Dhaka, specially old Dhaka has a long tradition of delicious Iftar items. Chawkbazar is synonymous to Iftar market of Dhaka. It has a long tradition, during the holy month of Ramadan residents of Dhaka swarm to the Chawkbazar Iftar market. As if this is the only one Iftar market in Dhaka. Many delicious Iftar items […]
In 2004 Islamic Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization ((ISESCO) taken a ten year long program to highlight Islamic culture and establishments around the globe. At that time it was decided that Dhaka will be celebrated as the capital of Islamic culture of the Asian region in 2012. Dhaka is a city of mosques; no other […]
National committee for safeguarding oil and gas is a citizen’s committee formed by some prominent personalities in Bangladesh. This committee believes that natural resources of Bangladesh should be explored by the local companies. If there are some technical limitations, the local companies should take foreign help. But if the foreign companies get the full contract, […]
Bangladesh is a land of rivers. The country is crisscrossed by more than three hundred rivers. River communication was the main communication in the past. Still river is preferred for low cost; moreover it is relatively eco-friendly. River communication takes time but its maintenance cost is much less than the highways. But today’s […]
CHISTY RAHIM from Dhaka: The entrance ticket of the national zoo of Bangladesh costs only tk.10/entrants. So that explained why the zoo was quiet crowded when I paid it a visit last Wednesday. It was rousing to see so many people paying a visit at the national zoo though, but then again, when you take […]
The central bank of Bangladesh, Bangladesh Bank building is housing a museum ‘currency museum’. Now the government has decided to move this museum to its training academy building at Mirpur. This will be relatively a larger museum and it will be known as “Taka Jadughar” instead of ‘currency museum’. Bangladesh has a rich history, sometimes […]
There was a time when Royal Bengal Tigers were everywhere in Asia. But now the Sundarban is the only habitation of the Royal Bengal Tigers. Even there the tigers are facing many manmade and natural difficulties. Many experts fear that this giant creature is on the verge of extinction. The global climate change problem is […]
We are familiar with illegal hill digging news. Many powerful people dig hill in the hilly area for housing project. Police and environmental department of the government are failing to stop them. Intellectuals like teacher of universities condemn this. But now the Chittagong University of Engineering and Technology is digging hill for their new building […]
Implementation of the Padma multipurpose bridge-project as the consortium of the four lending agencies led by the World Bank become uncertain $2 billion has interrupted a Fund of $1.345 (b) for the project, to an allegation of corruption the bidding process for the appointment of construction monitoring consultant settled is. Mohammad Mosharraf Hossain Bhuiyan, Secretary […]
Now Wild Life Conservation Bill-2011 is placed in the parliament by the forest and environment ministry. It has included one thousand three hundred and twenty three species. It has identified 8 types of amphibians, 58 types of reptiles, 41 types of birds, and 40 types of mammals as endangered species. According to the bill the […]
There was a time when kings and landlords hunted bears or tigers. It was their recreation. Even government encouraged deforestation, because at that time government wanted more farmland. Time has changed, now experts are concerned about the conservation biodiversity. Herbs and wild life are in danger, Many species are gone any many more are on […]
Sometimes we get news from the western world that some stock of bullet, bomb or missile is found unexploded and those were kept or dropped in the world war-II. In Bangladesh we had one of the bloodiest liberation war of history in 1971, sometimes bullets or bombs are also found in many parts of the […]