Says first Bangladeshi Everest princess on her return The first Bangladeshi woman to conquer Mount Everest said her achievement had proved women were not lagging behind and could do everything if they had confidence, determination and skills. “Conquering Mount Everest is the toughest task in the world. My success will inject confidence among Bangladeshi women ... Read more
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Killer narrates how he killed the girl, sliced her
Placed on remand for four days I killed Rumi to hide our relationship as I was in fear that if locals come to know about it then they would force me to marry her,” said Saiduzzaman Bachchu, the owner of Sonali Recruiting Agency who killed that 16-year aged girl mutilating her body into 26 pieces. ... Read more
Chemical storing goes on unabated
Nimtoli Inferno Tragedy Chemical storing goes on unabated Septuagenarian Chan Mia now runs a tiny tea stall and has been living hand to mouth since the devastating Nimtoli inferno in 2010 gutted his precious semi-grocery shop. All he has in his eight-feet-by-five-feet tin-made stall are two kettles, two pairs of cups, a small jar of ... Read more
Home beckons Nishat
Everest conquerors fly home today; Wasfia reaches Kathmandu After their successful ascent of Mount Everest, two Bangladeshi mountaineers Nishat Majumder and MA Mohit will return home today. They are scheduled to arrive in Dhaka at 1:40pm on a flight of Biman Bangladesh Airlines. “Our flight will take off at 12:25pm [BST] from Kathmandu…. I am ... Read more
Three police officials closed for abusing girl
Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) on Saturday closed an assistant commissioner (AC) and two officer-in-charges (OC) on charges of abusing a girl on the Chief Metropolitan Magistrate’s (CMM) court premises on Tuesday. The closed officials are, DMP Kotowali Zone AC Rajib-al-Masud, Kotowali police station
Biman flies into a tailspin
Glitches in aircraft lead to chaotic flight schedule Biman Bangladesh Airlines has been failing to maintain its flight schedules since May 1 due to technical glitches in a number of aircraft. In the latest incident yesterday, a Kathmandu-bound A310 airbus returned to Dhaka Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport because of a fault in its hydraulic
Yet another fatal crash
7 of a family killed in bus-microbus collision Eight people, including seven of a family, were killed in a head-on collision between a bus and a microbus at Dulahazara of Cox’s Bazar yesterday, two days after a similar accident claimed 12 lives, including nine of a family, in Keraniganj near Dhaka. The bus heading towards ... Read more
Danger lurks on highways
Without road dividers, narrow highways become death trap; 904 people killed in 4 months Narrow highways, lack of road dividers on accident-prone stretches, faulty road markings and, above all, reckless driving continues to take lives on highways of the country, experts said. The experts also said buses had become the road menace and most accidents ... Read more
No principal at 31 of 45 polytechnic institutions
Thirty-one out of the 49 government polytechnic and equivalent institutions are running without principals and only 14 of them have vice-principals, according to Directorate of Technical Education officials. About 45 per cent of teaching positions at these institutions vacant which, the teachers and students said, is seriously hampering academic and administrative
Online fraud: Chairman held
A group of angry online clients deceived by an Internet base private company — Sky Lancer — vandalized its Kalabaghan office in the capital on Friday. Police immediately arrested Khalilur Rahman Nil, 27, chairman of the company, but Saiful Islam, it managing director, however, managed to escape from the
Nishat, Mohit accorded reception
Nishat Majumder and her fellow mountaineer MA Mohit were accorded a reception at Kathmandu yesterday for their successful ascent of Mount Everest. The Nepal chapter of Plan International hosted the reception around 11:00am at a convention centre in the Nepali capital. The duo, however, could not finalise till last night their schedule to return to Dhaka ... Read more
UK minister for protecting its integrity
Grameen Bank UK minister for protecting its integrity Alistair Burt, UK Foreign Office Minister for South Asia, has emphasised protecting the integrity and efficiency of the Nobel-winning Grameen Bank. “We strongly support the stunning work of Grameen Bank in lifting the very poor out of poverty,” he has said, adding the integrity and efficiency of ... Read more
Ice crime Factory Busted
A mobile court yesterday fined an ice cream factory in Chittagong city Tk 50,000 and sealed it for two months on charge of using textile dye and harmful chemicals. It also destroyed the leftover raw materials and ice creams worth around Tk 2 lakh and disconnected the power supply to the factory
Nishat reaches Kathmandu
After over 50 days of trekking during which they made history, Nishat Majumder and MA Mohit reached Kathmandu yesterday on a special helicopter. “We reached Kathmandu at around 9:30 this morning by a special helicopter flight arranged by our sponsors,” Nishat told The Daily Star over
12 killed in Keraniganj traffic accident
Twelve, including nine of a family, were killed after a microbus carrying them had collided head-on with a bus on the Dhaka–Mawa Road at Dhakkhin Keraniganj in Dhaka on Wednesday morning. Dhakkhin Keraniganj police subinspector Robiul Azam, who recovered the body from the spot, said that he had found 10 dead on the
I’m fearful of its future
Grameen Bank I’m fearful of its future Says Yunus in an open letter Prof Muhammad Yunus yesterday urged stakeholders and the government not to take any step to change the legal structure of the Nobel-winning Grameen Bank. In an open letter to the borrower owners of Grameen Bank, Yunus expressed his fear that steps are ... Read more
HC asks eight policemen to appear
Molestation at Police Club HC asks eight policemen to appear The High Court on Wednesday issued a rule on its own asking the government and the police to explain in two weeks why the authorities should not be ordered to prosecute the five police officers for their alleged involvement in the molestation of a teenaged ... Read more
GPS tracker mandatory for trucks, vans
The government on Wednesday ordered that GPS (global positioning system) tracker must be installed in all trucks and covered vans carrying goods along the highways to help check hijacking of vehicles, now a big concern to businessmen. The directive came at an inter-ministerial meeting that discussed extortion and other problems in transport sector at the ... Read more
Girl, parents give deposition to probe body
The teenaged girl, who was molested on Tuesday by two policemen in the Police Club near the judges’ courts in Dhaka, gave her deposition late Wednesday night to a committee the police set up for an investigation. The girl and her
MLM plundering money of commoners: ACC chief
Chairman of Anticorruption Commission (ACC) Golam Rahman on Wednesday termed the Multi Level Marketing (MLM) companies as plunderers.“Plundering of money is going on across the country in the name of MLM business. They are involved in money laundering. The activities are being carried out to make commoners pauper