Thursday, March 28, 2024

Profile of Prabhakaran

From an increasingly small area in the north-east of Sri Lanka, Velupillai Prabhakaran heads the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) or Tamil Tigers. He has a reputation as a fearless and ruthless guerrilla leader and under his leadership, the Tamil Tigers have become a highly-disciplined and highly-motivated guerrilla force. But in recent months his ... Read more

HR Watch for disbanding DGFI, Rab

Accuses them of abuse, extra-judicial killing Human Rights Watch (HRW) has recommended the disbanding of Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) and Directorate General of Forces Intelligence (DGFI), terming them symbols of abuse and impunity in a report released yesterday. The New York-based HRW said if the two forces are not disbanded they should be made to ... Read more

591 more BDR jawans arrested

Sent to jail after filing sedition cases A total of 591 Bangladesh Rifles (BDR) jawans were arrested at different units in ten districts on charge of staging mutiny following the Pilkhana carnage on February 25-26. Police and Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) made the arrests after filing sedition cases against the suspected mutineers. The arrested border ... Read more

Newspaper reports speculative, says Faruk

Commerce Minister Lt Col (retd) Faruk Khan Monday questioned the veracity of newspaper reports on findings of the army probe report on BDR carnage, claiming that the newspaper reports are based on speculations, reports UNB. “It was not known to anybody except the investigators about findings of the probe report and I think the newspaper ... Read more

Suu Kyi’s release demanded

Several dozens of Rakhaing supporters of Burma’s long incarcerated democratic leader Aung San Suu Kyi staged demonstration in front of city’s National Eidgah yesterday morning demanding her immediate release. Rakhaing Women’s Union (RWU) organized the hour-long programme and later placed their four-point demand at a press a briefing. Addressing the press briefing, RWU

Manju, Morshed granted bail in graft cases

The High Court yesterday granted bails to two bigwig graft convicts former, Communications Minister Anwar Hossain Manju of JP and Foreign Minister M Morshed Khan of BNP, in graft cases. A division bench comprising Justice MA Wahhab Mian and Justice M Marzi-ul-Huq passed the orders following separate petitions. The bails will remain valid until the ... Read more

Bangladesh players lack basic skills

Bangladesh national hockey players lacked international basic skills and they need to play more international matches to improve their standard, Bangladesh national hockey team’s German coach Gerhard Peter Rach said on Monday. “We realized very bitterly in the 8th Asia Cup that the Bangladesh players lacked basic skills. The time we got before the Asia ... Read more

Mehrab to lead Bangladesh A

Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) announced a 15-member Bangladesh A team for the three-match one-day series against Maharashtra Cricket Association. Left-handed Mehrab Hossain will lead the team while all-rounder Sohrawordi Shuvo has been named his deputy. The Rafiqul Alam-led selection panel included players like Nafis Iqbal and Hannan Sarker, who were out-of-favour for a long time, ... Read more

Bashar’s belated wisdom

Former national skipper Habibul Bashar urged the new generation of cricketers to think twice before moving away from the mainstream. “Over the last eight months I realised the pains of staying away from the mainstream,” Bashar said explaining the reasons behind his decision to cut ties with the unapproved Indian Cricket League (ICL). It was ... Read more

BCB XI earns 2nd successive win in T20 Cricket, beating Maharashtra CA by 46 runs

Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) Eleven earned second successive victory in the three-match Twenty20 Cricket series beating Indian Ranji Trophy side Maharashtra Cricket Association by 46 runs at the Sher-e-Bangla National Cricket Stadium in Mirpur on Monday. Hosts BCB Eleven, studded with the cricketers of Bangladesh national team for the next month’s ICC Twenty20 World Cup ... Read more

Ansar win Women’s v’ball title

Bangladesh Ansar & VDP team clinched the EXIM Bank 20th National Women’s Handball title beating hosts Faridpur DSA by 23-14 goals in the final at the Faridpur Stadium on Monday, reports UNB. The winners led the first half by 14-7 goals. This was the 14th national crown for the Ansar & VDP team including 11 ... Read more

Aishwarya Ruins Sonam’s Red Carpet Dream

Aishwarya Rai has apparently killed off Sonam Kapoor’s dreams of walking the red carpet at Cannes by refusing to let her walk for L’Oreal, the brand they both endorse. We told on Friday how both were set to walk the Red Carpet in Cannes but Aish has apparantly made sure this didn’t happen. A source ... Read more

Angels & Demons Review

Cast: Tom Hanks, Ewan McGregor, Ayelet Zurer, Stellan Skarsgaard Dir: Ron Howard Angels & Demons comes just three years after the box office success of The Da Vinci Code that, despite not being a hit with the critics, was one of the biggest grossing movies of 2006. Tom Hanks is back to have another crack ... Read more

Beyonce Knowles Learning To Race

Beyonce Knowles has been taking driving lessons from Lewis Hamilton. The ‘Halo’ singer and her rapper husband Jay-Z enjoyed private sessions with the Formula One World Champion racing driver at Monaco’s Grand Prix track following their recent arrival at the Cannes Film Festival. A source said: “Beyonce’s so excited to be learning from him. And ... Read more

Tamil Tiger leader killed by Sri Lankan troops

COLOMBO – The leader of Sri Lanka’s Tamil Tigers, Velupillai Prabhakaran, was shot dead Monday while trying to flee advancing troops, defence officials told AFP. Prabhakaran was in a small convoy of a van and ambulance along with several close aides which tried to drive out of the battle zone, but was attacked and killed, ... Read more

Cybercriminals In The Cloud

So-called reputation services can weed out suspicious IP addresses and behaviors. Security breaches continue to plague organizations, causing CIOs to question whether their traditional network security solutions are adequate for protecting against increasingly sophisticated cybercriminals. Recently, it was reported that foreign hackers broke into the Pentagon’s $300 billion fighter plane weapons program, a security breach ... Read more

Shakila Zafar celebrates 30 years of music

Celebrating thirty years in the music scene, noted singer Shalika Zafar delighted the audiences by performing in a solo musical programme. Amra Surjomukhi, a cultural organisation, arranged the programme at the auditorium of the Bangladesh National Museum on Saturday evening. Eminent cultural personality Syed Hasan Imam inaugurated the programme while journalist Rahat Khan was present ... Read more

Ballads of the Agonised Souls

Photo exhibition on thalassaemia at Zainul Gallery Images at the exhibition, titled “Ballads of the Agonised Souls,” are quite expressive with smiling faces of children, but a strange silence pervades on the whole. The photographs explore the lives — little joys and agonies — of thalassaemia patients in our country. Thalassaemia is an inherited blood ... Read more

Major juice manufacturers flout BSTI rules

Some of the major juice manufacturers are flouting the rule by not marking the juice packs with maximum retail price. The rule of Bangladesh Standards and Testing Institution clearly states that every 250ml juice pack should have been marked with MRP. But, visiting some city outlets that sell packed juices it was found that some ... Read more