Archive for February 9th, 2010
Tuesday, February 9th, 2010Car licence plates have become a symbol of utter disregard for law where plates are tampered with by using varying typefaces, and design their numbers violating the existing rules that strictly prohibit such practices.In the wake of increasing numbers of fatal street accidents and vehicle thefts, traffic police officers say altering the plates makes it difficult to make out the registration numbers. They are concerned that vehicles involved in crimes or hit-and-run cases can be difficult to trace."It has become a trend to have attractive number plates to go along with a new car where the designs, spacing and typefaces ...
(read more) Tuesday, February 9th, 2010The State of Kuwait is eager to provide all-out support for different development projects of Bangladesh and expand the bilateral trade between the two Muslim countries.The assurances came when Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina paid separate calls on Emir of Kuwait Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al Jaber Al Sabah and Kuwaiti Prime Minister Sheikh Nasser Al-Mohammed Al-Ahmed Al-Sabah here yesterday.During the meetings, the Emir and the PM of Kuwait greeted Hasina on her party's landslide victory and on her election as the prime minister of Bangladesh through the last general election held in a free, fair and peaceful manner.They expressed hope that ...
(read more) Tuesday, February 9th, 2010Kuwait has not yet paid the arrears of several hundred Bangladeshi workers who were arrested and deported following a protest there one and a half years ago against low wage and non-payment of salaries."The deported workers submitted their passports and legal documents of working in Kuwait. We have promised them to recover their arrears, but till date we did not receive the money from Kuwait," said an official of Bureau of Manpower Employment and Training (BMET).Many of the workers were hired for 50 Kuwaiti dinars per month, but later the contracts were changed. Their salary dropped at 40 dinars ...
(read more) Tuesday, February 9th, 2010With Open Market Sales (OMS) hardly stabilising rice prices, the government in yet another move yesterday decided to introduce fair price cards for 25 lakh ultra poor families across the country.Under the programme, families with no permanent income or land and not enlisted for any social safety net programmes would receive 20 kilogrammes of rice per month at Tk 22 a kg for three months, said Food and Disaster Management Minister Abdur Razzaque.He said the families maintained by women would have priority in obtaining the cards. Each family would be issued one card and the applicant member of the family ...
(read more) Tuesday, February 9th, 2010Bangladesh capped off their best-ever performance in the South Asian Games with a dream gold in football at the Bangabandhu National Stadium yesterday where the men's team thrashed Afghanistan 4-0 in the final much to the delight of a packed home crowd.Bangladesh scored twice in each half to make sure they end a decade of gold-drought in the most prestigious event of the regional sporting carnival since their first triumph in the 1999 Katmandu Games.It may be the most one-sided final in the 26-year history of the Games, but the victory of the booters will definitely relieve the pain of ...
(read more) Tuesday, February 9th, 2010Several hundred demonstrating garment workers yesterday suspended vehicular movement for four hours on Dhaka-Mymensingh Highway in Tongi, Gazipur.Meanwhile, in another incident in Ashulia cadres allegedly of the ruling party attacked garment factory Crystal Composite Ltd and vandalised its machinery, windowpanes and injured at least 30 people, including the factory owners. The factory was allegedly attacked over a feud regarding the business of garment waste. Three people were arrested.In Tongi, hundreds of vehicles plying 35 routs to and from Dhaka remained stranded due to the agitation of the garment workers causing untold sufferings to thousands of people.Workers of Six H ...
(read more) Tuesday, February 9th, 2010The autopsy of a body could not be performed even after two days at Faridpur Medical College Hospital as no doctor was available for the job.The relatives of the deceased hailing from College Para of Bhanga upazila of the district passed last two days with the body at the morgue.Feroz Hossain, brother of deceased, is still waiting at the morgue. Hossain told this correspondent yesterday that his brother Karim Hossain, 45, committed suicide, on Sunday noon, taking poison following a family feud.Police brought the body to the morgue on the same day but no doctors came to morgue ...
(read more) Tuesday, February 9th, 2010Secretaries of the government at a meeting yesterday decided to work in a coordinated way to speed up the administrative activities for fully implementation of its development programmes.The meeting, held at the cabinet division of the Secretariat, decided to prepare a detail work plan to fulfil targets set by the government in food, energy, healthcare, information technology and education sectors.“Secretaries of different ministries and divisions decided to visit districts regularly for supervising and monitoring activities of the field administration,” Home Secretary Abdus Sobhan Sikder told The Daily Star last night.Apart from a comprehensive work plan, individual ministry will also ...
(read more) Tuesday, February 9th, 2010The monthly pay order (MPO) facility would be provided to the non-government educational institutions on the basis of performance index not on political consideration, said Education Minister Nurul Islam Nahid yesterday."A bad practice of giving political consideration has been developed under this process…but we will maintain transparency in bringing the institutions under the MPO," he told the journalists at a press conference of the ministry.The minister said it would not be possible to bring all educational institutions, which are waiting to be placed under government's payroll, under the MPO using a limited allocation of Tk 112 crore as the number ...
(read more) Tuesday, February 9th, 2010Pointing to a staggering lack of coordination within the party, leaders of Barisal district, city and upazila units Awami League and its associated bodies yesterday demanded formation of new committees at the grassroots tiers.They alleged that the party activities have come to a standstill since AL-led government came to power in January last year.While addressing the party's extended meeting here at the Circuit House conference room, the leaders also demanded punishment of the BNP-Jamaat men who tortured the AL activists during the four party-led government's rule between 2001 and 2006.Awami League's move to strengthen the party's activities, resolve ...
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