Saturday, July 5, 2025

Nadia at tonight’s gossip

Popular TV actress and dance artiste Nadia will be present as tonight’s episode’s guest at Banglavision’s weekly night-based travelling and gossiping celebrity show ‘Raat-Biraat-e.’ The show will be hosted by popular singer Shahed and will be produced by Kawnine Saurabh. Besides travelling her favourite various spots in the city Nadia will disclose many untold stories ... Read more

Facebook elbows past Microsoft in UK

More visitors than everyone except Google Facebook has overtaken Microsoft as the UK’s second most popular web site behind Google, according to figures revealed on Monday by online measurement body UKOM/Nielsen.  The social networking site recorded 26.8 million visits last month from people in the UK, many of them over the age of 50

Katrina Kaif voted as sexiest women in the world

Bollywood Hot and Sexy Actress Katrina Kaif tops the Sexiest Women 2011 list of men’s lifestyle magazine FHM, edging out Deepika Padukone who won the title last year. Katrina had won the title in 2008 and 2009 too. The FHM 100 Sexiest Women list is based on online and SMS voting and saw a whopping ... Read more

Army to get 44 tanks

2 helicopters also on purchase list For the first time in the country’s history, the government will purchase 44 new tanks and three armoured recovery vehicles (ARV) for the army as part of its plan to modernise the armed forces. The government will also buy two brand new helicopters for the army to ensure necessary ... Read more

DCC employees charge extra for birth certificates

Residents of Dhaka city are being overcharged by the staff at Dhaka City Corporation when they seek copies of birth certificates from its different zonal offices. The city corporation’s zonal executive directors told New Age they were unaware that this was the case while the local government division’s birth and death registration programme director said ... Read more

Govt allows phased new power connection until December

Power utilities would provide new connections in phases until December to the applicants who pay all the dues by June, a senior power division official said on Sunday. But he said that those who applied for connections of two kilowatts or more would have to install solar panels. Officials said that 8,30,000 applicants have been ... Read more

ICC accuses Bangladesh of ambush marketing

The Interna-tional Cricket Council has pointed a finger at Bangladesh for ambush marketing during the recently-concluded World Cup, said the officials on Sunday. ‘We have received a report from the ICC mentioning some attempts of ambush marketing in Bangladesh,’ said Ali Ahsan Babu, the host tournament director of World Cup local organising

Tevez back

Striker Carlos Tevez, who seemed to be out of Argentina’s Copa America plans little more than a month ago, has been named in the hosts’ 23-man squad for the tournament. There were no surprises among coach Sergio Batista’s selections, posted on the Argentine Football Association’s website five days after their last warm-up – a 4-0 ... Read more

Hiddink was first choice

Guus Hiddink was Chelsea owner Roman Abramovich’s first choice to succeed Carlo Ancelotti at Stamford Bridge, according to agent Cees van Nieuwenhuizen. Last week, Chelsea took decisive action over the manager’s job, appointing former Porto boss Andre Villas-Boas after meeting the 33-year-old’s £13.3 million release

Still students after 7 yrs, BCS a pipe dream for JnU’s 1st batch

Session jams have meant studentsof Jagannath University’s 2005-2006 session are still in 8thsemester While students of 2005-06 academic year in most other public universities have already taken the 31st Bangladesh Civil Service (BCS) examination and entered the life of regular service, students of the same session in Jagannath University (JnU) are still waiting and fretting. ... Read more