Archive for February 6th, 2010
Saturday, February 6th, 2010Ministries of education, and primary and mass education have performed best in overall budget implementation in the first six months of the current fiscal year while the agriculture ministry is lagging far behind.The finance ministry recently reviewed the status of budget implementation by 10 big ministries and divisions, which received 41.5 percent allocation of the total budget layout. These ministries and divisions spent 35.3 percent of their total allocation in the first six months of FY 2009-10.This is the first time that the finance ministry has reviewed ministries' implementation of their budget allocation, which covers both Annual Development Programme (ADP) ...
(read more) Saturday, February 6th, 2010The government is introducing smart card, a tag with computer chip, for overseas jobseekers from tomorrow to ease the immigration process and help them more effectively while they are abroad.The card will contain all the information furnished in the passport, a jobseeker's fingerprints and the name and licence number of the recruiting agency so that the authorities can identify all the parties involved in the migration process and take prompt actions when needed."With a smart card a migrant will not have to fill up embarkation form at the airport. The form will be automatically furnished when the smart card is ...
(read more) Saturday, February 6th, 2010Another little girl was killed and an infant was severely injured in a hit and run road accident in the capital yesterday, just two days into the bus accident in the city that had killed kindergarten student Hamim Sheikh.A garment factory worker was also fatally run over by a minibus at Sonargaon Hotel roundabout in the city the same day.The deceased are Sumi Akhter, 7, son of Monjur Sarkar and Hasina Begum of Shaheenbag in Tejgaon, and Saiful Islam, 25, a boiler operator at a garment factory, Debunia Fashion, in Karwan Bazar.Sumi's mother Hasina Begum, 24, and 14 month-old brother ...
(read more) Saturday, February 6th, 2010BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia will go on a countrywide organisational tour in mid-March to have her party gearing up for an anti-government movement.Before that, central BNP leaders will have view-exchange meetings with the grassroots while visiting every district and upazila. Besides, six organising secretaries will seek to resolve internal conflicts in their divisions and submit reports.In the meantime, party lawmakers will seek to play a strong role in parliament. Speaking on some select issues, they will try to mobilise public opinion against the government.Earlier on Thursday, BNP, the main opposition in parliament, decided to return to the House.Talking ...
(read more) Saturday, February 6th, 2010The Indian Supreme Court yesterday restrained the French cement giant Lafarge from carrying out mining of limestone in Meghalaya for its cement plant in Bangladesh saying mining cannot be allowed in the eco-fragile area.The 255-million dollar Lafarge Surma Cement project at Chhatak, Sunamganj is wholly dependent on the limestones extracted from East Khasi Hills of Meghalaya. Limestone is transported from the Indian state to Bangladesh in a 17-km-long conveyor belt.A special forest bench headed by Chief Justice KG Balakrishnan stayed the mining activities on the basis of a Ministry of Environment and Forest (MoEF) report.The report reads the company ...
(read more) Saturday, February 6th, 2010The government plans to ensure security for the JMB operatives who are deserting the militant outfit and trying to return to normal life.The authorities have taken the matter seriously after the recent murder of Rashidul Islam, former JMB full-timer and student of Darul Ihsan University.On Monday morning, three men waylaid Rashidul in Uttara section-6 and knifed him to death. Rashidul's family and police said he was murdered for leaving Jama'atul Mujahideen Bangladesh.Talking to The Daily Star yesterday, Home Secretary Abdus Sobhan Sikder said they are considering giving protection to those who sincerely try to work a way out of militancy."We'll ...
(read more) Saturday, February 6th, 2010Bangladesh fired blank when it came to winning a gold on the eight day of the 11th South Asian Games yesterday.However the men's football team of the hosts went one step closer to ending a long gold drought after scoring a 1-0 win against India in the first semifinal at the Bangabandhu National Stadium. An 85th minute strike from substitute Tawhidul Alam Sabuz separated the two teams much to the delight of a strong 20,000 home crowd at the Big Bowl.Bangladesh will take on Afghanistan, who stunned Maldives 1-0 in the other semi, in the final billed for Monday.It was ...
(read more) Saturday, February 6th, 2010Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday said her government would take all the initiatives to bring back rest of the killers of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and execute the court verdict."Our government is quite sincere about executing the verdict in the Bangabandhu murder case for establishing the rule of law at levels of the society."Hasina, also the Awami League president, made the remarks while exchanging views with the leaders and workers of AL and its associated bodies after offering Munajat at the Mazar of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman here in the morning.Hasina visited Tungipara for the ...
(read more) Saturday, February 6th, 2010Dhaka Metropolitan Police Commissioner AKM Shahidul Hoque yesterday refuted the allegation that Dhaka University student Abubakar Siddique died after being struck by a teargas shell.Pro-BNP student body Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal yesterday called for a student strike at DU tomorrow protesting Siddique's death and pro-Awami League student body Bangladesh Chhatra League's "anarchy" at educational institutions across the country.The DMP commissioner, briefing reporters at his office yesterday, claimed that Siddique received severe injuries to his head during factional fight between Chhatra League men at Sir AF Rahman Hall, which led to his death. The solid object, which caused the injury, ...
(read more) Saturday, February 6th, 2010Watching cartoon films and Spider-Man show was Hamim's favourite pastimes; he would plead with his father for a car he had set his heart on to get to school; he would remain awake until late night for his father's return; all these are now only memories to his shell-shocked parents.Hamim was crushed to death under the wheels of a bus just in front of Willes Little Flower School as he was returning home from his school with his mother on Wednesday."Papa, would you buy me a car so that I can go to school by it?" Mohammad Motaleb quoted ...
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