Everest conqueror Nishat tells from base camp; Wasfia waits for final push for the summit “I was close to losing my life several times. One time I was swept around 30 metres away from my tracks and almost into a crevasse.” Nishat Majumder–the first Bangladeshi woman to scale Mount Everest–described her brush with death during ... Read more
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HC declares legal SEC order on mandatory shareholding
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16 wholesale shops fined
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13 univs spent nothing on research: UGC report
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Wasfia goes for summit
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Keokradong sowed her Everest dream
It all began on the 50th anniversary of man’s Everest summit in 2003 when Nishat Majumder, first Bangladeshi woman Everest conqueror, went to the country’s highest peak Keokradong to attend a programme. The now 31-year-old accountant came back from Keokradong, all inspired to climb
Buildings to fetch rains
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Teachers’ part-time job hampers public univ education: UGC
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Petrobangla to extract oil from 2 old fields
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Fatal ride on son’s bike
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Curtain falls on Safiuddin Ahmed
Eminent painter and printmaker Safiuddin Ahmed passed away at Square Hospital in Dhaka early on Sunday. He was 90. He had been suffering from old age complications. He was admitted to Square Hospital when he suddenly fell sick on Tuesday (May 17) evening. Later, he was put on life support as his condition
First Bangladeshi woman conquers Mount Everest
With the tick of 9:30am local time, first Bangladeshi woman mountaineer Nishat Majumder on Saturday climbed Mount Everest, world’s highest peak and hoisted the Bangladesh’s national flag at the top of the mountain. Nishat is the third Bangladeshi to conquer the
Biggest-ever Yaba seizure in Ctg
4 arrested Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) in a drive yesterday seized 2,70,000 pieces of illegal Yaba tablets, worth Tk 10 crore, from Asadganj area of Chittagong and arrested a smuggler along with three of his accomplices. It is so far the largest ever seizure of Yaba tablets, a powerful addictive stimulant smuggled
Taxi relief on Dhaka roads not in sight
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Goodbye, middlemen
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Commission formed to review activities
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From fishing nets to paperbacks
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Recruit only thru’ govt
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Newsmen to march towards PMO on June 26
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Heat wave to continue for a week
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