Say businessmen Fish and shrimp worth around Tk 40 crore have been washed away from more than 400 shrimp enclosures and ponds in seven upazilas of Cox’s Bazar district by cyclone Aila and the recent tidal surge, businessmen said yesterday. The affected upazilas are Teknaf, Ukhia, Moheshkhali, Kutubdia, Cox’s Bazar Sadar, Chakoria and
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Thank you Ashraful
ICC World Twenty20 England09 Thank you Ashraful It is high time to seriously consider whether Bangladesh cricket is held hostage by a set of Ashra-FOOLS. And if it is the case then we better immediately send those ‘FOOLS’ to rehabilitation camp at least to stop the emotional bloodshed that was overpowering after Monday night’s stunning ... Read more
Dejected Tigers leave England
Down and out from the ICC World Twenty20, a dejected Bangladesh cricket team left England on Tuesday without their skipper Mohammad Ashraful and coach Jamie Siddons. The International Cricket Council did not want to spend any extra penny for them and asked the team to pack their bags to catch the next available flight after ... Read more
‘Go back Sri Lanka, go home’
British citizens of Tamil origin have demanded Sri Lanka cricket team to be expelled from the ICC World Twnety20 for what they claimed committing a genocide against humanities by their government. The Tamils demanded it while protesting in front of the Trent Bridge cricket ground when Sri Lanka were playing against Australia in their first ... Read more
One killed as UP chairman shoots into crowd
A shopkeeper was killed and two more people were injured when local union parishad chairman Munir Hossain opened fire on a crowd of protesters in Loharpool area of Kamrangirchar on the outskirts of the capital Tuesday afternoon. Witnesses said the incident took place at around 1:30pm when several hundred people of Loharpool, Ashrafabagh, Nizambagh and ... Read more
Peacekeepers not equipped properly
Army tells JS body about equipment dearth in UN missions; seeks urgent initiative Bangladeshi troops engaged in the United Nations (UN) peacekeeping missions face a dearth of equipment, though their work abroad earns the country around Tk 1,200 crore a year. The crisis is acute in 19 contingents across Liberia, Sudan, Ivory Coast and Congo. ... Read more
BNP daydreaming about midterm polls: AL Spokesman
He urges opposition to discuss everything in parliament Awami League spokesperson and LGRD minister Syed Ashraful Islam on Tuesday blasted the BNP’s remark ‘on midterm polls after dissolving the parliament’ terming it a daydream. Asked about the reaction about the comment of BNP secretary general Khandaker Delwar Hossain – ‘the ruling Awami League has lost ... Read more
ACC used against democracy: Shafique
Law minister Shafique Ahmed on Tuesday said that the Anti-Corruption Commission was used against democracy by an influential quarter during the two-year tenure of the immediate past interim government. The army-led joint forces had arrested and sued political leaders in anti-graft drives under the commission during the period to prove that democracy was dysfunctional and ... Read more
FBCCI appeals to govt: Don’t go for ambitious tax-revenue target
As the new budget is going to be placed tomorrow, leaders of the apex-chamber FBCCI yesterday appealed to the government not to set ambitious tax-revenue target by expanding the tax net as it might hamper the smooth pace of domestic investment. They said it is speculated that the tax-revenue-earning target in the coming budget might ... Read more
DB jittery on getting threat from Daud
Agency ups security for itself Security measures have been beefed up in and around the office of the Detective Branch (DB) of the police in the capital following threats issued to some officials of the intelligence agency allegedly by the men of the Dubai-based underworld mafia don Daud Ibrahim. ADC of the DB Mahbub Alam ... Read more
Another Vit A death reported as probe begins
Samples could be sent to Denmark for lab test A committee constituted by the health ministry on Tuesday started investigation into the reported death and sickness of the children after taking Vitamin A capsules and deworming tablets as a third child died reportedly of complications from the medicines in Pirojpur on the day. Besides the ... Read more
Budget to be placed Thursday
Info, documents to go online Finance Minister AMA Muhith would place the Awami League-led grand-alliance government’s maiden budget in parliament on Thursday at 3pm amid wide publicity of all its information and documents online and offline. An official announcement yesterday said all the information and important documents of the new budget would be released on ... Read more
BNP forms 71 district convening committees
The Bangladesh Nationalist Party on Tuesday announced convening committees for its 71, out of 75 district units, dissolving the incumbent bodies and asked them to elect fully-fledged panels through council sessions by November 15. The convening committees for the Dhaka city, Dhaka district, Manikganj and Sunamganj were yet to be announced. The party’s office secretary, ... Read more
352 students fall sick after taking WFP biscuits
At least 352 students of Potkakhali Government Primary School under Sadar Upazila of Barguna reportedly fell sick after having biscuits distributed by World Food Programme (WFP) yesterday. The children were admitted to Barguna General Hospital where doctors declared them to be out of danger. Police had to be deployed to restrain the agitating guardians from ... Read more
US ‘concern’ for jailed reporters
US President Barack Obama has said he is “deeply concerned” by North Korea’s reported sentencing of two US journalists to 12 years’ hard labour. The US was working through all channels to secure their release, a spokesman for Mr Obama said. The journalists, Euna Lee and Laura Ling, were found guilty of “hostile acts” and ... Read more
North Korea sentences two US journalists to 12 years in jail
Women sent to labour camp after being found guilty of illegally entering country and committing ‘grave crime’ A North Korean court today sentenced two American journalists to 12 years’ hard labour after finding them guilty of committing “hostile acts”, in a move certain to raise tensions with the US. Laura Ling and Euna Lee were ... Read more
Lobbyists swamp secretariat, hamper office works
Hordes of visitors, mostly small-time political leaders and activists, trickle into Bangladesh Secretariat each working day, disrupting normal function of the country’s main seat of administration. They come over from across the country as well as the capital. They get into the highly protected secretariat zone with valid passes issued by the authorities, or sometimes ... Read more
UZ chairmen allege they can’t work for UNOs & legal framework
Polls to Zila Parishads by 2010: LGRD Minister Leaders of Upazila Chairmen’s Association alleged that UZ chairmen have become inactive due to indecision of government and non-cooperation of the UNOs. After a meeting with LGRD Minister Syed Ashraful Islam, association head Badiuzzaman Badsha said although they were elected several months ago but they cannot work ... Read more
City lake grabbers yet to be touched
Encroachment on khasland in the city and elsewhere in the country have been continuing una-bated for long many years. Even the riverbeds have been grabbed by landsharks. To our horror the waterbodies and wetlands, which are the lifeline in the city, have been illegally occupied. As a result, the city is dying gradually harming the ... Read more
4.48m households absolutely landless
The number of landless people in the country is growing steadily because of poverty, river erosion and legal disputes posing a grave threat to socioeconomic progress, according to experts and a government report. The Agriculture Census 2008 conducted by Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics revealed that out of 28.67 million households, 4.48 million or 15.62 per ... Read more