One in five women has experienced sexual harassment at work in China, a survey has found. The poll found that 20 per cent of the 1,837 participants from 10 enterprises in Guangdong, Jiangsu and Hebei provinces and Beijing had been sexual harassment victims. The definition of sexual
Month: May 2011
Mariah Carey and Nick Cannon renew wedding vows
Mariah Carey and Nick Cannon renewed their wedding vows in the hospital shortly after the birth of their twins on their anniversary. The pop superstar gave birth to a boy and a girl at a medical facility in Los Angeles on Saturday, exactly three years after she married Cannon in the Bahamas. The couple had ... Read more
Sony to resume some PlayStation gaming services
Sony has said it will resume some services on its PlayStation Network, which was shut after the theft of personal details of about 77m users. Sony officials said they had boosted the security of their computer systems after user names, email addresses and log-in details were stolen
Ahona on mission Pirates
“To me, acting is something through which I want to be remembered in future. I want to be a spirited actress, be it for small screen or big screen, it doesn’t matter” says Ahona in a conversation with daily sun recently. Beginning her career for TV commercials, Ahona has already carved a niche for herself ... Read more
Habib’s new album released on website
For the first time, popular singer Habib Wahid’s latest album, titled ‘Ahoban,’ sponsored by Banglalink, had been released on website. It was announced at a function in the city recently. It is a unique procedure for this album release as it gives Banglalink subscribers the exclusive privilege of listening to the new album a month ... Read more
Surgery beckons Mashrafe again
Pace spearhead Mashrafe Bin Mortaza will fly to Australia next Saturday for another surgery on his right knee. The “Narail Express” made his return to international cricket in the home series against Australia last month after injuring his right knee in December last year but never looked hundred percent fit during the three-match
Junk science
Scientists are increasingly worried about the amount of debris orbiting the Earth, writes Dr K.H. Amin February 10th 2009 began like every other day in Iridium 33’s 11-year life. One of a constellation of 66 small satellites in orbit around the Earth, it spent its time whizzing through space, diligently shuttling signals to and from ... Read more
Bangladesh Fund wants to be lucrative
The Investment Corporation of Bangladesh (ICB) has sent a letter to the government, seeking some facilities for the Bangladesh Fund to make it lucrative for investment. “After scrutinising the proposals, the government will discuss it with ICB within a few days,” said a finance ministry official
HR outsourcing for a competitive edge
Mastering Management HR outsourcing for a competitive edge The Bangladesh economy is increasingly being integrated with the global economy because of trade liberalisation. Hence, the country’s corporate sector is facing cut-throat competition. They need to be more cost-effective and efficient to survive in a highly competitive world. Corporate Bangladesh, therefore, should emphasise developing its core ... Read more
GP revenue up 21pc in Q1
Grameenphone Ltd reported a rise in its revenue by 21.3 percent in the first quarter of 2011 from the same time last year. The telecom operator recorded revenue of Tk 2,067 crore for the first quarter of 2011 — a Tk 363 crore rise from first quarter of 2010, Grameenphone declared at a press conference ... Read more
Smuggling thru airport soaring
Law enforcers at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport have arrested a dozen people, during the last four months, and seized foreign currency, gold ornaments and other valuables worth about Tk. 15 crore. The confiscated valuables were being smuggled to various countries through the premier airport of the country. According to the Airport Police Station, personnel of Armed ... Read more
Tagore film festival on Channel i
Channel i will be airing films based on Tagore’s works every Saturday this May as part of the 150 years birth anniversary celebrations of Rabindranath Tagore. On the coming Saturday Channel i will telecast the feature film Shasti. Directed by Chashi Nazrul Islam the film features Riaz, Purnima, Ilias Kanchon, Champa, Shahidul Alam Shachchu, Ahmed ... Read more
Yunus’s lawyers call HC order ‘perverse’, ‘biased’
Lawyers acting for Mohammad Yunus, the founder of Grameen Bank, argued on Monday before the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court that the High Court order, which had ‘summarily dismissed’ their application challenging the legality of Bangladesh Bank’s attempt to remove their client from his post of managing director, was ‘perverse’,
Cabinet approves porn control law
The government on Monday approved in principle the draft Pornography Control Bill 2011 with provisions for imprisonment and fine to check production and marketing of all kinds of pornography. The home affairs ministry placed the draft bill at the weekly meeting of the cabinet against the backdrop of widespread production and exhibition of the pornography ... Read more
Freida’s first sex scene
Mid-Day.com Freida Pinto will be baring it all in Tarsem Singh’s upcoming movie Immortals. The Slumdog Millionaire actress will be seen doing an intimate sex scene in the film. This would be her first makeout scene in a movie since her debut. There is already buzz surrounding the sensuous nature of Freida’s role, now that ... Read more
Bipasha Is Still Steaming Hot After A Decade In The Industry
glamsham.com The dusky beauty with brains, Bipasha Basu, will complete a decade in the Hindi film industry this year. Her first film, Abbas – Mustan’s AJNABEE, opposite Akshay Kumar released in September 2001 and ever since there was no looking back for this highly talented actress, and Bips (as she is fondly referred to by ... Read more
Six hours of abuse
School kids kept standing under the sun as state minister shows up for 5 mins Some 130 children of Vatapara Non-government Primary School at Durgapur union of Aditmari upazila were kept standing in the scorching sun on Sunday for as long as six hours to welcome the state minister for primary and mass education. The ... Read more
Detective work on courier led to Laden
Most Intense Manhunt Detective work on courier led to Laden After years of dead ends and promising leads gone cold, the big break came last August. A trusted courier of Osama bin Laden, whom American spies had been hunting for years, was finally located in a compound 35 miles north of the Pakistani capital, close ... Read more
Zawahiri ‘to fill in Laden shoes’
South Asia at risk of al-Qaeda attacks Al-Qaeda number two Ayman al-Zawahiri, the Egyptian surgeon considered the real mastermind of the global terror franchise, is now set to succeed Osama bin Laden as the world’s most wanted man. Like his Saudi-born co-conspirator, Zawahiri has been hiding ever since the United States declared its war on ... Read more
Laden as I know
Hamid Mir “I was the son of a rich father. I could have spent my life luxuriously in Europe and America, like many other wealthy Saudis. Instead I took up arms and headed for the mountains of Afghanistan. Was it personal interest that drove me to spend each moment of my life in the shadow ... Read more