Popular TV actress and dance artiste Sadia Islam Mou is also popular as a model in the showbiz arena. She has already received accomplishment in this arena in modelling. She lastly performed in TVC of Marks full-cream milk powder. After two years break she is going to be appeared as a model again in the ... Read more
Month: June 2011
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
Double Dhamaal – Movie Review
In director Indra Kumar’s Double Dhamaal, the quartet of Ritesh Deshmukh, Arshad Warsi, Ashish Chowdhry and Javed Jaffrey often stand side by side and have their turns at cracking jokes from scene to scene. If Ritesh stole a few laughs in the previous scene (or at least attempted to), then the next one has Warsi ... 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
Acting Comes Natural To Amitabh Bachchan; He Follows No Methods
You must be thinking that how can Big B manage to perform so well for the roles like he is playing in his upcoming flick. He was answering a similar question for his film BBUDDAH-HOGA TERRA BAAP. This actor does not prepare. He just acts and has very little faith in the ‘method’ theory of ... Read more
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
Businessman’s house robbed in city
Armed robbers looted gold ornaments and cash from the house of a businessman at 135, West Malibagh in the capital in the early hours on Sunday. They robbed businessman Jaman Ahmed’s home of at least 40 tolas of gold ornaments and Tk 80,000 in cash at around 2:30am holding the residents at
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
BSMMU opens own medicine shop
Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University on Sunday inaugurated its own medicine shop in the hospital compound. The shop, located in front of the cabin block, remains open round the clock. Medicine and other medical materials would be available here at a
Woman killed by crocodiles at Bagerhat shrine
A woman was killed by two crocodiles at the shrine of Hazrat Khan Jahan Ali under Bagerhat Sadar upazila in Bagherhat early Sunday. The deceased, Moriam Begum, daughter of Shahidul Islam, was from Nonadanga village under the same upazila
No Bangladesh, Zim in India till 2020
The draft of the Future Tour Programme for 2012 to 2020 has a clear division among the Test playing countries, with England, Australia and India scheduled to play the most Tests, followed by Sri Lanka and South Africa. The FTP is to be finalised at the ICC’s annual conference in Hong Kong next week. A ... Read more
Ilievski happy with his charges
The new Bangladesh national football team coach Nikola Ilievski after his first practice session with the national team on Sunday expressed satisfaction over his pupils’ efforts and said they have all the potential to play better. The Bangladesh national squad are currently training at the BKSP under interim coach
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
World tour on wheelchair begins June 28
Physically challenged Mohoram Ali is set to start his world tour on a wheelchair on June 28 to raise awareness about the rights of physically challenged people. Mohoram, 24, whose left leg was paralysed at the age of one and a half years due to polio, plans to begin the tour with India and seek ... Read more
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
Govt set to allow unproven tech
Haripur 360 MW Power Project Govt set to allow unproven tech The Electricity Generation Company of Bangladesh (EGCB) is set to accept a gas turbine, which has not been commercially used anywhere before, for the Haripur 360 megawatt gas-fired combined cycle power project from the project’s contractor although its tender rules forbid use of such ... Read more