News from December 2009

WELCOME 2010:

MAHFUZ SHAMIM :
Yet another new year comes to us with new hopes and aspirations to make our lives happy and prosperous and bring peace across the globe.
Enthusiastic people around the world welcomed the new-year last night amid fanfare.
In Bangladesh, the new-year was welcomed, mostly indoors in a mood of subdued gaiety when a moderate cold [...]

Brac chief knighted in new year honours list

Brac Founder and Chairperson Fazle Hasan Abed will be honoured with knighthood by Queen Elizabeth II for his services in tackling poverty and empowering the poor.
Abed’s name was added to the queen’s new year honours list released on Thursday and he would be appointed knight commander of the most distinguished order of Saint Michael and [...]

Preparation complete for war crime trial: Ashraful

Awami League General Secretary and LGRD Minister Syed Ashraful Islam on Thursday said the preparation for war crimes trial was complete and the trial would begin early in 2010.
At a victory-day rally at the central Shahid Minar, Ashraful said the countrymen entrusted Awami League with the mandate to try war criminals and the government completed [...]

Death warrants against Bangabandhu killers Jan 3

The District and Sessions Judge’s Court, Dhaka will issue the death warrants against the five detained convicts in Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman assassination case on January 3 next year, Law Minister Shafique Ahmed said.
The record and judgment of the case have already been sent to the trial court, the law minister told newsmen at his [...]

Shakib is The Captain for tri-nation series

Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) on Thursday announced the 15-member team for the tri-nation one-day series.
Shakib Al Hasan will lead the team as Mashrafe Bin Mortaza is yet to fully fit to play the competitive match.
Two ICL returnees — Shahriar Nafees and Aftab Ahmed — remain in the final squad while pacer Shafiul Islam was the [...]

World’s Largest Wind Farm

Monjilur Badhan, Newshoursbd: A new project for production of electricity from wind in USA will produce 845 megawatts of power.
Second week of December 2009 GE (an American company famous for different research and invention for 130 years) announced that it has a $1.4 billion contract to supply wind turbines for what it says will be [...]

The Future of Human Spaceflight

Monjilur Badhan, Newshoursbd:

The International Space Station (ISS) is one of the most complex and expensive engineering projects ever undertaken. When it is completed in 2011, it will have cost nearly $100 billion. And then, just five years later, the space station will be destroyed when NASA deliberately takes it out of orbit and plunges it [...]

Google tests new phone to profit from mobile Web

Monjilur Badhan, Newshoursbd — Google Inc. is determined to gain more influence over how the Web is used on mobile phones, even if the next step in the quest tramples some of the relationships forged during its two-year expansion into the wireless industry.
The focus on Google’s mobile ambitions is sharpening now that the Internet search [...]

Cabinet okays power import from India

The cabinet on Wednesday approved in principal the memorandum of understanding with New Delhi seeking open-ended import and export of power, with options to purchase power from both public and private sector of India.
The deal dubbed “Bangladesh-India Bilateral Power Exchange Memorandum” was initiated by a team of Bangladesh in November when they were visiting India [...]

BB opens SME department Thursday

Bangladesh Bank is going to open a separate department for small and medium enterprise on Thursday to encourage loans for small and medium enterprises.
Bangladesh Bank Governor Atiur Rahman would inaugurate the SME department that would run under the leadership of a general manager.
“Alongside agricultural loan, in future we will strengthen SME loans. The new department [...]

News from December 2009

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