Archive for April 5th, 2008
Saturday, April 5th, 2008With a staggering 137-day official holiday besides temporary closure due to natural calamities, Bangladesh schoolchildren get minimum time a year for academic activities among the Saarc nations.Educational institutions, especially the government primary and high schools, officially remain open for only 228 days every year to cover class activities, examinations and other programmes.Students of these schools get per week less than 30 hours to interact with teachers, much lower than that of India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, the Maldives, Nepal, Bhutan and Afghanistan, sources in the education ministry say.Even Pakistani students, who are the second lowest, get 35 hours every week, the ...
(read more) Saturday, April 5th, 2008Ailing Awami League (AL) General Secretary Abdul Jalil's health condition deteriorated further at Mount Elizabeth Hospital in Singapore where the detained leader, now on parole, is under treatment for heart and kidney problems.And detained AL President Sheikh Hasina will be brought to the city's Square Hospital again at 8:00 am today for further eye check-up , sources said.The former prime minister is being brought back to the hospital amid efforts to send her to US for better treatment.“God knows what will happen to Abdul Jalil as he has been suffering again from accumulation of fluid in his lungs and ...
(read more) Saturday, April 5th, 2008Most of the high-profile detainees are suffering from multiple health problems.Out of over 110 such detainees, more than 60 have multiple diseases and 10 of them are now undergoing treatment at Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University (BSMMU), BIRDEM Hospital and Square Hospital in Dhaka, and Mount Elizabeth Hospital in Singapore, jail sources said.Many of the VIP detainees have been suffering from diabetes, hypertension and high blood pressure, four have piles, one has hydrocele while the others have heart, backbone, kidney, eye, ear, tooth and nose problems, sources added.The regular prisoners in the meanwhile are being deprived of proper medical attention ...
(read more) Saturday, April 5th, 2008Khandaker Delwar Hossain, BNP secretary general appointed by Chairperson Khaleda Zia, yesterday said the chief election commissioner (CEC) would be held responsible for any delay in holding the national election.He said it was the poll chief who had left the 'mainstream BNP' out of the Election Commission's (EC) dialogue with the political parties on electoral reforms, leading to a stalemate.“He [CEC] has lost his neutrality. Nobody believes him,” he added.Delwar made the observations, talking to reporters at his Nam flat yesterday morning. Earlier on Thursday night, he returned home after spending about a month in the US and Singapore for ...
(read more) Saturday, April 5th, 2008The government is mulling bringing manpower brokers under a legal framework and devise a mechanism for recruiting agencies to realise service charges from oversees job seekers based on their wages to reduce cost of going abroad for employment.Brokers in manpower exporting and importing countries gobble up a substantial share of the money that the job seekers spend for overseas employment. The evil practice eventually raises the cost of migration, which in many cases the workers cannot retrieve from their wages during the job period.This happens mainly in cases of unskilled workers, who constitute 50 to 60 percent of the migrant ...
(read more) Saturday, April 5th, 2008Pro-Awami League teachers of Dhaka University (DU) yesterday decided not to boycott the upcoming convocation to show respect for the language movement veterans invited to receive honorary degree from the university.The decision announced at a press conference at the Duta Club followed confusion among the teachers whether to attend the convocation on April 7 or opt out like last year to protest President Iajuddin Ahmed's presence.Leaders of the blue panel, a grouping of pro-AL teachers, criticised the president for not having made any attempt at securing the release of DU teachers and students who had been detained in connection with ...
(read more) Saturday, April 5th, 2008Several monuments in Rajshahi's Puthia upazila under the care of the archaeology department are threatened with extinction for high soil salinity and lack of standard maintenance due to fund constraints.Some important monuments like the Pancha Mandop and the Singhadar are already in ruins, due to the indiscretion of some locals, according to the department's documents.The establishment of Puthia Degree College is threatening the Chhoto Annik Temple and Pancha Ratna Gobinda Temple as they are part of the college campus, becoming hangouts for students.Shafiqul Alam, a director of the archaeology department, said several letters have been sent to the ...
(read more) Saturday, April 5th, 2008At least seven people were killed and 24 others injured as nor'wester swept through different parts of the country yesterday and Thursday night.Besides, crops on vast tracts of land were also damaged.Meanwhile, deep convection is taking place over the North Bay and squally weather may affect the maritime ports of Chittagong, Cox's Bazar and Mongla, reported news agency UNB.Maritime ports of Chittagong, Cox's Bazar and Mongla have been advised to hoist local cautionary signal no-3 (R), said a Met office bulletin at 2:00pm yesterday.All fishing boats and trawlers in North Bay have been advised to remain close to the ...
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