Following the success of the first one, the second Laptop Fair is scheduled to kick off in the port city in the last week of May. The three-day event will be held at the Chittagong Engineers Institution from May 22 and is being organised by Maker Communications. The company have already organised laptop fairs in ... Read more
Dhaka Mirror
Young entrepreneurs amaze many
They were excited for obvious reasons, but at the same time their innovative business ideas amazed many. The Surma hall of Sonargaon Hotel was literarily too small to provide the encaustic young entrepreneurs with enough space, and with the announcement of the Young Entrepreneur Award 2008-09, the hall was about to be exploded with thundering ... Read more
Bangladesh through to final round
Bangladesh moved into the final round of the AFC Challenge Cup 2010 after finishing runners-up in Group A with a facile 3-0 win over Macau at the Bangabandhu National Stadium on Thursday. Midfielder Zahid’s brace helped Bangladesh finish as the best runners-up and qualify for the final round. Bangladesh made a lively start against their ... Read more
Myanmar unbeaten champs
Myanmar became Group A champions with an all-win record after beating Cambodia 1-0 in their third and last match of the AFC Challenge Cup qualifying round at the Bangabandhu National Stadium on Thursday. With the win Myanmar joined India, Tajikistan, North Korea, Turkmenistan, Kyrgyzstan and Sri Lanka in the final round scheduled to be held ... Read more
Women’s Club Cup Cricket : Mohammedan in semis crushing Victoria by 258 runs
Mohammedan SC moved into the semifinal of the Women’s Club Cup Cricket Tournament crushing Victoria SC by massive 258 runs at the Gulshan Youth Club ground here on Thursday. With this feat, Mohammedan SC have secured four points from three matches to reach the semis from Group B after beating Indira Road KC by 10 ... Read more
BCB U-15 win over CAB U-15 team in 3rd one-day match
BCB Under-15 earned an emphatic nine-wicket victory over touring Cricket Association of Bengal (CAB) Under-15 team in the third one-day match at the Mymensingh Stadium on Thursday. Hosts BCB team also outplayed the tourists by 144 runs in the 2nd one-day match on Wednesday at the same venue. Batting first after winning the toss in ... Read more
Sickle industry in a remote village
The village is familiar as ‘sickle village’. Its real name is Araibaria, located at Hossainpur Upazila in Kishoreganj district. In half of the country’s land, farmers had started cutting Boro paddy with sickles made from this village. About 1.5 million pieces of sickles have been made and sailed in this Boro season from the village. ... Read more
Sustainable development of livestock in char areas underlined
The speakers of a function held on Wednesday underlined the need for sustainable development of livestock in char areas through providing and ensuring the services by Government and Non government organisation. “Rearing of cows, goats and sheep is very profitable and it can play an important role to alleviate poverty and eradicate monga facing the ... Read more
Hammam ‘ignores’ FIFA in voting dispute
AFC president Mohamed bin Hammam has rejected FIFA’s instruction to reinstate the voting rights of five countries at next week’s crucial congress of the regional football body, officials said. FIFA’s legal director last week told the AFC that Kuwait, Laos, East Timor, Afghanistan and Mongolia had the right to vote in deciding who will fill ... Read more
Ctg metropolis becomes champion in Zone-C nat’l handball
Chittagong metropolis hand-ball team emerged champion, while Chittagong district team finished runners-up in the Zone-C competition of the Exim Bank 19th Men’s National Handball Cham-pionship. Chittagong district team defeated Dhaka 26-13 and Chittagong metropolis team outplayed Chittagong district team 30-15 in the ‘super-three’ competitions at Rangamati Stadium on Thursday. Both champion and runners-up teams earned ... Read more
Bangladeshi dies of Swine Flu in Mexico
A Bangladeshi national was one of eight foreign national who died of swine flu in Mexico, Health Minister A F M Ruhul Haque said yesterday quoting an AFP journalist. “I heard the news (of death of a Bangladeshi) from an AFP journalist,” the Minister told newsmen. Mexico’s National Epidemiological Center on Wednesday confirmed that the ... Read more
Khaleda, her family members’ appeal for withdrawing cases against them
BNP ready for massive gathering at Paltan BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia and her family members on Thursday submitted three separate applications to the government for withdrawing 20 cases filed against them by the last caretaker government. Khaleda Zia sat in a separate meeting with the two leaders last Monday and Tuesday as there are conflicts ... Read more
May Day today
The historic May Day will be observed in the city as elsewhere across the country today with a call for establishment of the fundamental rights of the working class of people. On this day in 1886, scores of workers were killed at Hey Market in Chicago in the United States when the workers staged demonstration ... Read more
Trade union movement in doldrums for years
Party’s interest more important to union leaders than workers’ rights Opportunism, corruption, undue political interference, workers’ disunity and the ideological divide between the leaders have stalled the trade union movement in Bangladesh for decades, which has allowed the workers’ rights to be trampled across the country, said analysts and activists. The absence of constructive unionism ... Read more
Padma Bridge to be completed by Dec 2013
Communications Minister Syed Abul Hossain yesterday categorically said the construction of long cherished Padma Multipurpose Bridge (PMB) would be completed within December 2013. “On completion, the Padma Bridge is expected to contribute an additional 1.2 per cent growth to Syed Abul Hossain was speaking at a presentation on design of the Padma Multipurpose Bridge held ... Read more
Govt opens maiden power plant bids
Eight firms vie for 300MW station Eight power companies yesterday submitted their financial and technical bids to install a 300 megawatt power plant in Siddhirganj under the World Bank financing, the first power bid opened under the new Awami League government. Sources say four Chinese companies, an Indian and an Indo-German joint venture, a Korean ... Read more
Free textbooks for 70 lakh secondary students from next year
The government on Thursday decided to distribute textbooks among all the 70 lakh secondary students free from the academic year 2010, the education minister, Nurul Islam Nahid, told New Age. ‘The decision was made at a meeting attended by the finance minister and the chairman and members of the parliamentary standing committee on education ministry,’ ... Read more
Ghulam Rahman new ACC chief
The government appointed Ghulam Rahman, chairman of Bangladesh Energy Regulatory Commission, as the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) chief yesterday, twenty-eight days after Hasan Mashhud Chowdhury stepped down from the post. The government also downgraded the status of the ACC chairman to a Supreme Court judge from the status of a minister given during the tenure of ... Read more
Power generation falls to 90 MW from 230 at KHPP
Water level 75.05 MSL instead of 82.40 Kaptai Hydroelectric Power Plant (KHPP), the country’s lone hydroelectric power project, is now in operation with one unit only out of five, generating just 90 megawatt (MW) of electricity instead of installed 230MW at present. With the decline of power generation at KHPP due to drastic fall of ... Read more
Heatstroke continues to take toll: 3 more die: Diarrhoea turns endemic City water system contaminated
Diarrhoea outbreak in the city has become phenomenal as the inhabitants have no other way except for drinking muddy and stinking water. Scorching heat continues all over the country, our correspondents from Bhola, Rangpur and Gopalganj have reported that one person in each place has died of heatstroke. The deceased are Yasen Patwari (65) of ... Read more