Mohakal Theatre Festival 4 plays to be staged today Four plays will be staged at the 13-day Mahakal Natya Sampradaya theatre festival today, on the 11th day of the festival. Prangonemor will stage Irsha at the National Theatre Hall while Loko Natya Dal (Banani) will stage Sonai Madhob at the Experimental Hall of Bangladesh Shilpakala ... Read more
Month: September 2013
SoBs way behind PCBs, FCBs
Issuance Of Debit, Credit Cards SoBs way behind PCBs, FCBs State-run banks are lagging far behind the private and foreign commercial banks in expanding card-based payment system as the eight SoBs issued 57,887 credit and debit cards against 80,27,647 cards issued by the PCBs and the FCBs as on August 31, 2013, said a BB ... Read more
Prices of green chilli, garlic increase
Onion price slightly eases The prices of green chilli and garlic increased on the retail markets in the city over the week ending Friday. Onion price, however, decreased a little and the prices of vegetables remained high in the kitchen markets. Green chilli price increased by Tk 20 a kilogram and it was selling at ... Read more
Cabinet body set to consider bid proposal tomorrow
Hi-Tech Park Cabinet body set to consider bid proposal tomorrow The project to establish the country’s first-ever hi-tech park at Kaliakoir of Gazipur under the public-private partnership is expected to see the light soon as a bid proposal in this regard is set to be considered by the cabinet economic affairs committee tomorrow. Once the ... Read more
Forum smells a rat in BCB election
The divisional and district sports organisers on Friday alleged that government influence was used in selecting the councillors for the forthcoming election of the Bangladesh Cricket Board while the process followed was also flawed. The National Sports Council said on Thursday the BCB election will be held on October 10 to put an end to the ... Read more
Muktis in crisis ahead of premier league
There is major uncertainty surrounding Muktijoddha Sangsad Krira Chakra as the football season approaches without an elected body running the Muktijoddha Sangsad. ‘Nothing is final yet. Due to the crisis with the central command election we are little bit on the back-foot about forming the team,’ coach Shafikul Islam Manik
Women’s coach blames captain for SA debacle
Bangladesh women’s national cricket team coach Oshadi Weerasinghe pointed to the form of captain Salma Khatun as a reason for the team’s disastrous performance during its recently concluded tour of South Africa on Friday. The women’s team returned from South Africa on Thursday after failing to register a single win in the three-match ODI series and ... Read more
Siddik qualifies for golf world cup
Golfer Siddikur Rahman has qualified for the ISPS HANDA World Cup of Golf in Melbourne from November 21-24, 2013 and is set to become the first Bangladeshi to ever play in the prestigious US$8 million event.Siddikur, who is currently playing at the Asia-Pacific Panasonic Open in Osaka, was excited by the news. ‘I’m very excited ... Read more
BHF blaming transfer rebels for Asia Cup: Jimmy
Russell Mahmud Jimmy believes that the Bangladesh Hockey Federation fact-finding committee is going to pin the team’s failure at the Asia Cup on him and senior players Zahid Hossain, Emran Hasan Pintu and Kamruzzaman Rana. ‘There have been conversations in the hockey arena which have created disturbances in our family lives. We see that everybody is ... Read more
Mr Incredibeard
If you suffer from pogonophobia (a fear of beards) then look away now. A man from San Francisco is breaking the boundaries of facial hair fashion and gravity with his fantastical beard styles. Self-confessed beard enthusiast Isaiah Webb has been sharing photos of his ‘beard dos’ online, posting a different style on his Instagram profile ... Read more
Govt urged to put more stress on surface water sources
The Dhaka Water Supply and Sewerage Authority is planning to initiate Saidabad Water Treatment Plant Phase III in a bid to reduce dependency on ground water. The officials said the project would help reduce the pressure on ground water when the ground water table is falling by two to three metres
School students block road in Barisal
Barisal Government Zilla School students blocked road in front of the school as a schoolboy was stabbed allegedly by some Barisal University students near the campus Thursday noon. The victim was Safayet Hossain Sifat, 14, a Class VII student of the school. Witnesses said some young men attacked
Health workers push for 5-point demand
Field workers’ association of the health department on Thursday formed a human chain and rally in Barisal to press home their five-point demand and threatened to boycott EPI. Their five-point demand includes giving technical status to health assistants, end of discriminations in salary scale, giving Class II status to
Grabbers eat up Devdholai canal
Like many other canals in the capital, the Devdholai canal has also fallen prey to the greed of encroachers and inconsiderate dumping of household wastes while the authorities concerned, denying the allegations, have claimed that the canal still has flow of water. Encroachers have eaten up a significant part
Experts stress multi-sectoral platform to address malnutrition
Experts on Thursday stressed building a multi-sectoral platform to address the issue of malnutrition in a better way. They also said the 1000-days approach – the time between a woman’s pregnancy and her child’s 2nd birthday – should be taken in a collaborative manner. They said this at the annual general committee
DU grads’ rep polls tomorrow
Registered graduate representative election for Dhaka University Senate would be held tomorrow at three centres on the campus. The voters having numbers from 01 to 12798 will have to cast their votes at Teacher-Student Centre, 12799 to 25524 at Physical Education
Canvas depicting 52-71events to be unveiled today
A private museum named ‘Bangalee Shamagra’ is going to inaugurate a canvas today in the capital depicting significant events between 1952 and 1971. The planning minister, AK Khandokar, is expected to unveil the 25-feet canvas at the museum office on Elephant Road, a press release said.
High-level radioactivity found in water, soil
Cox’s Bazar Heavy Mineral Deposits High-level radioactivity found in water, soil Researchers have found a high level of radioactivity in the soil, vegetables and drinking water extracted from permanent deposits of heavy minerals in areas around Cox’s Bazar. The level of radium, thorium and uranium found in the food chain in the area pose potential ... Read more
HC scraps Contempt of Court Law 2013
The High Court (HC), in a significant verdict on Thursday, declared illegal and unconstitutional the Contempt of Court Act 2013, which was passed in February this year. The Act has certain provisions which allow the media as well as government employees to be critical of court judgments. In its verdict,
RMG protests over wages on
50 injured in clashes with police in N’ganj, Gazipur relatively calm Ignoring the government’s call for returning to work, garment workers in Narayanganj, Ashulia and Kaliakoir staged violent demonstrations for the sixth consecutive day on Thursday to push their demand for Tk 8,100 in minimum monthly wage. Workers went on the rampage in Narayanganj even