Our Correspondent, Barisal Barisal center of Bangladesh Krira Shiksha Pratisthan (BKSP) a sports institute, has started admission procedure while the construction work of the institute remains incomplete, even after expiry of dead line. Although the construction of the project remains incomplete, materials and fittings used in the construction work are of sub- standard, local people ... Read more
Dhaka Mirror
Pro-AL teachers lobbing for posts of RU VC, Pro-VC
Teachers having ‘active role during AL’s crisis period’ sortlisted as per desire of education ministry RU Correspondent Pro-Awami League (AL) teachers of Rajshahi University are lobbing with government high-ups for appointment as vice-chancellor and pro-vice-chancellor of the university. The lobbing increased after the education ministry recently got a list of pro-AL teachers who performed active ... Read more
Ershad in dilemma over candidate nomination
JS by-election at Rangpur-3 Ershad in dilemma over candidate nomination Rangpur Correspondent A competition between Jatiya Party president of the district unit and former MP Karim Uddin Varosha and secretary of the unit and former MP Moshiur Rahman Ranga is underway to please the party chief H.M Ershad to get party ticket in the JS ... Read more
Hectic upazila polls campaign in districts
BSS, Rajshahi The candidates for the post of chairman, vice-chairman and vice-chairman (female) have geared up their election campaign in all 16 northern districts under Rajshahi division for the upcoming January 22 upazila parishad polls. With only 10 days remaining for the local body election, the candidates and their supporters have been making efforts to ... Read more
Padma Bridge work to start in 2011, end in 3 years
Staff Correspondent Construction of the proposed Padma Bridge will start in 2011 and be completed in three years to connect the southwest region with Dhaka, Communications Minister Syed Abul Hossain said yesterday. He said the process to appoint a consultant to finalise the design of the bridge will be completed by this month and then ... Read more
Spinners see red as apparel makers rush for Indian yarns
BTMA leaders meet textile minister, ask for supports Kazi Azizul Islam Bangladeshi spinners are suffering discouraging difficulties with their product stocks mounting as local apparel exporters are going fast for cheaper yarns of India, where a much-devalued currency favours the Indian exporters, said the Bangladesh Textile Mills’ Association. Meeting the textile minister, Abdul Latif Siddiqui, ... Read more
Mobile subscription grows 30pc
Star Business Report The country’s six mobile phone operators added 10.27 million customers in 2008, posting a 30 percent growth compared to a 62 percent growth recorded in 2007. The operators blamed the subscriber downfall on economic slowdown and increased connection fees. Bangladesh’s total mobile subscribers reached 44.64 million by the end of December 2008, ... Read more
Stocks mixed amid volatile market
Staff Correspondent Dhaka stocks closed mixed on Tuesday with the market remaining in seesaw movements. The general index at the Dhaka Stock Exchange gained 9.74 points, or 0.36 per cent, to close at 2726.27, while its blue chips index, DSE20, lost 13.05 points, or 0.58 per cent, to finish at 2222.61. Starting with an upbeat ... Read more
Extortion back
‘Aratdars’ illegally collect no less than Tk 40 lakh a day from Karwan Bazar, Jatrabari, Shyambazar; vegetable prices go at least 5pc up for extortion Shaheen Mollah and Najmul Alam Nobin Greengrocers have to pay illegal toll to Aratdars in the city’s three premier kitchen markets and, in turn, they force consumers to
Incidents of violence rising in edn institutions
Siddiqur Rahman Khan Incidents of violence have been on the rise in the higher educational institutions across the country in the last few days, and two institutions in Khulna have been closed following clashes between activists of different students’ organizations backed by political parties. The academic future of thousands of students is at stake and ... Read more
High-profile accused start returning home
Staff Correspondent The high-profile persons accused of corruption have started returning to the country after the Awami League-led alliance government assumed office. The accused — politicians, government employees and businessmen — and their family members left the country after the military-backed interim government led by Fakhruddin Ahmed grabbed power after January 11, 2007 and launched ... Read more
PM tells ECNEC meet Govt wants maximum implementation of ADP
UNB, Dhaka Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina said her new government wants maximum implementation of the annual development programme (ADP), maintaining standard quality, for development of socioeconomic condition and physical infrastructure. She made the remarks at the maiden meeting of the Executive Committee of the National Economic Council (ECNEC) yesterday after her assumption of office as ... Read more
MPs-elect to take oath tomorrow
BNP hints boycotting 1st session of JS terming Jan 25 black day Staff Correspondent BNP Secretary General Khandaker Delwar Hossain on Tuesday hinted that the party would not join the first parliament session on January 25 saying on that day multi-party democracy had been destroyed through introducing BAKSAL a one-party rule system during Awami League ... Read more
Sudden spate of crimes worries city dwellers
PM cautions Home Ministry on law and order Staff Correspondent High-ups of the Awami League-led Grand Alliance Government are reportedly anxious as a spate of serious crimes – including killing, robbery, mugging and extortion have increased in the capital and elsewhere across the country soon after it assumed office since January 7. The Prime Minster ... Read more
Rajuk plot application deadline extended
Taib Ahmed Rajdhani Unnayan Kartripakkha on Tuesday extended the deadline by three months and a half more for applications of plots in Uttara and Purbachal projects. ‘The authorities have decided to extend the deadline for form collection and submission up to April 30,’ said Rajuk’s member (estate) Sukumer Chandra Saha. He, however, did not cite ... Read more
What the US FBI team looked for?
Staff Reporter Newly appointed Attorney General Mahbubey Alam yesterday said that he would take necessary steps to bring back the public money laundered by the bigwigs during the immediate-past BNP-led alliance government and keep special vigilance to prevent domestic wealth from being smuggled out. The Attorney Office will assist the Government in bringing back money, ... Read more
Mahbubey Alam new attorney gen
Vows to resolve judges’ appointment problems Staff Correspondent After being appointed attorney general yesterday, advocate Mahbubey Alam stressed the need to work out solutions to the problems regarding appointment of judges to the High Court. “A former chief justice had earlier commented that a storm swept the appointments of judges in the highest judiciary and ... Read more
Cheated workers forced to return from S’pore
Porimol Palma Several thousand Bangladeshi workers who went to Singapore with valid documents are being forced to return home in small groups as the Singaporean labour supplying companies allegedly cheated them by not arranging jobs for months. Strong syndicates of manpower businesses in both Bangladesh and Singapore have been using sophisticated ways to swindle the ... Read more
Ministers, MPs to give wealth reports in Feb
Staff Correspondent Finance Minister AMA Muhith yesterday said as per their election pledges the ministers and lawmakers of Awami League (AL) will make public their wealth statements next month. Wrapping up his first meeting with officials of National Board of Revenue (NBR), Muhith told reporters, “Of course it will be announced publicly. I consider this ... Read more
Polls to seats reserved for women after parliamentary session
Staff Correspondent Election Commissioner Muhammed Sohul Hussain on Tuesday said that there was no mandatory rule that the inaugural parliamentary session would haveto be held with all its members, including the ladies who will be elected to the seats reserved for women. ‘The parliament will be formed with 345 Members of Parliament but there is ... Read more