Weekend
Three cities face huge shortage of supply water
Three major cities of Bangladesh have been facing a huge shortage of supply water, said figures in the Handbook on Environment Statistics 2005, recently published by the Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics. The cities were supply water shortage is prevalent are Dhaka, Chittagong and Rajshahi. The demand for water in the Dhaka city is 176 crore litres a day, but the Water Supply and Sewerage Authority could can supply only 150 crore litres...[ + ]
Changed sales plan stems hoarding
The Bangla Academy has put in place a system to ensure that its dictionaries, especially English-Bangla and Bangla-English, reach the individual buyers and not to people who would be selling them on black markets. The authorities decided not to sell more than one copy of the dictionaries to individuals. But some sellers outside the academy make their way through the restrictions, by sending a number of hired people, said a source in the academy...[ + ]
BU let Mahindra
off the hook
Mahindra United sneaked through Brothers Union’s hands as the local all-orange outfit failed to keep the lead twice against the visiting Indians to finish their Group A match of the AFC Cup in a 2-2 draw at the Bangabandhu National Stadium on Tuesday. After a goalless first half there was plenty of drama from the very first minute of the second half...[ + ]
Athlete goes missing Down Under
The mysterious disappearance of a Bangladeshi athlete overshadowed slim pickings for Asian nations on the sixth day of action at the Commonwealth Games Tuesday. Bangladesh 400m runner Tawhidul Mohammad Islam went missing from the athletes’ village on Monday, and hasn’t been heard from since. One of just 19 Bangladeshi athletes competing here, he speaks little English and has no friends or family in Melbourne. Police said a team official described his disappearance as ‘highly unusual.’...[ + ]
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