Old Dhaka Traffic System
BNP Mass Procession
BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia yesterday demanded the government scrap the $1 billion loan deal with India.Addressing a rally before a mass procession in the capital, she urged people to wake up and unite in efforts to bring about a Bangladesh free from all shackles . . .
Boat Race
Garments workers movements
Thousand of garment workers on Friday morning protesting the new wage declared. Police have baton-charged workers who have been protesting at Mohakhali demanding Tk 5,000 as minimum wage, and the scrapping of the newly established wage scales.
The workers of several garment factories took to the streets of Gulshan 1,2, Banani, Mohakhali and Karwan Bazar area rejecting the new wage structure. They put barricade on the road and started vandalizing in these areas. Workers vandalized several cars, garments factory and set fire on the street.
Road Block Buriganga Bridge
Transport workers put barricade on the south side of Dhaka Buriganga second bridge at about 10:30 to 1:00 am demanding withdrawal of the excess toll charged by the leaseholders. Causing traffic jam and public suffering.
France24 Publication Observer
More than a thousand rare birds have been intercepted by customs officers at Bangladesh’s Hazrat Shahjalal International airport in Dhaka after a trafficker attempted to smuggle them into Pakistan.
Police arrested Ahmmed Shaikh Wahid on July 3 as he was boarding a plane to Pakistan. According to customs authorities, he had used a fake veterinary certificate to register four cages full of rare birds in the luggage compartment, including endangered species like Blossom-headed parakeets and Scaly-breasted Munias. Wahid apparently bought the birds from a Pakistani poacher in Dhaka. . . .
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HSC Result
Education minister Nurul Islam Nahid announced the results at the ministry in a press conference.74% of students passed the Higher Secondary Certificate (HSC) and equivalent examinations. 28,671 candidates obtained Grade Point Average (GPA) 5. The students will get their results on websites of respective boards and through mobile phones. They will also get results clicking on the websites http://www.educationboardresults.gov.bd
Lever Transplant first time in Bangladesh
my baby’s Journey | First Birthday July 2010
Love my dear faado baba you are my earth . . . I am so proud of you . . . Long live you my dear little baby . . . best wishes to your 1st birthday.
we celebrate megh ( our son’s) 1st birthday, to me it is more special. I really enjoy every moment. Once time I see my baby is watching what is happened probably he viewed the birthday celebration as an unnecessary interruption of his playtime.
He is really angry and crying and his mom’s is not to control him- when he cut his birthday cake and once time he remove his dress after that he is pleasing. I really enjoy all this moment and took many picture. It is really happy day for our family.
Here I say one thing It is the day of identity of born. I really fell it is the history day who is born and first day enter in our beautiful planet.
-monirul alam / dhaka
1st July 2010, Thursday, 5.30 pm
Rashid Talukder wins 2010 Pioneer Photographer Award
Recently I receive good news for all of our Bangladeshi nationality. Our legendary and master photographers of Bangladesh Rashid Talukder have won the 2010 Pioneer Photographer Award in the All Roads Photography program.
The All Roads Film Project is a National Geographic program dedicated to providing a platform for indigenous and underrepresented minority-culture storytellers from around the world to showcase their works to promote knowledge, dialogue, and understanding with a broader, global audience.
Drik Picture Library is to announce their press release and also announce that this is the first time a Bangladeshi photographer wins this world-renowned award.
Among his remarkable works are the images documenting Bangladesh’s war of independence in 1971. For several decades, he has documented various aspects of Bangladeshi life with his camera, and his images will remain as an important visual archive of the events and happenings in both pre and post war Bangladesh.
MONIRUL ALAM 