Lucky Paul entertained a few hundred spectators with his brace to propel Abahani Limited to an easy 2-0 win over Arambagh KS in the Grameenphone Bangladesh Premier League at the Bangabandhu National Stadium on Sunday. Lucky scored the goals either side of halftime to lead Abahani to the top of the league table with 23 points from ... Read more
Month: February 2013
Ashraful hits back at critics
Dhaka Gladiators captain Mohammad Ashraful hit back at critics who have questioned their batting approach during their Saturday’s 54-run loss to Chittagong Kings in Chittagong. Chasing Kings’ 142 all out, Gladiators suffered a batting collapse when they lost their first four wickets for 15 runs and could never recover from the damage. Ashraful provided
IPL snubs some BPL stars
The performance in the Bangladesh Premier League seemed to have made a telling effect for some players in the Indian Premier League auction that was held in Chennai on Saturday. Only a handful of BPL players were involved in the auction and given the manner it all happened only suggested that the IPL teams clearly ... Read more
Govt out to find sources but WB
Padma Funding Govt out to find sources but WB Economists warn it not to hurry into the bridge project The government has decided to approach Bangladesh’s potential bilateral and multilateral development partners other than the World Bank to finance the Padma Bridge project. The finance ministry has instructed the Economic Relations Division to write to potential ... Read more
Rampal Power Plant Impact on Environment
Experts trash Shankar’s claim Green and rights activists on Saturday protested Indian power secretary’s recent remark that the proposed coal-fired power plant in Bagerhat near the Sundarban would have ‘very little impact on the environment’. Indian power secretary P Uma Shankar made the remark to journalists after visiting the site
Land grab hampers academic activities
Govt Pry Schools Land grab hampers academic activities 29 schools face problems in capital Encroachment on land of many government primary schools in Dhaka, and also in outlying areas, continue to hamper academic activities, leaving students with little or no space for classroom teaching and morning assemblies. Officials overseeing schools and teachers said that in ... Read more
Meeting on Tipaimukh Dam ends
Dhaka wants more data Bangladesh on Saturday asked India not to go ahead with the construction of its controversial Tipaimukh Dam before completion of a joint study, officials said. It also requested India at a sub-group meeting of the Joint Rivers Commission to provide more data and study reports on the controversial dam
Govt to float Padma Bridge tender in March, says Muhith
Finance minister Abul Mal Abdul Muhith on Saturday said a tender would be floated in March for construction of the proposed Padma Multipurpose Bridge and the construction was expected to start in two or three months later. ‘As it is one of our election pledges, we have to construct the bridge,’ Muhith told
SSC exams begin today
The Secondary School Certificate and equivalent dakhil and vocational examinations will begin today with students taking the Bangla first paper exams. This year, 13,03,203 students, 6,68,268 boys and 6,34,935 girls from 27,073 institutions, have registered to take the exams at 2,758 centres
MF profits down in H1 amid stock depression
A prolonged depression in the country’s stock market continued to take its toll on the mutual fund sector as profits of majority of the funds decreased in the first half of the current fiscal year compared with those in the same period of the previous year. An MF is one type of professionally-managed scheme which ... Read more
Give ample budget to haor region for economic growth
Experts call for effort to improve livelihoods The government should back up its master plan of developing the haor region with sufficient budgetary allocation, experts said yesterday. They also stressed the need for co-ordination among the government bodies and nongovernmental organisations (NGOs) to improve the
Cabinet div aganist new LC station within 50km of existing one
The Cabinet Division on Thursday recommended that the National Board of Revenue should not set up any new land customs station within 50 kilometres of the existing one and close down inactive LC stations. The division, in a letter sent to the NBR on the day, suggested closing down the
Monetary policy keeps major challenges unabated: UO
The measures prescribed in the monetary policy statement for January-June of the current fiscal year keep unabated the major macroeconomic challenges including declining trend in GDP growth, inflationary pressure and imbalance in external sectors, said Unnayan Onneshan, a local think-tank. ‘The MPS announced by Bangladesh Bank on Thursday has further compromised the
New DSE indices gain in 1st week
DSE Weekly Review New DSE indices gain in 1st week After a flat week, Dhaka stocks gained last week amid significant boost in turnover as the investors were hoping that the central bank would ease the monetary policy on political consideration. DGEN, the benchmark general index of the Dhaka Stock Exchange, gained 1.51 per cent ... Read more
Dhaka, Delhi to ink pact on cotton shipment
Dhaka and New Delhi may shortly seal an agreement on cotton that will ensure the supply of a fixed minimum quantity from New Delhi to Bangladesh every year irrespective of any export ban. ‘Bangladesh wants India to commit to 15 lakh bales (170 kg each) of cotton every year, but the final amount is still ... Read more
MPS implementation to be major challenge: DCCI
Dhaka Chamber of Commerce and Industry on Saturday observed that implementation and monitoring of the targets set in the monetary policy for the next six months of the fiscal year would be the major challenge for the Bangladesh Bank. Reducing inflation to 7.5 per cent, ensuring credit flow to actual productive private sector, controlling consumers’ credit, increasing
2 foreigners held for making fake currency notes
Detectives arrested five people, including two foreigners, along with fake foreign currencies worth Tk 50 lakh and equipments for making fake currency notes at Niketon in the city on Friday night. The detectives also seized a printer, two laptops, 11 bundle paper, powder and chemicals, used for making fake foreign currency notes, from possession of ... Read more
Visitors yet to make mind over new titles at book fair
The Bangla Academy authorities were yet to bring the Amar Ekushey Book Fair premises under the internet and Wi-fi coverage on the second day of the fair on Saturday. As per the announcement by the authorities, the fair area was to be under free-internet facilitates from the very first day of the fair while it ... Read more
Govt blamed for slack monitoring over food adulteration
Agrobangla, a platform of students of different universities, on Saturday alleged that the government was trying to evade its duty to monitor food adulteration pleading lack of manpower. They said the government’s different bodies — city corporations and Bangladesh Standards and Testing Institution — were shrugging off their responsibility leaving the sector
Biotechnology festival held at CU
A day-long biotechnology festival was held on Chittagong University (CU) campus yesterday. Science and Technology Secretary Dr Md Rafiqul Islam, as chief guest, inaugurated the festival titled “Biotechnology Vision 2021”organised by CU genetic engineering and biotechnology department