Dhaka Math Festival Over 1500 display math skills Staff Correspondent Dhaka Divisional Mathematics Festival was held at Govt Laboratory High School in the city yesterday in a festive mood with the participation of students from 100 schools of Dhaka, Gazipur, Narsingdi, Narayanganj, Munshiganj and
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America week in Barisal from Jan 26
Staff Reporter Continuing a tradition of outreach across Bangladesh, the US Embassy is sponsoring “America Week” in Barisal from January 26-28. America Week highlights the important ties between the people of the United States and Bangladesh by taking US Embassy activities to the people outside the capital. Chittagong, Khulna, Rajshahi and Sylhet have hosted past ... Read more
Post-polls violence leaves 3 killed
Staff Correspondent At least three people were killed and dozens injured in a spate of violence in different parts of the country during and after Thursday’s upazila elections, police said. An activist of the ruling Awami League was stabbed to death by rivals in Faridpur district while a supporter of the opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party ... Read more
BTTB burdened with low quality equipment
Taskforce recommends blacklisting Huawei; punish BTTB officials Sharier Khan and Md Hasan A national taskforce blames Chinese telecom vendor Huawei for supplying substandard equipment and its failure to complete within deadline any of the government’s three telecom projects involving around $40 million. But Huawei got away with the substandard equipment supply and delay in project ... Read more
AL-backed candidates win most upazillas
Third UZ polls AL-backed candidates win most upazillas Like December 29 national parliament elections, Awami League-backed candidates secured 304 seats of Chairman in Thursday’s upazila parishads election outplaying the BNP that got only 82 seats of Chairman, according to unofficial results. According to unofficial results, the AL bagged 304 seats while BNP got 82 and ... Read more
Unofficial polls results
Staff Correspondent Rajshahi division Panchagarh: at sadar, Md Abdul Khaleq of the Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami was unofficially elected chairman, Belayet Hossain vice-chairman and Kajol Rekha vice-president (reserved for women). At Atwari, Tawhidul Islam of the Awami League was unofficially elected chairman, Kamruzzaman Golap vice-chairman and Lutfa Begum vice-chairman (reserved). At Boda, Md Abdul Aziz of the ... Read more
AL wants to establish democracy at gun point: Delwar
BNP will go to power in the next election: Nazrul Staff Correspondent BNP Secretary General Khanadker Delwar Hossain on Friday said Awami League wants to establish democracy at gun point. “Awami League is not a well mannered political party as it always wants to establish democracy at gun point. Polling agents can be ousted from ... Read more
Meddling in upazila polls: Minister, MP may face prison term: Legal action underway, confirms EC
Staff Reporter Step is under process to take legal action by the Election Commission (EC) against the election rules violators, including ministers and ruling party MPs, according to a highly placed source. The measures are being taken as allegations were made from different upazilas of influencing the polls and violation of election code of conduct ... Read more
Tigers clinch series
Bishwajit Roy Shakib Al Hasan celebrated his ascent in the rankings with another all-round performance as Bangladesh won the fog-curtailed third and final one-day match against Zimbabwe by six wickets to clinch the series 2-1 at
Academics, lawyers, HR activists slam ministers, MPs for influencing UZ polls
Staff Correspondent Lawyers, academicians and human rights activists on Friday came down heavily upon the ruling party ministers and MPs for creating influence over the Thursday upazilla polls and demanded of the government to sack those ministers who were involved in acts of influencing election officials to work in favour of their party backed candidates. ... Read more
AL, BNP hold parliamentary party meet tomorrow
Staff Correspondent Awami League and BNP will hold their parliamentary party meetings tomorrow before inauguration of the ninth parliament. The newly elected legislature will convene at 3:00pm at Jatiya Sangsad Bhaban. Its first task will be electing a speaker and deputy speaker. In the opening session, it might also elect a successor to President Iajuddin ... Read more
Manpower export and remittance likely to fall this year
Staff Correspondent Manpower export is likely to fall significantly affecting country’s remittance earning this year due to global economic recession. Talking to The Bangladesh Today, BAIRA President Ghulam Mustafa said “The manpower exporting sector sends abroad around eight lac people every year while the country earns $9 billion per annum. But the ratio of manpower ... Read more
5 injured in fresh clashes at Baitul Mukarram mosque
Staff Correspondent At least five people were injured in a fresh clash inside Baitul Mukarram national mosque between the group loyal to the new Khatib and the people opposing his appointment before jumma prayers on Friday. The scuffles broke out when
Obama rips down Bush security, foreign policies
Picks seasoned, high-powered envoys to ME, Afghanistan and Pakistan Afp, Washington US President Barack Obama on Thursday picked two seasoned and high-powered envoys to the Middle East and Afghanistan and Pakistan, making another swift break with Bush administration policy. In an aggressive push for peace in the world’s most intractable hot spots, Obama named Northern ... Read more
Hillary declares ‘new era’ for America
Afp, Washington Hillary Clinton took charge Thursday of US foreign policy proclaiming a “new era for America” based on robust diplomacy and a fresh unity of purpose. “I believe with all my heart that this is a new era for America,” a beaming Hillary told a welcoming party of hundreds at the State Department following ... Read more
PM for building modern democratic Bangladesh
Mass Upsurge Day PM for building modern democratic Bangladesh UNB, Dhaka Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina urged all, irrespective of party and opinion, to work together to build Bangladesh as a modern democratic country free of hunger and poverty. In a message on the occasion of Mass Upsurge Day ’69 to be observed today, the Prime ... Read more
Phulbari people use ballot to say no to open-pit mining
Staff Correspondent The people of Phulbari upazila in Dinajpur have elected an independent candidate as chairman who wooed the voters through a campaign against the proposed open-pit mining in the Phulbari coal field as it would displace thousands of people. Aminul Islam Bablu, a leader of rights group National Committee to Protect Oil, Gas, Mineral ... Read more
Upazila polls influenced
EC slams ruling party for misusing offices, controlling administration; tells of violence, ballot-stuffing, seizing polling stations by AL men; decides to probe low turnout reason Shakhawat Liton and Shariful Islam Low turnout, ministers and ruling party lawmakers meddling in balloting, and irregularities in places marked the long-awaited upazila elections yesterday, meaning a letdown for the ... Read more
Ghosts of past return
Ruling party interference, clash, voter intimidation, ballot box hijack mar upazila polls Staff Correspondent More than 100 people including policemen were injured across the country during clashes between supporters of rival candidates of upazila polls yesterday. Clashes, ruling party activists influencing polling, snatching of ballot boxes and ballot papers, preventing voters from going to the ... Read more
Rigging, forgery across country in UZ polls, alleges BNP
Staff Correspondent BNP on Thursday alleged massive irregularities and vote rigging took place during upazila election across the country under the very nose of law enforcers. “Ruling Awami League’s MPs, leaders and workers in association with the law enforcers influenced people for casting votes in favour of their candidates. Even they issued threat to the ... Read more