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Sunday, February 2, 2014

News from Bangla Desh-the Daily Star

  • BCL, cops attack RU students

    More than 100 hurt as students protest fee hike, demand cancellation of evening shift; university closed for indefinite period
    BCL, cops attack RU students
    Around 100 students of Rajshahi University and eight journalists were wounded yesterday, as armed Chhatra League men backed by police attacked the students protesting fee hikes and evening shift master's courses. The authorities last night closed the university for an indefinite period and ordered...

Jamalpur Jubo Dal leader dies

A union-level leader of Jubo Dal, youth wing of BNP,...

Grassroots ignore party directives

Disregarding Awami League chief Sheikh Hasina's directive on having one...

Nation headed in wrong direction

Sixty-nine percent of the respondents to a recent public opinion...

7 docs lose jobs for not staying in rural areas

Seven doctors were suspended from service yesterday...
Devotees pray for salvation
Lakhs of devotees sought world peace, forgiveness and blessings for mankind and the Muslim Ummah at Akheri Munajat of the second phase of Biswa Ijtema yesterday. Noted Islamic scholar Maulana Jubayerul Hassan from Delhi led the 13-minute munajat of the Ijtema starting from 9:58am. Meanwhile, the Ijtema authorities declared the schedule for next Biswa Ijtema after the concluding prayers. According to the schedule, the...
Padma bridge by 2018
The new government looks to complete by June the tender process and award contracts for three key components of the Padma bridge project -- construction of the bridge, river training and appointment of supervisory consultant. “We hope the contracts for the three components will be awarded by June,” Padma Bridge Project Director Shafiqul Islam told The Daily Star yesterday. The government move comes as its contract with the project's consultant, Maunsell Ltd AECOM, approaches expiry on June 24. Because of a three-year...
An angry Liaquat
Dhirendranath Dutta was unambiguous in his expression of views. And they were views certainly not appreciated by the West Pakistan-based political leadership of the country. They waited to pounce on him,...
Opposition protesters blocked voting at thousands of polling stations in Thailand yesterday, triggering angry scenes in the capital over an election that plunged the strife-racked kingdom into political limbo. Despite weeks of mass street demonstrations aimed at forcing her from office, Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra was widely expected to extend her billionaire family's decade-long winning streak...
SM Qaisar indicted
The International Crimes Tribunal-2 yesterday indicted Syed Mohammad Qaisar, a former state minister of the Ershad regime, on 16 charges of crimes against humanity and genocide committed in Habiganj and Brahmanbaria...
The High Court yesterday granted bail to BNP leaders Moudud Ahmed, MK Anwar and Rafiqul Islam Mia for three months in a case filed on charge of blasting bombs and holding unlawful assembly. The case was filed with Motijheel Police Station on May 6 last year following the incident of blasting bombs during the rally of Hefajat-e-Islam...

     Business

Stimulus drives RMG exports to new destinations
Garment exports to non-traditional markets advanced more than four times over the last six years following the government's incentive package in 2008 to offset the impact of the global financial crisis on the sector. The financial crisis started off in the US and then spread to the European Union—both of which happen to be the chief destinations of the country's garment exports. In a bid to offset any significant drop in garment export figures, the government in 2009 introduced a financial package to encourage garment manufacturers to explore new...

     Sports

Ready to make amends
Almost every aspect of Bangladesh's training yesterday, at the Zahur Ahmed Chowdhury Stadium in Chittagong, represented the hosts' desperate effort for a turnaround in the series.  From Mushfiqur Rahim grasping on to the induced-edges during catching practice and the likes of Imrul Kayes and Shamsur Rahman getting to bat ahead of Marshall Ayub at the nets, to breaking into a team huddle after every session, the hosts' did everything they...
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