 series at Stormont in Belfast on Saturday night. He was particularly pleased with the spinners, who helped his side control the home side’s belligerent batsmen in all three games. Elias Sunny got ... Read more
Tigers’ depth makes Mushfiq happy
If there were anything for Bangladesh to achieve from the just ended series against Ireland, it was the ranking, something that did not come their way as they played fewer matches than it required. After a 3-0 win it came almost as an embarrassment as Bangladesh ended up in fourth position, something which even left ... Read more
Humayun’s body due today
Public viewing at Central Shaheed Minar The family and friends of Humanyun Ahmed, who died from cancer in a New York hospital late Thursday night, along with the coffin left New York about midnight past Saturday in an Emirates flight that is scheduled to reach Shahjalal International Airport about 8:40am today. The foreign secretary, Mijarul ... Read more
Tigers’ chance to seal series
Rejuvenated by a comprehensive victory in the first match, the spirited Tigers will try to seal the three-match series when they take on Ireland in the second T20 international at Stormont in Belfast today. The match will start at 5pm local time (10pm Bangladesh Standard Time). Mushfiqur Rahim’s men have displayed no deficiency in acclimatising ... Read more
Humayun Ahmed is no more
Popular writer and filmmaker Humayun Ahmed, who had been the most dominant figure in Bangla fiction in Bangladesh in his later years after emerging into the literary world in the early 1970s, died in a New York hospital late Thursday night. He died of colorectal cancer in Bellvue Hospital at the age of 63 about ... Read more
Rahimafrooz enters Japan market with batteries
Rahimafrooz has entered the Japanese market, the first for a Bangladeshi company, as part of the battery maker’s plan to expand its geographic reach. “We are very happy to enter the competitive market of Japan through maiden export,” says Munawar Misbah Moin, managing director of Rahimafrooz Globatt Ltd
Afzal-Suborna pair up after a decade
The once popular TV actor duo — Afzal Hossain and Suborna Mustafa — are to pair up in a tele-film, titled “Prem Bachitey Janey”. Twelve years back, the actors appeared together in a single-episode TV play called “Shudhu Tomar Jonno”. Written by Faria Hossain and directed by Arif Khan, the tele-film will go on air ... Read more