Around 240 children die every day in the country because of malnutrition while around 110 babies die for not giving breast milk within one hour of birth, paediatric specialists and nutritionists said. Khurshid Talukder, paediatrician and research coordinator of Centre for Women and Child
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Shaheed Minar incorporated into UN web site
Shaheed Minar, the memorial of the historic Language Movement of 1952, has been incorporated into the UN website for the first time on the occasion of International Mother Language Day. The website was launched in New York on Friday. The International Mother Language Day website
PM for liberal society
Hands over Ekushey Padak 2010 Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday urged people of all strata to help build Bangladesh as a knowledge-based, liberal and non-communal country free from prejudices being imbued with the spirit of the great language movement. She also called upon the country’s artists, poets, writers and other intellectuals to
Licence to kill for Tk 7,000
Fake licences claiming lives on streets How much does it cost to buy a license to kill in Bangladesh? Apparently about Tk seven thousand – the amount needed to obtain a driving license in a country where people are rarely punished for killing on the roads. “I had never been in the drivers’ seat of ... Read more
Rice prices remain high despite OMS
The open market sales (OMS) of rice have not yet contributed in lowering rice prices due to inadequate supply of rice in the areas where mostly the low-income people live. In the wake of rising rice prices, the Department of Food on January 20 started selling rice at Tk 22 a kilogram under the OMS ... Read more
EU food team unhappy over quality control, lab standard
A European Union Food and Veterinary Office (EU FVO) team that visited the country’s fish and animal feed and hatchery projects last month, expressed its dissatisfaction over compliance of rules relating to quality control and reliability of laboratory test
Govt to build over 1,000 low-cost flats
In a bid to reduce the acute accommodation crisis of low and middle income groups of people in the capital city the government will construct 1,020 flats at Block-F at Mohammadpur. Some 17 buildings, each of them 16-storied, will be constructed on 5.51 acres of land for
Dhaka, Delhi sign MoU for power sector cooperation
The government yesterday signed a MoU (memorandum of understanding) with the Indian government with a provision of unlimited import of power from the Indian private sector. According to MoU, Bangladesh will import 250 megawatt (MW) of power at government level while
Nation set to pay homage to martyrs to language
The nation pays homage to the martyrs of the language movement as the clock strikes one minute past midnight today amid heightened security at and around the Central Shaheed Minar in Dhaka on the occasion of Amar Ekushey, which is also International Mother Language Day, reports NewAgebd. The president, Zillur Rahman, is expected to place ... Read more
Service-seekers face hassle at BRTA
Withdrawal of 200 volunteers worsens situation Suffering of service-seekers at Mirpur BRTA has multiplied after the recent withdrawal of around 200 yellow-jersey volunteers, who used to assist 30 officials and staff at the understaffed office. Officials at the Bangladesh Road Transport Authority (BRTA) said work is now piling up
The Daily Star celebrates 19th founding anniversary
The Daily Star yesterday celebrated its 19th founding anniversary through a programme attended by country’s leading personalities, including ministers, politicians, academics, celebrities, businesspersons, and members of the diplomatic corps, the media and the civil
State language still neglected in courts
Bangla, which is the state language of Bangladesh, is still neglected in courts even 58 years after the language movement of 1952 as only one of the High Court benches conducts its procedures, including the delivery of verdicts and orders, in Bangla and English continued to be used in proceedings in
Shaheed Minar loses 6 trees for Ekushey celebration
Branches of six Palash trees on the Central Shaheed Minar premises in the city have been chopped off for ensuring easy telecast of the Language Movement Day programme in the early hours of February 21. Visiting the spot yesterday afternoon, this correspondent found the six trees standing without any
Shaheed Minar will be built in Rome
Italy has donated a prime piece of land in the heart of Rome to construct a Shaheed Minar, a foreign ministry official said. ‘After a lot of effort the Italians have given us a site near our embassy to construct a permanent Shaheed Minar,’ the official in
RMG workers beat up traffic policeman
Garments workers beat up a traffic policeman on duty at Banani Chairman Bari in Dhaka on Friday afternoon. Witnesses said the workers of Shika Garments, located at Banani, beat up constable Rafiqul Islam who allowed a car to go allegedly in exchange for bribe from the vehicle owner after the car had dashed one of ... Read more
27th BCS qualifiers demand employment
The deprived candidates of the 27th BCS in a press conference yesterday demanded implementation of the High Court verdict over their appointment. They said in the press conference at the National Press Club that the High Court had earlier on November 11 passed an order directing to appoint the
Mosquito menace beyond control
Lack of anti-mosquito drive blamed Vexed by the sudden spurt in mosquito menace in the capital, the city dwellers alleged that the menace has gone beyond control for lack of regular anti-mosquito drive by the Dhaka City Corporation. ‘The situation has become so alarming that even during day time anti-mosquito spray needs to
Second Padma bridge at Paturia gets nod
Estimated cost Tk 13,121cr; tender for Dhaka elevated expressway next month The government is going to construct a second bridge over the Padma River in Paturia at an estimated cost of Tk 13,121 crore or $1.9 billion with private initiative and without foreign assistance. The cabinet committee on economic affairs at a meeting approved in ... Read more
BDR carnage trial set to start next week
CID completes probe, ready to file chargesheet The trial of the February 25-26 massacre culprits of the Bangladesh Rifles (BDR) is set to be started next week with police saying they were now ready to submit the chargesheet ahead of the first anniversary of the carnage that killed 57 army officers serving the paramilitary
Dhaka in peril for river neglect
Seminar told River management failure has put the capital Dhaka “on the verge of extinction” just like other ancient capitals in the area that also went extinct for similar failures. The warning was voiced by a paper presented at a seminar yesterday in celebration of 400 years of