Stuart Law lamented the four dropped catches and untimely fall of wickets in Bangladesh’s 5-run loss yesterday which sealed a series win for Zimbabwe. The new Tigers coach, who praised Mushfiqur Rahim for the valiant century in the dark at the Harare Sports Club, was shocked to see the four
Month: August 2011
Furious Kamal seeks answers
Bangladesh Cricket Board president AHM Mustafa Kamal said on Tuesday that he had sent an email to coach Stuart Law asking for the reasons behind the team’s abysmal showings in Zimbabwe. Bangladesh have lost every match they played in so far in the tour to trigger talks of a crisis. The Tigers are now in ... Read more
GP releases Kumar Bishwajit’s albums featuring hit songs of 30 years
Grameenphone (GP) Ltd on Sunday released four albums of noted popular singer Kumar Bishwajit, whose melodious voice and unique singing style captivates generations of music lovers in Bangladesh for over 30 years. The four albums are: “Meghe-r Palki”, “Ekta Akash”, “Swapner Anagona” and “Prem-er Abash” will feature the hit songs of the singer sung since ... Read more
SI Tutul bides his time
SI Tutul’s album “Shunnyo” was launched almost two years ago. Since then none of his albums has hit the audio market. However, there seems to be an album in the offing and according to him all the songs are now ready. Even though the album has not been released yet, Tutul has been performing the ... Read more
Ankhi Alamgir’s new album in the offing
Ankhi Alamgir’s debut album “Tomar Chokh”, featuring music by Shawkat Ali Emon, with its songs “Jol Pore Paata Nore” and “Ronger Ghuri” went on to become popular. This Eid, Ankhi is on her way to release a new album with six songs, also composed by Shawkat Ali Emon. The songs have been written by Khoshnoor ... Read more
Ilias Kanchan to host Eid magazine ‘Kichukshon’
Popular film hero Ilias Kanchan will host an Eid magazine of Diganta Television titled ‘Kichukshon’ like previous years. Actor Abdul Aziz will assist him as co-anchor of this show, which will go on air on Eid day at 11:20pm. The programme will include jokes, short-plays, parody songs and some individual performances. Actors Dr Enamul Haque,
Emon, Kushum to be seen together this Eid
Actor Emon and actress Kushum Shikdar will be featured together in the Eid special TV play, Ki Shundor Sporsho. Directed by Arun Chowdhury, the play is based on the song Pure Love by singer Arash. The shooting of the play starts tomorrow in Gazipur. The plot of the play revolves around a newly married couple ... Read more
Homage paid to Bangabandhu
All roads led to the Bangabandhu Memorial Museum on Monday, with thousands of mourners thronging the historical landmark of the country’s War of Liberation, to pay homage to Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, on his 36th martyrdom anniversary. Road No 32 and its adjoining areas turned into a sea of human faces, ... Read more
Roads collapse, minister smiles
Transport boss high on mega projects, low on road repair As the country’s road network teeters on the brink of collapse, the communications minister stays preoccupied with ambitious projects like elevated expressway and Padma bridge. Almost nothing has been done in the last two and a half years to repair the roads and highways. Due ... Read more
Road safety directives fall on deaf ears
The government’s directives to ensure road safety seem to have fallen on deaf ears with traffic on highways becoming more chaotic and travel riskier across the country. No initiatives have apparently been taken so far to carry out the order of the prime minister and the decisions of the cabinet committee on law and order ... Read more
Graft gobbles up funds
Road Maintenance Graft gobbles up funds Misappropriation of funds meant for repair and maintenance of highways is particularly blamed for the sorry state of roads and highways. A section of engineers and contractors of the Roads and Highways Department (RHD) pocket the lion’s share of the money allocated every year for the job, insiders
Bus driver arrested
He blames microbus driver The driver of the bus that killed five persons, including filmmaker Tareque Masud and media personality Ashfaque Munier Mishuk, in Manikganj on Saturday was arrested yesterday from Gangni upazila of Meherpur. A team of Detective Branch (DB) of Police from Dhaka in cooperation with Meherpur DB picked up bus driver Jamir ... Read more
False cry over fund
The communications ministry has recently claimed that it could not repair roads and highways due to fund crunch, while it failed to spend timely the money allocated for two major donor-funded road development projects. Besides the donors, the government every year allocates the ministry over Tk 600 crore for repair and maintenance of roads and ... Read more
A survivor’s tale
Monis narrates how the accident happened “I was unconscious for a moment,” said Monis Rafique. “I woke up and tried to remember what actually happened,” he added. Monis survived completely unharmed the Manikganj road tragedy that killed journalist Mishuk Munier and film maker Tareque Masud. He is the assistant director of Tareque’s next film “Kagojer ... Read more
3 crushed to death
Mobile talking on rail tracks blamed Three people including a TV cameraman were crushed under the wheels of a train in Kalihati upazila of the district early yesterday. The three were standing on railway tracks and talking over the mobile phone when Dhaka-bound Drutojan Express from Rangpur knocked them down, said Helalul Islam, officer-in-charge of ... Read more
One silver lining
Textbooks to have road safety issues The government will incorporate a chapter on road safety and road use in primary and secondary textbooks next year to raise awareness about it. The primary and mass education ministry formed a panel to prepare contents on road safety and road use for textbooks after 40 people, mostly students, ... Read more
Travel travails
Transport minister blames previous govt for battered road conditions Dilapidated road condition, badly managed intersections, disrespect to traffic rules and overwhelming number of vehicles have not only turned the country’s highways extremely dangerous but also increased travel time between the capital and the rest of the country. Most of the 20,000-kilometre network of major roads ... Read more
BRTC steps in to ease crisis
The government has moved to ease the ongoing road transport crisis through operating 30 BRTC buses on two strike-hit routes yesterday as the private bus owners continued their strike for the fourth day. Twenty buses of state-owned Bangladesh Road Transport Corporation (BRTC) started plying on Dhaka-Mymensingh route while 10 others operated on Dhaka-Tangail route, BRTC ... Read more
Mother commits suicide with 2 kids
A mother and her two children died as she jumped under a train with her four kids in Madhabpur upazila of Habiganj yesterday morning. The two others sustained severe injuries. The dead are Ferdausi Akhter, 35, her six-year-old son Jibon and eight-year-old daughter Bonya. Ferdausi threw herself along with two daughters and two sons under ... Read more
Mamun might be taken abroad
Mishuk’s burial today Surgeons have fixed the fractured jaw and realigned the displaced teeth of Dhali Al Mamun, one of the survivors of Saturday’s car crash that killed five including Tareque Masud and Ashfaque Munier Mishuk. The complicated surgery was performed Sunday night at the city’s Square Hospital, Mamun’s family members said