MD says using leased ones brings no profit Biman Bangladesh Airlines will use its own aircraft to carry Hajj pilgrims from next year instead of using leased aircraft which brings no profit, said its Managing Director Kevin John Steele yesterday. Keeping to the trend of past years, several Hajj flights on the sole leased Boeing ... Read more
Month: November 2013
United launches Dhaka-Singapore flight
Private airline United Airways on Monday began operating its flight on Dhaka-Singapore route, said a release. A 167 seated MD-83 aircraft of the airline took off from Dhaka for Singapore 83 at 3:00pm. The airline fixed Tk 18481 as the airfare for a one-way ticket for its Dhaka-Singapore flight and Tk 34001 for a return ticket including ... Read more
Aduri gets five rickshaws from DMP
The Dhaka Metropolitan Police presented five rickshaws to the tortured domestic help, Aduri, on Monday in a programme at its media centre. The DMP commissioner, Benazir Ahmed, formally handed over the keys of the rickshaws to Aduri, an 11-year old domestic help, who was severely tortured
Driver drugged to death in city
A driver was drugged to death at the capital’s Jatrabari on Monday morning. The deceased was identified as Md Islam, around 35, driver of Sylhet Divisional Commissioner. The victim’s colleague, Sahidul Islam, said Islam was coming to Dhaka on Sunday night. At Jatrabari bus stand, some miscreants
DU signs MoU with Hiroshima University
A Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) was signed on Monday between Dhaka University (DU) and the Hiroshima University (HU) of Japan at the Vice-Chancellor’s office of DU, reports BSS. DU Treasurer Prof Dr M Kamal Uddin and Kazuhiro Yoshida, Director, Center for the Study of International Cooperation in Education (CICE) of HU
Experts for raising awareness against HIV/AIDS
Divisional Commissioner of Khulna Md Abdul Jalil on Monday stressed by exercising the religious and moral values and maintaining preventive measure in over day-to-day life, we must protect ourselves from the deadly disease AIDS. He added, “Lack of knowledge of the issue must be addressed as the patients feel shy to discuss it in public.” ... Read more
Tigers eye T20 payback
With their seventh straight one-day international victory over New Zealand in consecutive series sweeps behind them, the Bangladesh national cricket team look ahead to the one-off Twenty20 international of the tour with a number of points to prove. The Tigers have never beaten the Black
NZ press slate Kiwi cricketers
The New Zealand press reacted with dismay after its cricket team were beaten 0-3 in the three-match one-day international series against Bangladesh that concluded on Sunday at Fatullah. The hosts trounced the Kiwis in the ODIs, overcoming the visitors in all three games to record another series sweep after their memorable 4-0 win
Where have the tickets gone?
It was not long ago when Bangladesh Cricket Board president Nazmul Hasan expressed his anger over the mismanagement of ticketing services by the BCB during different bilateral series. Soon after he was appointed as the president of the BCB ad hoc committee at a dinner party in London, Nazmul said it was a mystery to ... Read more
BHF comes down harsh on Asia Cup culprits
The Bangladesh Hockey Federation on Monday suspended four players and released the coach for acting suspiciously during the Asia Cup Hockey in Malaysia in August-September. Bangladesh ended up seventh among the eight teams in the tournament despite going there with high expectation against the backdrop of some
Soumya savours call-up
Uncapped all-rounder Soumya Sarker on Monday said that he was surprised to get a call-up to the national team but was now looking forward to performing if given a chance. Soumya, a hard-hitting opener and a useful seamer, was named in the Bangladesh squad on Monday for the one-off Twenty20 international
U-16 spinner takes nine-for
BCB Under-16 left-arm spinner Siddikur Rahman Shawon took nine wickets in the first innings of a three-day match against the touring Madhya Pradesh CA Under-16s in Cox’s Bazar, claiming the final five wickets on the second day on Monday. Shawon, a BKSP student, had a hand in the run-out of MPCA opener Rishabh Choubey in the ... Read more
Crowd deafening, says NZ’s Munro
New Zealand all-rounder Colin Munro reflected on the intensity of the third one-day international against Bangladesh at Fatullah after the match on Sunday, calling the experience ‘awesome’. ‘We had a lot to play for. Some guys said, ‘It is a dead rubber so go out there and play with freedom”,’ Munro said after his 77-ball ... Read more
Poll-time govt likely by Nov 20
Sheikh Hasina on Monday informed her cabinet colleagues that an election-time government, comprising representatives of various political parties, would be formed within November 15-20, a senior minister, who did not want to be named, quoted the Prime Minister as having said. It will have 21 members and the Prime Minister will be the head. According
Board fixes Tk 5,300
Minimum Wage For Rmg Workers Board fixes Tk 5,300 Employers disagree The minimum wages board for the garment workers on Monday recommended Tk 5,300 as minimum monthly wage for entry-level workers, up by Tk 2,300 from the existing structure amid opposition from owners’ representatives. The minimum wage was decided through vote among the board members after ... Read more
Two killed, 100 hurt on first day of hartal
At least two people were killed and more than 100 injured during sporadic clashes between hartal supporters and activists of the ruling Awami League (AL) during the first day of the countrywide 60-hour hartal. The Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP)-led 18-Party Alliance enforced the hartal to press for its demand for a non-partisan election-time government
Driver bears the brunt of political violence
Political violence is claiming many innocent lives almost every day across the country. Three incidents, on Monday, in three separate places, within only a few hours, bore yet another testimony to the fact that common people are often treated as mere pawns to supplement the fascinating power game between political parties. Md Ramzan Ali, a ... Read more
Industrial raw materials used to make bombs
Easy availability of raw materials used in the agricultural and industrial sectors, as also the cottage industry, and the absence of government monitoring have led to the alarming increase in commercial manufacturing of bombs. These bombs are freely used during political turmoil. A senior officer of the police’s Detective Branch, not wanting to be named, ... Read more
EC mulls army deployment during elections
The Election Commission is contemplating to deploy army for law and order maintenance during the coming parliamentary election, due before January 24, election commissioner Shah Nawaz said on Monday He told reporters at his office that EC would meet soon to decide when the election schedule would be announced. Asked whether the EC would be able
BNP won’t join all-party govt:?Fakhrul
Bangladesh Nationalist Party on Monday iterated that it would not join an all-party interim government that might be formed by November 15. ‘Let us make it clear that BNP would never participate in the all-party interim government, nor take part in elections under it,’ BNP acting secretary