Rokomari.com, an online shopping portal, was launched in the city yesterday with a view to help both readers buy books without physically visiting any store and pay the bills upon receiving the delivery. Noted litterateur Anisul Hoque and Munir Hasan, general secretary of Bangladesh Math Olympiad, inaugurated the store at a ceremony at a school ... Read more
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Huawei debuts mobile devices
Huawei, a leading global brand in the mobile broadband and convergence device field, on Wednesday for the first time unveiled a suite of world class mobile devices including Android smartphones, Android tablet, touch phones, messaging phones and music phones in the country, which are designed to give users a simple and enjoyable mobile
First phase Ijtema ends with Akheri Munajat
The first phase of Biswa Ijtema at Tongi near the capital ended yesterday afternoon with the offering of Akheri Munajat (concluding prayers) seeking divine blessings for the people of Bangladesh and the Muslim Ummah. The Ijtema venue on the banks of the Turag river and its adjoining areas reverberated with the word ”Amin” repeatedly uttered ... Read more
Concluding prayers today
Biswa Ijtema Concluding prayers today The three-day-long first phase of Biswa Ijtema, the second largest congregation of the Muslims, will conclude today through offering Akheri Munajat (concluding prayers) on the banks of the Turag. Hundreds of thousands of devotees from home and abroad will pray for spiritual progress, exaltation and welfare of the Muslim community
Corals of St.Martin’s at stake
Global Warming and Over-Exploitation Corals of St.Martin’s at stake Dr. Anisuzzaman Khan Honey comb corals around Saint Martin’s island are under stress due to coral bleaching. While the COP 17 — UN climate convention — was being held in Durban of South Africa, a Nature Watch Team (NWT) of Ekattor Television watched that a noticeable ... Read more
The land of beauty
by Mahfuzul Haque Bangladesh, a South-Asian country wrapped up with great streaming rivers, is indeed a land of green and natural beauty. The land possesses the longest sea beach and is home to the Royal Bengal Tiger. Sundarbans is also the biggest mangrove forest in the world. The country, once part of undivided Bengal, is ... Read more
Tourism in Bangladesh: problems and prospects
by Ziaul Haque Howlader Forty years has elapsed of Bangladesh’s tourism industry, yet we still see it in a nascent position in comparison to our neighbouring countries. Despite having all the potential to flourish, tourism in this country has been growing at a very slow pace. Bangladesh is not known as a tourist destination in ... Read more
Pvt school teachers among the lowest paid
Govt urged to regulate teachers’ salaries at pvt schools The government should set a binding guideline on the salaries for teachers at privately-run schools and colleges which pay a lower amount to teachers but charge students high tuition fees, experts said. They said that low salaries were resulting in a reduction in the quality of ... Read more
Biswa Ijtema begins
6 devotees die Prayers and sermons marked the first day of Biswa Ijtema — one of the largest congregations of Muslims — as it opened on the banks of the river Turag at Tongi yesterday morning. Six participants died of cardiac arrest and old age complications on Thursday night and early yesterday, organisers said, as ... Read more
Tourism info on fingertips
The Bangladesh Parjatan Corporation (BPC) yesterday signed a contract with SSL Wireless to provide tourism related services via mobile phones aiming at promoting tourism in the country. Asmaul Hossain, general manager for public relations and admin of BPC, and Anisul Islam, general manager of SSL, inked the deal at Hotel Obokash, BPC said in
Tribute to a master painter
Weeklong Sultan Mela-2012 begins in Narail The weeklong Sultan Mela-2012, marking the 87th birth anniversary of noted artist SM Sultan, began at Sultan Moncho premises in Narail on December 9. Jointly organised by the SM Sultan Foundation and the district administration, the fair is sponsored by Grameen Phone and the Ministry of Cultural Affairs. The ... Read more
Mobile users now 8.5 crore
The number of mobile subscribers crossed the 8.5 crore mark in December last year, a 24 percent rise from the same month a year ago. At least 1.64 crore new users were brought under the mobile network in the last one year. According to the website of Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission, the
Children get New Year gift
Textbook distribution begins at schools The New Year of school children began with smells of new books. As the students of primary and secondary grades went to schools in the first morning of 2012, they were handed over a new set of textbooks. Some started jumping in joy; some were flipping through the pages. There ... Read more
Sajjad still waits for his father
Missing Since 2008 Sajjad still waits for his father Every night Sajjad goes to sleep in the hope that his father will come the next morning. Morning comes a little more harshly — he finds that his hope has been misplaced. Yet he does not lose heart. He puts his father’s T-shirt on the pillow ... Read more
Quader for army help to tackle traffic jam
Communications Minister Obaidul Quader yesterday said he might take help of the army to tackle traffic congestion and stop plying of overloaded vehicles in the city. “If necessary, I will take assistance from the army upon approval of the prime minister to give people relief by tackling the nagging traffic congestion,” Quader said while inaugurating ... Read more
Banks’ profits go up despite stock debacle
Private commercial banks weathered a steep downswing in the stockmarket last year to continue their profit growth. Many thought that the banks’ operating profit would come down due to the debacle in the stockmarket, as the key index of the Dhaka bourse plunged by around 37 percent in the year. But the banks proved them ... Read more
Tgore dominates theatre, cultural shows
It will not be an exaggeration to say that the year 2011 was the year of celebrating Tagore, marking the Nobel Laureate poet’s sesquicentennial birth anniversary. Following the joint India-Bangladesh birth anniversary celebration plan, a remarkable number of cultural programmes featuring music, dance and theatre were organised with participation of leading artistes of the country. ... Read more
People usher in 2012
People ushered in the year 2012 as the clock struck 12 midnight past Saturday amid jubilation. Security was heightened to fend off any untoward incidents on the New Year’s Eve. The police early today said that there had been no untoward incidents in the capital. Hundreds of people, especially the young, started thronging the campus ... Read more
Long-route bus fare hiked by 13pc
The government on Saturday increased the long-route bus fare by 15 paisa a kilometre a day after the fourth round of fuel price hike in 2011. But the fares of buses and minibuses operating in Dhaka and Chittagong metropolitan cities were not raised. The new fare would come into effect from January 2, 2012, said ... Read more
80pc nat’l minority children drop out of pry education
About four in five students, which accounts 80 per cent, of the national minority children dropout of primary education mainly because of linguistic problems and discriminatory behaviours, researches and experts said. The national drop-out rate in primary education is 45, according to the Bangladesh Primary Education Annual Sector Performance Report 2009