The innocent face with the probing eyes! Beware; Sohana Saba is going to steal something. No need to take it other ways, popular actor Sohana Saba is talking about her new films. Speaking about her recent activities, Saba said that she is going to work in two more feature films, shooting for both the films ... Read more
Month: July 2010
Mili in Al Deen’s play
Monpura famed actor Farhana Mili will be seen in Selim Al Deen’s play Bashon. The play has already been celebrated by the audience on stage, while Mili is working on the small screen version of the play by the illustrious playwright. She is playing the role of a young, bold village-girl who chooses to take ... Read more
“Sitar Agni-Parikkha” gets a new look
Saymon Zakaria’s monodrama, with some changes, premieres today Shadhona, a centre for advancement of South Asian music and dance, presented the monodrama “Sitar Agni-Parikkha” on stage in July, last year. Eminent Indian actor Averee Chaurey played the protagonist. This year, Shadhona is staging the play with some changes. The main change is re-casting of the ... Read more
New serial “Uposhonghar” goes on air on ATN Bangla tonight
TV serial “Uposhonghar” goes on air on ATN Bangla tonight. Written and directed by Badrul Anam Soud, the serial will be aired every Saturday and Sunday at 8:40 pm. The serial follows close friends Asadullah and Neyamul Khan. The relationship between them was so deep that they married each other’s sister. They even started a ... Read more
RMG wage sparks violent protests
Rampaging workers vandalise over 200 business establishments, several factories in city a day after announcement of new pay structure Several thousand garment workers yesterday rampaged through different parts of the capital and Gazipur rejecting new wage structure and demanding Tk 5,000 minimum wage
Rajuk betrays affected people
UTTARA MODEL TOWN Rajuk betrays affected people Landowners, whose land was acquired for the third phase of Uttara Model Town, accused Rajdhani Unnayan Kartripakkha of going back on its promise of providing compensatory plots all without discriminating between the holding
Ex-army officers rarely receive services from SKS
BBC documentary told Although Sena Kalyan Sangstha (SKS) is a philanthropic organisation whose only duty is to ensure welfare, former army officers and their family members rarely receive any advantages from SKS, reported the BBC radio documentary “Probaho”
Lenders for Jamuna bridge toll hike to fund Padma Bridge
Lending agencies are pressing for raising the toll rates for the users of the Bangabandhu Bridge as a condition for lending $2.2 billion for the construction of a multipurpose bridge across the river Padma, communication ministry officials
Mistakes in question paper confuse examinees
BCS PRELIM TEST Mistakes in question paper confuse examinees The question paper of the 30th Bangladesh Civil Service preliminary examination, held throughout the country on Friday, contained eight mistakes in one of the sets which created a lot of confusion among the examinees. After the preliminary test, examinees who obtained the B set of English
Nigerian held at airport with ‘drugs’
Immigration personnel at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in the capital yesterday detained a Nigerian national with six kilograms of white powder which, they think, is heroin. He was caught around 7:00pm at gate-3 of the airport with five luggage and identified
Most of city roads in bad shape
The roads of the city’s Zigatola area were dug by Dhaka Water and Sewerage Authority (WASA) in December last for development of sewerage system to free the area from perennial waterlogging. Since then, people of the area have been facing serious problem in their movement
65pc haor people have no agricultural land
About 65% households in haor areas in the north-eastern region have no agricultural land, according a recent study. Aggregating all kinds of land, about 71% households were found effectively landless of which about 55% were absolutely landless, about 17% households were of marginal category (between 51 and
BFF aims to build strong U-19 eves football team
Bangladesh Football Federation looks forward to forming a strong U-19 women’s football team for the 2011 AFC Under-19 Women’s Championship qualifiers. The residential camp for the meet, scheduled to be held in Dhaka from September
A TT party for kids
The jerseys would have alluded to a football tournament but the kids who turned up on Friday morning with ‘Messi’, ‘Torres’ and ‘Lampard’ on their back were geared up for a different sport altogether. They were students of Siddiqui’s International School and yesterday they entered the
Karpov puts BCF in a quandary
The Bangladesh Chess Federation is seemingly in indecision over whether to accept former world chess champion Anatoly Karpov’s visiting schedule to Bangladesh ahead of the FIDE election to be held in October this year. Russian Grandmaster Karpov is a president candidate of the FIDE election and will
Local ad firm goes global
Benchmark attracts leading brands in Nepal, fights Indian majors Local advertising and brand solution provider Benchmark has started a full-fledged subsidiary company in Nepal marking Bangladeshi advertising industry’s step into the age of going global. ‘TBWA\Benchmark Communication Nepal has started its full-fledged operation from early
World Cup venue to be named after Muralitharan
The new International Cricket Stadium in Pallekele, Kandy which will be one of the venues to host matches of next year’s cricket world cup will be renamed as the Muttiah Muralitharan International Cricket Stadium. The Central Provincial Council in Kandy has taken this decision unanimously to
Mobiles have more germs than toilet handle
London: The average mobile phone carries 18 times more potentially harmful germs than a flush handle in a men’s toilet, according to research for consumer group Which?. A hygiene expert who swabbed and analysed 30 handsets for the study found seven had warning or high levels of environmental bacteria. One harboured levels of bacteria, including ... Read more
CCC proposes Tk 741cr budget for FY 2010-11
The Chittagong City Corporation drew up a budget of Tk 741.51 crore for 2010-11 fiscal year with a surplus of Tk 1.78 crore and without imposing new tax on city dwellers on Thursday The CCC Mayor M Manjur Alam announced the budget at a general meeting at the corporation auditorium Thursday noon when
Imtiaz made envoy to Bhutan
The government has appointed Imtiaz Ahmed, current Bangladesh ambassador to Sweden as the next ambassador of Bangladesh to the Kingdom of Bhutan, according to an official announcement yesterday. The relation between Bhutan and Bangladesh has always been positive since the former