The Ministry of Law appointed 101 lawyers from the rank and file of Awami League as public pleaders in 22 courts of Barisal and cancelled jobs of 35 lawyers appointed during the previous regime. The newly appointed lawyers started functioning from Wednesday. The appointment letter signed by Mir Shafikul Alam, Deputy Solicitor of the Law ... Read more
Dhaka Mirror
Lack of safe drinking water gives rise to diarrhoea
About 13,847 were afflicted by diarrhoea and at least five people died in the country in the past seven days due to lack of pure drinking water and consumption of stale and contaminated food, said sources at the Directorate-General of Health Services’ control room. The floating people, slum-dwellers and destitutes in the city are most ... Read more
Handloom factories in sorry state at Narsingdi
Hundreds of handloom factories including Jamdani, Katan and Benarashi in the district are facing set back due to high price of yarn and dye and smuggling of Indian fabrics in the local market. Local entrepreneurs said a group of dishonest yarn and dye traders are making the yarn and dye market unstable with an ulterior ... Read more
Future to bind print, web together
Says Sir David Bell, chairman of FT The news world is going to be the one in which the print media and the web will live side by side. So says Sir David Bell, chairman of the Financial Times Group, one of the world’s leading business information companies. The internet is not swallowing everything in ... Read more
Winners of Bangladesh Business Awards ’08
Business Person of the Year Abdul Monem came to Dhaka in early 50s virtually empty-handed with a secondary school certificate being his only means to bet fortune on the city streets. Initial days were hard before he signed up as a construction contractor in partnership. But it did not augur well for Monem and forced ... Read more
Valuables worth Tk 16 lakh looted in city
One shot dead Valuables worth about Tk 16 lakh were looted from the house of a businessman at Kutubkhali of Jatrabari in the Dhaka city early Friday. Victim’s family said a gang of six robbers entered the house of businessman Ferdous Minto on the first floor of the four-storey building by cutting open the balcony ... Read more
Consider climate change issue while preparing budget
Speakers tell seminar Speakers at a seminar yesterday stressed the need to consider the impacts of climate change while preparing the national budget. The seminar titled ‘Climate change: Its impact on health and environment’ was organised by Bangladesh Paribesh Andolon (Bapa) at Dhaka Reporters Unity auditorium. “The impacts of climate change should be considered during ... Read more
Syndicates selling adulterated fuel oil in Khulna
A syndicate is reportedly active in supplying adulterated fuel oils in different fuel sales points in the Khulna city and also many rural areas of the district. Members of the syndicate collect adulterated fuel oils from different parts of the country and supply them to their local customers, local sources said. A section of rural ... Read more
Stage set for Indian extravaganza in SA
The enthusiastic public response for the Indian Premier League parade has convinced the league’s chairman that the tournament’s move to South Africa has already been a success. The second edition of the world’s biggest Twenty20 tournament was moved out of India last month due to security concerns and logical issues surrounding the general elections currently ... Read more
Tigers eager to make eleven
Indian Premier League Tigers eager to make eleven There is little chance to see Bangladesh captain Mohammad Ashraful playing in the opening match of the Indian Premier League (IPL) that kicks off today at Newlands in Cape Town. The Tigers skipper may be seen in the ‘dugout’ (players’ waiting area) just beyond the rope while ... Read more
Rajasthan Royals face tough title defence opener
When the glitz and the glamour of the build-up to the Indian Premier League makes way for cricket action today, past form will not count for much. Defending champions the Rajasthan Royals could find it tough this time around, starting with their opening clash against Bangalore Royal Challengers in the second match of a double ... Read more
Cyclone Bijli hits coasts, weakens
Cyclone Bijli hit the coastal areas of Chittagong and Cox’s Bazar last night. Strong wind coupled with heavy rain started blowing at around 7:30pm. It may take another 4-6 hours to cross the coasts, said a late night Met office bulletin. The storm lashed the offshore island of Sandwip, coastal upazilas of Banshkhali and Anowara ... Read more
Nearly 25 lakh jobseekers caught in GPA tangle
About 25 lakh jobseekers, who completed their secondary education after 2000, are facing difficulties in taking recruitment tests in the absence of an official harmonisation of the pre- and post-2001 evaluation systems of academic results, alleged sufferers. The government in 2001 introduced letter-grade system in secondary school certificate examinations, ending the traditional evaluation of examinations ... Read more
Most RMG factories not fully compliant, survey finds
Some 743 out of 1,175 garment factories located in Dhaka division and surveyed in 2008 have failed to fully comply with a 2006 tripartite agreement, according to a government inspection report. The survey revealed that the non-compliant factories had not implemented the all eight conditions agreed on by the labour ministry, representatives of apparel owners ... Read more
Corporate luminaries honoured
Bangladesh Business Awards 2008 Corporate luminaries honoured Two businesspersons, one enterprise and one financial institution won The Daily Star-DHL business awards yesterday for their extraordinary performance in different fields. As part of the Bangladesh Business Awards 2008, Abdul Monem, chairman and managing director of Abdul Monem Group of Companies, has been honoured as the Business ... Read more
Barisal SBMC closed sine die after BCL factional clashes
Barisal Sher-e-Bangla Medical College (SBMC) was today closed sine die following clashes between two rival groups of BCL, abduction of a student and ransacking of college library and hostel rooms. Students of SBMC were ordered to vacate halls by this morning. Police and RAB have been deployed on the campus to avoid further trouble. Dr. ... Read more
PM issues cheques, MP’s men take away
The local Awami League (AL) lawmaker’s men in Bagmara upazila have allegedly taken away cheques worth Tk 19 lakh granted by the prime minister for the victims of the cruelties committed by Bangla Bhai-led vigilante gangs. They are now pressing the recipients to hand them the rest two of the 21 Tk 1 lakh cheques ... Read more
3 important poverty alleviation rehabilitation projects being implemented at US$101m
Three important projects, aiming to address the country’s acute poverty and to rehabilitate the people affected by cyclone and flood, are being implemented spending over US$101 million (Tk 660 crore) as about 5.6 crore people still live below the poverty line. The projects are ‘Social Investment Program Project’ (SIPP), ‘Flood Re-storation and Recovery Assistance Program’ ... Read more
Bangladeshi workers get world’s lowest wages
Workers in Bangladesh’s export industries are paid the world’s lowest wages. Productivity remains very low due mainly to poor management by the manufacturers and inadequate marketing skills. Bangladeshi workers in factories involved in leather processing, shoe making, jute yarn manufacturing, shrimp processing and production of medicines receive the world’s lowest wages. The average monthly wages ... Read more
Special fund to protect workers demanded
The politicians and labour leaders on Friday called upon the government to allocate a special fund for the workers in the next fiscal budget to protect them from the impacts of the global economic recession. They made the call at the opening session of the 4th national conference of the Bangladesh Garment Sramik Trade Union ... Read more