The stocks rally that begun Wednesday in the Dhaka bourse continued unabated on Thursday, the last trading session before the Eid vacation, as the investors went on buying shares in the hope that the gaining streak would roll on following the regulatory move for making a uniform face value of all the scrip and mutual ... Read more
Month: August 2011
Sust admission process begins on Sept 15
The application process for the first year honours admission to Shahjalal University of Science and Technology (SUST) under the session 2011-12 will begin on September 15 and continue till October 15. Aspirant students are required to send Short Message Service (SMS) from mobile phones with Teletalk network to obtain a personal identification number (PIN) during ... Read more
BCB hunts broom-wielding fans
Bangladesh Cricket Board is looking for broom-wielding fans who defied late night sleep on Wednesday to humiliate the members of the national cricket team upon their return from Zimbabwe. BCB president AHM Mustafa Kamal said they have informed the law-enforcing agencies to identify the persons, who appeared to have acted in a planned
Turner takes positives from SA tour
GP-BCB Academy coach Ross Turner said they had a good tour in South Africa as they could take some positives as two players performed exceptionally despite not being able to win any of the two Twenty20 games, the one-day or the longer version cricket series. The academy side returned on Thursday after completing their three-week ... Read more
Spicy Bites
Monalisa: Model to role model On ‘Spicy Bites’, cultural personalities face questions on issues from all angles, i.e. ‘what would he/she do if he/she were in charge of solving social issues?’ or ‘how can we minimise waste of resources?’ For our second instalment of ‘Spicy Bites’, we met up with the gorgeous model Monalisa at ... Read more
Deshi item, Bideshi take
Eid special Ityadi Apart from regular skits, this year’s Eid-special “Ityadi” will have a segment featuring 50 foreigners. The skit will show living conditions at a bachelors’ dorm. For the segment, the foreigners had to learn Bangla in seven days. The show has had foreigners performing traditional acts, like jatrapala, in previous episodes
Shahiduzzaman Selim’s Eid ventures
While the high profile actors of small screen are overloaded with two-digit numbers of projects, popular actor Shahiduzzaman Selim is coming up with around seven TV productions including single-episode plays and telefilms during Eid-ul-fitr. New Age recently interviewed the gifted actor to talk about his Eid schedule. ‘I don’t want to pack
Dealing with tall tales
Tele-film Ochol on ATN Bangla Tele-film “Ochol will be aired on ATN Bangla on Eid day at 4:30pm. The tele-film has been written by Brindaban Das and directed by Salahuddin Lavlu. The cast includes Amirul Haq Chowdhury, Dolly Zohur, SM Mohsin, Salahuddin Lavlu, Jyotika Jyoti and AKM Hassan. The film narrates the story of the ... Read more
Backfiring scams
Ultodhanuk on ntv Single-episode TV play “Ultodhanuk” will be aired on ntv at 10pm on the first day of Eid. Written and directed by Shafiqur Rahman Shantanu and Shamima Akhter respectively, the play recounts the story of Kajol, a crooked caretaker, who is in charge of a mansion. The owner of the large house, Abid, ... Read more
On a city bus
Special mini series on Rtv Rtv will telecast a special mini series, titled “City Bus”, from the first till the sixth day of Eid. The six episodes will be aired at 11:25pm everyday. The serial has been written and directed by Noman Robin. The cast includes Hassan Masud, Sohel Khan, Faruk Ahmed, Rashed Mamun Apu, ... Read more
Jute bag prospects in global arena
Md Rashedul Karim Munna Global consumer demand for eco-friendly products has increased in both developed markets (such as Western Europe, the United States and Australasia) as well as new markets with emerging opportunities (such as the Middle East) mainly because of heightened awareness of the ill effects of environmental pollution and global warming. Large chain ... Read more
Inflation rises faster in urban areas
Analysts blame rising consumer prices on bad roads and a lagged effect of monetary expansion Inflation accelerated faster in urban areas than in rural settings in July, partly because battered roads disrupted the supply chain, analysts said yesterday. The analysts also linked the jump in consumer prices to a lagged effect of high monetary expansion. ... Read more
Face value of shares, MF units to turn Tk 10 from Dec
The Securities and Exchange Commission on Tuesday decided that the face value of shares of all companies and units of all mutual funds would have to be converted to Tk 10 from December 1. Of the 231 companies listed with the Dhaka Stock Exchange, currently 124 companies have shares of Tk 100 face value and ... Read more
DSE turnover hits 7-month low on thin trading
The turnover of the Dhaka Stock Exchange dipped to a seven-month low of Tk 285.64 crore in volatile trading on Tuesday with the investors waiting to see the outcome of the cases filed by the Securities and Exchange Commission against five alleged market manipulators and the market behaviour following the regulatory action before deciding their ... Read more
Rebels siege Gaddafi’s compound
His ‘arrested’ son seen in Tripoli Rebels overran Muammar Gaddafi’s compound in Tripoli Tuesday, raising their flag and ripping the head off his statue as they celebrated a symbolic, if not yet real, end to the strongman’s iron-fisted 42-year rule. The streets of Tripoli erupted into celebratory gunfire when news spread that the insurgents had ... Read more
‘Threatened’ by probe body member
Complains lone survivor of Aminbazar mob beating Al Amin, the lone survivor of last month’s mob beating at Aminbazar, yesterday alleged a government probe body member threatened him with torture taking him on remand. For further enquiry, the committee took Amin from his Darussalam house yesterday around 10:00am to Keblarchar in Baradeshi village of Aminbazar ... Read more
Moon ride on Ctg streets
Residents suffer as rain leaves port city roads potholed, waterlogged “Where is the government now? Doesn’t it see our sufferings?” This was HSC student Suchitra Chowdhury’s reaction when her rickshaw turned turtle while going over a pothole near Chawkbazar in the port city on Sunday. She was injured and missed an important day at college. ... Read more
Eid shoppers gridlocked
Most roads that lead to the major shopping hubs in the city were clogged yesterday with thousands of vehicles as Eid shoppers poured in ahead of Eid. The tailbacks reached out to the adjacent streets, intensifying the usual daylong traffic congestion in the city, traffic policemen said. Hundreds of shoppers could not reach their home ... Read more
Akram dismisses feud among Tigers
Chief selector Akram Khan on Tuesday rubbished the reports that a bitter feud between skipper Sakib al Hasan and his predecessor Mohammad Ashraful had cost Bangladesh the Test and one-day series against Zimbabwe. Different reports suggested Sakib had a growing disliking for Ashraful, which created a sharp
Sakib and Tigers slide in rankings
Bangladesh’s one-day ranking has declined sharply after they lost to Zimbabwe 3-2 in the just-concluded series, the International Cricket Council said on Tuesday. Though the Tigers maintained their ninth place in the ranking, they dropped seven crucial points, sliding from 70 to 63. Zimbabwe also remained stuck in the10th place though they added eight points ... Read more