The government yesterday extended the date to deposit Hajj money including airfare and moallam fees until July 12 for both government and non-government managements. The decision was taken considering the benefit and in the wake of demands from Hajj agencies and of this year’s prospective Hajj pilgrims, says a press release of Ministry of
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3 tradeshows in city
Three international tradeshows — ‘BACE Expo 2011’, ‘Big Expo Bangladesh’ and ‘Elprotech Bangladesh’ — began on Wednesday at Bangabandhu International Conference Centre in the capital. The fifth edition of the four-day electrical products, raw materials and machinery trade show ‘Elprotech Bangladesh 2011’, supplementary power trade show ‘Big Expo Bangladesh’ and
Digital innovations on show
Schoolteachers even in the remote areas of the country now develop classroom contents for their students with the help of textbooks, websites and YouTube videos. Not only that, they also share the contents by signing up into blogs, said Md Mofakkharul Islam, a system analyst of the education ministry. He was giving a description of ... Read more
Catching up with Bappa Majumdar
Bappa Majumdar is a popular name in the music industry of the country. The son of noted classical singer couple ustad Barin Majumdar and Ila Majumdar, Bappa has attained popularity as a singer as well as a music composer. Bappa has a strong base in classical music since he attended a five-year course at Monihar ... Read more
Bengal Tigers, in Indigenous Avatar
Nazir Hossain’s solo exhibition at Bengal Shilpalaya A weeklong solo painting exhibition, titled “Pater Gaan Banglar Bagh”, is on at Bengal Gallery of Fine Arts, Dhanmondi, in the capital. Director General of Bangla Academy, Professor Shamsuzzaman Khan, inaugurated the exhibition on July 5. The exhibition features 62 works of self-taught artist Nazir Hossain. Craft researcher ... Read more
Abdin assaulted by hostile cops
BNP asks home minister to quit; Sahara regrets excesses; case filed against Abdin Opposition Chief Whip Zainul Abdin Farroque was assaulted by the law enforcers yesterday, the first day of the 48-hour countrywide hartal called by BNP-led four-party alliance. In a late night development, Sher-e-Bangla Nagar police filed a case against 10 to 12 people ... Read more
Only 12 drug units follow WHO rules
Only 12 allopathic drug manufacturing companies out of 261 are producing quality drugs by following the World Health Organisation’s good manufacturing practice (GMP) guidelines, according to the parliamentary standing committee of the Health and Family Welfare ministry. Also, 10 companies are producing quality drugs, albeit not following the WHO guideline, the committee pointed out. It ... Read more
High vegetable prices aggravate consumers’ suffering
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
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
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
Indian foreign minister due today
Indian external affairs minister SM Krishna arrives in Dhaka today (Wednesday) afternoon on a three-day official visit to review bilateral ties and prepare the ground for the visit of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, according to a press release by the Indian external affairs ministry. Krishna will be accompanied by a 12-member official delegation and a ... 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
Digital innovation fair begins tomorrow
The Digital Innovation Fair-2011 begins in the city on July 6 as part of government efforts to build a digital Bangladesh by 2021, reports BSS. Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina is expected to inaugurate the three-day digital fair as the chief guest at Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman Novo Theatre at
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
Shahin Samad enthralls audience at ‘Pran-er Khela’
Noted popular Nazrul artiste Shahin Samad performed at regular monthly arrangement of the Bengal Foundation, ‘Pran-er Khela’, at the Bengal Shilpalaya in the city recently. It was a month-long programme of the Foundation to mark the 112th birth anniversary of our national poet Kazi Nazrul Islam. In the musical soiree, Shahin Samad rendered some popular ... Read more
Kalim Sharafi’s ‘Bhora Thak Smriti Sudhai’
Bengal Foundation has released noted Tagore artiste late Kalim Sharafi’s only Tagore song-based album titled ‘Bhora Thak Smriti Sudhai’. A total of 16 tracks take place in the album. Titles of those tracks are: “Kannahashir-dol-dolano”, “Aguner poroshmoni”, “Ashrunodir sudur pane”, “Loho loho tule loho”, “Monmohon, gohon jaminisheshe”, “Bojre tomar baje banshi”, “Achhe duksho, ache mrittu”, ... 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