The medical service at Mitford Hospital was paralysed on Tuesday suffered as staff went away following series of clashes with intern doctors and students of Salimullah Medical College. At least 20 people were injured in the clashes. The Interns stopped working, causing
Month: December 2013
Hamid attends memorial service for Mandela
President Abdul Hamid Tuesday attended the national memorial service for anti-apartheid icon Nelson Mandela. “Honourable President attended the memorial service for Nelson Mandela at FNB Stadium in Johannesburg with other heads of state and government,” said Presidents’ Press Secretary Ihsanul Karim from South Africa over phone. Over 100 current
Ershad writes to UN chief
Jatiya Party (JP) Chairman Hussain Muhammad Ershad on Tuesday sent a letter to United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon through visiting UN Assistant Secretary-General Oscar Fernandez-Taranco. Ershad’s Special Assistant Bobby Hajjaj handed the letter for the UN Secretary General to Taranco at Hotel Sonargaon. The JP chief did not disclose the
One robbed of Tk 13.5 lakh in city
Muggers shot and injured a young man and snatched Tk 13.5 lakh from his possession in the capital’s Hazaribagh area on Tuesday. The victim was identified as a hardware accessories supplier Abul Kashem, 35, son of Abdul Manik Sarkar, a resident of 25, BDR No 1 Gate.Police said six miscreants came in two
Nahid rules out promotion without exams
Blockade-hit Schools Nahid rules out promotion without exams Ruling out the possibility of giving automatic promotion to school pupils, Education Minister Nurul Islam Nahid has said students must appear at and pass the annual examinations in order to be promoted to the next grades. “There will be no such promotion; the examinations will be held soon,” ... Read more
Rafiqun Nabi displays artworks of five decades
Eminent artist Rafiqun Nabi is displaying a glimpse of his kaleidoscopic journey of over five decades in art in his retrospective show at the Bengal Shilplaya in Dhanmondi, Dhaka. The show, Quest for Reality, features 120 selected artworks in different mediums done since 1960s by the artist. The gallery has organised the retrospective show to ... Read more
Ektara maker struggles to survive
Shariful Islam, from Kushtia, makes traditional string instruments such as ektara and dotara since he was a teenager. He sells his products in fairs and at the outlets near the Lalon’s shrine in Chheuria, Kushtia from where singers and music lovers buy the one-string and two-string instruments widely used in traditional music genres. While attending ... Read more
BCB desperate for series revival
West Indies withdraw U-19 team citing security concerns The Bangladesh Cricket Board made a last-ditch attempt on Monday to salvage the Under-19 series against the touring West Indies side after the West Indies Cricket Board decided to pull out their team citing security fears. The WICB’s decision, announced early on Monday, came as a body blow ... Read more
ICC asks BCB for security report
The International Cricket Council asked the Bangladesh Cricket Board to submit a report on the current situation in the country, BCB officials said on Monday. The request from cricket’s governing body comes after the West Indies Under-19 team’s sudden withdrawal from their ongoing series in Bangladesh – a
BCB fears the worst as WI pull out team
The Bangladesh Cricket Board warned that the political situation could threaten the future of cricket in Bangladesh after the West Indies Cricket Board on Monday decided to pull out their Under-19 side from ongoing tour due to security concerns. The WICB’s decision has raised questions about
Jurgensen lauds Tamim’s fitness
National cricket team coach Shane Jurgensen praised star opener Tamim Iqbal for his work on his fitness at the start of the Tigers’ training camp ahead of their home series against Sri Lanka beginning in January. ‘Tamim was very impressive today, very good,’ Jurgensen said at the Sher-e-Bangla National Stadium on Monday. ‘He did, I think, ... Read more
Siddik gets reception at Kurmitola
Bangladeshi golfer Siddikur Rahman met with chief of Army Staff and president of Kurmitola Golf Club General Iqbal Karim Bhuiyan to share his World Cup experience before a reception at the Kurmitola Golf Club on Monday. Siddikur, who won his second Asian Tour tournament in India last month, returned home on Thursday after participating in five
House rent hikes dog tenants
Tenants have already started getting rent hike notices from house owners saying the increased rent would be in effect from the first month of the New Year 2014. No government so far has addressed the issue of capricious house rent hike, leaving the tenants suffer immeasurably. The owners increase house
Intl Human Rights Day today
The Human Rights Day will be observed in Bangladesh, as elsewhere in the world, today when the nation is passing through a political crisis resulting into killing of people in arsons while torture in custody and extrajudicial killing go unabated and freedom of press and expression remain at stake. The theme of the day this year ... Read more
Businessman hacked to death
A businessman was hacked to death at Sagordi in the Barisal city early Monday for demanding dues. The victim was identified as Altaf Hossain Haoladar alias Sunu Haoladar, 35, a rice-mill owner and son of Kanchan Haoladar and cousin of ward 24 councillor Firoz Ahmed. Businessmen of Sagordi Bazaar on Monday
RCC plans to conserve 53 ponds
Rajshahi City Corporation has planned to conserve 53 natural water-bodies in the city in order to retain its surface water resources for protecting the environment from further degradation. The city corporation has adopted a Tk 206.24-crore uplift project titled ‘Natural Water Bodies Conservation and Development in Rajshahi
LPG bottling plant to be set up in Khulna
An LPG bottling plant is now under construction on 7.5 acres of land at the Mongla port in Khulna at a cost of Tk 96 crore. The Rupsha Tank Terminal and Refinery Ltd has undertaken this project of setting up the bottling plant which is expected to start their commercial operation in January of 2015, said ... Read more
Govt, influentials do not care media reports: seminar
The government and influential people do not care about media reports that expose their misdeeds and corruption, said panellists at a seminar on challenges of investigative journalism on Monday. Transparency International Bangladesh organised the seminar for distributing the Award on Investigative Reporting on Corruption 2013 marking the International
BU intake tests Dec 21
The date of the Barisal University admission tests has been rescheduled for December 21. This is the third time that the authorities have changed the date. The one-hour tests would be held under 3 shifts; from 10:00-11:00am for ‘Gha’ unit, 1:00-2:00 pm for ‘Ga’ unit and 4:00-5:00pm for ‘Ka’ and ‘Kha’
NU exams suspended
The authorities of the National University have suspended all the examination scheduled to be held today due to unavailable circumstance. New schedule for the examinations will be announced on the university web site (www.nu.edu.bd,www.nubd.info) soon.