The bodies of a woman and her daughter were recovered from a paddy field at Delduar upazila in the district yesterday. The dead were identified as Hazera Begum, 45, and Nasrin Akter, 21, of Borny Dakkhin Para village. The police suspect that the mother and daughter were strangled. They arrested Nasrin’s
Month: May 2011
Australian sent to jail for carrying unendorsed money
An Australian, arrested on Thursday at Dhaka airport on charge of carrying unendorsed foreign currencies, was sent to jail on Friday on a court order. The Airport police produced Peter Christofidis in the court seeking him to be remanded in police custody for interrogation but the court sent him to jail. A case was filed
KKR playing well without Dada: SRK
Taking a mild dig at Sourav Ganguly who joined Pune Warriors, Kolkata Knight Riders’ co-owner Shah Rukh Khan said they have done well without Dada. Shah Rukh also said that KKR had offered Ganguly a role in the team but he was not really game with the assignment that the franchise had in mind for
Salman to share income with Bollywood workers
Bollywood star Salman Khan, also known as the Hindi film industry’s enfant terrible, says he wants to help workers in filmdom by sharing his income and also work for the underprivileged in society. “Right now, I want to give a percentage of my earnings from the film that I will start to workers of the ... Read more
Elizabeth Taylor’s love letters to be auctioned
More than 60 love letters that screen goddess Elizabeth Taylor (1932-2011) wrote in 1949 to a young Miami Beach millionaire with whom she was deeply in love will be auctioned online next week. The love letters are ones that Taylor wrote at barely age 17 to 28-year-old William Pawley, the son of millionaire William Pawley ... Read more
Tagore’s 150th birthday celebrations opens today
Bangladesh opens its two-day programme on Friday in the city as part of the first India-Bangladesh joint celebration of the 150th birth anniversary of poet Rabindranath Tagore, the first Asian Nobel prize winner in literature. And in New Delhi, the ceremony of the year-long commemoration will be inaugurated Saturday. Indian Vice President Mohammad Hamid Ansari ... Read more
Rabindranath: The Contemporary Forever!
By Aly Zaker It was in August of 1971. I was on an official mission of the Swadhin Bangla Betar Kendra, escorting some foreign dignitaries to the refugee camp in the Salt Lake area ofCalcutta. After my official duty was over as I was getting ready to leave, I heard that the Mukti Shangrami’ Shilpi ... Read more
People’s deepest sexual desires revealed
Straight men prefer heavier women to thinner females and find feet erotic, according to a surprising survey of online searches. Scientists have finally got a grip on our deepest sexual desires, by looking at what people type into Google. They have examined one billion online sex-related searches from around the world to find out what ... Read more
Jokhon Bhanglo Milon Mela Hadi’s tribute to Tagore
On the occasion of the 150th birth anniversary of Rabindranath Tagore, veteran singer Syed Abdul Hadi is bringing out an album of Tagore songs. The album will be launched tomorrow (7 May) through a programme at the seminar hall of Central Public Library. Titled Jokhon Bhanglo Milon Mela, this is the first album of Hadi ... Read more
Bryan Adams becomes a dad
Bryan Adams becomes a proud first-time father to a baby daughter06 MAY 2011 Congratulations are in order for Canadian rocker Bryan Adams. He became a father for the first time last month when his personal assistant Alicia Grimaldi welcomed a little girl. “I’m really proud to announce on 22 April, Mirabella Bunny was born,” Bryan ... Read more
Lindsay feels Paris Hilton is mean
Lindsay Lohan has reportedly branded Paris Hilton “mean” for making fun of her. The troubled actress – who is currently facing a misdemeanour theft charge for allegedly stealing a $2,500 necklace from a Los Angeles jeweller – is upset about a joke the socialite makes in an episode of her new reality series ‘The World ... Read more
George Clooney’s Girlfriend Elisabetta Canalis Gets Naked For PETA
George Clooney’s sexy Italian girlfriend is giving men the world over a taste of what the Oscar winner sees by stripping off for a new anti-fur campaign for animal rights group PETA. Actress/model Elisabetta Canalis agreed to bare all for People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals because she knew the stunt would attract a ... Read more
Kiss Transmitter Lets You Make Out Over the Internet
Used to be, when inexperienced teenagers and lonely misanthropes wanted to practice kissing, they puckered-up and smooched the back of their hand. Leave it to Japan to come to the rescue. Considering the popularity of silicon Dutch Wives in the Land of the Rising Sun, this next
Halda carp spawning ground under threat
The river Halda, the only natural carp breeding ground in the world and major source of major carps like Rui, Katla and Mrigel, is facing a threat to its existence. Man-made problems and natural disasters brought the spawning ground to this position of decline. Interference from man include cutting bends in the river to slow ... Read more
Achievements in 10 ‘unlawful’ yrs
When a person passes a decade in a position “unlawfully” and then is suddenly removed for that “unlawful” occupation, one tends to ask what he did and how his organisation fared during that passage of time. For Prof Muhammad Yunus and Grameen Bank in which he served as the managing director, those ten years were ... Read more
Make Yunus chairman
Demand Grameen Bank staff The board members and employees of Grameen Bank have urged the government to appoint Nobel Laureate Prof Muhammad Yunus as the bank’s chairman. Grameen Bank Karmachari Samity (employees’ association) made the call yesterday, hours after the Supreme Court refused Yunus’ petition to overturn an order that dismissed him from the
Utilise Yunus’ experience in running GB
Suggest 3 economists Three senior economists yesterday said the government should utilise the expertise of Nobel laureate Prof Muhammad Yunus in running Grameen Bank. Akbar Ali Khan, formerfinance adviser to a caretaker government; Debapriya Bhattacharya, distinguished fellow of Centre for Policy Dialogue; and former central bank governor
Fuel prices hiked by Tk 2 a litre
The government yesterday increased the prices of all petroleum products by Tk 2 per litre to adjust to the prices in the international market, said Bangladesh Petroleum Corporation (BPC). BPC Chairman M Muktadir Ali said the government has to count a huge subsidy on petroleum products as the prices in the international market have recently ... Read more
Student left in critical state
Corporal Punishment Student left in critical state school teacher beat up a girl student here on Wednesday allegedly for not enrolling in a coaching centre that the teacher runs. Rizia Sultana Sathi, 13, a student of class eight of PWD High School at Noornagar of the town, was admitted to Khulna Medical College Hospital
Bangladeshi artistes on way to India
Most of the 88 Bangladeshi artistes will leave Dhaka today for India participate in Tagore’s 150th birth anniversary programmes scheduled to be held in New Delhi and Kolkata. The programme titled, ‘Commemoration of 150th Birth Anniversary of Rabindranath Tagore’ is a part of joint arrangement of Bangladesh and India to celebrate the anniversary, beginning in