BSF shoots tangled teenager
January 8, 2011
Indian border forces have shot dead a teenaged girl tangled in barbed wire along the Kurigram border. The Indians then took away the girl’s body.
‘Felani’, 15, was shot dead by the Chowdhuryhaat camp Border Security Force at Anantapur around 6:30am on Friday, BDR’s Phulbari company commander Nayek Subeder Abdul Jabbar told reporters. Read more
PM to address nation 7:30pm
January 6, 2011
Prime minister Sheikh Hasina will address the nation on Thursday evening, marking the completion of the Awami League-led Grand Alliance government’s two years in office. Read more
Top civil society leaders react
January 5, 2011
Prof Muzaffer Ahmed, a top economist and former chairman of the trustee board of Transparency International, Bangladesh, has sharply reacted over the Grameen Bank controversy in selecting beneficiaries. Read more
Ramya Sarma Eat it and weep
January 2, 2011
It’s all about knowing your onions. And in India, where life is full of flavour, colour, spice and all things nice, onions are getting to be one of those essential aspects of everyday life that are getting more rare by the day. The other day, walking through the small market I generally get my vegetables from, I found that there were only two stalls there selling onions, where normally there would be about seven. Also, the wares that they did have on show were sub-standard, small, stunted, battered, rejects rather than the prize bulbs I would have chosen. ‘Sorry, the supply is like this, we have no choice,’ the vendor said, even as I reeled backwards at the price he cited – about four times what I usually paid for quality I would never look at.
Teachers demand execution of national edn policy
December 29, 2010
CHAPAINAWABGANJ, DEC 28: A large number of teachers from different government and non-government schools, colleges and madrasas of the district formed a human chain in Chapainawabganj town and gave memorandum to the Prime Minister demanding complete execution of the national education policy declared by the government. National Teachers Employees Front (NTEF) of the district unit arranged the programme on December 23. Read more
ICC Cricket World Cup 2011 How many tickets for the public?
December 29, 2010
Tickets for the ICC Cricket World Cup 2011 matches in Bangladesh go on sale across the country from January 1, but the Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) still could not give a proper breakdown of the tickets and tell how many of them will be available for the public. Read more
R yoU WaNt A Big NicE vOiCe ChAt RooM ?
December 24, 2010
RMG workers block highway over fellow’s death
August 18, 2010
Garment workers blocked the Dhaka-Mymensingh Highway for a half an hour following the death of a fellow worker in a road accident near Targachha in Gazipur Sadar Upazila Wednesday morning.
They also vandalised 7 to 8 vehicles protesting the killing, reports a correspondent from Gazipur.
50 hurt as police, RMG workers clash in N’ganj
June 1, 2010
At least 50 people, including 12 law enforcers, were injured in a clash between police and workers of a readymade garment at Kanchpur in Narayanganj Tuesday morning.
The clash ensued when the workers of SA Fashion & Apparels Limited put blockade on the Dhaka-Chittagong Highway and vandalised 10 to 12 vehicles and also set fire to a bus.
Workers halt granite extraction in Dinajpur
May 23, 2010
The production at Madhyapara Granite Mine Company Limited (MGMCL) in Dinajpur remains halted as its workers started an indefinite strike since Saturday midnight demanding job regularisation and arrears.
Meanwhile, the company authorities have offered talks with the demonstrators at about 3:00pm at its rest house. In reply, the leaders of the MGMCL miners union said they want to sit with the authorities at their workplace.