Violence against women and children continues across the country as criminals go unpunished in the absence of proper application of law. Women and girls suffer from physical, sexual, psychological and economic abuses while children face corporal punishment at home, school and workplace. A report of Odhikar says 5816 women and children were raped in six ... Read more
Dhaka Mirror
Thousands had to leave country in last decade
Claims indigenous people’s body An organisation working with indigenous people claimed that around 50,000 adivashi people were forced to leave the country due to harassment and repression during the last decade. The Adivashi Manobadhikar Report 2008 claimed that non-adivashi people were relocated to the hilly region under a political scheme of “population transfer” and they ... Read more
Quality weeklies are rare
A large number of English and Bangla- weekly magazines come out from Dhaka but it is difficult to ascertain the exact number as most of them are irregular and underground publications. However, a number of weekly magazines-both English and Bangla- are found in the market. The well known weekly English weeklies published regularly from Dhaka ... Read more
Abahani-Ashgabat tussle today
Perfect finishing will be the key in the crucial Group B match of the AFC President’s Cup match between Dhaka Abahani and Ashgabat FC of Turkmenistan at the Bangabandhu National Stadium at 6:00pm today. Both the teams had a perfect warm-up for the crunch tie with victories against Sri Lanka Army, the third team of ... Read more
Sakib scoops player of the year award
All-rounder Sakib al Hasan scooped the Garmeenphone-Prothom Alo player of the year award 2008 on Friday for his outstanding performance with bat and ball last year, especially in Test cricket. Sakib was the runaway winner ahead of weightlifter Fahima Akhter Moina and shooter Asif Hossain Khan, who bagged the runner-up awards for winning international
New drama Neeler Pala staged in city
The maiden show of the play Neeler Pala was held Wednesday evening at the National Theatre Hall of the Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy in the city’s Segun Bagicha area. Theatre group Nagarik Natyangan Ensemble staged the show of their new production. Theatre personality Abul Quasem has directed the play, scripted by Chittaranjan Ghosh, the noted
Unmad, Desh TV cartoon show held
A one-day group cartoon exhibiton titled ‘Unmad Desh TV Cartoon Exhibition’ was held at Sufi Stone Gallary in Magbazar on Wednesday. Eminent cartoonist and also editor of the cartoon magazine Unmad, Ahsan Habib, and eminent cultural personality Syed Hasan Imam jointly inaugurated the show. Syed Hasan Imam said, ‘cartoon is an integrated part of our ... Read more
5th Asian universities debating contest kicks off
The six-day ‘Fifth Asian Universities Debating Championship (AUDC) 2009’ began amid a gala ceremony at a hotel in the city yesterday. A total of 279 debaters comprising 69 teams of 10 Asian countries will participate in the championship. The participating teams are from Bangladesh, China, India, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Thailand and the ... Read more
Sakib back to boost Tigers
Sakib al Hasan returned to cricket after a long injury lay-off to inspire the Bangladesh cricket team to a 49-run victory over the Bangladesh A team in the third warm-up match at the Sher-e-Bangla National Stadium on Thursday. Sakib took the ball after the Tigers had suffered two embarrassing defeats to their second fiddles in ... Read more
Ashgabat FC demolish Sri Lanka Army
Ashgabat FC of Turkmenis-tan demolished Sri Lanka Army 5-1 on Thursday to get the ideal warm-up before playing Dhaka Abahani in the AFC President’s Cup Group B deciding match at the Bangabandhu National Stadium on Saturday. The first-half was almost a one way traffic as the tall and physically stronger players of the Turkmenistan side ... Read more
India drubs Bangladesh 11-1
Bangladesh finished seventh in the 8th Asia Cup hockey tournament after a 11-1 defeat against India in the classification match at Wisma Belia Stadium of Kuantan, Malaysia on Thursday. India, which surprisingly failed to make it to the last four, started the game with an aggressive note and swooped on the Bangladesh team from the ... Read more
Farmers achieve success in cultivating sweet jumbo grass in char areas
Profit of taka 50,000 per acre possible The char people have been attaining remarkable success in eradicating poverty by farming Australian hybrid variety sweet jumbo grass in the sandy char areas on the country’s Brahmaputra basin during the past two years. The distressed char people have been achieving their faster economic self-reliance side by side ... Read more
JMB’s explosives expert Boma Mizan captured
Wife explodes bomb to escape arrest; finally surrenders to Rab with severe injuries after 4-hr midnight raid at a Mirpur house After years in the hunt for him, the Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) last night captured ‘Boma Mizan’, explosives expert of banned Islamist outfit Jama’atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB), at Taltola in the city’s Mirpur area. ... Read more
CID investigation into BDR mutiny may take this year
Political complicity not ascertained yet CID investigation into BDR mutiny and killing of army officers may take this year as the matter is too complicated to complete it quickly. Although report of CID investigation will be the basis of trial of BDR mutineers in the court but it will not be possible to be completed ... Read more
Counter-offensive not allowed: Army officers were killed when peace process was on, negotiators lacked professionalism; It may be revenge action by some quarter
The army led court of enquiry identified several reasons for the carnage at the Peelkhana BDR headquarters on February 25 and 26, the foremost being the deep resentment of BDR jawans against the ” Dal Bhat operation” launched during the last caretaker government. More facilities for the army personnel compared with BDR jawans, non-payment of ... Read more
City gets panicky in petty crime spurt
Petty crimes — mugging, extortion and burglary — have spurted in the capital in the last few days and the criminals are having a free run in the absence of proper policing. It does not matter whether you are walking alone or in a crowd in the city, during the day or at night. Or ... Read more
JS panel summons Sircar, Akhtar and Delwar
A parliamentary panel on Thursday summoned the speaker, deputy speaker and chief whip of the eighth parliament early next month to defend themselves against charges of corruption being investigated by the panel. ‘We have decided to invite former speaker Jamiruddin Sircar, former deputy speaker Akhtar Hamid Siddiqui and former chief whip Khandaker Delwar Hossain to ... Read more
Govt trying to hide real plotters: BNP
MASSACRE AT BDR HQ Govt trying to hide real plotters: BNP The Bangladesh Nationalist Party on Thursday vowed to continue movement until the real plotters and perpetrators of the Pilkhana massacre were identified and tried by way of impartial investigation. The party demanded that the probe reports of the killings at the BDR headquarters on ... Read more
Food procurement drive too slow
Deal with millers yet to be signed The procurement of rice and paddy would not be completed during this season, as the food ministry as well as food department is yet to sign agreement with millers, said a source at the ministry. “The government had started countrywide procurement drive through local millers from May 1 ... Read more
Muhith hints at Tk 100,000cr budget next fiscal
Tax holiday to go gradually Finance Minister AMA Muhith yesterday unveiled the government’s plan to gradually scrap the tax holiday for the benefit for various sectors. Addressing the pre-budget consultation meeting organised by the Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce and Industry (MCCI), the finance minister said that the sectors that had been awarded tax holiday for ... Read more