About 4,000 people die in around 20,000 accidents a year for reckless driving Lawlessness and anarchy have gripped the country’s road communication with drivers wilfully violating traffic rules and exposing people to hazardous accidents every day. The scenario on roads is strikingly similar throughout the country. Drivers of buses, trucks, vans, private cars and microbus ... Read more
Month: August 2011
Patriotism personified
To refer to them as patriots would be an oversimplification of their identities. Yet patriots they have been, of the most passionate kind, expressing love for the country through their artistic endeavours. The partnership of Tareque and Catherine Masud as filmmakers and life partners has always been the subject of admiration and perhaps a little ... Read more
Lax monitoring makes highways death traps
Road crashes kill 34 every day, says WB survey Lax monitoring and non-implementation of the laws on reckless driving have made both highways and streets death traps where at least 34 people fall prey to deadly crashes every day. Road-safety experts blame successive governments for not paying heed to fatal accidents, which have claimed mostly ... Read more
5 killed as bus skids off road into ditch
Five were killed on the spot as a bus skidded of a road into a ditch at Ganghati on the Pabna-Nagarbari Road about 2.15pm on Saturday. Four were rescued injured from inside the bus. The police and witnesses said that a bus of the Tamanna Paribahan, headed from Sirajganj and Pabna, skidded off the road ... Read more
Fate puts a full stop
On the very first day Tareque and Catherine Masud brought their only son Nishad to Bangladesh six months after his birth in the US, they put him on a patch of muddy ground beside their house. They wanted the baby to start his life in this country with a feel of the soil. The couple, ... Read more
Usual bye was final goodbye
It was just another day, another goodbye. But Mishuk Munier did not know it was one of his final few moments with his son in a quiet hospital room. “He did not tell me anything special before leaving. He just kissed me goodbye, waved and left,” Shuhrid Sebastian Munier said, after his father Mishuk Munier ... Read more
5 Killed in Shootout
Rab claim shrouded in questions Witnesses of Friday night’s shooting in Uttara that left five dead are saying they did not see the “criminals” shoot but Rab is sticking to its story that its team only returned fire when they were shot at. Rab officials said they were forced to retaliate with gunshots when the ... Read more
DCC spends Tk 1bn a yr on road maintenance!
Although Dhaka City Corporation spends more than Tk 1.0 billion annually for maintenance of roads, lanes and by-lanes, it is yet to carry out essential repair work of the major thoroughfares lying decrepit for long. It may sound strange, but the staggering amount is spent for repairing the roads in the fastest growing capital. DCC ... Read more
Yunus meets Hillary Clinton
Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus met the US secretary of state, Hillary Rodham Clinton, at her office in the state department on Thursday. They discussed a broad range of issues relating to microcredit and social business as tools to fight poverty, and other issues relating to women and global justice, according to a message from
Tareque Masud, Mishuk Munier killed in road crash
Passenger bus crushes film-making unit on microbus at Manikganj; Tareque’s wife Catherine among injured Noted filmmaker Tareque Masud, media personality Ashfaque Munier and three others died yesterday in a fatal road crash on Dhaka-Aricha highway in Manikganj, sending shockwaves through the nation. Tareque’s wife Catherine Masud, painter Dhali Al Mamun, his wife Dilara Zaman Jolly ... Read more
Moon ride on another route stops
Transport owners suspend operation on Dhaka- Tangail highway for battered road condition With the transport strike on Dhaka-Mymensingh highway entering the fourth day, inter-district bus operators yesterday suspended their service indefinitely on Dhaka-Tangail highway protesting severely battered road condition. Bus and minibus owners’ association announced the strike at a press conference in Tangail Press Club ... Read more
Robert Pattinson: I ruined the bed during Kristen Stewart sex scenes
Robert Pattinson has joked that he ‘ruined the bed’ during a raunchy sex scene with Kristen Stewart in The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn as the couple posed for Entertainment Weekly. The actor opened up to the magazine about the steamy scenes which take place when his character Edward Cullen finally gets hitched to Stewart’s Bella ... Read more
Dev Patel Is Freida Pinto’s ‘Action Hero’
Dev Patel is Freida Pinto’s ”action hero”, and the 26-year-old beauty loves her boyfriend’s down-to-earth attitude. Dev Patel is Freida Pinto’s “action hero”. The pair have been dating since meeting on the set of 2007 movie ‘Slumdog Millionaire’, and the actress loves her boyfriend’s down-to-earth attitude, particularly the way he reacts
George Clooney learns from mistakes
Actor George Clooney has said he isn’t proud of everything he has done in his career – but he always tries to learn from his mistakes. The 50-year-old Hollywood star admits he has done some ‘terrible’ work in the past. He told British Hello! magazine: “I’ve made mistakes in my career. I’ve made some terrible ... Read more
Bullock Enthusiastic About Work After Divorce
Sandra Bullock “threw herself” into filming Extremely Loud And Incredibly Close to ease her heartache following her divorce. The actress walked out on her husband Jesse James last year (10) after a string of women claimed to have had affairs with the TV mechanic. Bullock then stunned fans after revealing she and James had adopted ... Read more
Salman Khan: The next angry man of Bollywood?
With the list of fights and feuds it won’t be long before Sallu finds no friends Salman Khan’s mood swings and erratic behavious have all been written and talked about. No one knows what triggers Salman to lose his temper. What really makes him laugh or angry. After lying low for many years it is ... Read more
Flood: Some positive effects
Mohiuddin Zakaria Flood is overflow of huge amount of water on the normally dry land. The EU flood directive defines flood as ‘a temporary covering by water of land not normally covered by water’. In broader sense, flood can be classified in two types as: natural flood and catastrophic flood. Natural flood is the flood ... Read more
Birdwings enriching forest ecosystem
Dr. M A Bashar Ecosystem itself is the phenomenon of interaction between biotic and abiotic factors in an area. This interaction means both of the factors in an area of the biosphere are equally “interacted” to form and run the system. But apparently plants are the primary phase as producers and successive phases are completed ... Read more
Sujit Mustafa—a true devotee of Nazrul Sangeet
“In my lifetime, I want to see a society which will reflect Nazrul’s thoughts on secularism, progressiveness and equity,” says Sujit Mustafa in a conversation with daily sun recently. Whenever one thinks about Nazrul artistes of the country, the name that immediately comes up to mind is Sujit Mustafa. Sujit Mustafa, a talented
Hillol: Moving from theatre to TV
When growing up, Adnan Hillol had no intentions of taking up acting as a profession. He wanted to be a pilot. Following a close friend’s suggestion, he joined the theatre troupe, Desh Natok. His first TV play “Biprotip” was aired on Ekushey Television; breakthrough performance was in the serial “Sporsher Bairey”. Since then the actor ... Read more