Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina leaves here tomorrow on an eight-day official visit to New York to attend the 68th session of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA). Sources in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MoFA) said the Prime Minister will address the Assembly on September 27, apart from attending a number of high
Month: September 2013
DNA report next month
Unidentified Rana Plaza Victims DNA report next month US software to quicken data matching The DNA report of the unidentified victims of Rana Plaza tragedy will be completed by the middle of next month. Prof Sharif Akhteruzzaman, technical adviser of National Forensic DNA Profiling Laboratory (NFDPL), yesterday informed The Daily Star about the expected time ... Read more
8 fake doctors jailed in Ctg
A mobile court here yesterday sentenced eight fake doctors to two years in prison each for treating people illegally without any registration from the Bangladesh Medical and Dental Council (BMDC). The court also fined them Tk 1 lakh each, defaulting on which they will have to serve an additional jail term of three months. The ... Read more
Fire breaks out at three places in city, dwellings gutted
At least 40 shanties were gutted, properties worth about 10 lakh were burned to ashes and panic gripped the apartment dwellers when devastating fire broke out at Kathpattin Slum of Rani Market of Kamrangrichar, a shoe factory at Bangshal and an apartment of Moghbazar area in the city in a span of six hours time ... Read more
38 held while being trafficked to Malaysia
The Rapid Action Battalion (RAB-7) arrested 38 persons, from Hotel Sea Park at Kalatoli Hotel-Motel Zone of Cox’s Bazar municipality, under Sadar thana of the district on Saturday. They were allegedly being trafficked to Malaysia through Bay of Bengal. RAB source told the Journalist that on information, RAB-7 Cox’s Bazar camp members on Saturday
15,000 Yaba pills seized
Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) arrested four people with drugs, including 15,000 Yaba pills, in the capital yesterday and Friday. Rab-10 yesterday arrested Md Abdur Rahim, an alleged dealer, near Shonir Akhra in Jatrabari and recovered the Yaba pills from the bumper of the Tata Ace pickup van he was driving, said Rab officials. Abdur brought ... Read more
Airlines plan big
To invest $1 billion to procure 22 aircraft by next year, hoping to expand business The aviation industry is likely to see an unprecedented boom as both the public and private airlines are expected to invest around $1 billion in the sector by next year. Biman Bangladesh Airlines and four other local airlines will either ... Read more
Clinical wastes pose health hazards in Sylhet
Haphazard dumping of clinical wastes in the Sylhet city is a serious threat to public health in the absence of specific guideline and monitoring over the matter. According to the statistics available with the district health office there are more than 100 public and private hospitals and clinics as well as diagnostic
Drama festival starts in Barisal
A weeklong drama festival began at Studio Theatre Stage of Shabdaboli Group Theatre in Barisal city Friday evening with a call to combat obscenity in culture. Shabdaboli Group Theatre organised the festival marking its 35th founding anniversary and in honour of its founding member and theatre organiser
Woman gives birth to four babies in Barisal
Aklima Begum, a housewife of village Marichbunia under Patuakhali, delivered four babies at Barisal Sher-e-Bangla Medical Collage Hospital Thursday night after 14 years of her marriage. Three of the neonatal babies are boys and rest one girl and till this report the mother and the babies were in a normal condition. Father of the babies Mahim ... Read more
Training on PIL held at Rajshahi Univ
A daylong training programme titled ‘public interest litigation’ was held at Rajshahi University on Friday. The training programme was organised by the Bangladesh Legal Aid and Services Trust, marking the launch of Rajshahi Law Clinic. RU vice-chancellor Muhammad Mizanuddin was present as chief guest while pro-vice-chancellor Chowdhury Sarowar Jahan and BLAST executive director
IUB Alumni Campus Day observed
Independent University, Bangladesh on Friday observed Alumni Campus Day on its permanent campus in Bashundhara Residential Area in the capital, said a press release. IUB Founding Trust chairman Saifur Rahman, IUB board of trustees chairman Rashed Chowdhury and IUB vice-chancellor M Omar Rahman, among others, spoke
Regional disparity in higher edn as univs crowd Dhaka
With the government allowing four private universities to set up in Dhaka in the past two years, the University Grants Commission officials and educationalists have expressed concern about the regional inequality in the provision of higher education. The approval in the past week of a Dhaka-based private university brought the total number of universities in Dhaka ... Read more
HSBC shuts Dhaka mission’s bank accounts in UK
The Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation (HSBC) has closed down the bank accounts of Bangladesh High Commission in London, Birmingham and Manchester. In its explanation of the closure of the bank accounts of the Bangladesh mission in three major cities of the UK, the HSBC said: “This was part of a strategic decision following ... Read more
People will ditch BNP-Jamaat propaganda, says PM
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina alleged, on Friday, that the main opposition leader and Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) chairperson Khaleda Zia herself was engaged in spreading propaganda to mislead people against the ruling party. Addressing a view-exchange meeting with the party’s grassroots-level leaders from five districts at her official residence ‘Ganobhaban’, the premier called upon her
Aid for farmers, pride for country
Fertiliser applicator invented by Bangladeshi scientist lessens farmers’ pain; getting popular in several African countries Since the 1980s, farmers in the country have been applying Guti urea to their crops for increased yield and low production cost. They have been successful in this endeavour, but for that they have to bear high labor cost and ... Read more
BNP plans to paralyse Dhaka over CG demand
The BNP-led 18-party alliance is drawing up a plan to paralyse Dhaka, pressing home its demand to hold the next general election under a non-party caretaker government (CG). “We will paralyse the capital if the Election Commission (EC) announces the schedule of the 10th parliamentary poll before restoration of the non-party CG provision to the ... Read more
BB rejects rural savings bank proposal
The Bangladesh Bank has rejected a proposal for the establishment of a rural savings bank as its goal said to be boosting the rural economy could not be achieved after other such specialised banks have faltered. The central bank conveyed its opinion on the proposal to the finance ministry on Wednesday. The LGRD and cooperative ... Read more
Tiger census with camera starts from mid-Oct
The department of forest has taken up a project to count and monitor the number of the endangered Royal Bengal Tigers in the Sunderbans, using modern camera trapping technology, which is used across the world for wildlife census. The initiative has been undertaken jointly by the Bangladesh Department of Forests and the Wildlife Institute of ... Read more
Fighting Climate Change
Bangladesh ready to show the way More than two dozens of well-known and promising researchers have gathered in Dhaka for a week-long brainstorming session to understand better how to cope up with the changing climate. Learning from Bangladesh, the researchers will make academic papers focusing on how to strengthen resilience activities and build a network ... Read more