Unidentified miscreants looted gold ornaments and cash from a temple in Sutrapur area early on Wednesday, just 23 days after a similar heist at Dhakeshwari Mandir in the city. Shusil Kumar Datta, secretary of Kadamtola Kali Mandir committee, said the theft took place at the dead of night. Like everyday, priest Manik Chakraborty and Archana ... Read more
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Ctg mayor shares opinion with beggars
Announces daily allowance of Tk 150 The Chittagong mayor, Manjur Alam, on Wednesday shared opinions with the city handicapped beggars over their permanent rehabilitation and keeping the city beggar-free during the upcoming World Cup Cricket. Among others, president of Physically Handicapped Beggars’ Welfare Association Nur Mohammed, its general secretary Tofazzal Hussain, CCC chief executive officer Manjur ... Read more
Power price hike likely from March
Power prices the consumers pay to distribution agencies are likely to increase immediately after the Bangladesh Energy Regulatory Commission announces an increase in the rate at which such as agencies will be buying electricity. The commission’s member Salim Mahmud told New Age that the commission would
Booklovers swarm Boi Mela
Fill up premises minutes into opening by PM Thousands of booklovers yesterday thronged the Bangla Academy premises after Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina inaugurated the month-long Amar Ekushey Boi Mela 2011 and left the fair. Nobel laureate and noted economist Amartya Sen attended the inaugural session as the guest of honour, glorifying the dignity of the ... Read more
UAE deports 71 Bangladeshi workers
The United Arab Emirates deported 71 Bangladeshi workers on Monday on charges of instigating a strike demanding a pay hike by their employer, a construction company, Arabtec in Dubai. They arrived in Shahjalal International Airport around 12:30am yesterday by a flight of GMG Airlines, an official at the airport confirmed
Nobel committee lends support to Yunus again
Norwegian Nobel Committee has recently said it had awarded Prof Muhammad Yunus and Grameen Bank the peace prize in 2006 after it pieced their “larger and very positive picture together”. “When a bank has 7-8 million borrowers, it is easy to find isolated negative examples. It was only when the Committee had pieced this larger ... Read more
All 111 soldiers jailed in first Dhaka verdict
One hundred and eleven soldiers of the records wing of the Border Guard Bangladesh, formerly Bangladesh Rifles, were on Tuesday sentenced to rigorous imprisonment for varying terms on charges of the February 25–26, 2009 mutiny in the border guards’ headquarters in Dhaka. The special court 9 of the Border Guard Bangladesh, chaired by the force’s ... Read more
Gold trader killed, shop looted in city
Unidentified criminals strangled a gold trader to death and looted nine tolas of gold ornaments from his shop at Tantibazar in the old part of the capital early yesterday. Police recovered the body of Rajib Chandra Ghosh, 25, from his shop RL Jewellery Workshop at Raj Rajeswar Mandir Market in the morning
SSC exams start today
Secondary School Certificate (SSC) and equivalent examinations begin today involving some 13,15,002 examinees from 26,297 educational institutions across the country. Education Minister Nurul Islam Nahid yesterday said the government has taken all-out measures to ensure a peaceful environment and prevent cheating at the examination
Curtain goes up on Amar Ekushey Book Fair today
Curtain goes up on the Amar Ekushey Book Fair 2011, on the Bangla Academy premises today to showcase a month-long festival commemorating the historic language movement of 1952. The prime minister, Sheikh Hasina, will inaugurate the annual event, organised by the Bangla Academy and the Bangladesh Book Publishers and Sellers’ Association, at
Maiden arrests over Buriganga grabbing
3 fined, sued by DoE The Department of Environment (DoE) in a special drive yesterday realised Tk 3.21 lakh in fines from three river grabbers, filed cases and arrested two of them for filling up the Buriganga at three points. This was the first time river grabbers were arrested. The arrestees are Haji Mahbubur Rahman ... Read more
Metro rail route faces modification
The communications ministry is going to modify a part of the first-phase route of Dhaka metro rail considering commuters’ convenience. The route from Uttara Third Phase to TSC of Dhaka University via Pallabi, Farmgate, Sonargaon Hotel will remain unchanged. From TSC, the route will divert towards Curzon Hall, the
Bangladeshis in Egypt safe
Says foreign ministry Bangladeshis living in Egypt faced no troubles so far in the African country where tens of thousands of people are taking to the streets demanding the president’s resignation. “Our people in their workplaces in Egypt are safe,” Wahidur Rahman, director general (Africa) at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs told The Daily Star ... Read more
Star reaches out to students
Launches first-ever e-learning website for Bangla medium students The first ever e-learning website for Bangla medium school students was launched yesterday in a bid to bridge digital divide and boost online education. A joint initiative by The Daily Star and TeamCreative, the site will provide interactive examination papers for mathematics and science-related subjects from class ... Read more
Drive to free Kalyanpur canal in city
Dhaka Water Supply and Sewerage Authority (Wasa) with the help of the district administration yesterday demolished nearly two dozen illegal structures in a drive to free the city’s Kalyanpur canal from encroachers. The eviction team knocked down at least 23 illegal structures including two houses but spared two mosques that encroached upon the
Driver shot dead, microbus hijacked
Hijackers shot dead a driver and stabbed a passenger of a microbus and took it away in the city’s Lalmatia yesterday. The injured passenger, Ivan Ahmed, 25, is taking treatment at Dhaka Medical College Hospital. He introduced himself as a nephew of Shipping Minister Shahjahan Khan and said the owner of the microbus is Azizur ... Read more
Comilla rape victim dies
A sixteen-year-old rape victim, who had 76 percent of her body burnt, succumbed to her wounds early yesterday after fighting for life for seven days at Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH). The deceased, a student of class eight, was seven months into pregnancy following rape by her 35-year-old neighbour Abu Taleb in Comilla Sadar
Lack of training for workers ‘poses risks’
Lack of training for family welfare assistants and health workers in the safe prescription of medicines, including antibiotics, for the people seeking medical treatment in community clinics poses significant risks to the patients, most of whom are poor, experts said. Both family welfare assistants and health workers receive 21 days’ basic training when they
Probe body on Jubok submits final report
The Inquiry Commission on Jubo Karmasangsthan Society (Jubok) has strongly suggested the government to establish a Permanent Commission with a post of Liquidator to refund the deposits of its clients that the controversial lender embezzled, sources said. The Commission headed by Dr. Mohammad Farash Uddin Ahmed, former Bangladesh Bank
Lakhs raise hands in prayers
Lakhs of devotees from home and abroad raised their hands in prayers seeking divine blessings as the three-day second phase of the Biswa Ijtema, one of the largest congregations of the Muslims, ended with the Akheri Munajat (concluding prayers) yesterday. The massive gathering of devotees who joined the munajat spilled over to areas around the