Weeklong Sultan Mela-2012 begins in Narail The weeklong Sultan Mela-2012, marking the 87th birth anniversary of noted artist SM Sultan, began at Sultan Moncho premises in Narail on December 9. Jointly organised by the SM Sultan Foundation and the district administration, the fair is sponsored by Grameen Phone and the Ministry of Cultural Affairs. The ... Read more
Month: January 2012
Fifth International Children’s Film Festival on the cards
In association with UNICEF, Children’s Film Society Bangladesh will organise the Fifth International Children’s Film Festival, titled “Future in Frames”, starting from January 21. The weeklong festival will begin at Shawkat Osman Memorial Auditorium of Central Public Library, Shahbagh in Dhaka. Planning Minister Air Vice Marshal (retd.) AK Khandaker will inaugurate the festival. Veteran artist
Chittagong priciest at $1.2m
The six franchises of the Bangladesh Premier League were sold off in a trice. In the hour-long bidding programme held at a local hotel in the city yesterday, only one franchise was sold at a significantly higher price than the base price while the others barely got off the ground. The absence of big corporate ... Read more
Groundwater loss puts city at risk
Study says Dhaka subsiding 14mm a year Dhaka is sinking over half an inch a year on average because of excessive extraction of groundwater and inadequate recharging of the vacuum it creates below the surface, found a recent study. Prof Syed Humayun Akhter, a geology teacher at Dhaka University, conducted the study by analysing data ... Read more
2011 In Movies
Last year passed with many ups and downs for the movie industry — with a significant drop in the number of releases. Dhaliwood, the mainstream Dhaka-based film industry, did see the arrival of several new faces, along with the release of Indian films, in 2011. But overall, Dhaliwood failed to emerge from its reliance on ... Read more
Salman and Shah Rukh – the most bankable stars of Bollywood
Salman Khan and Shah Rukh Khan have been named the most bankable stars of Bollywood by ETC Bollywood Business Awards. Kareena Kapoor, who featured in “Bodyguard” and “RA.One” in 2011 opposite Salman and Shah Rukh, has been adjudged the most bankable actress. “Receiving an award wherein you are being adjudged considering the economic quotient as ... Read more
Suchitra Sen Film Festival in Pabna
The 3rd Suchitra Sen Film Festival will kick off in Pabna on January 10. Suchitra Sen Smriti Shangrakkhan Parishad, Pabna is organising the weeklong film festival in the screen legend’s hometown. The organisation also demands that Sen’s ancestral home in Pabna be freed from unjustified occupation, and the legendary screen goddess’s memories be preserved. At ... Read more
Shakira to sing in Indo-Bangla movie
Latin American pop diva Shakira will lend her voice to five out of 30 songs for a movie titled Desire-the Flying Butter, directed by Bangladeshi filmmaker Enamul Kabir Nirjhar. Additionally, renowned singer from Morocco Abdel Hakim will playback for the film along with many other international artistes. ‘It’s a musical which
MF Husain’s art show in Dhaka
It is a great occasion for art lovers in Dhaka to watch the iconic Indian artist Maqbool Fida Hosain’s solo exhibition. Gallery Basilio at New DOHS has organised the exhibition, titled Artist of the Century, to quench the thirst of those who have long desired to see Fida Husain’s great series such as Madhuri, Gaja ... Read more
Beyoncé becomes a mother
Baby-oncé finally has a name — Ivy Blue Carter. Music royalty Beyoncé and Jay-Z welcomed the baby girl in a private wing of Lenox Hill Hospital, the E! network reported Sunday. Music mogul Russell Simmons also confirmed the arrival of the bundle of joy, tweeting “congrats to my good friends Beyonce and Jay-Z.” A very ... Read more
Mobile users now 8.5 crore
The number of mobile subscribers crossed the 8.5 crore mark in December last year, a 24 percent rise from the same month a year ago. At least 1.64 crore new users were brought under the mobile network in the last one year. According to the website of Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission, the
Children get New Year gift
Textbook distribution begins at schools The New Year of school children began with smells of new books. As the students of primary and secondary grades went to schools in the first morning of 2012, they were handed over a new set of textbooks. Some started jumping in joy; some were flipping through the pages. There ... Read more
Buet erupts in protests
Students lay siege to administrative building after BCL men beat up student; 3 expelled from university; academic activities suspended Three Buet students and activists of Bangladesh Chhatra League were suspended from the institute yesterday for beating up a senior student on Saturday. The assault on Tousif Ahmed Eshan, student of the computer science and technology ... Read more
Sajjad still waits for his father
Missing Since 2008 Sajjad still waits for his father Every night Sajjad goes to sleep in the hope that his father will come the next morning. Morning comes a little more harshly — he finds that his hope has been misplaced. Yet he does not lose heart. He puts his father’s T-shirt on the pillow ... Read more
10 killed in two road accidents
Ten people, including six of a family, were killed in separate road accidents in Noakhali and Keraniganj on Sunday. Seven people were killed when their car plunged into a roadside pond in Sonaimuri upazila of Noakhali on Sunday morning while they were going to Noakhali to attend the namaz-e-janaza of a relative. Of the seven ... Read more
Quader for army help to tackle traffic jam
Communications Minister Obaidul Quader yesterday said he might take help of the army to tackle traffic congestion and stop plying of overloaded vehicles in the city. “If necessary, I will take assistance from the army upon approval of the prime minister to give people relief by tackling the nagging traffic congestion,” Quader said while inaugurating ... Read more
Banks’ profits go up despite stock debacle
Private commercial banks weathered a steep downswing in the stockmarket last year to continue their profit growth. Many thought that the banks’ operating profit would come down due to the debacle in the stockmarket, as the key index of the Dhaka bourse plunged by around 37 percent in the year. But the banks proved them ... Read more
Brad Pitt: ‘Films should age like fine wine’
Brad Pitt has insisted that he chooses only quality projects in order to ensure the longevity of his career. The Moneyball actor said that he believes filmmaking should be a process which produces movies that age like a “fine wine”. “Filmmaking is about longevity. Is it a quality picture? A quality story? Is there something ... Read more
Sweden: Wedding ring ‘found on carrot’ after 16 years
A Swedish woman has discovered her wedding ring on a carrot growing in her garden, 16 years after she lost it, says a newspaper. Lena Paahlsson had long ago lost hope of finding the ring, which she designed herself, reports Dagens Nyheter. The white-gold band, set with seven small diamonds, went missing in her kitchen ... Read more
Katy & Russell: the reason behind the split
Sadly for those who adore seeing Katy Perry and Russell Brand together, the dream union lasted only 14 months, with Brand filing divorce from the I Kissed A Girl singer on Friday. Just what has caused the once-envied Hollywood marriage to fall apart? Sources close to the British funnyman that the marriage failed as Brand ... Read more