Staff Correspondent Bangladesh Plastic Goods Manufacturers and Exporters Association (BPGMEA) has placed 5-point demand including withdrawing the bank guarantee, fixing up 3 per cent tax on local industry instead of 7 per cent and building up a plastic industrial city. The demands came when a delegation of BPGMEA, lead by its president Md Jashim Uddin ... Read more
Dhaka Mirror
RDA’s water use model gets global recognition
WB invites RDA to present the model at its HQ on Feb 19 Hasibur Rahman Bilu, Bogra Rural Development Academy (RDA), Bogra, is to present RDA-Model of Water Management at the World Bank headquarters in Washington, DC on February 19 for its adaptation across the globe. The water management model uses underground pipes to irrigate ... Read more
Youngsters swarm Ekushey book fair
Staff Correspondent Thousands of people, mostly university and college students, thronged the Ekushey Book Fair at Bangla Academy on Valentine’s Day on Saturday. Young boys and girls carrying flowers in large numbers entered the
Website launched to promote Dhaka to tourists abroad
Staff Correspondent In celebration of 400 years of Dhaka city, The Bangladesh Monitor, a travel magazine, has launched a new website to promote Dhaka to tourists worldwide. The website www.dhakacity.com.bd will feature information on how to arrive in Dhaka from various international destinations, places to visit, brief histories of the places, links to airlines, information ... Read more
Water crisis hits Rajshahi city
Shoumitra Mazumdar . Rajshahi Residents in the Rajshahi city are suffering acute water crisis as all the four water treatment plants have remained inoperative for the last five days. Official sources at the Rajshahi City Corporation said water crisis emerged in the city as they cannot operate the water treatment plants due to power outages. ... Read more
Valentine’s Day Make-up Tips
You’ve got the dress, the underwear, the shoes, you’re hair is perfect all you need to do now is put on your make up and you are ready for your Valentine’s Day date. But this is the tricky part, what look should you go for to get you at you’re sexy best and help you ... Read more
Jennifer Aniston ‘baffled’ By Divorce
Jennifer Aniston is “baffled” by the continuing interest in her divorce. The ‘Marley and Me’ star can’t understand why people still ask about her ex-husband Brad Pitt and his partner Angelina Jolie. “Since the ‘Sex and the City’ movie, there have been rumours the cast of ‘Friends’ will reunite for a film but Jennifer is ... Read more
A brief history of Valentine’s Day
Mohammad Shahidul Islam Every year February 14th is celebrated as a day for love, exchange of gifts, promises of eternal passion, and more. True lovers pen poems inspired by their love and admiration for the women of their dreams while others just go to shops and buy cards with verses. Students of universities enjoy the ... Read more
Ekushey book fair sees huge crowd at weekend
Staff correspondent Thousands of people particularly young boys and girls, attired in yellow dresses, were in long queues at the Ekushey book fair entrances at
Bangladesh earns 6-wicket win over Sri Lanka in Women’s
Tri-Nation Cricket UNB, Khulna Bangladesh tasted their first win in the Grameenphone Women’s Tri-Nation Cricket Series beating visiting Sri Lanka by six wickets at Shahid Flight Lieutenant Motiur Rahman Stadium in Khulna Friday. Bangladesh almost made their exit in
Russel stay in hunt
Citycell B League Russel stay in hunt Sports Reporter Alfaz Ahmed missed a penalty but scored from the other to keep Sheikh Russel’s slim hopes alive to finish runners-up in the Citycell B. League with a 1-0 win over Rahmatganj yesterday in the last match of the penultimate round. The missed penalty meant that the ... Read more
Balaji back for India after 4 yrs
Agence France-Presse . Chennai India’s cricket selectors on Friday picked Lakshmipathy Balaji for the New Zealand tour, after a four-year Test absence for the fit-again seamer. Balaji, 27, who last played a Test match in March, 2005 before suffering a career-threatening stress fracture to his back, was named in a 16-man squad for the three-Test ... Read more
Grameenphone Bhatiary Golf Cup 2009 inaugurated
The Grameenphone Bha-tiary Golf Cup 2009 was inaugurated yesterday (Friday) at the Bhatiary Golf and Country Club (BGCC) in Chittagong, said a press realease. Brigadier General A M M Wazed Thakur, ndc, psc Commandant Bangladesh Military Academy and Vice President Administration and Finance Bhatiary Golf and Country Club inaugurate the tournament. Rubaba Dowla, Chief Communications ... Read more
Dubai tri-series cancelled
Afp, Karachi Pakistan cricket received a further blow Friday with the cancellation of a tri-series in Dubai scheduled for late March due to the unavailability of the Sri Lankan team, a top official said. Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) chief operating officer Salim Altaf told AFP that the event would be scrapped. “We have been told ... Read more
42pc SSC-level students drop out this year
Over 10 lakh to appear as exams start tomorrow Suranjith Deabnath Over 42 percent registered candidates for SSC and equivalent certificates dropped out this year even before the examinations begin tomorrow, due to a plethora of social and financial obstacles. About 5.34 lakh of a total 12.67 lakh high school students who had registered in ... Read more
DMP to conduct special anti-crime drive from Friday midnight
UNB, Dhaka The Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) will conduct a special drive from Friday midnight to hunt down criminals in the capital. The decision of launching the special drive came within five days of another drive that continued from February 3-7. The special drive against the criminals comes in the wake of success of the ... Read more
Hatirjheel project to go ahead without affecting BGMEA Bhaban
Mustafizur Rahman The Awami League-led government is likely to go ahead with the much-talked about Hatirjheel development project without affecting the BGMEA Bhaban, constructed ‘illegally’ on the wetland in the city. ‘We must go ahead with the project which includes construction of lakes, waterways and walkways to ease traffic congestion and remove water-logging – major ... Read more
MK Anwar wants inquiry into graft since independence
United News of Bangladesh . Dhaka BNP vice-chairman MK Anwar has said if the prime minister is sincere to combat corruption, a powerful anti-corruption commission should be established to inquire into corruption since the independence of Bangladesh. The BNP leader said this to reporters on Friday at his residence responding to prime minister Sheikh Hasina’s ... Read more
Unified education, upgradation of teachers needed: DU VC
Staff Correspondent Dhaka University Vice Chancellor AAMS Arefin Siddique on Friday underscored the need for introducing a unified education system in the primary and secondary levels in line with the recommendations of the Kudrat-e-Khoda Commission to generate productive manpower. As the chief guest at a seminar titled “Quality of Higher Secondary Education & Social Position ... Read more
Charge of plagiarising manuscript denied
Staff Correspondent The authors of the controversial book ‘contribution of women in the liberation war’ have denied the charge of plagiarising the manuscript of the book claimed to have been written by Rokeya Kabir. Earlier, on Wednesday, Rokeya Kabir, executive director of Nari Pragati Sangha at a press conference at the National Press Club alleged ... Read more