Saturday, November 23, 2024

Over 1500 display math skills

Dhaka Math Festival Over 1500 display math skills Staff Correspondent Dhaka Divisional Mathematics Festival was held at Govt Laboratory High School in the city yesterday in a festive mood with the participation of students from 100 schools of Dhaka, Gazipur, Narsingdi, Narayanganj, Munshiganj and

America week in Barisal from Jan 26

Staff Reporter Continuing a tradition of outreach across Bangladesh, the US Embassy is sponsoring “America Week” in Barisal from January 26-28. America Week highlights the important ties between the people of the United States and Bangladesh by taking US Embassy activities to the people outside the capital. Chittagong, Khulna, Rajshahi and Sylhet have hosted past ... Read more

Construction of all but one at Mahakhali hits snag

Wholesale Kitchen Markets Construction of all but one at Mahakhali hits snag Construction of the proposed wholesale kitchen markets by Dhaka City Corporation (DCC) in the city faces further delay, as land acquisition in three locations could not be completed yet for multiple reasons. Land preparation work of the Jatrabari, Lalbagh and Aminbazar wholesale markets ... Read more

Revivifying wall magazines

Colourful show concludes at Bangla Academy Durdana Ghias Wall magazines with stories, poems, cartoons, paintings, science fictions and other articles with beautiful illustrations adorned the walls of the Bangla Academy as a national competition on wall magazines has

CNG-run vehicles’ drivers refuse to carry passengers on metered fare

Traffic police continue taking bribes Staff Correspondent Sufferings of the city dwellers have intensified as most of the CNG-run auto-rickshaws and taxicabs do not carry passengers for a short distance on metered fare. ‘Drivers of CNG-run three wheelers and taxicabs always charge a contractual fare for a destination instead of going on the meter,’ alleged ... Read more

Chaotic traffic making a comeback in Dhanmondi

One-way system not working well for lax monitoring City Correspondet Dhanmondi residents enjoyed a month-long run of virtually empty, traffic-free streets thanks to the back-to-back holidays of Eid-ul-Azha, national elections and year-end as most of the educational institutions were

Illegal blood bank busted in city: 2 held

Staff Correspondent Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) arrested two people yesterday from Barobagh area of Mirpur in the city on charge of preserving and selling blood illegally to different city clinics and hospitals. The arrestees are Mijanur Rahman Milon, owner of a blood bank and his brother-in-law and partner of his illegal business, Mohammad Sujan. Acting ... Read more

Bijoy Sarani-Tejgaon link road drives land prices

Kawsar Khan The newly constructed 60-foot wide road stretching from Bijoy Sarani to Tejgaon has increased the prices of land adjacent to the area. The acceleration in prices began with landowners and businessmen eyeing the property and hoping to develop the

Horrible hostel, hostile to study

Days and woes of Polytechnic girls suffering from acute seat crisis Durdana Ghias  Rima wakes up at five in the morning to start her day standing in a queue with 60 other girls in front of the washroom. The room

BRTA move for ‘speed governor seal’ hits a bad patch

Shahnaz Parveen Bangladesh Road Transport Authority (BRTA) is facing difficulty in implementing the decision to install ‘speed governor seal’ in all automobiles as the mechanism is only available in diesel-run vehicles. A separate mechanism has to be built for vehicles run with gas, octane and petrol engine, which has become a major obstacle in implementing ... Read more

Muscle power, corruption plague DMCH

Sufferings of patients continue Staff Correspondent Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH), the biggest state run health care center set up for providing treatment to the poor and common people, is failing in many ways to accomplish the task as muscle power, indiscipline, and corruption have plagued it causing immense suffering to the patients. An organized ... Read more

Freedom after midnight

Traffic control system in the city falls asleep after 10pm leaving motorists at liberty when duty hours of traffic policemen end Rizanuzzaman Laskar The city’s traffic control mechanism is virtually switched off after 10:00pm when the traffic department of the Dhaka Metropolitan police (DMP) pulls out its officials from their stations leaving

Illegal graffiti ads dirtying city

Rizanuzzaman Laskar Strange looking women in peculiar clothes have taken over most of the city’s roadside walls. Their grotesque and deformed postures annoy pedestrians. Onlookers say this kind of particular advertisements is a torture to their eyes. “They look like aliens from mars,” remarked Shah Alam, a pedestrian in Badda. The unpleasant looking wall advertisements ... Read more

Mindless Car Parking On in Gulshan

Dhaka City Corporation (DCC) move to free the main thoroughfare in Gulshan from illegal car parking falls flat as vehicles are being parked right under the ‘no parking’ signs. The DCC recently leased out a number of lanes in the posh residential neighbourhood for commercial car parking on the plea that it

Public life intolerable due to tannery

Tannery yet to be shifted to Savar Public life intolerable due to tannery Staff Correspondent “It is not a place for human habitation as foul odours of raw hide covers the area all the time. Specially after the Eid-ul-Azha, it is very difficult to stay here as thousands of raw hides from different places of ... Read more

DU 45th Convocation on January 29

BSS, Dhaka The 45 Convocation of Dhaka University (DU) will be held on January 29, 2009. Honorary ‘Doctor of Science’ degrees would be conferred on three persons on the occasion, said a DU press release here on Tuesday. The university will confer honorary Doctorate degree to Nobel laureate Emirates Prof. Yuan Tseh Lee of Taiwan. ... Read more