Professor Ahsan tells New Age ROAD safety remains a neglected issue during all governments, irrespective of their political identity, Professor Hasib Mohammed Ahsan, director of Accident Research Institute under Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology, said Tuesday. ‘The situation has become very bad and is getting worse, day by day. There is hardly any enforcement
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Fahmida Nabi and Subir Nandi to release their first duet album
Seasoned artistes Subir Nandi and Fahmida Nabi are releasing a duet album for the first time. Fahmida sang a duet “Ami Kantar Bhuboney” with Subir for a feature film, “Ferari Bashanta”, 28 years ago. Although Fahmida had occasionally performed with Subir, this is the first time they are working on a duet album. Eight songs ... Read more
Folk singers don’t get due respect: Malay Kumar
Folk music is considered a golden treasure in Bangladesh, but it is the irony that the folk singers never get due recognition, which is growing apathy to many leading folk artistes, observe renowned folk singer Malay Kumar Ganguly, who is not interested to continue his musical career these days. According to him folk singers are ... Read more
Romana’s winning streak
Modelling or acting — whatever the medium, Romana has struck home runs on all fields. Her winning streak surfaced when she entered the celluloid world with Tauquir Ahmed’s “Jaijatra”; although her mainstream film début was much later in P.A. Kajol’s “Ek Takar Bou”. Romana’s confidence received a major boost with her mainstream inauguration — encouraging ... Read more
A milestone for Amar Chhobi
“Amar Chobi” is a weekly show on Channel i that focuses on the Bangladeshi film industry. The show will air its 550th episode today (July 20) at 4pm. The programme features discussions on the lives, works and careers of noted film personalities of the country. The show began its journey on 2nd January, 2000. The ... Read more
Autism confce begins July 25
The world’s renowned personalities will gather in Dhaka on July 25 to participate in a two-day regional conference to raise awareness on autism. Titled “Autism spectrum disorders and developmental disabilities in Bangladesh and South Asia”, the conference will be organised jointly by the Centre for Neurodevelopment and Autism in Children
Traders raise gold price to nearly Tk 50,000 a vori
Local traders on Tuesday increased the price of gold by about Tk 1,166 per vori (11.66 gram) to around Tk 49,555 following the continued rise of prices on the global market. The price of 22-carat gold, which stood at around Tk 48,389 in May this year, has seen 2.41 per cent rise over the last ... Read more
Birthday in tears
His sister bought two new T-shirts and was planning to order a cake for his 19th birthday. The family made all the preparations to give him a big surprise. But the home that was supposed to have a birthday party turned into a home of mourning yesterday. Tipu Sultan, one of the six students beaten ... Read more
Lone survivor gets bail in ‘robbery’ case
Al Amin, the lone survivor of the mob attack that left six students dead in Bardeshi village of Aminbazar early Monday, was sent to jail yesterday in connection with a robbery case and was later released on bail. Earlier on the day, police produced him before a court, showing him arrested in the case filed ... Read more
Extra-judicial killings led to mob violence
Says HR commission chief The recent rise in mob-violence including the one that killed six students on Monday is the direct social impact of continuous extrajudicial killings, said National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) Chairman Prof Mizanur Rahman. “That is why we have been saying that you cannot continue extra-judicial killing,” Rahman said
Govt asked to run mobile courts to check prices
The High Court on Tuesday asked the government to run adequate number of mobile courts in Dhaka and Chittagong metropolitan areas to contain soaring prices in Ramadan, likely to begin on August 2. The bench of Justice AHM Shamsuddin Chowdhury and Justice Gobinda Chandra Tagore also asked the secretaries to the commerce and food ministries ... Read more
Risky construction goes unwatched
Police, Rajuk say no arrangement in place for monitoring There are visibly no authorities in the construction sector to enforce rules preventing occupational hazards, although several hundred people die in and around building sites every year. Had the authorities concerned compelled the owner of 15-storey under-construction Sagupta De Khan to take safety measures, HSC examinee ... Read more
RanksTel set to resume service
Private landline operator RanksTel won back approval from the telecom regulator on Sunday to resume operations after a 16-month shutdown. A team of Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission restored RanksTel’s licence and spectrum, after the operator withdrew the case it filed against the
MA Awal becomes Sonargaon Hotel director
Pan Pacific Sonargaon Dhaka promoted MA Awal to the position of director of sales and marketing from July 1. Awal, with his new position and responsibilities, became a member of the executive committee of the hotel whose role is to establish and set the trend, policies and procedures under the guidance of the general manager ... Read more
Office hours during Ramadan
Staff Correspondent Office hours during the month of Ramadan will be from 9:00am to 3:30pm for government, semi-government, and autonomous and semi-autonomous organisations. A proposal in this regard will be placed in the cabinet at its regular weekly meeting today at Bangladesh Secretariat. Prime Minister (PM) Sheikh Hasina will chair the
6 beaten to death
Villagers in Aminbazar, police claim them to be robbers; they found to be fun-loving students; families barricade roads Six students were killed after hundreds of villagers in Amin Bazar on the city’s outskirts swooped on them with sticks and sharp weapons early yesterday on the night of Shab-e-Barat. The reason behind the attack, which also ... Read more
Students they were
They all were students, “not robbers”. Shams Rahim Shamam, 17, an A-level student of Maple Leaf International School, was one of the six students who were beaten to death by a mob in Amin Bazar early yesterday. The other five victims are Ibrahim Khalil, 20, Towhidur Rahman Palash, 22, and Kamruzzaman
If population 14cr, food in surplus
Agriculture minister terms latest census find unrealistic The preliminary findings of the latest census that put the country’s population at 142.3 million do not correspond with the current figures of domestic demand for food, its production and import. “Had the population been 142.3 million, we should have been sitting on sacks full of food grains ... Read more
Metro rail project hits a snag because of clearance problem
JICA wants all procedure to be completed by next month The communications ministry is facing an uphill task to make progress in the proposed metro rail as the air force again refused to give clearance for the mega transport project worth US$ 1.7 billion. Officials of the ministry said the air force under the ministry ... Read more
A den where police ‘back’ criminals
Keblarchar in Aminbazar, where six students were beaten to death by a mob yesterday, is a major drug den controlled by criminals allegedly under the shelter of law enforcers. Locals say the area is also infamous for illegal sand trading run by criminal gangs in collaboration with some members of law enforcers and unscrupulous people ... Read more