On the inaugural day of the ten-day festival of documentary films on environment and people, the organisers screened ‘The Story of Tea Workers’, jointly directed by Philip Gain and Ronald Halder in the evening of Sunday at Drik Gallery in Dhanmondi. The festival is organised by the non-government organisation called Society for Environment and Human ... Read more
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Abahani take on SL Army today
Dhaka Abahani will be looking to start their AFC President’s Cup campaign with a win when they take on Sri Lanka Army team in the inaugural match of Group B at the Bangabandhu National Stadium at 6:00pm today. Sri Lanka Army, playing for the first time in any AFC affiliated competition, however, vowed
We know what you’re doing Buchanan
It was tolerable for the first three games but after the Kolkata Knight Riders ignored Mashrafe Bin Mortaza for the tenth consecutive time, patience is running thin for millions of cricket fans in the country. The Knight Riders turned a million heads when they insisted on landing Mashrafe in their books for an astonishing 600,000 ... Read more
Mohammedan lift Women’s Club Cup
Mohammedan added yet another feather in their cap when the popular club clinched the first-ever Women’s Club Cup cricket title at the Sher-e-Bangla National Stadium in Mirpur yesterday. The Motijheel outfit kept their cool in the battle of nerves to record a five-wicket win over pre-tournament favourites Bangladesh Ansar and VDP. Mohammedan posted 127 for ... Read more
Freed Journalist Roxana Saberi Leaves Iranian Prison, Lawyer Says
TEHRAN: Iranian-Ameican journalist Roxana Saberi has been released from Evin prison after an Iranian Appeals Court downgraded her spying conviction from its original 8-year term to a lesser, suspended sentence of two years, her lawyer said. Saberi’s father, Reza, of Fargo, ND, said today in Tehran that he plans to bring his daughter home within ... Read more
200 more BDR men hauled up in dists
Law enforcers yesterday arrested a total of 200 Bangladesh Rifles (BDR) men from seven districts in connection with eight sedition cases lodged with Sadar police stations in those districts relating to the BDR revolt in the areas on February 25 and 26. Sources said that the BDR mutiny occurred simultaneously in 41 places including BDR ... Read more
Golam Azam, Nizami, Mojahid, SQC, 32 others summoned: Haphazard filing of cases may disturb govt move: Minister
A court yesterday summoned former Jamaat-e-Islami chief Golam Azam, incumbent chief Motiur Rahman Nizami, secretary general Ali Ahsan Mohammed Mujahid, BNP leader Salahuddin Quader Chowdhury MP and 32 others to appear before it and face alleged charges of war crimes.
Khaleda writ goes to 5th HC bench
4th bench expresses inability to hear petition; Khaleda gives govt 5 days to withdraw supplementary notice The chief justice on Monday assigned yet another High Court bench to hear the writ petition filed by the Bangladesh Nationalist Party’s chairperson, Khaleda Zia, challenging the April 20 notice that asked her to vacate her Dhaka Cantonment house, ... Read more
NOAB slams move for 100pc duty on newsprint import
The demand for imposing 100 per cent duty on the import of newsprint by the Bangladesh Paper Mills Association is part of a conspiracy to destroy the country’s newspaper industry, observed the Newspaper Owners Association of Bangladesh (NOAB). In a statement issued yesterday it said, if this demand was materialised, the free flow of information ... Read more
Dhaka set to take its case to UN
MARITIME BOUNDARY DISPUTES Dhaka set to take its case to UN Dhaka is set to raise its objection at the United Nations shortly to India and Myanmar’s claims over certain areas in the Bay of Bengal which has led to disputes over delimitation of maritime boundaries. Bangladesh is preparing its case for extraction of marine ... Read more
Reports beyond public still
Parties’ Poll Expenses Reports beyond public still The Election Commission (EC) has not yet disclosed polls expenditure reports submitted to it by the political parties and candidates who contested the last parliamentary election although electoral laws make the disclosure mandatory to ensure people’s access to those. Representation of the People Order (RPO) provides that copies ... Read more
Russian team due tomorrow to sign MoU
Nuclear Energy Russian team due tomorrow to sign MoU A three-member Russian delegation will arrive in Dhaka tomorrow to sign a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on peaceful use of nuclear energy in Bangladesh, science and ICT ministry officials said yesterday. The team, headed by a secretary-level official, is expected to sign the MoU the same ... Read more
RMG workers go berserk over wage
Clashes with police leave more than 50 people injured Thousands of garment workers went berserk over wage related disputes with factory owners, damaged scores of vehicles and put barricades on the Dhaka-Aricha and Dhaka-Narayanganj highways on Monday, leaving more than 50 people, including five policemen, injured. The law enforcers charged batons, and used teargas and ... Read more
Withdrawal of Ganges water by India posing threats to BD
India’s unilateral withdrawal of Ganges water is not only leading to the destruction of ecological and environmental system of Bangladesh but also posing a serious threat to its agriculture, industry and navigation. The allegation was made by speakers at a roundtable discussion on ‘India’s unilateral withdrawal of Ganges water and our role’ organised by center ... Read more
Giant Baghair caught in Jamuna
A rare-breed 105 kg Baghair (Bagarius bagarius) fish caught from the river Jamuna stole the spotlight as it was brought from Chilmari ghat in city’s Merul Badda market yesterday. “It is the largest Baghair sold in the city market in last 15 years. We bought it at Tk500 a kg and sold up to Tk800,” ... Read more
Sexy Sherlyn says no to condoms
Internet hottie and upcoming Bollywood actress, singer and model Sherlyn Chopra cannot stop giggling over a condom ad that was offered to her recently. The sexy Sherlyn would have breathtakingly reminded consumers of the first real classy Indian condom ad that featured the ravishing Pooja Bedi in the mid-1990s. But, no, Sherlyn wasn’t interested. “The ... Read more
Brothers claim T20 glory
PCL T20 Chittagong 2009 Brothers claim T20 glory Chamara Kapugedera’s blitzkrieg and yet another captain’s knock from Nafis Iqbal gave Chittagong Brothers Union the glamorous first-ever Habib Group Port-City Cricket League Twenty20 tournament title here at the MA Aziz Stadium yesterday. They defeated Dhaka Sports Club by six wickets in front of a full house ... Read more
Proposed salaries to be slashed off a little
The finance ministry plans to cut 10 to 20 percent of the Pay Commission’s recommended scales for 20 grades of government employees. Sources say the ministry is now looking for ways to cut Tk 2,000-2,500 crore of the commission’s recommended expenditure for paying government employees. They said the ministry is currently examining what amount of ... Read more
Govt yet to act on rising death incidence of workers abroad
At least 8,107 expatriate workers died in 5 yrs The government is yet to act on the alarming rise in the incidence of premature deaths of expatriate Bangladeshi wage earners due to stress, on-the-job accidents and maltreatment on foreign soil. At least 8,107 Bangladeshi workers died in a number of countries, especially in the oil-rich ... Read more
Yet another HC bench feels embarrassed
Chief Justice constitutes new bench to hear Khaleda’s writ petition The hearing on the writ petition filed by the former prime minister and BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia challenging the legality of the government notice to asking her to vacate the Dhaka Cantonment house could not be held yesterday as the third bench of the High ... Read more