DSE marks rise
December 31, 2008
Staff Reporter
The Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) registered remarkable gains after a day of the national election as investors’ hoped that the peaceful election and its results would help boost the market.
The investors yesterday placed huge buying orders to get profit, pushing up the day’s turnover to Tk 4.31 billion on yesterday from Tk 2.9 billion on Sunday. After two and half month, the turnover crossed the US$ 4 billion since October 21 this year.
The prices of shares gone up across the board while 175 issues, out of the total 230 bought and sold Read more
Why the AL won and the BNP lost the election-2008
December 31, 2008
COMMENTARY
Why the AL won and the BNP lost the election-2008
Mahmud ur Rahman Choudhury
God forbid that I be considered pro or anti anyone. I have to start on this apologetic tone because things are so polarized in Bangladesh that people tend to see everything in black and white ignoring the shades in between and the other 5 bright colors of the rainbow but for my own sake and for the sake of my readers, I cannot remain blinkered and have to see things in Panasonic colors. This analysis of the crucial 2008 election is meant to throw up certain issues which both the political parties and the public need to be aware of, if our progress towards democracy is to remain unfettered Read more
Grand victory for grand alliance
December 30, 2008
People go for change in fair polls; voters turnout 70pc
Star Report
Hasina flashes V-sign after casting vote. Photo: STAR
The Awami League-led grand alliance has swept back to power after seven years out of office with a stunning landslide victory in Read more
Sex on beach Briton, Vince Acors, speaks out for first time
December 30, 2008
From Times Online
Sex on beach Briton, Vince Acors, speaks out for first time
Vince Acors admitted his foolishness today
Nico Hines
A British businessman today spoke out for the first time about his conviction for having sex on a beach in Dubai, saying that he had been “extremely naive” but claiming that the verdict against him was unjust.
Vince Acors and Michelle Palmer were caught embracing on Jumeirah beach six months ago. Mr Acors Read more
Australian snorkeller snatched by shark
December 29, 2008
• Shredded westuit found off Perth coast
• Son hears father’s screams
Ellen Connolly in Sydney, guardian.co.uk
Great white shark. Photograph: Amos Nachoum/Corbis
A snorkeller is believed to have been snatched by a shark as he swam last weekend with his son at a beach south of Perth. Witnesses reported seeing a dorsal fin and thrashing in the water before the sea turned red and the man vanished at the scene on Australia’s west coast.
Father-of three Brian Guest, 51, who had campaigned for many years for the protection of sharks, had been looking for crabs on yesterday morning with his 24-year-old son when he was attacked about Read more
Illegal graffiti ads dirtying city
December 29, 2008
Photo: STAR
Strange looking women in peculiar clothes have taken over most of the city’s roadside walls. Their grotesque and deformed postures annoy pedestrians.
Onlookers say this kind of particular advertisements is a torture to their eyes. “They look like aliens from mars,” remarked Shah Alam, a pedestrian in Badda.
The unpleasant looking wall advertisements from a private teaching institution stretching across Read more
Mindless Car Parking On in Gulshan
December 29, 2008
Photo: Tawfique Ali
Dhaka City Corporation (DCC) move to free the main thoroughfare in Gulshan from illegal car parking falls flat as vehicles are being parked right under the ‘no parking’ signs. The DCC recently leased out a number of lanes in the posh residential neighbourhood for commercial car parking on the plea that it Read more
Jubilant voters rush polling centres
December 29, 2008
BREAKING NEWS
Jubilant voters rush polling centres
Star Online Report
The capital city of Dhaka as elsewhere in the country wore a festive look today with tens of thousands walking down at polling centres to elect their representatives for the national parliament in the national election after seven long years.
Our correspondents who are visiting the polling centres found the voters standing in long queues to choose the representatives of their choice.
Some people however alleged that they could not cast votes as their names were not on the electoral Read more
Accept polls results: Hasina
December 29, 2008
BREAKING NEWS
Accept polls results: Hasina
Star Online Report
Awami League President Sheikh Hasina today hoped that the general election will be held peacefully and urged all to accept the election result whatever it will be.
She also flashed V-sign after casting her vote at Dhaka City College centre with her sister Sheikh Rehana at about 8:30am.
Talking to reporters emerging from voting booth, she expressed her hope that the Awami League-led Read more
Khaleda satisfied with election mood
December 29, 2008
BREAKING NEWS
Khaleda satisfied with election mood
Star Online Report
BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia said the today’s election is being held in a festive mood and hoped that the four-party alliance will win the election if it is held in a free, fair and neutral manner.
“We have said earlier that the BNP-led alliance will win the election with the mandate of people across the country,” Khaleda told reporters after casting her vote at Adamjee Cantonment School and College Read more
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