Friday 23-12-2011

1.Retail power prices go up :-Staff Correspondent The Bangladesh Energy Regulatory Commission on Thursday increased retail power prices by 20.67 percent on an avetage for consumers in two phases.
  2.President opens dialogue :- Ershad wants search committee , Inu for nomination committee to choose new EC Moloy Saha Jatiya Party(Ershad) chief retired Lieutenant General HM Ershead on Thursday requested.
  3.Jute price fall affects farmers, traders:- Tapos Kanti Das The fall in jute prices over the last few months is affecting farmers and traders who had stocked jute in the hope that.
  4.Cold wave continues:-Ultra poor without warm clothes get the bite of chill Tapos Kanti Das Thousands of ultra-poor people who did not have adequate warms clothes suffered the bite.
  5. BNP finds president's dialogue objective unclear:- Staff correspondent The opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party on Thursday said that the objective of the president's initiative for dialogues with political parties was unclear . It said that.
   6.Sayedee's trial for war crimes:- 4th prosecution withness crossexamined Staff Correspondent The fourth prosecution withness, 60 year old Sultan Ahmed How lader, admitted on Thursday before the International Crimes Tribunal that his name was.
   7.Blasts kill 57 as Iraq mired in political crisis:- Agence France Presse Baghdad A wave of attacks in Baghdad Thursday killed 57 people as Iraq faced a political crisis, with its vice president accused of.
   8.Pak army wants Zardari to go:- Reuters , Islamabad Pakistan's powerful army is fed up with unpopular president Asif Ali Zardari and wants him out of office, but through legal means .
   9.A third of South Asians made to pay bribes:- Agence France-presse, Kathmandu More than one in three south Asians say thay were forced to bribe officials in the last year, mainly for services.
   10.No conspiracy can foil war crimes trial PM:- United News of Bangladesh Dhaka The prime minister, Sheikh Hasina, has urged all to remain alert-people activities in the country.
   11.BNP announces demos for Dec 24,26 :- Staff Correspondent The opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party on Thursday announced fresh programmes including demonstrations across the country on December 24 and 26 to protest against continued.
   12.EC planning to make EVMs available for 2014 polls:- Taib Ahmed T.he Election Commission is busy making a plan for outsourcing more than three lakh electronic voting machines  two years to keep .
   13.BSMMU doctors, staff fired I year ago demand reinstatement:- Staff Correspondent The teachers, physisicians , and staff of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University sacked one year ago held a human chain in front of the National.
  

21-12-2011

1.Growing violation of rights worries activists.
2.Pakistan on top despite Sakib's heroics.
3.Pakistan asked to repatriate citizens stranded in Bangladesh.
4.JS probe wants end to DGFI interference in politics, TFI ,JIC.
5. Six killed as truck skids off road in Meherpur.
6.Sayedee involved in crimes in 1971: witness.
7.India regrets, but blames Bangladesh nationals for border deaths.
8.CEC expects no positive results from president's dialogue.
9.ICT defers hearing on New Age article.
10.BNP finalises route, schedule.
11. Police foil protest rally of N'ganj BNP.
12.Govt to match BNP measure for measure.
13.BNP blames govt for fabricating fiction.
14.Kim's body on show in N Korea amid mass.
15.ICT asks prosecution to concentrate on trial.
16.BGB, BSF to share real intel.

Interest on savings certificates

      It is learnt from the report of a national Bangla daily that the sale of savings certificates has come down recently. To increase the sale, the Bureau of National. Savings has sent a proposal to the finance ministry to re-fix annual interest at 11.50 per cent against three years savings certificates and 12 percent against five years saving certificates.
     The situation has developed as commercial banks are providing 12 percent interest for one year fixed deposits. The sale of savings certificates, which has gone down will not increase significantly even the proposal is accepted by the ministry. People are conscious nowadays. The proposed increase is less than the prevailing interest given by commercial banks. The government has to offer at least equal interest rates, if not higher, to increase the sale of government savings tools.

19th December 2011

1.2 killed as violence erupts in Dhaka, elsewhere.
2.President to begin talks with parties.
3.Govt committing secret killings: Khaleda.
4.Violence can't save war criminals:PM.
5.Sakib puts Tigers in command.
6.Last US troops leave Iraq, ending war.
7.Dhaka lodges protest with Delhi.
8.Indian civilians kill Bangladeshi on Jaintapur border.
9.Sahara says Khaleda orchestrating violence.
10.Appointment of administrators to dist councils challenged.
11.Charges placed against Quader Molla.
12.Cold wave hits the poor hard.
13.Battle for Philippine flood rescuers as bodies rot.
14.200 feared dead as migrant boat sinks in Indonesia.
15.Russian rig sinks, more than 50 feared dead.
16.Govt violates constitution by appointing administrators for local badies, says Ivy.
17.Tiger Kills fisherman.

18th December 2011

1.BSF kills 4 Bangladeshis in 48 hours.
2.'Undemocratic' decision irks al allies.
3.Muggers kill 2 SUST students in river.
4. 4 more secret killings in 3 dostricts.
5.Sakib, Shahriar lift Tigers.
6.440 dead in Philippines storm floods.
7.Anu asks govt to justify further power price hike.
8.Victory Day celebrated.
9.60 injured in clashes over Victory Day programmes.
10.Fresh clashes rock Cairo after nine killed.

