Lotteries to shortlist workers aspiring to migrate to Malaysia from Dhaka and Barisal divisions will be held at the respective deputy commissioners’ offices today, said Bureau of Manpower Employment and Training officials on Tuesday. They said another round of lotteries for final selection of the workers would be held
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Abdus Shakur passes away
Eminent litterateur and musicologist Abdus Shakur breathed his last at his Dhanmondi residence in the capital yesterday. He was 72. He died around 4:45pm due to old age complications, said Ishtiaq Ahmed, elder son of the litterateur. Shakur will be laid to rest at Mirpur Martyred Intellectuals’ Graveyard after his daughter’s
Urbanisation too scary
Experts deplore rapid pace of unplanned development, fear whole country to become city state in 4 decades Urban sprawl is so rapid in Bangladesh that the entire country is going to convert into a city state in three to four decades. It is very important to introduce proper urban management to address the situation, said renowned ... Read more
1st phase of Bishwa Ijtema ends with akheri munajat
The first phase three-day Bishwa Ijtema of the Tabligh Jamat ended on the bank of the River Turag on the outskirts of the capital Dhaka on Sunday with several million devotees from home and abroad seeking peace. About five lakh people gathered at the places, even spilling over nto adjoining areas, on the last day ... Read more
10 Bangladesh workers killed in Bahrain fire
At least 10 Bangladeshi workers were burned to death and two of their compatriots sustained injuries in a deadly fire that broke out at a labour camp in Bahrain’s capital Manama on Friday. Five of the 10 deceased were from Nabinagar upazila of Brahmanbaria district, confirmed the local administration. Two of the injured workers are ... Read more
First phase Akheri Munajat today
The Akheri Munajat or concluding prayer of the first phase of three-day Biswa Ijtema, the world’s second biggest congregation of Muslims, will be offered today some time before or after the Johr prayer. Maulana Zubairul Hasan, son of former Ameer of Biswa Tablig Jamaat, is expected to lead the Akheri Munajat. President Zillur Rahman, prime ... Read more
Thousands seek peace as Bishwa Ijtema begins
Thousands of Muslims sought peace and revival of Islamic tenets as the joined Bishwa Ijtema that began by the bank of the River Turag on the outskirts of the capital Dhaka on Friday. Devotees streamed into the venue, braving the biting cold, at dawn as the congregation began with the sermon by Pakistani Maulana Tarek ... Read more
Mercury slightly up
2 more die in Lalmonirhat The poor and the homeless continue to suffer in the cold wave sweeping across the country over the last few days with the minimum temperature ranging from 3 to 10 degrees Celsius. Yesterday, the lowest temperature was recorded at 4 degrees Celsius in Saidpur where mercury dipped to 45-year-low 3°C ... Read more
Cold claims 8 more
Mercury dips further; northern region worst-hit As mercury hit 45-year low yesterday with the minimum temperature recorded at 3 degrees Celsius in Saidpur, the cold snap claimed at least eight more lives. Cold-related complications left four people dead in Lalmonirhat, one each in Jamalpur and Madaripur and two in Moulvibazar from Wednesday
Hong Kong starts Bangladeshi housemaid recruitment in March
Hong Kong starts recruitment of Bangladeshi housemaids from March, officials said. They said that the host country would recruit the housemaids through government as well as private recruiting agencies. Recruitments would take place under an agreement between the Bangladesh government and Hong Kong general chamber, they said
2,592 pass 32nd special BCS exams
The final results of the 32nd Bangladesh Civil Service examination (special) were published yesterday with 2,592 candidates coming out successful. The Public Service Commission (PSC) has recommended 1,680 candidates out of the successful ones for recruitment in different
Strike halts river communications
River transport workers on Wednesday went on strike for an indefinite period halting river communications and transport goods on waterways across the country. Thousands of motor launch passengers got stranded at terminals and the offloading and transport of goods remained suspended at seaports in
26,192 primary schools nationalised
The government has nationalised 26,192 primary schools employing 104,000 teachers in the face of a movement non-government schoolteachers have carried out for two decades. The prime minister, Sheikh Hasina, made the formal announcement at a rally of non-government primary schoolteachers in the National Parade Square in the capital on
New Year’s gift awaits non-govt pry teachers
The prime minister, Sheikh Hasina, is scheduled to make a formal announcement today on the nationalisation of 26,200 non-government registered primary schools for further development of elementary education. Primary and mass education ministry officials said that of the 1,04,000 teachers of the
70pc secondary schools without internet
Govt introduces ICT as compulsory subject The government has introduced information and communications technology as a subject compulsory for students of Class VI–VII from 2013 although the authorities are yet to equip about 70 per cent of secondary schools and 88 per cent of madrashahs, according to BANBEIS, with internet facilities. Officials of educational institution ... Read more
Nirmal Sen dies
Veteran journalist and politician Nirmal Sen breathed his last in a city hospital Tuesday evening at the age of 82. Nirmal’s nephew Kongkon Sen said his uncle died at around 6:30pm at LabAid Hospital. Nirmal, who fought against the British imperialist regime, was a Language Movement hero and one of the organisers of the independence war ... Read more
Country chilled on season’s coldest day
A cold wave is sweeping the country with the season’s lowest temperature recorded at 4.9 degrees Celsius at Ishurdi in Pabna yesterday. The Met office said mercury dipped to six degrees Celsius in most places in the northern region and 9.6 degrees in the capital. In a forecast for 24 hours from 6:00pm yesterday, the Met ... Read more
11 fishermen killed in Bay
Rohingya robbers threw them into sea after looting trawler on Jan 2, incident comes to light after arrest of a ‘killer’ An alleged Rohingya robber on Sunday night described how five Rohingyas had hacked to death 11 Bangladeshi fellow fishermen on Wednesday near Sonarchar Dwip [island] in Barguna district and dumped the bodies in the ... Read more
Savar Rape Incident: Magistrate records victim’s statement
Tangail rape victim improving A rape victim recounted her chilling tale before a judicial magistrate yesterday describing the trauma she went through in Savar in late November. The victim, 20, is a resident of Singair upazila of Manikganj and married to an expatriate living in the Middle East. In the statement, she said her friend Liza ... Read more
3 to die for killing boy
A Dhaka court sentenced three men to death yesterday for abducting and killing a nine-year old boy in May 2011 at the capital’s Mirpur. Salman Sami, son of Mohammad Hossain and student of class IV at Siddhartha High School, was abducted on May 27, 2011 from