The Bangladesh Cricket Board’s Anti Corruption Tribunal, formed to deal with the Bangladesh Premier League match-fixing scandal, handed over all their evidence to the defence lawyers, officials said on Friday. The preliminary hearing of the nine individuals charged by the International Cricket Council got underway on November 24, with the final
Month: December 2013
Two-day SOLZAR Cup golf ends
The two-day SOLZAR cup Golf tournament concluded at the Ghatail Shaheed Salahuddin Cantonment golf course in Tangail on Friday. A total of 60 players – Including seven women golfers – from different golf clubs in the country took part in the tournament. The tournament was inaugurated by the GOC
Uncertainty over inspection of RMG factories in time
Political Unrest Uncertainty over inspection of RMG factories in time Current political unrest across the country has made uncertain a timely completion of garment factory inspection by the government-sponsored teams with the assistance of International Labour Organisation, officials concerned said. They said that the government and the ILO targeted to complete the inspection of 200 readymade ... Read more
Canada to help fund effort to boost worker safety in B’desh
The Canada federal government has kicked in funding for an international effort to boost worker safety in Bangladesh clothing factories, which manufacture products for many Canadian retailers, reports theglobeandmail.com. Canada’s $8-million over four years, announced on Thursday, will help the International Labour Organisation offer
Supply disruption pushes up prices of rice, broiler, egg
The prices of rice, broiler and egg increased on the retail market in the capital over the week ending Friday due to supply shortage as political violence disrupted goods transport across the country. Traders said that the price of rice increased by Tk 2 a kg on both wholesale and retail markets as transportation had almost ... Read more
DSE forms election commission
Decides to enlist Appollo Ispat Dhaka Stock Exchange board has formed a three-member election commission headed by former justice MA Matin to hold the next elections of the bourse and to formulate the first demutualised board. As per the Demutualisation Act- 2013, the bourse has to formulate the ‘first demutualised board’ of the bourse within February ... Read more
Mitford crisis continues leaving patients to suffer
Health services at Mitford Hospital, one of the most crowded hospitals at Old part of the capital, remained stalled for the third consecutive days on Thursday, causing severe sufferings to hundreds of patients. The students of the Salimullah Medical College are yet to leave hostels although the authority closed the college and asked them to vacant ... Read more
Quader Molla executed
War crimes convict Abdul Quader Molla, also an assistant secretary general of Jamaat-e-Islami, was hanged Thursday night at Dhaka Central Jail amid heightened security. The jail authorities executed Quader, convicted of committing crimes against humanity during the 1971 Liberation War, after the government
4 killed in Lakshmipur, 2 in other places
At least six people, four in Lakshmipur, died in violence as law enforcers fired into blockaders and blockaders attacked vehicles on the last of the 144-hour countrywide blockade of road, railway and waterways the opposition started enforcing on Saturday. Four died in Lakshmipur as the Rapid Action Battalion
Fertiliser supplies to dealers fall due to blockade
The supply of urea and non urea fertilisers to the dealers has drastically dropped due to severe road communication disruptions caused by the nationwide blockade, officials said. They, however, said that there were sufficient fertilisers in the stocks at the national level. They also said that unscrupulous fertilizer traders
‘Indigenous’ groups fall badly behind in education
The participation rate in schools of children from national minorities is significantly below the national primary enrolment rate. The rate of literacy, the ability of a person to write a letter, amongst those belonging to national minorities is also far behind the national rate, government surveys and studies conducted by development partners and research
RAB picks up Ershad, takes him to CMH
Law enforcers picked up the Jatiya Party chairman, HM Ershad, from his house at Baridhara about 11:40pm on Thursday, the party’s secretary general ABM Ruhul Amin Hawlader, said. ‘RAB 1 personnel picked up our leader. He was later admitted to Dhaka Combined Military Hospital because of “illness” after he had officially
Respect demand of majority, Khaleda urges India
Amid the current political turmoil in Bangladesh opposition leader Khaleda Zia on Thursday called on India to show respect to the ‘demands’ of people over the dispute relating to the poll-time government. “I urge influential neighbour India and its people to express solidarity with the world community by showing respect to the aspirations and demands of
Ganajagaran erupts in joy
Ganajagaran Mancha erupted into joy and chanted slogans soon after the announcement of the execution of Jamaat leader Abdul Quader Mollah for committing crimes against humanity during the country’s war of liberation. The activists of the Mancha chanted slogans like ‘Ei Matro Khobor Elo, Quader Mollah’r Fasi Holo (Here comes the news, Quader Mollah
Jamaat calls strike for Dec 15
The Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami on Thursday called a countrywide dawn-to-dusk general strike for December 15 in protest at the execution of its assistant secretary general Abdul Quader Molla, convicted of committing crimes against humanity in the independence war in 1971. The acting Jamaat amir Makbul Ahmad in a statement
Acceptability of elections to be determined by people: Warsi
UK senior foreign office minister Baroness Warsi, who came to Dhaka on a one-day visit on Thursday, stressed the importance of free, fair and transparent elections saying that the acceptability of the elections would be determined by the people of Bangladesh. Warsi visited Bangladesh for the second time
Don’t offer ‘plough’ to anyone, Ershad asks EC
Jatiya Party (JP) Chairman Hossain Mohammad Ershad has requested the Election Commission (EC) not to give the symbol — Plough — to any party or individual as it is JP’s logo. In a letter to EC secretary Dr. Muhammed Sadik, Ershad said that as chairman of a registered political party he has the right to ... Read more
Train services suspended for four hours
The Bangladesh railway authorities on Thursday suspended all railway services across the country for about four hours fearing sabotage shortly after the execution of Jamaat-e-Islami assistant secretary general Abdul Quader Molla. Dhaka divisional railway manager Sardar Shahadat Ali told New Age that the authorities had suspended all train services for about four
Railway faces uncertainties in train tracking over mobile
The Bangladesh Railway is facing uncertainties in launching its trial basis train tracking system on mobile phones for the benefit of the passengers. The launching scheduled for last month became uncertain due to political unrests, said BR officials. They said that the plan was to display
Army ready to be deployed: CEC
Chief Election Commissioner Kazi Rakibuddin Ahmad has said the army is ready to get deployed during the 10th parliament elections slated for January 5. “The army has already been alerted…they’re ready to get deployed,” he said while talking to reporters Thursday evening. Kazi Rakibuddin, however,