Repeated disruption of fiber optic link yet not checked
Roudro Moin
Repeated cut off of Chittagong-Cox's Bazar fiber optic link with the submarine cable, a key toll of entering international information superhighway, is still uninvestigated and causing huge loss to the BTTB including telecommunication sectors disrupting Internet and international telecom services to a large extent.
4 including 3 teachers held for SSC test results tempering
Staff Correspondent
Three teachers, including an acting headmaster, and an office assistant were arrested from a high school at Mirzapur in Hathazari upazila on Friday on charge of tempering with SSC test results.
Following a complaint filed by Upazial Education Officer, Higher Secondary Education, Mohammad Saiful Islam, a team of police led by UNO Helal Mahmud Sharif, raided Mirzapur High School at about 4:30 p.m. and caught the four teachers and the office assistant red-handed while tampering with SSC test results in a schoolroom.
SME Expo-07 proves women's ability
Staff Correspondent
President of Bangladesh Navy Family Welfare Association Begum Munira Nizam said here on Friday that any tough task could be done easily if the women jointly come forward to fight against social barriers.
She said that the successful beginning of 1st Women's SME Expo-07 is enough to prove women's ability in hosting any event even in international level.
Cry heart for water, a palmful of rice
Roudro Moin
Thousands of unfed and cyclone SIDR-hit people in different coastal areas are still crying for help and relief as relief materials could not reach the remote areas simply for inaccessible communication system which was badly affected by the cyclone. Even eight days after the disaster, in village after village along the weather-beaten roads of the coastal belts, the survivors of the cyclone, their cheeks hollow and eyes sunken from hunger wait in vain for relief to come.
Series blasts in 3 Indian cities : 10 lawyers dead
AP, Lucknow
A series of near-simultaneous explosions ripped through courthouse complexes Friday in three north Indian cities, with blasts going off in Lucknow, Varanasi and Faizabad, killing at least ten lawyers and injuring dozens more, officials said.
Federal authorities blamed militants trying to spark unrest between India's Hindu majority and Muslim minority, though a legal group noted all the blasts came in a state where lawyers had decided earlier this year not to defend terrorist suspects.