The defeated mayoral candidate Advocate Azmat Ullah Khan said, a free and fair election was held. I have already accepted the result. He said, the opponent was used some false propaganda including religious issue and used black money in the election. However, I did not refuse the people’s mandate. I always accept their judgment. He ... Read more
Month: July 2013
Kuddus Boyati enthralls audience with folk songs
Abdul Kuddus Boyati enthralled the audience presenting different types of traditional songs in his signature style at a solo musical programme on Saturday at the Indira Gandhi Cultural Centre in Gulshan. His high pitched voice modulation, brilliant skill of expressing the emotion of the lyrics through gesture and movement and wonderful ability of enacting roles ... Read more
Contemporary film trend analysed
Speakers at a seminar on the contemporary film industry in Bangladesh called for taking a holistic measure for the improvement of each and every sector of the industry for its revival. Film researcher Fahmidul Hoque in his keynote paper evaluated the industry and analysed the contemporary trend in the seminar titled Samakalin bangladesher chalachitra: probanatar ... Read more
Rabirag celebrates monsoon
Rabirag artistes welcomed monsoon presenting evergreen songs of Rabindranath Tagore on the season at the Shawkat Osman Auditorium of the Central Public Library on Saturday. Dance troupe Nrityanchal also presented a few colourful dance recitals with Tagore songs at the programme titled Barshamangal. The show began with a chorus
Traffic halts for 3hrs as students clash
Traffic through the Farmgate intersection remained suspended for about three hours causing enormous sufferings to the commuters as the students of Dhaka University and Tejgaon College locked in a clash on Sunday. Dhaka University students also vandalised at Tejgaon College.
KWASA fails to meet daily need
The Khulna Water and Sewerage Authority is failing to serve the city dwellers as it is beset with manifold problems, including manpower shortage, even five years after its inception. According to deputy managing director of the organsiaiton Kamal uddin Ahmed, Khulna WASA supplies 13 crore litres of water against the daily need for 24 crore ... Read more
Problems plague cardiac surgery centre at Shishu Hospital
Health experts have said they are facing problems in conducting surgery and giving post-surgery care to the patients at the child cardiac surgery centre of Dhaka Shishu Hospital because of inadequate manpower and logistics. As there is no error margin here, a very small error can
Chhatra Union DU unit holds 29th council
Bangladesh Chhatra Union Dhaka University unit held its 29th council session on Sunday, with a call for resisting the trend of ‘commercial orientation and communalism’ in the education sector. Freedom fighter Shirin Banu Mitil inaugurated the two-day programme at Aparajeya Bangla of the university, hoisting the national and the organisation flags.
62 DU students awarded scholarships
Dhaka University’s department of accounting and information science on Sunday distributed scholarships among its 62 students of bachelor’s and Master’s levels. The state minister of science and technology, Yeafes Osman, distributed the scholarships at a function held in the morning at the faculty conference hall and presided over
Divisional tree fair starts in Barisal
The fortnight-long Barisal divisional tree fair started on Bangabandhu Udyan premises of the city Sunday. The fair was aimed at raising awareness of tree plantation and social forestation in the region.
Inflation rises ahead of Ramadan
Average annual inflation rate stands at 7.7 per cent The point-to-point inflation rose by 0.11 percentage point in June and stood at 7.97 per cent from 7.86 per cent in May mainly because of price hike of food items ahead of Ramadan, the month of fasting for the Muslim, Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics said on ... Read more
ADP implementation rate drops to 67pc in July-May
The government agencies and the ministries could implement only 67 per cent of the annual development programme in the first 11 months of the recently concluded fiscal year 2012-2013, three percentage points lower than that in the same period of the previous fiscal year, planning ministry data showed.
5-member body formed to prepare guideline
REFINANCING SCHEME FOR STOCKSA 5-member body formed to prepare guideline The Bank and Financial Institution division of the finance ministry on Sunday formed a five-member committee to prepare a guideline for using the government fund to implement the refinancing scheme for the investors affected during the capital market crash in 2010-2011. The committee has been ... Read more
Cash incentive against frozen fish export withdrawn, shrimp reduced
The government has withdrawn cash incentive against exports of all frozen fish and reduced cash incentive against shrimp export for the current fiscal year 2013-2014. The Bangladesh Bank on Sunday said that the exporters of shrimp would get 7.5 per cent cash incentive against their export while incentives for other fish were
Highway extortion by police pushing up prices
Ramadan market Highway extortion by police pushing up prices Allege business people at DCCI seminar Extortion on the highways from goods laden vehicles by toll collectors and members of the law enforcing agencies has increased ahead of Ramadan, causing rise in commodity prices, businessmen people alleged. Members of the law enforcing agencies increase the
Corruption poses major risk to development: Muhith
MDGs: Bangladesh Progress Report-2012 launched Finance minister Abul Maal Abdul Muhith on Sunday termed corruption and deteriorating social values major challenges to future development of the country. ‘Although Bangladesh has made remarkable progress in achieving Millennium Development Goals, we have very serious problems, among other issues, in values as
Joint effort needed to ensure safety in RMG sector: roundtable
Minister hopes US would resume GSP facility in 6 months Readymade garments sector leaders and researchers at a roundtable on Sunday said it was high time to work with the buyers and retailers of the RMG products on the compliance issue to ensure safe and proper working condition for the garment workers. At the roundtable ... Read more
Stocks end flat amid lower turnover
Dhaka stocks ended flat despite rising early in the trading session on Sunday as the investors accepted the result of the Gazipur polls positively, thinking that the BNP and its allies would not go for any agitation programme after their candidate won the election. The benchmark general index of the Dhaka Stock Exchange,
Al Maruf elected SAFE chair
Chittagong Stock Exchange president Al Maruf Khan has been elected the chairman of South Asian Federation of Exchanges for the next two years. Maruf was elected the chairman in an executive board meeting of SAFE at Mumbai, India on Friday, a CSE release said on Sunday.
Tigers’ fitness camp ends
The national cricketers ended their three-week long fitness camp on Sunday with several players gaining confidence from the training session, which they said would be crucial for them ahead of the busy international and domestic schedule. The training programme began on June 13 under the