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
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Housing projects keep grabbing flood zones
Several hundred land development and housing projects continue to take over hundreds of acres of low-lying flood zone and farmland around the capital Dhaka jeopardising the ecosystem. In 2010, when the government prepared the Detailed Area Plan for 590 square miles of the capital city which specifies how the land should be used in the ... Read more
Dubiously innovative
Auto-parts thief picks his gang from jail, gets them out on bail, goes after cars A leader of auto-parts theft ring has been providing legal aid to detained criminals to have them released and join his gang. The ringleader, 40-year-old Billal Hossain, recruited at least 20 criminals, who had been detained earlier for theft, mugging ... 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
Buriganga second channel at stake
Unabated encroachment, waste dumping leave it in a near-death condition The second channel of the Buriganga, which flows through the southwestern part of the capital, is almost dead due to wholesale encroachment by public and private organisations and also dumping of waste. Also known as Buriganga Morarkhari, the channel was originally around six kilometres long. ... Read more
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
Andrew Kishore on patriotic songs
Eminent singer Andrew Kishore has recently released a patriotic song highlighting the spirit of the Language Movement of 1952. State owned Bangladesh Betar aired the song, titled Palash-er diney palash hoye, written by Rafiquzzaman and composed by Farid Ahmed, during its Amar Ekushey special broadcast, which was well received by the audience. In an interview ... 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
BASIS honours IT innovators
A platform for software and ICT developers, BASIS, yesterday awarded 31 companies, professionals and students for their innovations and extraordinary performances in their respective fields. Of the awards, 26 were given on the basis of competition and five were awarded in recognition of the winners’ contribution to software development and the ICT
Nation pays homage to language heroes
People in bare feet started streaming along the roads leading to the Central Shaheed Minar in Dhaka and monuments across the country a minute after midnight past Monday as the nation is paying homage to the martyrs of the language movement of 1952. As the clock struck one minute past midnight, people in their thousands ... Read more
Living gets tough
Inflation dwarfs wage growth All’s not well when it comes to cost of living and wages in the country. According to the data of Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics (BBS), due to high inflation the real wages of the working class people suddenly marked a sharp drop last fiscal year. As the inflation has exceeded 10 ... Read more
Aamra Technologies’ IPO approved
The Securities and Exchange Commission yesterday approved the initial public offering prospectus of Aamra Technologies Ltd (ATL) to raise Tk 51.77 crore from the public. The approval came at a meeting of the stockmarket regulator with SEC Chairman M Khairul Hossain in the chair. Using the fixed price method, ATL will float 2.15 crore ordinary ... Read more
InterContinental signs Ruposhi Bangla deal
InterContinental Hotels Group (IHG), a leading global hotel chain, yesterday signed an agreement to take over the operations and management of Ruposhi Bangla Hotel in Dhaka. Under the deal, the hotel will undergo extensive renovations in the next two years. It will then be handed over to IHG for a period of 30
Awards go to 10
Bangla Academy yesterday announced its literary award for 2011 in nine fields of literature. Dr Shamsuzzaman Khan, director general of the academy, named the 10 winners of Bangla Academy Sahitya Award 2011 at its premises. The awardees are Ashim Shaha and Kamal Chowdhury for poetry, Anisul Hoque for literature
Talent Unplugged
In conversation with Rizia Parvin Rizia Parvin is a popular name on the music scene, busy with both playbacks and modern music. She recently talked about her life and hectic schedule. Tell us about your latest album? Rizia Parvin: My last album was “Abar Hobe Toh Dekha”, featuring 12 songs by Manna Dey. I admire ... Read more
InterContinental agrees to take over Ruposhi Bangla
After a gap of 29 years, InterContinental Hotels Group (IHG), a leading global hotel chain, has agreed to take over the operations and management of Ruposhi Bangla Hotel in Dhaka, officials said yesterday. At a ceremony today, the UK-based hotel group will sign a deal with Bangladesh Services Ltd (BSL) that owns Ruposhi Bangla, one ... Read more
Shilpakala Academy Celebrates 38th Anniversary
Two-day programme begins today Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy–the premier cultural organisation of the country– celebrates its 38th founding anniversary this year. To practice and uphold local culture and to manifest and evaluate the artistes, the academy was established under the Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy Act 1974. Now the Academy is functioning under the Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy Ordinance ... Read more
Unchecked dumping in Gulshan lake
Despite the High Court’s (HC) directives, on January 25, 2011, to demarcate the city’s Gulshan Lake and remove all illegal structures from it within the next two months, rampant encroachment on the lake continues unabated in the area under the Banani-Gulshan Bridge II. Some unscrupulous people, in the dark of the night, had been dumping ... Read more