In conversation with Tapan Kanti Baidya “Dada” Tapan Kanti Baidya is a renowned classical music vocalist and an adept teacher — well recognised both at home and abroad. He is the only artiste from Bangladesh who performed at United Nations’ ECOSOC Hall, New York in 1998. The then UN Secretary General Kofi Anan, together with ... Read more
Month: July 2011
Folk singers don’t get due respect: Malay Kumar
Folk music is considered a golden treasure in Bangladesh, but it is the irony that the folk singers never get due recognition, which is growing apathy to many leading folk artistes, observe renowned folk singer Malay Kumar Ganguly, who is not interested to continue his musical career these days. According to him folk singers are ... Read more
Romana’s winning streak
Modelling or acting — whatever the medium, Romana has struck home runs on all fields. Her winning streak surfaced when she entered the celluloid world with Tauquir Ahmed’s “Jaijatra”; although her mainstream film début was much later in P.A. Kajol’s “Ek Takar Bou”. Romana’s confidence received a major boost with her mainstream inauguration — encouraging ... Read more
Sushoma to act in Tagore’s Monihara
Sushoma Sarkar will be playing Mallika in an upcoming TV play based on Rabindranath Tagore’s story Monihara. Nurul Alam Atik is the director of the TV play. The shooting for the TV play is scheduled to start from 28 July. Sharing her reaction Sushoma Sarkar said, “It is really a great honour for me to ... Read more
Noble: A model icon
Adil Hossain Noble started his career with fashion shows in 1991. His remarkable TV commercials are Sprite, HRC tea, Azad ballpoint pen, Pakiza Saree, Keya beauty soap and Keya lip gel with Tisha and so on. Noble did TV commercials with his contemporary Mou and became the most popular pare in TV modelling. His performance ... Read more
A milestone for Amar Chhobi
“Amar Chobi” is a weekly show on Channel i that focuses on the Bangladeshi film industry. The show will air its 550th episode today (July 20) at 4pm. The programme features discussions on the lives, works and careers of noted film personalities of the country. The show began its journey on 2nd January, 2000. The ... Read more
Moner Manush to be screened at Canadian festival
Directed by Gautam Ghosh and produced by Impress Telefilm Ltd, the much acclaimed film “Moner Manush” will be screened at the Richmond International Film & Media Arts Festival in BC, Canada, according to a press release. The festival will be held from July 21 to 24. The film, an adaptation of a Sunil Gangopadhyay novel, ... Read more
Migrant workers denied justice, says study
The legal system for the migrant workers denies justice although they are constantly cheated and exploited in the overseas recruitment process, says an action research. “Under the guise of recruitment agencies, traffickers use deception, fraud, and other means to extract huge sums of money from the poor and vulnerable. Yet the survivors are persistently denied
Road crashes kill 7, injure 48
Seven people, including a four-year-child and a university student, were killed and 48 others injured in separate road accidents in Bagerhat, Nilphamari and Gaibandha yesterday. A correspondent from Bagerhat reports: Three people were killed and 15 others injured when a bus flipped on the Khulna-Mawa highway in Mollahat upazila early
Autism confce begins July 25
The world’s renowned personalities will gather in Dhaka on July 25 to participate in a two-day regional conference to raise awareness on autism. Titled “Autism spectrum disorders and developmental disabilities in Bangladesh and South Asia”, the conference will be organised jointly by the Centre for Neurodevelopment and Autism in Children
Body to probe assault of journo by cops
Police yesterday formed a committee to investigate into the allegations of harassing a journalist and his family in Tanore upazila. The committee headed by the additional DIG of Rajshahi Nibash Chandra Majhi was asked to submit report to the DIG as soon as possible
National fish week begins today
The production of fish has been dropped in the past few years due to lack of rainfall, Fisheries and Livestock Minister Abdul Latif Biswas said yesterday. “This lack of production results unsatisfactory per capita income of the fishermen,” he said during a press conference on the eve of National Fish Week-2011 in the auditorium of ... Read more
Traders raise gold price to nearly Tk 50,000 a vori
Local traders on Tuesday increased the price of gold by about Tk 1,166 per vori (11.66 gram) to around Tk 49,555 following the continued rise of prices on the global market. The price of 22-carat gold, which stood at around Tk 48,389 in May this year, has seen 2.41 per cent rise over the last ... Read more
BB launches online service for faster CIB report sharing
The Credit Information Bureau of Bangladesh Bank started its online credit information service from Tuesday. BB governor Atiur Rahman inaugurated the online service at a function at Ruposhi Bangla Hotel in the capital. The newly established automated CIB will provide credit related information for prospective and existing borrowers including credit history of last two
Dhaka stocks gain on GP, NBFIs surge
Dhaka stocks gained again on Tuesday with a sharp rise of share prices of two largest companies—GrameenPhone and MJLBD—and all non-bank financial institutions. The benchmark general index of Dhaka Stock Exchange, or DGEN, on the day gained 100.99 points, or 1.55 per cent, to close at 6,587.58
Birthday in tears
His sister bought two new T-shirts and was planning to order a cake for his 19th birthday. The family made all the preparations to give him a big surprise. But the home that was supposed to have a birthday party turned into a home of mourning yesterday. Tipu Sultan, one of the six students beaten ... Read more
Lone survivor gets bail in ‘robbery’ case
Al Amin, the lone survivor of the mob attack that left six students dead in Bardeshi village of Aminbazar early Monday, was sent to jail yesterday in connection with a robbery case and was later released on bail. Earlier on the day, police produced him before a court, showing him arrested in the case filed ... Read more
Mob beat hijacker to death
Locals beat to death a man and injured another at Kachuai under Patiya upazila of Chittagong on Monday night suspecting them to be hijackers of a CNG-run auto-rickshaw. The deceased was identified as Mofizur Rahman, 23. The injured Omar Faruque, 22, is undergoing treatment at Neurosurgery Ward at Chittagong Medical College Hospital
Extra-judicial killings led to mob violence
Says HR commission chief The recent rise in mob-violence including the one that killed six students on Monday is the direct social impact of continuous extrajudicial killings, said National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) Chairman Prof Mizanur Rahman. “That is why we have been saying that you cannot continue extra-judicial killing,” Rahman said
Govt asked to run mobile courts to check prices
The High Court on Tuesday asked the government to run adequate number of mobile courts in Dhaka and Chittagong metropolitan areas to contain soaring prices in Ramadan, likely to begin on August 2. The bench of Justice AHM Shamsuddin Chowdhury and Justice Gobinda Chandra Tagore also asked the secretaries to the commerce and food ministries ... Read more