It’s not been an easy month for Priyanka Chopra. The onus of constant promotions and marketing of her new film has fallen solely on her shoulders and that has taken its toll on her nerves. Priyanka, say people close to her, has turned snappy. Given her habitual savour-fair and characteristic composure, it came as a ... Read more
Month: February 2011
Ranbir kisses Katrina in public
Katrina Kaif and Ranbir Kapoor have always maintained their “we are good friends” status. But, after hearing this piece of news, we are sure they are more in fact much more than “just friends”. The twosome were spotted sharing a kiss on an international flight LH 576 from Frankfurt to Mumbai on Sunday night. As ... Read more
Bangladesh hero Mortaza sad at missing match
Injured pacer Mashrafe Bin Mortaza is continuing his rehabilitation gulfnews.com Mirpur: Allrounder Mashrafe Bin Mortaza, who guided Bangladesh to victory over India in the 2007 World Cup, is a disappointed man on the historic day of his nation’s first match of the World Cup. The injured pacer is continuing his rehabilitation, hoping to be fit. ... Read more
Book fair teems with holidaymakers
The Ekushey book fair as usual drew a large crowd on Friday, with the holidaymakers thronging the book stalls. A total of 164 new titles hit the book fair on the 18th day of the fair while 40 new books were launched, highest number of books launched in a single day so
WB set to finalise Padma Bridge loan Feb 24
The World Bank (WB) is set to finalise an initial US $1.2 billion (Tk 84 billion) financing package for the Padma Multipurpose Bridge Project at its board meeting to be held at the Bank’s headquarters in Washington DC on February 24. The Bank has already decided in principle to provide another US $300 million if ... Read more
Pilot waste management programme launched
The environment and forest state minister, Hasan Mahmud, on Friday distributed waste recycling bins and waste-carrying rickshaw-vans for a cleaning programme under a pilot project on waste management through reduction, reusing and recycling. The pilot project for the Dhanmondi area began in April 2010 and will continue till March
Books win in Ekushey-cricket ‘fight’
Dhaka: While the cricket World Cup fever has ‘attacked’ just about everything in the city, one venue still left unscathed is the Amar Ekushey Book Fair, going on at the Bangla Academy. As all others fell around like nine pins on the eve of the big match between Bangladesh and India, the book fair stood ... Read more
Frequent power cuts hit Rajshahi city
Frequent power outages have made public life in Rajshahi city miserable for the last 20 days. Irregular electricity supply causes disruption to official activities, industrial production and household works in the city areas. The authorities attributed the situation drastic fall in electricity supply from the
Water crisis hits city dwellers early
Summer is yet to set in, but the city dwellers have started going through severe water crisis following power crisis and rapid depletion of groundwater. City dwellers allege scarcity of water has hit them early this year. Apart from the scarcity, the Water Supply and Sewerage Authority (Wasa) is supplying
Constitutional recognition demanded for ethnic minorities
Speakers in a discussion on Friday in the Rajshahi city called on the government to constitutionally recognise the ethnic minority communities of the country. They also demanded a separate land commission like that of the Chittagong Hill Tracts to restore the land rights of the plain land ethnic minorities
Govt to amend laws to stop forced share sales
Muhith says merchant banks must increase paid-up capital The government is going to amend the existing laws to restrain the merchant banks from forced selling of clients’ portfolios and to increase the amount of minimum paid-up capital set for the banks, finance minister Abul Maal Abdul Muhith said on Friday. ‘Forced selling is unfair. We ... Read more
Cricket rules
All eyes on Mirpur as Bangladesh take on favourites India in World Cup opener today The wait is over. The battle begins today. Normally in every tournament, the final is billed as the match to watch. But when Bangladesh will take on India in the opening match of the ICC Cricket World Cup at the ... Read more
Laptop, projector for 20,500 edn institutions
Govt step draws mixed reaction The government will give laptops and multimedia projectors to 20,500 public and private educational institutions within December 2012 to improve the classroom teaching-learning process. Under a Tk 306 crore project titled Introduction of ICT at Secondary and Higher Secondary Level, these institutions, including the high schools, madrasas and colleges with ... Read more
Tea garden workers lack sanitation facilities
Laxmi Rani Das, a physically challenged girl, has to walk almost a kilometre to find a secluded spot surrounded by bushes on a hilltop to respond to the call of nature. She usually takes her mother’s help in going out as she was born with only one leg. ‘We do not have any toilet. Most ... Read more
2 women found dead in city
A beautician was found dead inside a beauty parlour at Ananda Nagar of Badda in the capital early Friday. In another incident, a housewife was also found dead in her house at Shyamnagar in the capital on Friday morning. The deceased was Rabeya Khatun, 22, from Nabinagar in
Indigenous girl raped
Ctg hotel owner, manager arrested Chandgaon police yesterday arrested two persons for allegedly raping a teenage indigenous girl in the port city. The arrestees are Md Alamgir, owner of a hotel in Bahaddarhat, and its manager Md Shiblee. Police said the 14-year-old victim came from Bandarban on Wednesday to visit Chittagong
2 killed in Jhenaidah ‘crossfire’
Two members of Gana Bahini were killed by a team of the police and the Rapid Action Battalion in a ‘gunfight’ at Saiklupa in Jhenaidah early Friday. The deceased were Dulal, 35, of Padmanagar at Harinakundu and Mashiur Rahman Madhu, 34, of Shantidanga. Dulal was the second-in-command of the outfit’s
‘Just another game for us’
Bangladesh captain Shakib Al Hasan tried to tone down the hype of today’s opening match of the World Cup, terming it as just another game in international cricket. While the Bangladesh perspective of the game has been billed as an attempt to ‘repeat history’ and the Indian one is being dubbed a ‘revenge mission’ by ... Read more
Missing Mashrafee
Some called him the most interviewed non-playing cricketer in the World Cup and some called the missing Tiger. But whatever one says about him, the former Bangladesh skipper remained the most sought-after cricketer to the Indian media on Friday ahead of their World Cup opening match against Bangladesh. The reason is simple. The only two ... Read more
Funny Dhoni
When Sakib al Hasan was asked at the press conference of all captains if he expects Bangladesh to beat India in their opening match, Mahendra Singh Dhoni spurred him on from back and asked him to tell the press that he also wants to win the World Cup. But it did not go well with ... Read more