Silk fabrics, weaved and designed by local artisans, are in tremendous demand in the Eid markets of Rajshahi. After a lull in trade and commerce in the city because of a weeklong incessant rainfall and drizzling, the shopping in Eid markets has gained momentum as the sky was clear on Friday. The traders in the ... Read more
Month: August 2013
Experts for elephant route mapping in CHT
A comprehensive mapping of elephant routes and corridors is essential to carry out development works in the Chittagong Hill Tracts averting man-elephant conflicts in elephant ranges, say experts. ‘Elephants follow specific corridors in their movement from generation-to-generation. As the government has been carrying out development works in the CHT, man-elephant
HC issues rules on evening master’s course
Du Economics Dept HC issues rules on evening master’s course The High Court on Thursday issued a rule on the Dhaka University authorities to explain why the move to launch evening master’s course in economics for professionals should not be declared illegal. A HC division bench of Justice Mirza Hossain Haider and Justice Khurshid Alam ... Read more
Man hacked to death
A man was hacked to death by unidentified miscreants in Gazipur early Friday. The deceased was identified as Manik Mian alias Kala Manik, 25, son of the late Abdul Kuddus of village Kamalpur under Nandail upazila in Mymensingh. The Joydebpur police subinspector, Jahirul Islam, said a gang
Schoolgirl commits suicide in Mirpur
A schoolgirl committed suicide in the capital’s Mirpur early Friday. The deceased, Jannatul Priya, 16, daughter of Mizanur Rahman of Shewrapara in Mirpur, was a Class X student of Cambrian School and College. Sohel Rana, maternal uncle of Priya, said they found
Stalker held for harassing schoolgirl
An alleged stalker was arrested at Chapajura village in Jhenaigati upazila of the district on Thursday while he was trying to kidnap a schoolgirl. The arrested was identified as Sohag, 20, son of Abdul Mannan of the upazila headquarters. The Jhenaigati police officer-in-charge Belal Uddin Tarafder,
Bangladeshi killed on Saudi road
A Bangladeshi young man was killed in a road accident in Saudi Arabia early Wednesday. The deceased was identified as Amir Hossain, 27, son of Abdul Khaleque of Afsarnagar village of Doarabazar upazila in the district. Quoting victim’s family members, the officer-in-charge of Doarabazar police station, Mustafizur Rahman, said Amir was hit by a motorcycle ... Read more
1,356 high-rises spotted having no fire approval
The Fire Service and Civil Defence has spotted 1,356 high-rise buildings in the capital that have not obtained ‘no objection’ certificates from the authorities. The fire service has taken legal actions through mobile courts against owners of 38 high-rises this year, and started sending notices to others who have violated the rules,
‘A’ team leaves for England today
The variety in the Bangladesh A team’s pace bowling will give the opposition a run for their money during their tour of England, said skipper Jahirul Islam at Mirpur on Friday. The selectors included five pace bowlers in Robiul Islam, Rubel Hossain, Al Amin along with seaming all-rounder Ziaur Rahman and Farhad Reza in the ... Read more
BCB to start election process on Sunday
The Bangladesh Cricket Board is set to start its election process from August 4 and will ask the National Sports Council to initiate its preparation, BCB president Nazmul Hasan said on Friday. The decision is a major step forward for the long over-due BCB election, which had been stalled due to an ongoing legal battle ... Read more
Bangladesh face Thai U-16 side today
The Bangladesh national football team will face the Thailand Under-16 national side today in their last practice match at the Osotspa Stadium before returning home on Sunday. Before the Thailand tour got underway, the Bangladesh Football Federation had informed the media that the national team would be taking part in a friendly against
Salahuddin dreaming of extending SAFF tenure
Bangladesh Football Federation president Kazi Salahuddin expressed his desire to retain the presidency of the South Asian Football Federation for the next four years. Salahuddin was elected unopposed as SAFF president in 2009 and his four-year tenure will come to an end soon with the next presidential election scheduled for
Sakib helps Barbados stay unbeaten
Bangladesh all-rounder Sakib Al Hasan claimed man of the match honours as his Barbados Tridents beat the Antigua Hawksbills by 12 runs in their Caribbean Premier League T20 match on Thursday. Sakib’s poor form from the previous match looked to continue after the Tridents chose to bat first, with the highly-rated all-rounder falling to Marlon ... Read more
Sagar breaks Bangladesh record at swimming C’ship
Mahfizur Rahman Sagar set a personal best but failed to advance to the next round of the 50m freestyle event at the FINA World Swimming Championship in Barcelona on Friday, finishing 59th out of 105 participants. In the preliminary round, Sagar touched the wall in 24.39 seconds, 0.02 seconds faster than his previous career best ... Read more
Law, order worsens in capital
Law and order has worsened in the capital and elsewhere in the past few days with crimes such as killing, extortion and mugging increasing before Eid. Statistics available with the Dhaka Metropolitan Police show that at least 25 people were killed in the capital in July. The figure in June was 16.
Ministers, MPs, politicians, bureaucrats blamed for MLM co rise
The commission investigating activities of the multi-level marketing company Jubak in its report blamed ministers, parliament members and politicians for the increase in the number of such entities which are engaged in financial malpractice and cheating with people. The commission, formed on May 4, 2011, submitted its
Sending workers to S Arabia comes down to a trickle
The overseas employment of Bangladeshi workers in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) has virtually come to a halt during the last couple of months. Sources said Dhaka requested Riyadh to recruit workers from Bangladesh through a data bank prepared by the government instead of through private recruiters, who have been carrying out brisk business ... Read more
Dwindling Sundarban forests threaten tigers’ survival
Conservation-ists are fighting an uphill battle to save the Royal Bengal Tiger from extinction in the face of systematic destruction of the Sundarban, the world’s greatest mangrove forest. There were about 440 tigers in the Sundarban — 121 of them males, 298 females and 21 cubs — according to the tiger census conducted in 2004. ... Read more
31 killed in political violence in July: Odhikar
At least 31 people were killed and 1,253 injured in political violence and nine were killed in ‘crossfire’ by law enforcing agencies in the country in July. Human rights organisation Odhikar stated it in its monthly human rights monitoring report, released on Thursday. The report said that Border Security Force
Bus, tempo drivers allege police extortion
A section of law-enforcers and leaders of so-called bus, truck and tempo workers’ unions are allegedly involved in extorting money from those operating buses, trucks, auto-rickshaws and rickshaws in the capital. The rate of extortion depends on the type of vehicle, it is alleged. Each bus has to pay on an average Tk. 500, a ... Read more