The ongoing moderate heat wave may continue past the first week of June when it starts raining, meteorologists said on Sunday. They said that at least six heat waves swept over the country’s north, the north-west and the capital in two months. Heat now feels severe as the humidity level is high and there is almost ... Read more
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Drastic fall in city ground water level
Land grabbers blamed for filling up wetlands Groundwater level around the capital has fallen drastically because of indiscriminate filling of the wetlands, said Water Resources Minister Ramesh Chandra Sen. “The land grabbers are responsible for sharp fall in the groundwater level around the capital due to filling up of the canals and rivers, resulting in ... Read more
Police beat journalists covering polytech students rally
Nine policemen were suspended and a senior assistant commissioner was closed to the DMP headquarters hours after they had attacked three photojournalists and a contributor to a Bangla daily newspaper at Agargaon in the capital on Saturday when they went there to cover demonstrations Dhaka Women Polytechnic Institute students went on
Wasfia mounts Everest
Dedicates her feat to Bangladeshi women Wasfia Nazreen has become the second Bangladeshi woman to scale Mount Everest just a week after Nishat Majumder achieved the feat. She reached the top of the 8,848-metre (29,029-foot) mountain at 6:41am Bangladesh time yesterday. Korvi Rakshand, spokesperson of the Bangladesh on Seven Summits campaign that
Conviction pays off
Parents on Wasfia’s hard work It is an outstanding and unbelievable achievement that came following her years of perseverance, said Nazmee J Chowdhury, father of Wasfia Nazreen. “We think this is an award from the Almighty to Wasfia for her hard work, integrity, perseverance and fascination for adventures,” said Chowdhury in his instant reaction hours ... Read more
Graft spikes water crisis
Slum people pay 10 times more to Wasa cheats Five million poorest slum dwellers in the capital pay 1o times more than the official price of Dhaka Wasa water, said its former managing at a discussion yesterday. Bangladesh Water Integrity Network organised the discussion on transparency and integrity in water supply in Dhaka city at ... Read more
Climate talks end in discord
Negotiations in Bonn stall with nations delaying tactics The latest round of international climate change talks finished on Friday in discord and disappointment, with some participants concerned that important progress made last year was being unpicked. At the talks, countries were supposed to set out a workplan on negotiations that should result in a new ... Read more
Water crisis grips Dhaka
Amid frequent power cuts and the summer heat, water supply to Dhaka dwellers has dropped drastically in the last one month. Adding to the water crisis, dwellers of some areas were getting unusable foul-smelling water from Water Supply and Sewerage Authority. The stinky water was allegedly spreading waterborne
MLM firm swindles 500 customers
Agent flees after collecting Tk 5cr About 500 customers of a multi-level marketing (MLM) company laid seize to the house of its Aditmari upazila representative at Vadai village yesterday after he went into hiding a week ago collecting around Tk 5 crore from them. Jamiur Rahman, agent of online MLM company click2earn2you.com, persuaded
All but 2 Destiny accounts frozen
Govt to form commission soon to probe irregularities The Bangladesh Bank yesterday froze the bank accounts of all the directors of Destiny Group and its associated organisations for one month. However, the accounts of Boishakhi TV and Bangla daily Dainik Destiny — two sister concerns of the group — have not been frozen
Minister, Baira at loggerheads
KL Recruitment Right Minister, Baira at loggerheads Expatriates’ Welfare Minister Khandker Mosharraf Hossain yesterday turned down the private recruiting agencies’ demand for allowing them to recruit workers for jobs in Malaysia. “I told Baira leaders that we shall initially send workers to Malaysia at government level. Gradually, when the system is streamlined, we will leave ... Read more
Nazrul’s birth anniv today
The 113th anniversary of the birth of national poet Kazi Nazrul Islam, who wrote against fascism and oppression, will be observed today. Nazrul, a poet, lyricist, composer, dramatist, short-story writer, revolutionary thinker, journalist and political activist, was born this day in 1899 in a poor Muslim family at Churulia of Burdwan in
US slates killings, torture by lawmen
HR Report on Bangladesh US slates killings, torture by lawmen The US government yesterday denounced the Bangladesh government over the latter’s “most significant” human rights problems, including killing and torture by security forces and their abuses that are responsible for disappearances and custodial deaths. “An increasingly politicised judiciary exacerbated problems in an already overwhelmed
Wasfia close to Everest summit
Wasfia Nazreen, who was set to scale the Mount Everest today, has deferred her climb to the summit by a day due to inclement weather. “Wasfia will push for the summit tomorrow [Saturday] night,” Korvi Rakshand, spokesperson of Bangladesh on Seven Summits’ campaign, which arranged the trekking, told The Daily Star around
Catching up with time
Ctg’s giant commodity hub Khatunganj tune itself to tech Chittagong city’s bustling commodity hub Khatunganj, which has given birth to a number of well-known local conglomerates such as Partex Group, Abul Khair Group, PHP Group and TK Group, is changing. Large and medium commodity market leaders are hiring trained executives in top and mid level ... Read more
Destiny 2000 bank account frozen
Tk 100cr tax anomalies found so far; HC asks govt to sue Destiny for construction on beach The National Board of Revenue (NBR) yesterday asked banks to freeze the accounts of Destiny 2000 Ltd, a major arm of Destiny Group, to check whether it had been involved in tax anomalies, said an NBR official. The ... Read more
Brutal hijack on highway
Criminals kill one, injure two to take away rod-laden truck; mills, transport owners concerned at rise in such crimes A truck helper was killed and his two colleagues were injured as carjackers threw them from a running truck in the capital’s Agargaon area, after hijacking the rod-laden truck from Savar yesterday. A gang waylaid the ... Read more
Muzaffer Ahmad no more
Noted economist and leading civil society member Prof Muzaffer Ahmad breathed his last at around 10:30pm yesterday at the age of 76. The former chairman of Transparency International Bangladesh (TIB) Trustee Board and outspoken environmentalist suffered a heart attack shortly after dinner at his
Bandwidth poses problem of plenty
The country will get an additional 96 gigabytes (GBs) of Internet bandwidth from the international submarine cable consortium (ISCC) in the middle of June this year, sources in Bangladesh Submarine Cable Company (BSCCL) say. At present, the country gets 44.6 GBs of bandwidth from the ISCC through the lone submarine
Muggers shoot businessmen, loot Tk 25 lakh
Unidentified muggers yesterday shot two businessmen and snatched away Tk 25.7 lakh from them in the old part of the capital. Injured Rafiqul Islam. 35, owner of Robin Metal Works at Nalgola Lane, and Amir Hossain, 48, manager of a nearby metal store Munna Enterprise, have been admitted to