Ahead of beginning of the sugarcane crushing season, the government is worried about the availability of sugarcane to run the 15 state-owned sugar mills.
The Bangladesh Sugar and Food Industries Corporation has announced that sugarcane crushing at the government-owned mills would begin on November 13.
The season will be inaugurated on the day at the North Bengal Sugar Mills in Nature while 14 other mills
Month: October 2009
Landline maker set for automation
Telephone Shilpa Sangstha Limited (TSS), the state-run telephone equipment manufacturer, is set to go under an automated production system by December, eyeing production of more than a thousand landline sets a day.
“An automated system by the year-end will enable our company to make telecom equipment,” TSS Managing Director Mohammad Ismail told The Daily Star.
TSS is the prime supplier of land phone sets and analog system equipment to Bangladesh
Bangladesh ranks low in South Asia mobile use
Bangladesh’s mobile penetration rate stood at 28 percent in 2008 lagging behind war-ravaged Afghanistan’s 29 percent in South Asia, according to a regional report.
“Of course, the fact that Afghanistan is ahead of Bangladesh in mobile penetration should cause all sorts of palpitations in government offices in Dhaka,” said the report tilted ‘Telecom Access Rankings in South Asia’.
LIRNEasia posted the report Saturday on its website based on statistics of UN International
Food festival starts today
A three-day British fusion food festival — Taste of Britain Curry Fest — is set to start at Dhaka Sheraton Hotel today, which will present the culinary success of British Bangladeshis in the UK.
Dhaka Sheraton Hotel and Curry Life, a British magazine on UK’s fusion food industry, are co-organising the festival. GM Quader, civil aviation and tourism minister, is scheduled to inaugurate the
Aila victims sink deeper
Woes of waterlogged victims compounded as they slip out of spotlight; thousands still live on embankments, aid flow stopped
From The Daily Star
Lutfar Gazi doesn’t even tries to recall that disastrous day when cyclone Aila ripped through the area he lives and wrecked havoc on his life in May this year. Since then he is too busy struggling to cope with the plight with little time to look back to his past.
Staring blank at the Kobadak river that left him homeless, he tries to figure out in vain how to maintain his family with no source of income and no-one for his rescue.
He was a resident of Shora-9 under Gabura union in
Abahani begin with bang
Defending champions Dhaka Abahani kicked off their campaign with a facile 3-1 victory over newcomers Biyanibazar SC in the opening match of the Citycell Bangladesh League at the Bangabandhu National Stadium on Sunday.
Ghanaian forward Sheriff Deen Mohammed scored a brace finding the net in either half of the match while in-form midfielder Ujjal netted the other for Abahani. Biyanibazar midfielder Toufiq Hasan Gafur reduced the margin in the
10 STEPS TO GREAT SEX
Your sex life is great. You and your husband are deeply in love with each other, and are terrific in bed. But if you miss that first night excitement and anticipation, we assure you, getting it back is easier than you think. So get set to rock and roll between the sheets.
Change the way you touch
Sure you rub each other the right way – but there are many right ways. If you usually stroked his hair while kissing, try stroking his neck, or shoulders. Think of new ways to touch each other. Cut down on the kissing and
Paranormal Activity–Film Review
Bottom Line: Effective jolts await in this ultra-low-budget haunted-house tale, but audiences will need extraordinary patience.
Hoping to catch lightning in a bottle (or the ghost in the machine), Paramount Pictures has been treading carefully with its release of “Paranormal Activity,” a pickup from Slamdance 2008 whose ridiculously low budget of $15,000 and cinema-verite approach to the supernatural evoke that ultimate sleeper success, “The Blair Witch Project.” The movie’s utter lack of
Michael Jackson’s Kids ‘Dream of Hollywood Stardom’
MICHAEL Jackson’s children want to be film stars.
The late singer’s brother Jermaine has revealed the three youngsters — Prince Michael I, 12, Paris, 11, and seven-year-old Prince Michael II, also known as ‘Blanket’ — are keen to work on movies when they are older rather than follow in their father’s footsteps with a music career.
“I think they are going to go into the film business,” he said.
“If we instill the right morals and principles in them at a young age then they will be able to handle whatever comes before them.”
The 54-year-old singer also revealed the trio are being looked after by family members
Deepika Blames It All To Katrina Kaif
Now when the cracks have started to appeear between Deepika-Ranbir’s love masion, we are going to tell the reason behind it. It’s Ranbir’s Ajab-Ghazab co-star Katrina Kaif who is making Deepika Padukone one insecure lass, at least that is what Deepika thinks.
Apparantly after working in two films Ranbir and Kat get along like house on fire. Katrina has been heard saying that she feels pretty comfortable working with Ranbir. She even has her own take on their sizzling ‘chemistry’.
