Film and small screen actress Sohana is venturing into direction. She is making her debut as a director with “Hashi Phashi Rohoshyo O Romola”, which will be aired during the upcoming Eid-ul Fitr. Saba’s husband and film director Murad Parvez is the writer of the play. “I had long cherished the dream of directing a ... Read more
Month: August 2011
“Kushum Kushum Prem” on Channel i
The world premiere of “Kushum Kushum Prem” will be telecast on Channel i this Eid. Produced by Impress Tele-film Limited, the film has been written and directed by Mushfiqur Rahman Gulzar. Moushumi, Ferdous, and Riaz will star in the film. The plot centres on the life of a hapless girl named Kushum. The cast also ... Read more
Actors become crooners
An audio album featuring actors Fazlur Rahman Babu, Chanchal Chowdhury, Shamim Zaman and AKM Hasan will be launched soon. Audio house CD Choice is producing the album, titled “Patri Ekta Chai”. Apart from singing seven songs, Shamim Zaman is also coordinating the album. About the progress of the album, Zaman informed that it will be ... Read more
Sabbir to make Ghorshawar 2011
Actor-turned-director Mir Sabbir is making a single episode TV play, Ghorshawar 2011 on this Eid. The TV play revolves around a young man who decides to buy a car after he gets fed up with sitting long hours in the bus in traffic jam. However, the TV play takes a turn when he returns home ... Read more
MLTR to rock Bangladesh in October
Michael Learns To Rock, commonly known as MLTR, will play at a couple of concerts in Bangladesh this October, according to the band’s official website. The Danish pop-soft rock band that performs songs in English, uploaded details about its upcoming autumn tours across the globe where it shares a link regarding the Bangladesh concerts. “Regarding ... Read more
Gunmen kill 3 in Kaptai
PCJSS blames UPDF Gunmen killed two villagers and an activist of Parbatya Chattagram Jana Sanghati Samiti, a regional political party in the Chittagong Hill Tracts, in Kaptai of Rangamati on Friday. The PCJSS claimed that all three deceased were its supporters and blamed its rival United People’s Democratic Front for the killings but the UPDF ... Read more
Huge rush for trains as transport strike on
Dhaka-Mymensingh Huge rush for trains as transport strike on With no buses running between Dhaka and Mymensingh, people in their hundreds gathered on the Mymensingh Railway Station platform for trains to Dhaka. The indefinite suspension of bus services, called on Thursday protesting the appalling condition of the Dhaka-Mymensingh highway at Gazipur, left people with almost ... Read more
3 Noakhali cops sued
Milon Killing 3 Noakhali cops sued A departmental case was filed against three police members yesterday on charges of aiding and abetting a mob in beating a youth dead in Companyganj upazila of the district on July 27. The accused police members are– sub-inspector Akram Uddin Sheikh and constables Abdur Rahim and Hemaranjan Chakma– of ... Read more
Indians shoot 2 Bangladeshis dead in Sylhet
Two Bangladeshis were shot dead and another was injured when Indian Khasia tribesmen from the other side of the border fired into a group of Bangladeshi labours lifting stones from the River Bagaiya at Gowainghat about 4:30am on Friday, the police and local people said. The deceased were Kamal Uddin alias Zahur, 32, of Bisnakandi, ... Read more
Prices rein in Eid shoppers on city footpaths
Eid shopping at roadside makeshift shops, where mostly the lower and middle-income group people go, in the capital did not gain momentum till Friday as most of the blue-collar and pink-collar workers were yet to get their festival allowances, with about 18 days left for Eid-ul Fitr. Footpath vendors and other people concerned have also ... Read more
Vegetable prices high despite rise in supply
The prices of some essentials and vegetables remained high yesterday despite an increase in supply with a slight improvement in weather conditions in the last 24 hours. Prices of vegetables maintained an upward trend in city markets over the last couple of days after a fall in supply for heavy downpour across the country. The ... Read more
Behind the masks of London rioters
Before they started appearing in court, most people assumed London’s rioters and looters were unemployed youths with no hope and no future. So there was much surprise when details of the accused began to emerge, and they included some from wealthy backgrounds or with good
Junta opens up politics for Suu Kyi
Myanmar’s government is urging pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi to officially register her National League for Democracy as a party so it can legally take part in politics. Information Minister Kyaw Hsan told a rare news conference yesterday that the government has not cracked down on the group so far in the interests of ... Read more
Hypersonic plane goes missing
US military scientists lost contact with an unmanned hypersonic experimental aircraft on its second test flight, officials said. The Falcon Hypersonic Test Vehicle 2 (HTV-2) successfully separated from its rocket but lost contact shortly into its “glide phase”
Schoolteacher beaten to death
A school headmaster was beaten to death allegedly by a tractor driver and his accomplices at Chalakchar under Monohardi upazila here on Thursday night. The victim was identified as Shiraj Uddin, 50, headmaster of Chalakchar Govt Primary School. Police arrested tractor driver Raju Miah and his accomplice Akram Hossain following a case filed by
Rab shooting kills 5
The elite force tells of ‘gunfight’ with suspected muggers in city’s Uttara Five youths were killed in Rapid Action Battalion firing on Sonargaon Janapath in Uttara in the capital last night. Rab claimed that the dead were muggers and they were killed during two firefights between Rab personnel and a criminal gang. The “gunfights” took ... Read more
Vitori, Sibanda tame Tigers
A destructive spell of 5-30 by debutant seamer Brian Vitori paved the way for a comfortable four-wicket win for Zimbabwe against Bangladesh in the opening game of the five-match one-day international series in Harare on Friday. Vitori, who became the first Zimbabwean bowler to pick up five wickets in an ODI on debut, helped
Law praises Zim approach
Zimbabwe’s discernible initial approach pushed the Tigers’ top-order batsmen on to the backfoot, said coach Stuart Law. The new Bangladesh coach who has ended up on the losing side in the first two competitive matches in charge believed that if the batsmen had chosen a different route, the result of the game could have been ... Read more
Vitori proves Tamim wrong
When Tamim Iqbal described Zimbabwe’s Brian Vitori as an ‘ordinary’ bowler, it certainly raised more than a few eyebrows particularly since the Tigers found the debutant seamer noticeably hard to cope with during the first innings of the Test match between the sides. Zimbabwe captain Brendan Taylor in reply to Tamim’s comment said that the ... Read more
Kapali drafted into ‘A’ team
Selectors on Friday drafted former national cricketer Alok Kapali into the Bangladesh A team for the 12-day skill training camp starting on Sunday at the Sher-e-Bangla National Stadium after the batsman sorted out his misunderstanding with chief selector Akram Khan. Earlier, the BCB announced a 25-member squad for the camp excluding Kapali as the batsman ... Read more