The continued price hike of vegetables on the city market in the last two weeks has aggravated the sufferings of consumers, who are already affected by the high prices of other essential commodities. Many consumers at different retail markets said on Tuesday that greengrocers had increased further the prices of vegetables, like green papaya, bitter ... Read more
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Lotkan cultivation gains popularity
Cultivation of Lotkan a delicious fruit has gained popularity among people of Narsingdi district. A large number of marginal farmers mainly in the reddish lands of Shibpur and Belabo upazilas of the district have been able to change their fate in the past few years by cultivating Lotkan. Department of Agriculture Extension (DAE) officials sources ... Read more
Women reaching heights
With the dream to familiarise foreigners with her beloved country’s flag, Wasfia Nazreen, a Bangladeshi female mountaineer, sets off early morning today in her journey to climb the seven highest mountains of the world’s seven continents. Wasfia will be the first female mountaineer of Bangladesh to climb Europe’s Mount Elbrus, Africa’s
Int’l photo exhibition starts July 8
The 7th International Inter University Photography Exhibition 2011, organised by North South University Photography Club (NSUPC), will begin July 8 at Drik Gallery in the city. Photos of 152 photographers from 28 local and 15 international universities will be exhibited this year. North South University Vice-chancellor Dr Hafiz GA Siddiqi will attend the inaugural ceremony ... Read more
Jatra is in my veins: Aruna Biswas
“Jatra is the root of today’s flourishing contemporary theatre scene in Bangladesh. But, this age-old folk art form is not finding a place in our everyday entertainment list, and is losing its appeal day by day. To restore Jatra to its former glory days Jatra-aficionados like me have come forward. My production house, Jatravision is ... Read more
9 vehicles burnt, processions foiled
Eight vehicles were burnt in pre-strike violence in the afternoon and at night in the capital on Tuesday while the police foiled processions and arrested people drumming up support for the 48-hour general strike the BNP and its allies are enforcing from today. The police arrested supporters of the strike and a mobile court jailed ... Read more
Minibuses, buses not following govt fare chart
The city’s buses and minibuses are reportedly charging more from passengers than the prescribed minimum fare of Tk 7 and Tk 5 respectively set by the government after the price-hike of compressed natural gas in May. The Bangladesh Road Transport Authority, which is carrying out regular drives against bus companies charging extra fare, have filed ... Read more
Some cooperatives flourish despite neglect
Groups of people have made notable success by improving their living standards with their collective efforts overcoming negligence to and lack of policy supports for the cooperative sector. Some cooperative societies, formed in the capital with small subscriptions of members, are now viably running small and big businesses ranging from tailoring and grocery shops and ... Read more
Cooperatives, a moribund movement
For decades, cooperative movement in the country remained stymied, making insignificant contribution to the economy due mainly to lack of policy support and lukewarm leadership devoid of the passion and energy to use it as a tool for achieving collective economic well-being. The moribund movement no more entices people while hundreds of existing cooperative
Remittance earnings face serious jolt
Lowest growth in five years Remittance earnings face serious jolt Bangladesh received $11649.59 million as wage earners’ remittance in the fiscal 2010-11, showing a little growth of 6.3 per cent over the same period of the previous fiscal. “The primary reasons for the declining remittance inflows are due to political crisis in the Middle East ... Read more
Traffic chaos persists
Residents of the capital city Dhaka on Monday experienced one of the worst traffic congestions in recent days. The nagging traffic jam in the city’s thoroughfares, a day after the half-day hartal on Sunday and weekend holidays on Friday and Saturday, held down the city-dwellers for hours on the streets and also caused immense sufferings ... Read more
Evaluating services of Sundarbans
Muhammad Selim Hossain and Mohammed Abdul Baten for The Daily Star Forest is a bounteous gift of nature that provides the basis of life and livelihood for humans. According to human history, hunting and gathering, the first and foremost livelihood of homo sapiens, was forest based. Interestingly, mangrove is the most diverse forest and is ... Read more
Growth at the cost of environment?
Industrial Pollution Growth at the cost of environment? Md Koushik Ahmed for The Daily Star The “primitive accumulation” nature of developed countries to use all natural resources as inputs into a human devised system in the never ending quest for economic growth has led us to ask “what the future holds for us”. This growth ... Read more
ADB team to visit Dhaka this month to examine solar funding scope
A consultation mission of Asian Development Bank will arrive in Dhaka this month to examine scope of the installation of 500MW capacity solar energy system in Bangladesh. The ADB also plans to take an initiative to organise an investors’ meeting in Dhaka by September to ensure donors’ support in the project, a top official of ... Read more
Bangladesh through
WC Qualifiers Bangladesh through Meet Lebanon next Bangladesh advanced into the next round with a 3-0 aggregate after playing out a goalless draw against Pakistan in their second-leg match of the 2014 World Cup Asian Zone Round-1 qualifiers at the Punjab Stadium in Lahore yesterday. Bangladesh, who won the home match 3-0 at, will now ... Read more
Homage to an icon
Nazrul Utshab 1418 at Chhayanaut For the third consecutive year, Chhayanaut arranged a two day-long Nazrul Utshab (festival) 1418 at its main auditorium on July 1. Artistes of Chhayanaut began the festival with a choral rendition of the song “Anjoli Laho Mor Sangeet-e” while a number of artistes, with mongolprodip, presented a lively dance to ... Read more
Cultural programme marking 156th Santal Revolutionary day
The 156th ‘Historic Santal Revolutionary Day’ was celebrated here in Dinajpur and its 13 upazilas with cultural programmes performed by the artistes of the community. Discussions were also organised highlighting the significance of this day. Colourful festival processions were brought out in various areas of Dinajpur. In Phulbari, a programme
“The history of Rock n Roll”
Qubee Junction to celebrate “The history of Rock n Roll” QUBEE Junction is an entertainment platform through which QUBEE users will delight. After the successful first Junction on December 25th, 2010, its time to move forward and delight the QUBEE users in a bigger and better fashion. QUBEE junction this time presents “The history of ... Read more
ICAB training course on IFRS begins
A training course on IFRS organised by the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Bangladesh (ICAB) has begun at ICAB auditorium in the city on Friday. Dr. Atiur Rahman, governor of Bangladesh Bank, inaugurated the training course as the chief guest, says a press release. Jamal Uddin Ahmad, past president of ICAB and conducted the course ... Read more
Govt plans smart card for ultra-poor
The government has planned to introduce “smart card” for the ultra-poor to bolster its social safety net schemes and strengthen cooperation among ministries directly linked with such programmes. A meeting chaired by Cabinet Secretary A Abdul Aziz last month discussed in this regard and instructed the ministries and divisions concerned to work on it. The ... Read more