Bollywood star Ranbir Kapoor will play the role of Kishore Kumar in director Anurag Basu’s biopic on the legendary singer-actor. “Ranbir, UTV and I, all three of us are committed to make this film. Ranbir is busy, he is doing two films in between. After ‘Barfi’, Ranbir and I will come together again for this ... Read more
Month: September 2012
Strategies for preventing suicide
Every year, almost one million people die by suicide around the world. Young people are increasingly vulnerable to suicidal behaviours. Worldwide, suicide is one of the three leading causes of death among those in the most economically productive age group (15-44 years), and the second leading cause of death in the 15-19 years age group. ... Read more
UK-based Channel 4 airs Tareque’s Runway
The UK based popular broadcast media Channel 4 broadcasted internationally acclaimed Bangladeshi filmmaker Tareque Masud’s last film Runway on Thursday at 6:30am Bangladeshi local time. Before the broadcast, the TV channel also aired an interview of Teraque’s widow Catherine Masud. Earlier on Saturday, Channel 4
Subarna Mostafa calls the shots
Subarna Mostafa is busy shooting for the comedy, “Bibaho Bibhrat”, scheduled to air during the upcoming Eid Ul Azha. Shaju Khadem acts opposite her in the play directed by Muntasir Bipon. Subarna has just finished shooting for another play, “Biraler Golaye Ghonta Badhibe Ke” directed by Milon. This is also slotted for the Eid. Here ... Read more
RAJUK needs greater authority: chairman
Rajdhani Unnayan Kartripakkha and its chairman should be empowered to control and regulate all planning and development activities in the capital city, RAJUK chairman Nurul Huda said on Thursday. Speaking at workshop he said that RAJUK and its chairmen needed greater authority to carry out their assigned responsibilities
BTRC serves show-cause notices on GP, Banglalink
Failure to launch 10-second pulse BTRC serves show-cause notices on GP, Banglalink Asks them to refund additional charge to subscribers The telecom regulator on Thursday served show-cause notices on Grameenphone and Banglalink for failing to launch 10-second pulse in each call and flat tariff rate by September 15 and asked them to refund the additional ... Read more
Power prices up by 16pc
The Bangladesh Energy Regulatory Commission on Thursday increased retail power prices by 15 per cent and the bulk power price by 16.92 per cent on an average for the next one year with a retrospective effect from September 1. Retail consumers will have to pay Tk 0.68 a unit, on an average, to distribution agencies ... Read more
Tigers intent on team effort
The focus will be on champion all-rounder Shakib Al Hasan when Bangladesh play their first match in the ICC World Twenty20 against New Zealand at the Pallekele International Stadium today. While it is true that the team effort will be key for Bangladesh to realise their ambition of qualifying for the Super Eight stage, Shakib ... Read more
A better unit if not best
In a career blighted by series of injuries, Mashrafee bin Murtaza has had many regrets as he missed the 2011 World Cup at home, lost the glory of becoming the first Test captain to win a Test series overseas. If Mashrafee makes a shortlist of his injury-toll, he will probably find the Bangladesh-New Zealand one-day series ... Read more
Pace & pitch cause concern for Tigers
To both Mushfiqur Rahim and Ross Taylor there was a common question – if they see any similarity between Pallekele International Stadium and Queenstown Events Park in New Zealand? The questioner was so obsessed with the so called beauty of Pallekele that he was looking for a certificate from the captains that it is indeed ... Read more
Entertaining draw for Bangladesh
The Bangladesh national football team had to be satisfied with a tense 1-1 draw in their first international friendly match in a year against hosts Nepal at the Dasharath Stadium in Kathmandu yesterday. After the cancellation of the first of the two international friendly matches due to heavy rain on Tuesday, there was also concern of ... Read more
BCB to float fresh tender
The Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) has decided to float a fresh tender for its worldwide media rights after the failure of negotiations with local media conglomerate Virgo Media Limited. The media company, which owns TV’s Channel 9, was asked to raise its original bidding value, worth 6 million dollars, in order to match the offer ... Read more
MSC form strong squad
Mohammedan Sporting Club expect a better performance this time as the Dhaka giants on Thursday registered 24 players for the upcoming football season, including 10 new names from other Bangladesh Premier League clubs. The Motijheel-based club retained their last-season skipper Motiur Rahman Munna who
Terrible start for Siddikur
Siddikur Rahman continued his recent sorry form at the Panasonic Open in the Japanese city of Hyogo yesterday, finishing the first round in joint 101st position with a distressingly ordinary round of two-over-par 73. The severity of Siddikur’s bad day was highlighted by the fact that leader Yuta Ikeda of
Players’ absence makes it a drab prize giving ceremony
The prize giving ceremony of Bangladesh Hockey Federation was held at the Falcon Hall at Tejgaon on Thursday with the absence of players making it a drab show, commented some guests. The BHF organised the programme to hand over the trophies of last three seasons of Premier Division Hockey leagues but they did not invite ... Read more
Bangladeshi scientists invent fungus gene
A Bangladeshi scientist has decoded the genome of a most deadly fungus that causes havoc to global jute and soybean production. The fungus — macrophomina phaseolina — also causes seedling blight, root rot and charcoal rot of more than 500 crop and non-crop
Malibagh market now ‘formalin-free’
FBCCI to provide detection machine to 10 more markets The Malibagh kitchen market was declared formalin-free on Wednesday as part of the Federation of Bangladesh Chamber and Commerce Industry initiative to stop use of the hazardous chemical on fish and vegetables. The apex chamber body distributed three formalin detection machines to the Malibagh
Turnover hits 14-month high on DSE
Bourse wants share sales ban on BSRM Steels’ directors Dhaka stocks gained for the second day on Wednesday with the turnover of the bourse hit a 14-month high at Tk 1,288.42 crore as investors remained hopeful about the World Bank loan for the Padma bridge. DGEN, the benchmark general index of Dhaka Stock Exchange, gained ... Read more
Int’l conference on Bangladesh to be held at Harvard
An international conference on “Achieving Edge for Bangladesh” will be organised at Harvard University in the United States on October 13. The conference will discuss “Sustainability of Good Governance” and “Management of Strategic Resources” in reference to Padma Bridge and
‘This is Tigers’ best T20 side’
Like Mashrafe Bin Mortaza who spoke on the subject the other day, chief selector Akram Khan also thinks that the current team is Bangladesh’s best T20 side. Most importantly, the former Bangladesh skipper believes that this team has started to figure out the nuances of cricket’s newest format. “It was not long ago that the ... Read more