Bangladesh is keen to play a series against South Africa in May at home or away and has taken necessary initiatives to arrange the series, Bangladesh Cricket Board president AHM Mustafa Kamal told reporters on Saturday. The BCB has drafted a letter to South Africa, according to Kamal, with a proposal for a series
Month: April 2012
Hen lays ‘eggless’ chick!
A Sri Lanka hen has given birth to a chick without an egg, in a new twist on the age-old question of whether the chicken or the egg came first. Instead of passing out of the hen’s body and being incubated outside, the egg was incubated in the hen for 21 days and then hatched ... Read more
2.5b poor unbanked worldwide: WB report
Three quarters of the world’s poor, 2.5 billion in terms of number, do not have bank accounts, not only because of poverty but also because of the cost, travel distance and amount of paper work involved in opening one, according to a World Bank report. Those without access to formal banking often have to rely ... Read more
Dubai deports 88 Bangladeshis
Illegal Stay Dubai deports 88 Bangladeshis Dubai authorities yesterday sent 88 Bangladeshi expatriates back for working there “illegally”. They all landed at Chittagong Shah Amanat International Airport on a Fly Dubai plane at 8:30pm. The returnees who went to Dubai for work at different times had to serve jail sentences as they had fled from ... Read more
Swine flu patients improving
The health of all 31 swine flu infected students of Kurigram Nursing Training Institute has been gradually improving since they were first diagnosed with the disease on Tuesday. They were recovering after being treated with Oseltamivir, an anti-influenza drug, widely used worldwide for treating the highly infectious
Swine flu returns, stay cautioned
Swine flu or Influenza A (H1N1) has recently returned in Bangladesh. Experts urged to stay cautious and take preventive measures and seek treatment if anybody shows the signs and symptoms including fever, sore throat, cough, runny nose, headache, body-pain, difficulty in breathing, with general weakness, loss of appetite, diarrhoea or vomiting etc. The following tips will ... Read more
Save Sonadia, save Sundarbans
Sourav Mahmud Sonadia Island is one of the biodiversity hotspot of Bangladesh. In 1995, the Government of Bangladesh included a provision for the declaration of Ecologically Critical Area (ECA) in the Bangladesh Environment Conservation Act. Twelve sites are classified as ECAs and guidelines exist to control further damage to these areas. Sonadia is considered ecologically ... Read more
Ramsar Convention: Our obligation
Dr. M.A. Bashar It is learnt from newspapers very recently that in the Sundarbans area three large constructions will take place which are very dangerous and detrimental to normal functioning of the mangrove forest ecosystem. It means that the interactions between biotic and abiotic factors will be seriously hampered in the ecosystems conservation. The projects ... Read more
Jolie uses fame to fight humanitarian crises
Film star Angelina Jolie will use her powerful box office fame to draw wider attention to some of the world’s worst humanitarian disasters, the U.N. refugee agency said on Tuesday. Jolie, who has already served more than 10 years as goodwill ambassador for the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), is taking on a new ... Read more
“I am dating somebody and it’s a big secret,” Preity Zinta
Bollywood’s popular bubly actress Preity Zinta, who is known to wear her heart on her sleeve, got candid with media recently when she spoke about her relationship status and her love life. She revealed that she is dating someone and it’s a big secret! Everyone knows that after her split with business tycoon Ness Wadia, ... Read more
Star out of stardom
Abdul Matin Shah Rukh Khan, a Bollywood superstar, was detained at White Plains Airport in New York by US immigration for an hour and half when he arrived there in a private plane on April 12, 2012 to deliver a lecture at the Yale University where he was honoured as a Chubb Fellow. He was ... Read more
Swine flu returns
31 student nurses come down with deadly influenza in Kurigram SWINE FLU Symptoms: Acute cough, fever and occasional vomiting. Cautions: Refraining people from coughing, sneezing in public places and keeping apart the infected persons from other persons. Chronology: First broke out in 2009 claiming lives of eight people, resurfaced in
Looting was motive
Murder in Gulshan Looting was motive Driver admits upon arrest by Rab The Rapid Action Battalion yesterday arrested the driver, who allegedly stabbed his employer’s wife to death in her Gulshan home Tuesday, from the capital’s Kamrangirchar area. Driver Mintu Peyada, 40, of Salodh village under Nariya upazila in Shariatpur, was arrested with the knife ... Read more
Ex-DIG, wife jailed for stealing 7 kids
Former deputy inspector general of police Anisur Rahman and his wife Anwara Rahman were sentenced to rigorous imprisonment for life on charge of stealing seven children for trafficking. The Dhaka Women and Children Repression Prevention Tribunal 4 judge, Arifur Rahman, also fined each of the couple Tk 5 lakh, in default to serve one more ... Read more
HC assigns RAB to probe Sagar-Runi killings
The High Court on Wednesday directed the inspector general of the police to hand over the responsibility of investigation into the murder of journalist couple Sagar Sarowar and Meherun Runi from the Detective Branch to the Rapid Action Battalion. The bench of Justice AHM Shamsuddin Chowdhury and Justice Jahangir Hossain also
Sluggish exports dim growth prospects in Bangladesh: IMF
Bangladesh’s economic growth will slow down to 5.9 percent in the current fiscal year, largely due to falling exports and sluggish investment, the International Monetary Fund said on Tuesday. The growth in gross domestic product will, however, make a comeback in the upcoming fiscal year, expanding at 6.4 percent, the IMF
RanksTel set for a comeback
After remaining switched off for two years, RanksTel has taken steps to resume its operations soon, the private land phone operator said in a statement yesterday. The operator has already started the re-registration process of its more than three lakh customers, according to the statement. “We developed our network in the last six months to resume ... Read more
Nippon Express sets foot in Bangladesh
A new logistics service provider — Nippon Express Bangladesh Ltd — started operations here on Tuesday, the company said in a statement. The company, a joint venture initiative of Japan-based logistic giant Nippon Express Co and Bangladesh’s Golden Harvest Logistic Ltd, will provide tailor-made services for exporters and
Swipe cards reveal new era of BRTC transport
Revolutionising the country’s passenger transport, Bangladesh Road Transport Corporation (BRTC) launched the use of a swipe card ticketing system, similar to that of London’s Oyster card. Instead of queuing up for tickets at every BRTC bus counter, passengers can now use a smartcard to swipe a reader before boarding and getting off the
Key steps for keeping your voice healthy
World Voice Day Key steps for keeping your voice healthy Vocal health is critical to our communication-oriented society, but the voice does not receive public recognition and appreciation it deserves. In order to educate patients and communities about the ways to protect their precious voice and to refamiliarise ourselves with the latest advances in voice ... Read more