The adverse impact of climate change will induce about 35 million people of the coastal areas of the country to migrate to other places by 2050. Leading environmentalist Prof Dr Ainun Nishat disclosed this on Saturday. He was making a keynote presentation on research findings on migration trends
Month: June 2013
Fakhrul terms PM’s anti-CG stand groundless
Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) spokesperson Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir has termed Premier Sheikh Hasina’s recent plea against the provision of a non-party caretaker government (CG) as groundless, and said no one will be sent to jail, if the CG is restored in accordance with its previous constitutional spirit. “The Premier, Sheikh Hasina, is deliberately
Govt to take action against pvt varsities with low edn standards
Education Minister Nurul Islam Nahid on Saturday said the government will take stern actions against those private universities who will not increase their education standards. Nahid made the remark at a roundtable as the chief guest on introducing new course on “Bachelor of Entrepreneurship Development and BBA in Leadership”, organised by Dhaka Chamber of
AL 64th founding anniversary today
Awami League (AL), the country’s oldest political party, will observe its 64th founding anniversary on Sunday. Founded on June 23, 1949 at the historic Rose Garden in the old part of Dhaka, the party played the lead role in all democratic movements apart from leading the nation in the War of Liberation in 1971 under ... Read more
S Arabia likely to extend amnesty deadline
The authorities of Saudi Arabia are likely to extend the July 3 deadline for amnesty and regularisation process for Bangladeshi workers in that country, feel officials at the Bangladesh Embassy in Riyadh. “I can tell you, the deadline of the amnesty declared on May 10 will be extended,” an official of the embassy told The ... Read more
Accused snatched from police custody
Rowdy villagers forcibly snatched away an accused from police custody after his arrest at Pachpukuria village in Manohorgonj upazila of the district on Friday evening. Officer-in-charge (OC) Jahirul Islam of Monohorgonj Police Station said a team of police went to the village to arrest one Shahjahan Kabiraj,50, resident of the village,
BNP to hold trial of all grafts, says Dudu
Criticising the government for its various misdeeds and corruption, BNP leader Shamsuzzaman Dudu on Saturday categorically said his party will hold the trial of all graft incidents if it is voted to power through the next general election. “The trial of all grafts, including that in Padma Bridge project and Hall-Mark, will be held on ... Read more
Nation awaits Ghulam Azam case verdict
Although the International Crimes Tribunal-1 (ICT-1) announced a court adjourned verdict (CAV) after the proceedings of the trial against Prof. Ghulam Azam over two months ago, it remains uncertain when the much-awaited verdict will be delivered. The announcement of a CAV means the tribunal can announce the date of the judgement any time. However,
World Music Day celebrated
World Music Day was celebrated through a fanfare on Friday at the National Theatre Hall of Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy. Singers in groups and solos presented different genres of songs at the programme organised by Bangladesh Sangeet Sangathan Samannay Parishad in association with Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy. June 21 is celebrated as World
Chhayanaut welcomes monsoon
Chhayanaut artistes welcomed monsoon presenting songs, poems and dance recitals glorifying the season on Friday at its auditorium. The programme was dedicated to Chhayanaut’s first president poet and social activist late Sufia Kamal whose 102th birth anniversary was celebrated on June 20. The audience enjoyed different
Shilpakala holds 2-day Munier Chowdhury festival
Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy organised a two-day Munier Chowdhury theatre festival featuring four plays by the martyr intellectual at the Studio Theatre Hall of the academy. Three public universities and Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy staged the plays at the festival organised as part of the academy’s yearly programme of commemorating the great cultural personalities
Kumar Biswajit performs at IGCC
Noted singer Kumar Biswajit presented his hit numbers in a solo musical programme held on Friday at the Indira Gnadhi Cultural Centre in Gulshan. The singer also rendered a Tagore song and two Hindi songs of Kishore Kumar at the two-hour show. The programme began with
NBR loses Tk 40cr in a day of hartal
The government loses Tk 39.90 crore in revenue from the international trade because of a day of hartal, according to a study conducted by the National Board of Revenue recently. In 10 days of hartal in March, the NBR lost a total of Tk 399 crore in duties from import and export businesses, the study ... Read more
Russia advises Bangladesh to prepare product list for Eurasian Union
GSP FACILITY Russia advises Bangladesh to prepare product list for Eurasian Union Russia has advised Bangladesh to prepare a list of products for seeking GSP facility in the markets of Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan, commerce ministry officials said. Responding to a proposal of providing GSP facility to the Bangladeshi products including readymade garments, Russia informed ... Read more
Pvt sector should help develop skilled manpower: Nahid
Bangladesh needs more innovative, skilled, educated and technologically sound entrepreneurs and workforce for rapid development in business and industrial sector, education minister Nurul Islam Nahid said on Saturday. At a discussion meeting on ‘Bachelor of Entrepreneurship
Stocks pass bullish week with sharp turnover rise
DSE WEEKLY REVIEW Stocks pass bullish week with sharp turnover rise Dhaka stocks advanced last week amid volatile trading with a sharp increase in the turnover as investors’ confidence continued to rise on the government’s positive moves about the market and a better situation on the political front. The benchmark general index of the DSE, ... Read more
REHAB summer fair begins in city on June 26
The four-day REHAB Summer Fair 2013 will begin at the Ruposhi Bangla Hotel in the capital on June 26. As many as 123 stalls, including of one construction material producer and two financing institute, will be set up at the fair venue.
Cuba opens wholesale market
Cuba will allow a wholesale farm produce market in Havana to follow market rules as from July 1, according to a Cuban television report Friday. ‘The opening of this wholesale market is part of a new agricultural trade system that will go into effect … in the provinces of Havana, Artemisa and Mayabeque,’
Govt initiative sought to remove stalemate over Korean EPZ
The authorities of Korean Export Processing Zone, a subsidiary of Youngone Corporation, on Saturday sought the government initiative to remove the existing barriers for developing the zone. At a news conference at a city hotel Youngone
Rajshahi patients in grip of agents of clinics, physicians
Commission agents of physicians and clinics have long been dominating the premises of the Rajshahi Medical College Hospital, causing severe difficulties to the patients and their attendants. Sources in the hospital said assistants and agents