Lgnorant about mother tongue

         On November 19, at a formal meeting of an Inner Wheel Club, an NCO, an old lady (said to be retired professor) rose on a point of order only to demonstrate her total ignorance of English language. She stated forcefully that she had never heard of world 'mother tongue' in her life.This was written in the body of an English language report of the organization.She said that it is a totally wrong word, and the correct word is 'mother language'. In contrast , the rather less knowledge 'Cambridge Advanced Learners Dictionary - Third Edition,2008 ' states as follows: mother tongue :(noun) which means 'the first language that you learn as a baby.' This shows that 'little knowledge is dangerous' as so vehemently demonstrated by the learned (?) retired professor. Further; to boot , she manages the 'free school' for needy children of a local voluntary body in Gulshan . It is such mindless ignorance; even by learned professors; that undermines our capability in English language; the greatest literary weakness for us in Bangladesh. I wanted to point out her mistake in the meeting; but as it was a lady 's gathering ; and I was a guest , I refrained.

17th december "2011"

1.61 administrators for dist councils named.
2.Two missing BNP men found dead.
3.$1B IMF deal looks uncertain .
4.Objectives of independence remain elusive.
5.Govt. behind mystery killings:BNP.
6.BNP calls day -long hartal in Jessore for tomorrow.
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16th December "2011"

1.61 Administrators for dist councils named.
2.Two missing BNP men found dead.
3.$ 1b IMF deal looks uncertain.
4.Objectives of independence remain elusive.
5.Govt. behind mystery killings:BNP.
6.BNP call day-long Hartal in Jessore for tomorrow.
7.Buriganga bridge blocked over toll collection.
8.Bangladesh to name 127 foreign friends by Dec.
9.Toxic Liquor kills 143 in India.
10.US force make end of Iraq mission.
11. Electioneering begins as EC allocates symbols.
12.Mind cold wave in north,south-west life.
13.All five accused cleared of Sabbir murder.
14.Putin says US involved in Gaddafi killing.
15.22 brick kilns, 20 sawmills ordered shut.
16.Dhaka stocks gain amid volatile trading.

15th December '2011'

1.Police - gang fight kills 11 person in Bhola.
2.Homage paid to martyred intellectuals.
3.Two killed , 15 hurt at Dighinala, Baghaichari.
4.No proper list of freedom fighters in 40 years.
5.Iraqis burn US flags, celebrate troop pullout.
6.Eight found dead in Munshiganj in a week.
7.Police asked to probe 'secret killing': Sahara.
8.7 bodies afloat in Bay off Patharghata.
9.21 go missing as boat capsizes in Bay.
10.Refugees of Libya revenge attacks plan to go home.
11.PNG in chaos with two PMs, two governors general.
12.Don't try to save war criminals.
13.HC dismisses Khaleda's plea for quashing.
14.Doctor's row keeps emergency ,OPD at eye hospital closed.
15.HC rejects pleas of Nizami, Mojaheed to cancel graft case.
16.US general hints at thaw in Pak crisis.
17.'The protester' named Time's person of year.
18.Manmohan allays fears over attack by China.
19.Ultra-left outfit leader found dead in Khulna.
20.No compromise on war crimes trial: Ershad.
21.Teenage boy found dead in Gazipur.

Sunday latest on 22-10-2011

  1.Proposed policy to hinder media freedom: Zamir-Staff Correspondent Chief information commissioner Mohammad Zamir on Friday said the proposed Private Broadcasting Policy-2011 would hinder the private telivision channels and radios in freely broadcasting.
  2.GTCL signs Tk 1,41cr deals for compressor stations,pipeline project .
  3.BNP blames AL for killing of labour leader.
 4.PM leaves for Germany today.
 5.Young man killed in RAB gunfight'.
 6. Train derails in Comilla,
 7.Fertiliser trade liberalisation leads to profiteering .
 8.Speaker biased, BNP won't return say Farroque.
 9.Suranjit slams Khaleda for remarks on war crimes trial.
 10.Paradigm shift must SFYP successful.
 11.Law enforcers asked to check smuggling of raw hides.
12. ICDDR,B out to sell hospital land.
 13. CMC students hurt by BCL men dies.
 14.4 Shidir men held in Naogaon.
 15.Hanif says Hasina never into personal attack on Khaleda.
 16.Shahjahan,31 Jamaat men remanded.
 17.Govt. to send repatriated woekers to Libya.
 18.Govt. achievements futile if prices not controlled says Menon.
 19.52 bullets recovered in Pabna.
 20.880 bottles of Phensedil recovered.
 21.Our Correspondent Comilla An unidentified man found dead.
 22.Old woman killed by grandson in Barisal.
 23.Farmers use 'light trap ' for pest control.
24. Patuakhali chat people face acute crisis of drinking water.
25.Man daughter killed by miscreants in C nawabganj.
26.Fisherman killed in tiger attack in Bagerhat.