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Ban on rice export: Farmers may be deprived of competitive price Pulack Ghatack
Rice exporters have expressed frustration, as the government has re-imposed ban on exports of all kinds of rice for six months, just weeks after an earlier export ban had expired.
Economists are also suggesting review of the government decision, as it will act as a disincentive to the growers and also squeeze the small export basket of the country.
"We have created a market of Bangladeshi aromatic rice in the global arena, which will be destroyed with the government decision," said agriculturist Md Abdus Salam, a leading rice exporter of the country.  |
Home Economics students demand DU recognition
DU Correspondent
Female students of Home Economics College (HEC) yesterday threatened to launch strict movement if their demands including recognition of their college as an institution of Dhaka University (DU) were not met.
Addressing a press conference at the Dhaka University Journalists
Association office the agitated students of HEC urged the concern authority to accept their demands.
Earlier, they submitted a memorandum to the Vice-Chancellor of Dhaka University to fulfill their demands. |
Portfolios of Indian ministers allocated : Pranab given Finance, SM Krishna Foreign Affairs AFP, New Delhi
Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh distributed key cabinet portfolios on Saturday after the Congress party's resounding victory in national elections.
Singh named outgoing foreign minister Pranab Mukherjee, 73, regarded as one of India's canniest politicians, to the finance ministry to steer the revival of the economy which has slowed as a result of the global financial crisis.
Singh brought in a new face to the cabinet as external affairs minister-Somanahalli Mallaiah Krishna, 77, a former chief minister of southern Karnataka state and party veteran to guide India's foreign policy during a period of heightened tensions with neighbouring Pakistan. |
Climate change impact - 4 : Fishing grounds change, production falls, species disappear
Rafiqul Islam Azad
Experts, businessmen, fishermen and fish workers based on their experience said the fishing zones and fish production in the coastal area are declining gradually over the years.
They attribute it to sea level rise, increase of salinity at coastal belt, frequent cyclone and change in the oceanic current pattern.
Decline in the export of dry fish is also indicative of sharp downward trend of fish production in the Bay.
Surprisingly, the Fisheries Department record showed that fish production is on the rise since 1997. |
One killed, 50 injured in AL factional clashes in Jhenidah UNB, Jhenidah
Separate factional clashes of the ruling Awami League in the district yesterday left a man dead, 50 others injured and 35 houses vandalized.
Police said Hafizul Islam, a sexagenarian man, was killed and 30 others were injured in a fierce clash between two groups of AL supporters at Dhaura village in Shailakupa upazila over establishing supremacy at the village.
Villagers said Dhalahara union unit AL president and its secretary Motiur Rahman had been in a conflict since the AL came to power. |
Govt to enquire if Siemens bribe reached JMB
Staff Reporter
The government will constitute a probe committee soon to investigate if the bribe money paid by German industrial giant Siemens was diverted to fund banned Islamist outfit Jama'atul Mujahideen Bangladesh.
Raziuddin Ahmed Razu minister for telecommunication told reporters here yesterday that the committee would be formed in a week to investigate irregularities in the telecoms sector during the 2001-2006 BNP-led coalition government.
He spoke to reporters after attending a discussion organized to mark World Telecommunication Day and award-giving ceremony organised by Bangladesh Mobile Phone Business Association at Sonargaon Hotel. |
Sudhin Das getting lifetime achievement award
Sheikh Arif Bulbon
To mark the 110th birth anniversary of the national and rebel poet Kazi Nazrul Islam, a day-long fair titled 'Nazrul Mela' will be held at the Channel i Tejgaon office in the city on May 25, Jaisthya 11.
This year veteran Nazrul singer Sudhin Das will get lifetime achievement award for his outstanding contribution in the field of Nazrul Sangeet.
Sudhin Das will receive the award in 'Nazrul Mela' on May 25. From that day he will get Tk 10,000 each month and Japan-Bangladesh Friendship Hospital will give him treatment facilities till his death. |
Computer lab opens in city
UNB, Dhaka
A computer lab designed to impart computer literacy to the people especially students at affordable costs was inaugurated at the Journalist Residential Area School premises in city's Mirpur area yesterday.
The computer lab is designed to benefit especially the students of five elementary and secondary schools and a women's colleges located in this vicinity in the area.
Pakistani High Commissioner in Dhaka Alamgir Babar, on behalf of his country, has gifted computers with accessories for the lab at a function. |
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Internet Edition. May 24, 2009, Updated: Bangladesh Time 12:00 AM 
