The Infrastructure Development Company Ltd (IDCOL) has beefed up its target for installing solar home system (SHS) to 2.5 million units by 2014, company officials said. The previous target was to set up 1 million SHSs by December 2012, which the non-bank financial institute achieved by June this year. “If the current trend continues, we’ll ... Read more
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Extra 7500 MW power by 2013 to help industrialisation
Minister assures business leaders Home minister Sahara Khatun has said the government is working with a plan to produce additional 7500 megawatt by 2013 to ease the industrialisation process. “Power and energy is urgently needed to flourish the industrial sector. In this context, the present government is working on producing additional 7500 MW electricity and ... Read more
1,000 taxis to hit city roads
Saber Chy’s company given licence The communications ministry has given licence to Karnaphuli Works Ltd, owned by Awami League lawmaker Saber Hossain Chowdhury, to operate a thousand new taxicabs in the capital and its adjacent districts. Equipped with a minimum of 1500cc (1.5 litres) engines and air-conditioning, the vehicles to be imported from Japan are ... Read more
Outcry over demolition
Mughal Era Mosque Outcry over demolition The authorities have been demolishing a 368-year-old mosque to erect a five-storey new one on DC Roy Road in Old Dhaka. Located to the west of Mitford Hospital, the Mitford Kazi Sharif Mosque was constructed in AD 1643-44 during the Mughal period. A Persian stone inscription in a wall ... Read more
Crossfire killings necessary
Wikileaks Crossfire killings necessary Rab’s former second man Bari told US envoy Chowdhury Fazlul Bari, former second-in-command of Rab, during a June 2005 conversation with US embassy officials had described extrajudicial killings in the name of “crossfire” by the force as a necessary, short-term expedient, according to a diplomatic dispatch. An influential figure during the ... Read more
Durga Puja begins
The five-day-long Durga Puja, the biggest annual religious festival of the Hindus, begins today through Sashthi puja. All puja mandaps (pavilion) in the capital and other parts of the country are prepared for the celebration. The artisans are busy giving the finishing touches to the idols and organisers doing the last minute decoration and lighting ... Read more
Too old yet allowance eludes her
Country observes International Day of Older Persons International Day of Older Persons, observed across the world yesterday, holds very little meaning for centenarian Asironnesa of Arpara village in Magura sadar upazila. Several efforts made towards obtaining an old-age or widow allowance for Asironnessa are yet to bear fruit. Asiron is physically too weak to move ... Read more
Channel i turns 12
Today marks the 12th anniversary of Channel i, the first digital Bangla channel. With a view to bring about positive changes in the realm of electronic media in Bangladesh, the channel commenced its journey in 1999. To mark the anniversary, Channel i will hold and air special programmes. A daylong cultural programme and fair will ... Read more
BSF says 7 killed in 2011, reports say 21
BSF assures BGB of ending border killing India’s Border Security Force director general Raman Shrivastava on Friday reassured his Bangladesh counterpart of ending the killing of Bangladeshis in the frontiers. Raman at a joint briefing at the Border Guard Bangladesh headquarters in Dhaka after the director general-level meeting between the BGB and the BSF said ... Read more
Medical, Dental Admission: 20 held for fake question trade
JU teacher among the accused Rapid Action Battalion early yesterday arrested 20 people, including a Jahangirnagar University teacher, in connection with selling fake question papers for the combined medical college and dental college admission test. Rab also seized Tk 8.26 lakh, 29 mobile phones and three motorbikes from the arrestees’ possession. The arrestees include Mohammad ... Read more
New fund to prop up troubled stockmarket
The private sector has stepped in to rescue the ailing stockmarket with a ‘market stabilisation fund’ that also aims to give a new lease of life to retail investors who incurred losses. AK Azad, president of the Federation of Bangladesh Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FBCCI), yesterday announced a concept paper on the fund after ... Read more
Stocks rise on market fund news
Stocks gained yesterday as investors used early losses as a buying opportunity following stakeholders’ move to form a market stabilisation fund. Stakeholders have decided to form a ‘market stabilisation fund’ to help recipients of margin loans and the lenders as they face difficulty while adjusting their loans when the market goes through
DCC to introduce solar street lights
The Dhaka City Corporation (DCC) has chalked out a Tk 3.90crore programme to introduce solar street light at Arambagh area initiallyon an experimental basis. If the programme is successful, the streets in the wholeDhaka city will be brought under solar lighting system, said DCC Mayor Sadeque Hossain Khoka in an interview with The New Nation. ... Read more
Architecture: Bangladesh Perspective
Architecture of any country reflects the picture of culture, past and present of that area. Architecture of Bangladesh refers to the architectural attributes and styles of the country. Basically architecture of Bangladesh refers to the architectural attributes and styles of the country. The architecture of Bangladesh has a long history and is rooted in Bangladesh’s ... Read more
Momena to perform at Chickenshed Theatre in UK
Actress Momena Choudhury is travelling to UK with her theatre troupe Shunyan to take part in the mini-season of plays on conflict, a theatre festival which is being organised by Chickenshed Theatre. There the troupe will stage their play Lal Jomin on October 3, the play features Momena Choudhury in a single act performance. The ... Read more
Cost of living almost double in 5 yrs
The cost of living in Bangladesh has increased by 82.59 per cent over the last five years from, according to Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics (BBS). In relation, the income has increased by 59.38 per cent over the same period showing an unusual disparity between income and expenditure. This disparity has made the fixed income group’s ... Read more
First Hajj flight reaches Jeddah
Biman Bangladesh Airlines yesterday operated its first Hajj flight of the year carrying 505 pilgrims to Saudi Arabia. A Boeing 747 jumbo jet left Shahjalal International Airport (SIA) around 5:45am and landed safely at Jeddah airport in the afternoon, Biman sources said. Civil Aviation and Tourism Minister GM Quader inaugurated the national carrier’s
HR boss barred from visiting jail
He demands removal of prisons chief National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) Chairman Mizanur Rahman was barred from entering Sylhet Central Jail by authorities on Thursday morning. Mizanur Rahman arrived at the jail’s entrance at around 9am and waited for the jail’s acting superintendent to appear. The NHRC Chairman left around 11am after being refused permission ... Read more
English being taught in Bengali !
Second part A report, prepared by a 16-member government committee, headed by University Grants Commission member Prof. Atful Hye Shibly, has observed that English is usually being taught through Bengali in classrooms and this practice hinders proficiency in English. The committee was assigned the task of identifying the obstacles to learning English and put forth ... Read more
Medicare goes haywire
6-hr Power Outage at BSMMU Hospital Medicare goes haywire A six-hour blackout paralysed the Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University (BSMMU) yesterday, causing immense suffering to patients and doctors. Except for a few emergency services using generator, all pathological tests, scheduled operations and outdoor services remained snapped from 6:00am to 12:15pm when power supply resumed, hospital ... Read more