Patients are set to suffer during Eid holidays as most of the doctors, nurses and persons linked to medicare and emergency services will go on vacation to celebrate the festival. Health services will be disrupted as understaffed public and private hospitals, clinics and diagnostic centres will keep their outpatient services
Month: September 2009
2m kids suffer from acute malnutrition
WFP says on Bangladesh Millions of impoverished Bangladeshis are barely sustaining a hand-to-mouth existence that would be wrenched from their grasp by any fresh “economic shock,” according to the UN food aid agency. World Food Programme (WFP) country head John Aylieff said two million children aged under five in Bangladesh are suffering from acute malnutrition, ... Read more
City corners buzz with last-minute shoppers
With Eid-ul-Fitr, one of the two great Muslim festivals, set for tomorrow or the day after, and Durga Puja, the major Hindu festival, only days away, the last-minute shopping spree seemed to have reached its zenith in the city markets yesterday. Braving the scorching late-Sharat Bhadra sun after drizzle over the last few days whipped ... Read more
4 forest staff suspended
Jhau Plundering 4 forest staff suspended Four forest staff have been suspended for negligence in discharging duties and aiding the plunderers of some 30,000 Jhau (tamarisk) trees on Teknaf beach in Cox’s Bazar early this month. They are Teknaf Forest Range Officer Golam Mostafa, Beat Officer Manash Kumar Chakma, forest guard Hanif Majumdar and the ... Read more
Rajuk to invite applications in Jan for Jhilmil project plots
Rajdhani Unnayan Kartripakkha will invite applications in January 2010 for some 1,000 residential plots under the Jhilmil housing project at Keraniganj on the outskirts of Dhaka. ‘We will invite applications in January 2010 from people intending to buy plots at the project site,’ Rajuk chairman Nurul Huda told New Age. Rajuk in 1997 undertook the ... Read more
Eid Special
Shurer Jhorna: Highlighting the irresistible melody of ghazals Special musical programme “Shurer Jhorna” will be aired on ntv on the third and fourth day of Eid at 6:45pm. Five adept singers — Yasmin Mustari, Shakila Zafar, Anup Barua, Swani Zubayeer and Ariful Islam Mithu — will perform popular ghazals in an informal setting on the ... Read more
142 new audio albums this Eid
One hundred forty-two new solo, duet and mixed audio albums will be released by nine audio production houses on the occasion of upcoming Eid-ul-Fitr. The albums of both newcomers and noted singers are in the line during the festival. Production house Sangeeta will release 40 new albums, Soundtek 30, Fahim Music
Gangajatra to be premiered on Eid day
World premiere of the full-length Bangla feature film ‘Gangajatra’ (The Journey) will be held on the Eid day on Channel-i. The film will be telecast at 2:25pm. The Star Cineplex will also release the film on the day. The film is scripted and directed by Syed Ohiduzzaman Diamond and starred by Ferdous and Popy. Hasan ... Read more
Rani Becomes Queen
Rani Mukherjee looked elegant as she strutted in a purple couture dress (almost fit for a Queen) on the red carpet of the esteemed TIFF in Toronto earlier this week. Looking sexy and elegant, the actress who has lost oodles of weight looked ecstatic about her new film ‘Dil Bole Hadippa’. Rani gleefully signed autographs ... Read more
Del Potro returns to Argentina
US Open Champion, Juan Martín del Potro, arrived to Ministro Pistarini International airport in Ezeiza at 10.25 and was welcomed by hundreds of fans and close to 50 journalists. The reigning champ will head to his home town Tandil -500 kilometers from Buenos Aires City- where he will be rallied around the city on a ... Read more
Rajuk allots 1,077 Purbachal plots
Lottery held for four categories The Rajdhani Unnayan Kartripakkha (Rajuk) yesterday announced the names of 1,077 plot winners in four categories for the Purbachal New Town Project. Among the winners, Rajuk allotted plots through a lottery in three categories — freedom fighters, artistes/cultural personalities/sportspersons, and Bangladeshi expatriates — while 14 plots were allotted to judges ... Read more
Google Flips Out, Bing Goes Visual
Competition may be heating up in the search marketplace: Google is testing a new Fast Flip format, and Bing is looking at offering image-based search results. Microsoft is certainly putting its money where its mouth is with its Bing search engine, spending untold millions to develop the technology and more untold millions to promote it ... Read more
Suit Up: Skype’s Founders Sue eBay for Copyright Infringement
The tussle between Skype’s founders and eBay just went nuclear: JoltID is suing eBay and an investor group for damages of up to $75 million a day. The legal tussle between Skype founders Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Friis and online auction house eBay looks like it’s going to turn into a shooting war: Skype’s founders, ... Read more
Hybrid man-eating pythons? Florida is on alert.
Scientists worry that two species of nonnative pythons now near the Everglades could breed, yielding more aggressive offspring. Atlanta – In an case of real life imitating Hollywood, the US scientific community is increasingly concerned that two nonnative python breeds currently slithering free in south Florida could morph into a giant man-eating swamp coil. The ... Read more
Shahabuddin’s painting exhibitions in Dhaka
Expatriate artist Shahabuddin Ahmed’s solo exhibition ‘Shahabuddin 2009’ will be inaugurated at Gallery Chitrak on September 18 and ‘Jai Bangla’ at Bengal Gallery of Fine Art on September 27. Planning minister air vice marshal (rtd) AK Khandker will inaugurate the ‘Shahabuddin 2009’ as chief guest while eminent artist Aminul Islam will be present as special ... Read more
Rising of sea level major concern in South Asian countries: 18pc Bangladesh land to go under water
About 18 per cent of Bangladesh land will go under water and much of the Maldives would submerge following sea level rise at certain level, ‘World Development Report 2010: Development and Climate Change’ released yesterday in advance of the December meetings on climate change in Copenhagen said. “Rising sea levels are also of important concern ... Read more
Lottery for plots at Purbachal today
The lottery for the allocation of residential plots in Purbachal satellite town of the Rajdhani Unnayan Katripakkha (RAJUK) will be held at Osmani Memorial auditorium at 11am today. ” The first phase of lottery will be held for those belonging to the category of freedom fighters, artists and expatriate Bangladeshis,” state minister for
Trackers bust car thefts
Businesses are increasingly using the device The newly introduced vehicle tracking system has become popular among corporate houses as it promises to retrieve stolen or lost cars and provides a means to cost-effective logistics management. Along with donors and NGOs, corporate houses, like telecom operators, banks, insurers and garment makers have adopted the
Sisimpur steps into fifth year
‘Sisimpur’, the popular household show on Fridays, has stepped into its fifth year. To celebrate the occasion, Nayantara Communications arranged a ‘Utshob’ at Bongobondhu International Conference Centre on September 15. Young children, the main attraction of the event, attended the programme to spend a few hours with ‘Tuktuki’ and ‘Halum’, two popular Muppet characters in ... Read more
Hanif Sanket’s TV play on ATN Bangla
On the occasion of Eid, celebrated media personality Hanif Sanket has been producing a single episode TV play for satellite channel ATN Bangla over the last couple of years. In line with this tradition, the special TV play “Toshamodey Khosh Amodhey” will be aired on Eid-ul-Fitr. The play will be aired on the first day ... Read more