Increasing Child Rape Incidents Concern vented A total of 90 children were raped and 201 murdered in the country in 2012, according to a child rights organisation. Besides, 49 children committed suicide after facing sexual harassment, 15 were victims of acid attacks and 59 were kidnapped in January-December 2012. Bangladesh Shishu Adhikar Forum released the statistics ... Read more
Month: January 2013
Shaheed Asad Day observed
Marking the 44th death anniversary of Dhaka University student leader Md Asaduzzaman who sacrificed his life during the 1969 mass upsurge, different organisations yesterday observed the Shaheed Asad Day. Bangabandhu Sangskritik Jote, Bangladesh Jatiya Chhatra Dal, Bangladesher Samajtantrik Dal, Jatiya Gonotantrik League, National Awami Party (NAP-Bhasani), also placed wreaths at Asad
Written test results of primary head teachers published
The results of written test for the post of head teacher in government primary schools were published yesterday with a total of 7,209 candidates coming out successful. Directorate of Primary Education (DPE) published the district-wise results on its
Razzaq gets lifetime achievement award
National Film Award 2011 Razzaq gets lifetime achievement award For his enormous contribution to the film industry, Abdur Razzaq widely known as Nayak Raj Razzaq (king of heroes) has been honoured with the lifetime achievement award. His name was announced along with the winners of other categories of the National Film Award 2011 through a ... Read more
The recognition will take me ahead: Joya Ahsan
National Film Award 2011 The recognition will take me ahead: Joya Ahsan Popular model turned actress Joya Ahsan has won the National Film Award-2011 for her lively performance in a challenging role in the war of independence based film Guerilla. It is her first national recognition as an actress. In an interview with New Age ... Read more
Children film festival begins across the country
The sixth edition of the International Children Film Festival organised by Bangladesh Children Film Society in association with UNICEF was inaugurated on Saturday simultaneously at 22 venues in six divisional towns in the country. With the slogan, ‘Future in Frame’, the festival features 200 films, created by children filmmakers from forty two counties will be ... Read more
Salman Khan, the philanthropist
Following the footsteps of other Bollywood stars into the business of food joint chains, actor Salman Khan is planning to open restaurants and hospitals but insists it is not all for business but for a noble cause. “We will start restaurants in metros first…We will open first in Mumbai and Pune and so on. Profits ... Read more
Burners burn Royal Bengals
Khulna Royal Bengals added four new players to their line-up but could not change their fortune as Barisal Burners handed them their second defeat in the Bangladesh Premier League at Mirpur on Sunday. Brad Hodge returned to lead the Barisal side after his Big Bash duty with Melbourne Stars and made an instant impact scoring ... Read more
T20 success revives Hodge hopes
Successes in Twenty20 competitions have inspired Australia’s Brad Hodge to make a bid to win back his place in the Australia Test squad for the upcoming Ashes series. Hodge is one of the very few cricketers to have scored runs consistently in domestic cricket but never won the heart of the selectors, who had cut ... Read more
Chigumbura scripts Royals win
Elton Chigumbura and Nazmul Hossain Milon turned the corner to help Sylhet Royals post a four-wicket comeback win over Duronto Rajshahi in their second Bangladesh Premier League match on Sunday. Replying to Duronto’s modest 147-8, Royals looked down and out when they had lost six wickets for 80 runs before Chigumbura joined Nazmul to stun ... Read more
Muktijoddha-Abahani match ends in stalemate
Hosts Muktijoddha Sangsad Krira Chakra held defending champions Abahani Limited to a goalless draw in the Bangladesh Premier League at the Gopalganj stadium on Sunday as the reigning champions finished their first-leg affair in third place in the league table. Last season’s runners-up Muktijoddha could not form the best side of the competition,
Bangladesh beat Pakistan in SA Basketball
Bangladesh made a big step towards their first South Asian Basketball Championship title after they beat a strong Pakistan side by 77-68 points in their third game of the five-nation competition at the Dhanmondi Basketball Gymnasium on Sunday. Bangladesh, who won all of their three games in the competition including a 89-44 victory
Niaz regains Chennai lead
GM Niaz Murshed regained the lead with 6.5 points, along with 8 other players, at the end of the 8th round of the Chennai Super Kings 5th Interna-tional Grandmasters Chess Tournament in India yesterday. Another Bangladeshi GM Ziaur Rahman was in joint second position with 6 points. In the 8th round, Niaz beat IM Rahul ... Read more
Rowdy Shanto
Nazmul Hassan Shanto continued his purple patch and scored an unbeaten 217 not out as Rajshahi declared their first innings on 334 for five against Sylhet in their second round match of the Young Tigers U-18 National Cricket Competition at the Cricket Garden in Rangpur yesterday. Shanto had earlier scored 185 against BKSP in the ... Read more
Decision unlikely by Jan
Outgoing WB country chief says govt free to go for alternative Padma funding; feels proud of anti-graft role World Bank Country Director Ellen Goldstein yesterday said she is unsure whether the bank’s decision on the financing of the Padma bridge project would come in a month. She also said the Bangladesh government is free to ... Read more
Minor girl found dead in city
Neighbours block road in protest The decomposed body of a minor girl was found in a toilet of a commercial building at Topkhana Road in the capital Saturday noon. Police arrested three people in this connection. Claiming that the victim was raped and later killed, neighbours and family members
Ijtema ends today
The second phase of Biswa Ijtema, the second largest congregation of Muslims after hajj, concludes today with thousands of devotees expected to participate in the final supplication, Akheri Munajat, on the banks of Turag river in Tongi. The second phase passed its second day yesterday with tens of thousands of devotees from
Prince passing lonely days
It has been more than two weeks since the male blue-gold-macaw was separated from his family–the female partner and six chicks. Hopefully his lonely days are coming to an end soon. Md Ikram Selim, owner of the male macaw named Prince, announced yesterday that he would bring him a new partner from Singapore
English teaching trade kills learning
Say academics The “business” of English Language Teaching (ELT) is “killing” the learning of English in Bangladesh, said eminent academics at a conference in the capital yesterday. Popularity of ELT in the country has enabled some teachers and experts to profit from it, while the move away from teaching grammar and English literature
Holidaymakers swarm in Rajshahi computer fair
The crowd at the Bangladesh Computer Samity Digital Expo-2013 in the Rajshahi city peaked on Friday and Saturday. A huge number of visitors, especially students, rushed to the fair venue to have an idea of the latest developments in computer. Subrata Das, lecturer at a private college in the city, who was roaming the fair venue