A mob blocked the Dhaka-Aricha Road and set fire to a bus after an unnamed woman died in a road accident at Radio Colony of Savar in Dhaka on Friday morning. Sources said local people had set on fire the bus that killed the woman and vandalised some other buses. Traffic on the road remained ... Read more
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Train crushes university student
A private university student was crushed under the wheels of a train Wednesday night at the city’s Khilkhet rail crossing. The dead identified as Tanjid Hossain Mohan, 23, son of Mohammad Mojibur Rahman and a student of American International University, used to reside with his family at Nikunja-2. The body sliced into four pieces was ... Read more
Angry fans vandalise vehicles
Attack Shakib’s Magura house Cricket fans vented anger on their ‘beloved’ team by smashing windshields of several cars and calling the Tigers ‘Royal Bengal Goats’ after the Bangladesh team was bundled out for petty 58 runs by West Indies at the Sher-e-Bangla Stadium in Dhaka on Friday. The nine-wicket loss to West Indies prompted irate ... Read more
‘Removal’ rolls into HC
Order on Yunus’ petition Sunday; Nobel hero wants a ‘graceful solution’ to his departure from Grameen Professor Muhammad Yunus yesterday went to court challenging the central bank order that removed him from the post of managing director of Grameen Bank, while the wider international community showed its displeasure at the way the Nobel prize winner ... Read more
Border wait gets longer
When thousands of Bangladeshis are crowding the Tunisian and Egyptian borders to escape the Libyan conflict, and international agencies are struggling for evacuation, the Bangladesh government is still “assessing its capacity” to bring the Bangladeshis home. Ever since the violent conflict began in mid-February in the North African country to oust its
US deeply troubled
Moriarty says Hillary-Yunus meet Mar 28; diplomats, donors worried, frustrated Foreign diplomats in Bangladesh have sharply reacted to the government’s move to remove Nobel laureate Prof Muhammad Yunus from Grameen Bank and none of them took it positively. They said they never thought that the government could make such an extreme move against an internationally ... Read more
Tigers await a cracker of contest
In a crucial match for their quarter-final bid, Bangladesh will meet West Indies today at the Sher-e-Bangla National Stadium hoping to keep up the momentum they had gained in a nail-biting finish against Ireland. If there is any game that holds the fate of the group, this is the one, which will be contested between the ... Read more
Arguments at court
Appearing for Prof Muhammad Yunus, eminent jurist Dr Kamal Hossain prayed for a ruling on the government to explain why the Bangladesh Bank’s “letter of removal” should not be declared illegal. He also prayed for a stay order on the effectiveness of the central bank’s letter. Nobel laureate Yunus at the High Court yesterday challenged ... Read more
Image dented
Admits Muhith, but says ‘we had no other alternative’ Bangladesh’s image has been dented due to the government’s “removal” of Nobel laureate Professor Muhammad Yunus from Grameen Bank, Finance Minister AMA Muhith admitted yesterday. “It has not lifted the country’s image at all, but we had no other alternative,” he told journalists after a meeting ... Read more
Waiting in agony and love
A sexagenarian was standing at the security barrier outside the arrival lounge at Hazrat Shahjajal International Airport on Thursday. Whenever any man came out from inside, his eyes was darting towards his face and then his face was breaking into a mask of disappointment, anxiety, fear, and extreme tiredness. He is Kazi Fazlu, a dealer ... Read more
7 car thieves held with stolen cars
Police arrested seven car thieves and seized two private cars and two motor bikes from their possessions in separate drives at Gazipur Chowrasta and Mirpur in the capital yesterday. Kazi Wazed Ali, officer-in-charge of Mirpur Police Station, said acting on a tip-off, a patrol team waylaid a private car at Technical of Mirpur and arrested ... Read more
8,000 out on Libya borders
348 arrive on IOM-arranged flight, 36 others fly in on their own Around 8,000 Bangladeshis who could get evacuated troubled Libya are now languishing at the Egyptian and Tunisian borders with little food and water coupled with extreme night chill, only to get back home. The aggrieved evacuees said the Bangladesh government has not done ... Read more
Micro-credit borrowers baffled
Prof Muhammad Yunus’ removal from the post of Grameen Bank’s managing director surprised many of its borrowers, who dubbed him the pathfinder in elevating them from poverty. Ayesha Khatun of Noorpur in Pabna took a Tk 130,000 loan from Grameen Bank on November 10, 2009 to help her son run a computer
Unfair, ominous
Say economists, Yunus admirers; US embassy ‘deeply troubled’ by move Economists with huge policy-making experience denounced the way the government decided to remove Prof Muhammad Yunus from the Nobel Prize winning Grameen Bank. Prof Wahiduddin Mahmud, Dr Hossain Zillur Rahman, and Dr Debapriya Bhattacharya said the move will send a negative signal to the country’s ... Read more
Yunus removal seen as harassment move
Economists, rights activists and jurists saw the removal of Muhammad Yunus from Grameen Bank as a move to harass an individual instead of bringing remedy to people’s sufferings caused by the much-hyped micro credit. Jahangirnagar University’s economics teacher Anu Muhammad said that the government’s
Kevin pulls Eng upside down
Kevin O’Brien hammered a Herculean century as Ireland pulled off one of the biggest upsets in the history of World Cup cricket defeating their mighty neighbours England by three wickets at the Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bangalore yesterday. The Irish erupted into unbridled celebration when John Mooney struck the first ball of the
Girl’s body found in reserve tank
Another teenager’s body recovered Police recovered the body of a four-year-old girl, yesterday, from an underground reserve tank of a building at Banshbari, Mohammadpur while an unidentified teenage girl was found dead at Beribadh of Shah Ali in the city. Sadia Akhter, 4, adopted daughter of Enamul Haque had been missing since last
Survived, they tell of horrors
He was hungry and tired. Still, he refused the lunch provided by government officials at the airport yesterday. “When I survived without rice for over the last two weeks, I will not die to reach home,” said Sajeeb, who arrived at the Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport from Libya yesterday
Banker to the Poor captivates world
Professor Muhammad Yunus began his Grameen Bank Project in Jobra, a village near Chittagong University, his then workstation, in the port city in 1976 in an effort to reverse conventional banking practice and take financial services to the deprived. His first project was lending his own money to the destitute basket-weavers. The idea
4 commit suicide
Four teenage girls committed suicide by hanging at Hazaribagh, Tejgaon, Mohammadpur and Lalbagh in the capital yesterday. The dead are Tamalika Poddar, 14, a student of class VII of Hazaribagh; Sharmin Akter, 15, a student of class IX of Tejgaon; Faizunnessa Lima, 18, a college student of Mohammadpur; and