Dhaka without its usual and mind boggling traffic congestions looked a different city on Saturday. It was a cricket loving city on the day with millions of people staying at home to watch the first match of the Cricket World Cup 2011 between Bangladesh and India. They awaited the match to start –glued to
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Body found stuffed in carton
Police yesterday recovered decomposed body of a watch-factory employee stuffed inside a carton at Chawkbazar in the capital. Police said they recovered the body of Shah Alam, 23, son of Abu Sayeed of Kishoreganj, around 12:30pm inside the factory. His hands and legs were tied with ropes and was wrapped
Cricket rules
All eyes on Mirpur as Bangladesh take on favourites India in World Cup opener today The wait is over. The battle begins today. Normally in every tournament, the final is billed as the match to watch. But when Bangladesh will take on India in the opening match of the ICC Cricket World Cup at the ... Read more
Laptop, projector for 20,500 edn institutions
Govt step draws mixed reaction The government will give laptops and multimedia projectors to 20,500 public and private educational institutions within December 2012 to improve the classroom teaching-learning process. Under a Tk 306 crore project titled Introduction of ICT at Secondary and Higher Secondary Level, these institutions, including the high schools, madrasas and colleges with ... Read more
Tea garden workers lack sanitation facilities
Laxmi Rani Das, a physically challenged girl, has to walk almost a kilometre to find a secluded spot surrounded by bushes on a hilltop to respond to the call of nature. She usually takes her mother’s help in going out as she was born with only one leg. ‘We do not have any toilet. Most ... Read more
2 women found dead in city
A beautician was found dead inside a beauty parlour at Ananda Nagar of Badda in the capital early Friday. In another incident, a housewife was also found dead in her house at Shyamnagar in the capital on Friday morning. The deceased was Rabeya Khatun, 22, from Nabinagar in
Indigenous girl raped
Ctg hotel owner, manager arrested Chandgaon police yesterday arrested two persons for allegedly raping a teenage indigenous girl in the port city. The arrestees are Md Alamgir, owner of a hotel in Bahaddarhat, and its manager Md Shiblee. Police said the 14-year-old victim came from Bandarban on Wednesday to visit Chittagong
2 killed in Jhenaidah ‘crossfire’
Two members of Gana Bahini were killed by a team of the police and the Rapid Action Battalion in a ‘gunfight’ at Saiklupa in Jhenaidah early Friday. The deceased were Dulal, 35, of Padmanagar at Harinakundu and Mashiur Rahman Madhu, 34, of Shantidanga. Dulal was the second-in-command of the outfit’s
Skippers in rickshaws as World Cup opens
Captains of the 14 competing teams at the World Cup paraded through Dhaka’s historic Bangabandhu Stadium on Thursday in brightly coloured rickshaws, the transport of choice in this teeming city. Protected by a sheet of bullet-proof glass, Bangladesh prime minister Sheikh Hasina watched as home skipper Shakib Al Hasan brought up the rear of the ... Read more
Huge support for Yunus
Former Irish president Mary Robinson has joined the development partners, prominent personalities and corporations in vowing to protect Nobel Laureate Muhammad Yunus from “politically orchestrated” attacks. As many as 50 charities and public figures, including James Wolfensohn, former World Bank president, Jagdish Sharan Verma, former Chief Justice of India, and Yeardley Smith, a
Girl missing on Valentine’s Day found dead
Police recovered the body of a 15-year-old girl from the Dhaka-Narayanganj-Demra (DND) dam on Wednesday night. Ayesha Akhter Tumpa, a student of class-X of Segun Bagicha Rahima High School had been missing since she went out in the evening of
3 tigers poisoned to death
One of poaching gang held with 4 skulls, 3 skins, bones Posing as buyers, forest officials have arrested a member of an organised gang of poachers with four skulls, three hides and 138 bones of tigers at Sharankhola upazila of Bagerhat. The arrested, Jamal Fakir, admitted that he poisoned three tigers to death, and claimed ... Read more
Tourist Police unit this year
Bangladesh police has decided to form a new wing – Tourist Police – within this year, with a view to provide better security to tourists and help develop the sector as an industry. An initial organogram of the new police unit, headed by an additional inspector-general – who will be the director-general – has been ... Read more
UK toughens work visa
The British government has toughened work visa requirements for jobseekers outside the European Union, doing away with the provision for them to settle in the UK. The British Home Office on February 16 unveiled the details of the UK government’s reforms in work visa route. The shake-up is part of the new annual limit on ... Read more
Dhaka ready for World Cup inauguration
DHAKA: Bangladesh is all set to show a glimpse of its class and can-do attitude towards the rest of the world as the country has completed all preparations to hold the inaugural ceremony of the cricket’s biggest extravaganza ICC Cricket World Cup. The opening ceremony of the World Cup cricket, called the third biggest sporting ... Read more
46,000 jobs to go
Govt to shut nutrition centres on WB prescription, merge the scheme into main health programme At least 46,000 nutrition workers are to lose jobs following a merger of the National Nutrition Programme with the mainstream health and family planning scheme in June. Sources said the plan taken up under World Bank prescription will be finalised ... Read more
HC bans domestic work by children
Dhaka: The High Court in a verdict on Tuesday prohibited the employment of children below 12 years as domestic help in the country. The HC also directed the government to recognise the domestic workers as workers under the Labour Law. It also asked the authorities concerned to provide facilities to the domestic workers,
Mother, child crushed to death
Reckless Driving Mother, child crushed to death A 10-year-old boy and his mother were killed after being struck by a bus on Dhaka-Chittagong highway at the city’s Matuail yesterday. Rifat Khan, a class IV student of Shamsul Huq School and College of Dagair, and his mother Rebeka Yasmin Marjina, 40, died on the
Man dies in custody
Pabna: A man accused of abducting a 5-year-old child died in police custody in Faridpur Police Station of the district on Monday night. The deceased was identified as Md Hasan Ali, 40, of Arkandi village in the upazila. Superintendent of Police (SP) Pabna, Jahangir Hossain Matobbar said,
CNG price hike likely next month
The government is likely to increase the prices of CNG (compressed natural gas) early next month, a senior official of Bangladesh Energy Regula-tory Commission (BERC) said. BERC has received such a proposal from the Petrobangla about a month ago, BERC chairman Yusuf Hossain told daily sun