The Engineering Corps of Army in association with Dhaka City Corporation will complete the repair and beautification work of the capital ahead of the ICC Cricket World Cup by February 5. Bangladesh Army, DCC and 42 construction firms are implementing the Tk 54 crore project, said Col Abu Sayed Mohammad Masud, project director of Hatirjheel ... Read more
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Stalker hacks man over protest
A stalker hacked a college teacher after he had protested at the harassment of his daughter at Nishindhara Paikpara in the Bogra district headquarters on Sunday afternoon. The critically injured Akterul Alam, 44, a lecturer in chemistry at Nishindhara Fakir Uddin School and College, was admitted to Shahid Zia Medical College Hospital
Schools in rural areas face English
Shortage of good English language teachers in rural schools is a significant factor that results in an increase in gap between education of urban and of rural students, educationalists say. ‘Most schools in rural area are suffering from an English teacher shortage,’ Amir Farukh Talukder, the headmaster of Nurpur Adarsha High School in Habiganj, told
‘Stalker’ slits teenage girl’s throat
A Stalker of class seven narrowly escaped death as an alleged stalker slit her throat when she was asleep in her house in the early hours yesterday. The incident occurred in a village in Sherpur upazila of Bogra. Sirajum Monira Laboni, a student of Chandaikona High School in Sherpur, is now fighting for
Akheri Munajat today
Ijtema 2nd Phase Akheri Munajat today Thousands of Muslims from home and abroad will pray seeking divine blessings from Allah on the bank of river Turag as the second phase of Biswa Ijtema ends today with the Akheri Munajat (concluding prayer). The concluding prayer is expected to start any moment before the Johar prayers following ... Read more
Killer bus cuts short life of a college student in city
The life of Saifur Rahman, a college student, was cut short by a killer bus at Abdul Ghani Road in the city on Friday afternoon. Saifur, 19, was returning home after attending his classes at Dhaka Imperial College when the accident took place at about 1:00pm. He died on the
Share market investor shot dead in city
A 50-year-old share market investor was shot dead by unnamed assailants in front of his house at Kunjaban of Purba Rampura in Dhaka on Saturday night, the police said. The deceased was Mohammad Shahidullah, a resident of the area. Local people said that they heard two gunshots about 10:00pm and rushed to place only to
Microcredit’s mega feat
One crore Bangladeshis move above $1.25 a day between 1990-2008, finds a survey of an int’l advocacy group The country’s 18 lakh microcredit borrowers — nearly a crore with their family members — moved above the $1.25 a day earning threshold between 1990 and 2008, according to an international advocacy group. In 2008, the World ... Read more
Upgrading starts next month
Dhaka-Mymensingh Highway Upgrading starts next month The work of upgrading the Joydevpur-Mymensingh Highway to a dual carriageway will start next month. The 87-kilometre highway will be turned into a dual carriageway by June, 2013, said communications ministry officials after signing of contracts with three firms at the Roads and Highways Department (RHD) yesterday. The communications ... Read more
2nd phase of Biswa Ijtema from today
Second phase of the Biswa Ijtema, one of the largest congregations of the Muslims, begins today on the bank of Turag river in Tongi. Lakhs of devotes from home and abroad are expected to join the congregation to seek blessings of Allah. It will conclude on Sunday
Power crisis to aggravate in February
Additional demand for electricity during the World Cup Cricket tournaments, Secondary School Certificate Examinations and for irrigation would aggravate the power crisis in February-March, said officials. They said that the consumers should be ready for frequent load shedding from February to May, the boro irrigation season
Acid thrown for dowry
A youth threw acid on his sister-in-law over dowry at Kurarghat in the city’s Kamrangirchar Wednesday night. Beauty, 22, a resident of Shahidnagar in Lalbagh, suffered burns on her right hand, chest and face, and is taking treatment at the burn unit of Dhaka Medical College Hospital. She told reporters at the hospital that her ... Read more
Factory fined for Karnaphuli pollution
Department of Environment yesterday fined a dyeing factory Tk 30 lakh on charge of polluting the Karnaphuli violating environmental law. DoE Director (monitoring and enforcement) Munir Chowdhury led a drive in Super Knitting and Dyeing Mills in the city’s Bayezid Bostami area, said a
Committee formed to crack share scam
The government on Tuesday formed a three-member committee headed by the Bangladesh Krishi Bank chairman, Khandkar Ibrahim Khaled, to investigate share market scam, the finance minister, Abul Maal Abdul Muhith, said. ‘The name of the other two members and terms of reference of the committee will be
Stock prices bounce back amid low turnover, thin transactions
Trading on the DSE resumed Tuesday with a positive note. However, the turnover was abnormally low — Tk 2.06 billion — with a revised circuit breaker mechanism in place for transactions of individual issues. The revised circuit breaker mechanism, apparantly, discouraged investors from selling their stocks in a situation marked by high demand
Brutality beats the beast
A student of class eight, who became pregnant after she was raped by her 35-year-old neighbour in Comilla sadar, was set on fire by him in a bid to deny his paternity. Abu Taleb set the victim, a student of Matankur Paschimpara High School in Comilla, afire Sunday evening, causing burns to as much as ... Read more
Dhaka to be kept free of beggars, hawkers during WC
The government is planning to keep most of the capital city areas free of beggars and hawkers for the duration of Cricket World Cup matches in Bangladesh. A home ministry meeting on Tuesday decided to recommend the authorities concerned to free major roads to and from the match venues of beggars and hawkers during the
No end to extrajudicial killings: HRW
International human rights watchdog Human Rights Watch has said that the Awami League-Jatiya Party alliance government has not yet ended systematic human rights abuse, including extrajudicial killing, despite promises. In its World Report 2011, released in New York on Monday, the organisation said,
Ctg steel mill fined for air pollution
The Department of Environment (DoE) yesterday fined a steel mill in Chittagong Tk 10 lakh and suspended its environment clearance certificate for emitting toxic gas. A team led by Mohammad Munir Chowdhury, director of DoE (monitoring and enforcement, asked the authorities of Ehsan Steel Mills in Charpatharghata to install pollutant gas
Govt actions draw doubts
Stockmarket Crash Govt actions draw doubts The policymakers demonstrated their lack of seriousness in identifying the real culprits behind the recent stockmarket debacle, by taking 15 days time for forming a probe committee to investigate market manipulation, said analysts yesterday. They however said the finance minister’s confession of making mistakes, and his meeting