Bangladesh is turning into a lucrative destination for manufacturing high-end formal suits as foreign investment proposals are coming to the sub-sector, with China losing its competitiveness, industry insiders said. The foreign brands are either sourcing the suits, formal jackets and trousers for men and women or establishing joint ventures in Bangladesh to tailor the
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At least 36 dead
Cargo Vessel Hits Launch At least 36 dead 200 missing; vessel could not be salvaged yet from 70 feet under Meghna water At least 36 people died and more than 200 others went missing when a packed passenger launch capsized in the river Meghna after colliding with a cargo vessel at Gazaria in Munshiganj yesterday. ... Read more
Rivers losing navigability
The country’s rivers have lost half of their navigability since independence, creating serious socio-economic and environmental impacts. According to the latest statistics, the length of navigable waterways, which was about 14,000 km way back in 1964, now shrinks to 6,000 km during the rainy season and to 3,800 km in winter. Besides almost 80 per ... Read more
Bangladeshi woman embarks on Everest conquest today
Wasfia Nazreen, the first Bangladeshi attempting to climb the seven highest mountains of the world’s seven continents, will leave the country today to conquer Mount Everest, the highest peak of the world. A send off ceremony was organised at the head office of City Bank Limited, the key sponsor of Wasfia’s climb, in the city ... Read more
Divider, speed reducer can cut 30pc crash
States Buet’s 1998-2010 road accident research Thirty percent of the road accidents from 1998 to 2010, which claimed around 1,200 lives every year, could have been averted if road dividers and speed bumps had been set up to check head-on and rear-end collisions. During the period, 14,876 people were killed and 6,741 others injured in ... Read more
Mosquitoes free to bite
Citizens complain of the menace, 2 DCCs’ adulticide dearth Though the Dhaka City Corporation was bifurcated with a view to improving public service, city dwellers are hardly getting any respite from mosquito menace. Life indoors and outdoors in the capital has become so uncomfortable due to this seasonal boom of mosquitoes. The homeless and security ... Read more
Registration to go online
Bangladesh Public Service Commission (BPSC) is set to launch an online registration system for the BCS examinees to ease the appointment process. “The new system will enable the commission to recommend the successful candidates of a BCS examination for appointment within a year, which took almost three years in the recent
Artists should explore in various mediums: Selim
Artist Lala Rukh Selim, associate professor of the sculpture department at the Faculty of Fine Arts of Dhaka University, talks about the perception of sculpture art and the status of the local sculpture scene in Bangladesh, in a recent interview with New Age. The artist/academic is the lead partner from Bangladesh for the three-year exchange ... Read more
Marketing summit ends with Dhaka Declaration
The World Marketing Summit (WMS) yesterday adopted a ten-point declaration with focus on a year-long research into health, education, environment and food security. The Dhaka Declaration was adopted at the closing session of the three-day summit in Bangabandhu International Conference Centre in
Students lose interest in science
Study says number of science students in decline as more and more opt for business education While the country desperately needs more science graduates as human resource, the number of science students at the secondary and higher secondary levels is dropping rapidly. More students are opting for business education as new commercial institutions like bank, ... Read more
Bangladesh Street Theatre Festival begins
Organised by Bangladesh Patho Natok Parishad, a weeklong street theatre festival has begun on March 1. The festival was inaugurated at the Central Shaheed Minar premises in Dhaka. Plays are being staged at the amphitheatre inside Suhrawardi Udyan since yesterday. Sculptor Ferdausi Priobhashini formally inaugurated the festival. Director general of Bangaldesh Shilpakala Academy
Tolls being gobbled up
Probe finds vehicles crossing Bangabandhu Bridge without records; heavy vehicles turn light ones; role of toll collection company comes under question A probe has found that employees of a joint venture company collecting tolls at Bangabandhu Bridge have been misappropriating huge sums by showing a lesser number of vehicles crossing the bridge or by showing ... Read more
Migratory birds vanish gradually
Pashua Haor in Sunamganj Migratory birds vanish gradually The number of migratory birds visiting the Pashua haor in Sunamganj has drastically fallen from four lakh to four thousand a year over the last eight years as the haor is losing its ecological balance. “The ecosystem here is greatly hampered by indiscriminate collection of plants and ... Read more
Application for 33rd BCS on web
The Public Service Commission (PSC) yesterday published the circular for 33rd Bangladesh Civil Service (BCS) examination to fill up 4,206 vacant posts, said the PSC officials. Of the total vacant posts, 2,905 are in professional and technical cadres, 582 in general cadre, 607 in education cadre (general colleges), and 112 in education cadre
HSC exams schedule revised
In the face of protests by HSC examinees of the science group, the government yesterday deferred the mathematics examinations by nearly a month. According to the revised routine, examinations of two papers of mathematics will be held on May 17 and 20, instead of April 22 and
17,000 phone subscribers quit BTCL despite improved service
Everything is not hunky-dory for the country’s land phone operators, experts say. The state-owned Bangladesh Telecommunication Company Limited (BTCL) has been struggling for some time now to retain its subscriber base, sources in the company said. Despite BTCL’s attempts at improving the quality of its services (QoS) by bringing the nationwide call switching
20,000 websites for people by 2015
Govt moves to take e-services to rural areas The government will launch 20,000 websites by 2015 to take e-service to the masses in efforts to materialise its vision of Digital Bangladesh. The websites will be developed under the National Portal Framework (NPF) in districts, upazilas, divisions, ministries and directorates with a free web-hosting by the ... Read more
Patients in peril as drug prices shoot up
Costlier dollar blamed The prices of life-saving drugs are increasing seemingly due to costlier imports of raw materials and the depreciation of the taka vis-à-vis foreign currencies. Poor patients are the worst sufferers of this pricing disorder. Prices for most of the pharmaceutical products are on an upward trajectory, while drug traders blame manufacturing companies ... Read more
A flash into Language Movement
Bhasha Andolan Jadughar A flash into Language Movement A class VI student was staring wide-eyed at a picture on the Language Movement of 1952 fixed to the wall of “Bhasha Andolan Jadughar” (Language Movement museum) inside Bangla Academy yesterday. “These pictures are outstanding. I got a very detailed idea of the 1952 Language Movement after ... Read more
‘Protect Jadunath’s palace complex from grabbers’
Locals formed a human chain on Friday urging the government to take necessary steps for protection of the historic palace of Raja Jadunath Roy at Balasur in Bhagyakul under Sreenagar upazila. An NGO named ‘Agrasar Bikrampur Foundation’ took ‘illegal’ lease of 5.71 acres of land at the archaeological site and causing damage to its heritage ... Read more