She said that their great chemistry is an outcome of people who have the same
Shilpa is finally engaged
Mumbai: Bollywood actor Shilpa Shetty finally got engaged to her London-based beau Raj Kundra, who she has been dating ever since she stepped out of the Big Brother’s house.
The ceremony was held at Raj’s Juhu residence. According to reports, the engagement was a personal affair.
The actress looked pretty in a pink Manish Malhotra saree adorned with custom made jewellery.
Shilpa though did not speak to the media but sent out an SMS which read that
Artcell tribute concert held
From NewAgebd
All was set with the superb lighting and the projection screens on both sides of the stage. The hall room of the Winter Garden was overflowing with young fans of the heavy metal band Artcell. Suddenly the band members appeared on the stage amidst loud applause. When the concert began with one of their most favourite songs ‘Shahid Swaranee’, the hall room turned into a festive ground with cheering shouts.
Heavy metal band Artcell stepped into its 10th year. To celebrate this occasion, the band members organised a concert at the Winter Garden of Hotel
The lure of bansuri
Pandit Hariprasad Chaurasia performs at Dhaka Club
From The Daily Star
According to mythology, ‘bansuri’ (South Asian transverse alto flute) is intimately linked to the love story of Krishna and Radha. Legends narrate how the tunes of bansuri would drive the women of Braj into a frenzy.
For eons bansuri has been very popular in folk music. Its introduction in Indian classical music has been rather recent, however, and the late Pandit Pannalal Ghosh has been widely recognised for this achievement.
Pandit Hariprasad Chaurasia further enhanced the bansuri playing style with his innovative techniques and gave the instrument a higher
Dhakaia cuisine show held
From The New Nation
Asiatic Society of Bangladesh, while celebrating 400 years of capital Dhaka, organised a day-long programme on the city’s traditional cuisine on Saturday.
The programme included academic workshop in the morning and a food exhibition in the afternoon. In the workshop, experts presented 18 papers on various aspects of traditional Dhakaia cuisine, food for festivals, food recipe, food preparation, food habit, food culture and food business in the past and
Citycell Bangladesh League begins today: Abahani Limited take on Beanibazar SC in opener
From The New Nation
The country’s professional football league, the Citycell Bangladesh League, begins today (Sunday) at the Bangabandhu National Stadium.
The third version of Citycell Bangladesh League, earlier known as B. League, will start at 5:30 pm with holders Dhaka Abahani Limited taking on Sylhet Beanibazar SC in opener.
A record 13 teams, including three newcomers — Club Cup Champions Narayanganj Shuktara Jubo Sangsad,
Developers see booming real estate sales next year
From The New Nation
Bangladesh real estate sector has rebounded and is expected to achieve an impressive growth of 15 per cent in 2010 thanks to the government’s supportive policy for helping recover the sector even amid global recession.
To boost the sluggish business hit by global meltdown and political turmoil, developers have taken a move to set up a common digital market for plots and flats named as Realbazar by this year to attract the potential
Cox’s Bazar airport set for expansion
From The Daily Star
The government has moved to expand the runway of Cox’s Bazar airport, aiming to upgrade it to international standards and offer foreign holidaymakers a hassle-free trip to the world’s longest unbroken sea beach.
“We have taken steps to expand the runway at Cox’s Bazar airport and develop other facilities,” GM Quader, the civil aviation and tourism minister, told
Making country CFC-free: Beximco brings new inhaler in market
From The New Nation
Another brand of CFC-fee inhaler, manufactured by Beximco Pharma hit the market while international Ozone phase-out bodies seen it as a great private-public stride to phase out use of ozone depleting chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs).
Bangladesh as a signatory to Montreal Protocol, need to phase out use of all CFCs by December this year. But, pharmaceuticals remains as a challenge for Bangladesh because of its essential use to produce
Agora celebrates 8th anniversary
Chain superstore Agora celebrated its 8th anniversary through different programmes in the Dhaka city on Saturday.
Rahiamafrooz Group chairman Afrooz Rahim, and Firoz Rahim, the group’s managing director and chairman of Rahimafrooz Superstores Limited, operating company of Agora, inaugurated the anniversary celebration programme at the superstore’s Rifle Square outlet in Dhaka, said a
BTI holds apartment fair
Building Technology and Ideas Ltd organised a day-long ‘Apartment Fair’ at Uttara in Dhaka on Friday as part of its promotional campaign.
The fair was a part of the company’s promotional activities and the company will arrange such programme at different areas of the Dhaka and Chittagong cities, said a new release.
The company distributed leaflets, displayed banners and festoons, and arranged personal counselling for