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A housemaid and her boyfriend will be lashed 100 times each, jailed and deported for committing adultery, according to a court ruling. By Bassma Al Jandaly, Senior Reporter Published: 00:00 November 15, 2010 Sharjah:  A housemaid and her boyfriend will be lashed 100 times each,

Dhaka Medical College Hospital is the only public hospital in the whole of Bangladesh to treat serious burn injuries while hospitals and clinics outside the capital have no burn units. Hundreds of burn injury patients are admitted to hospitals across the country every month, but all the serious cases, constituting 5 per cent of the ... Read more

THE government has fixed a target to generate 10 per cent of total electricity from renewable energy by 2020. It is exploring all possible options for increasing power generation. Use of renewable energy will have to be increased to meet huge shortage of power and for the sake of sustainable development. The sustainable development is ... Read more

A dialogue on health and education some months ago, while conceding that the crisis in human health is a worldwide problem and that there is no easy solution to it, concluded that the most effective way to tackle ill health and impoverishment in South Asia would be, first, to raise awareness through compulsory general education, ... Read more

Some 91,823 pilgrims, almost double the last year’s number, have safely reached Saudi Arabia to perform hajj, said Shafique Alam Mehdi, secretary of civil aviation and tourism ministry yesterday. Of them, 85,090 went to Saudi Arabia on private arrangement while the remaining ones through the government management

Sexual Harassment Kindergarten teacher jailed A mobile court yesterday sentenced a teacher six-months of imprisonment on charge of sexually harassing two 11-year old female students at a school in city’s Jurain. It was the first time a person was convicted for committing such offence by a mobile court in Dhaka. Nazrul Islam, a teacher at ... Read more

Seminar told Fifty-one percent girls, aged between 11 and 20, are harassed by stalkers on their way to schools and colleges, said women leaders at a seminar in the capital yesterday. Salma Khan, president of Women for Women, revealed the information at the seminar titled “Sexual harassment on women at workplace: Bangladesh perspective”

The Junior School Certificate’s mathematics examination and Junior Dakhil Certificate’s social science examination, scheduled to be held today, have been postponed, said a press release of the education ministry. Both the examinations will be held on November 22 from 10am to 1pm, according to the

Leaders of the Bhumi O Sampad Rokhkha Committee, an organisation of the locals adversely affected by the Barapukuria coalmine, at a rally at Phulbari in Dinajpur on Saturday rejected the rehabilitation package offered by the government. They said they were not against the coalmine but the government should provide them with proper

The chief justice, ABM Khairul Haque, on Friday questioned the integrity of subordinate judges accusing some district judges of taking bribes through court personnel. ‘The people are not satisfied with the activities and integrity of judges who are now in the dock of people’s court. There is a tremendous backlog of cases and

Tasks confined to signing certificates, attesting documents All of the 120 councillors, including 30 women elected in reserved seats, of the 90 wards of the Dhaka City Corporation do not have much to do but for attesting documents and issuing character certificates, for the people who elect them. Most of the functions and development works ... Read more

Thousands of people who left the capital city on Friday to celebrate Eid-ul-Azha in the countryside suffered long delays on the way due to traffic congestions, witnesses said. There was an unusual rush of home-bound people keen to celebrate the festival with their near ones in the countryside on November 17, they

A mobile court fined an auto-rickshaw driver for harassing a woman at Nabinagar in Brahmanbaria on the second day of mobile court operation across the country on Friday. The Nabinagar upazila nirbahi officer, Shamsul Islam Mehedi, in a drive at Nabinagar sadar bus stand in the town fined the driver, Abdus Sattar, Tk 5,000 after ... Read more

Governments fail to mobilise funds in 13 years The fate of the Dhaka Integrated Flood Control Embankment-Eastern Bypass Road Multipurpose Project or the Eastern Bypass Project seems uncertain due to unavailability of funds nearly 13 years after it was approved. Water Development Board (WDB) officials said over the years, they had to revise the massive

Students affected by the cyclone Aila formed a human chain in the city on Friday carrying textbooks tied with black ribbons to press home their demand to the government to take effective steps to help them carry on with their studies. The Youth in Action on Climate and the Campaign for Sustainable Rural Livelihood jointly

Another fighting for life A female student died while her hostel roommate was fighting for life at a city hospital after they took poison at Malibagh in the capital early Friday. The deceased was Tarana Shirin alias Jeny, 18, a resident of Chatkhil in Noakhali. Tarana was an intermediate student of Siddheshwari Degree College

Tk 12cr scheme taken for their rehabilitation In an attempt to rehabilitate beggars and offer them a better living, the government is going to conduct a comprehensive census in the capital. The Tk 12.47 crore scheme aims to provide accommodation to disabled paupers while the healthy ones would get opportunity for self-employment in their districts ... Read more

Hoarding removal drive Police stand in the way The Dhaka City Corporation could not yet remove illegal hoardings and police boxes set up on road islands in the city and the corporation officials attributed the reason to ‘non-cooperation’ from the police. City corporation officials said apart from about 2,000 illegal hoardings in the capital, there ... Read more

PM cuts digital ribbon to open info service centres across country Bangladesh launched Union Information and Services Centres in 4,501 unions across the country to disseminate information and deliver government services to all citizens. The union parishad based information centres, equipped with computers and wireless Internet, will offer various online and offline services to people ... Read more

Apparel workers and their leaders rallied at the National Press Club and continued doing so at Ashulia in Dhaka on Thursday to push for their six-point charter of demands, which include immediate implementation of the new wage structure and longer festival holidays. Two labour rights groups formed human chains and held rallies at the press ... Read more