Trash talk Queen Miss. Sawant is mulling over Shahid Kapoor in her upcoming flick Dil Bole Hadippa. The reason behind all the hulla-gulla is that Shahid had saved her life during the shoot of a song sequence Discowale Kishko… In an interview Rakhi stated, “Today I’m alive, and that is just because of Shahid. I ... Read more
Dhaka Mirror
Swine flu may break loose
Experts say virus now quickly spreading in wider community; 31 new cases confirmed Thirty-one new cases of swine flu were detected yesterday with experts warning Bangladesh’s alert level may soon be upgraded to “level 3” as the virus is quickly spreading from small clusters to the wider
Swine flu spreading at unbelievable rate: WHO
Swine flu spreads four times faster than other viruses and 40 per cent of the fatalities are young adults in good health, the world’s top health official warned in an interview appearing Saturday. ‘This virus travels at an unbelievable, almost unheard of speed,’ the World Health Organisation
Hasina, Khaleda host Iftar
Each avoids other’s party Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and Opposition Leader Khaleda Zia played truant with their invitation to each other for iftar yesterday as the two political camps virtually ignored the exchanged overtures. Neither the Prime Minister nor the
Bus service for schools by Oct
DTCB plans to discourage cars for school runs, reduce traffic jams The government is going to introduce exclusive bus services for school children by late October as part of its effort to ease terrible traffic jams that waste valuable time and energy of people living in
Dhaka-Yangon road project in limbo
The project for construction of a friendship road between Bangladesh and Myanmar, undertaken in 2004 in line with the country’s ‘look east policy’ is in a state of limbo because of non-cooperation from the Yangon
Non-traditional sources of energy answer to power crisis
A total of 3.34 lakh Solar Home System (SHS) installed in the rural and urban areas in the country, are producing 18MW of electricity everyday. The SHS covers at least 1.7 million people mainly in remote rural areas across the country,
Iranian mugged, assaulted
Police inaction alleged Thugs beat up an Iranian national and snatched her cash and jewelries on August 26 while she was traveling on a taxi. The victim Ashraf Aghazadeh alias Mina is the vice-principal of Bailey Road branch of Gateway
TSP factory MD held over rape charge
He terms it conspiracy Police arrested Managing Director of triple super phosphate (TSP) fertiliser factory Zahirul Haq from his residence in the city early yesterday on charge of raping a domestic
No specific charges against Azad as yet
Law enforcers neither brought any specific charges against the Azad Group chairman, Abul Kalam Azad, also the managing director of the company, nor produced him in court even after the expiry of his remand
DCC ward commissioner Habib held with Yaba tablets
The Rapid Action Battalion arrested Khawaja Habibullah, a ward commissioner of Dhaka City Corporation, and one of his associates along with 1,500 pieces of contraband Yaba tablets in Paribagh area of the city Saturday
Marico holds IPO lottery
Marico Bangladesh Limited yesterday held a lottery for the allotment of shares in the initial public offering (IPO), the company said in a statement. Marico has allotted 29,97,750 ordinary shares to general public, NRBs and mutual funds and 152,250 shares to its employees. Refund warrants of unsuccessful applicants and allotment letters will be distributed from ... Read more
Almost 50pc Bangladeshis still live on below $1.25 a day
Almost 50 per cent of the country’s population now live on less than $1.25 a day, a yardstick of measuring extreme poverty level in global standard, reveals the latest release of Asian Development Bank. Bangladesh has been placed in a position just above Nepal among 20 economies of the Asia-Pacific region where over 10 per ... Read more
WiMax service likely in city from mid-Oct
The broadband wireless internet service WiMax is likely to be launched in the city from the second week of October. Banglalion Communica-tion Ltd, one of the two companies that obtained WiMax licences, will provide the service under its ‘friendly test use’ programme to 15 areas of the city, GM Faruk Khan, head of promotion and ... Read more
Banglalink revenue up by 29pc
Mobile phone operator banglalink earned revenues of Tk 1,183 crore at the end of first half 2009, which is an increase of 29 per cent compared to the same time last year. Its subscriber base increased steadily and reached 11.04 million at the end of June, which is a 17 per cent increase compared to ... Read more
Miss Venezuela Stefania Fernandez wins Miss Universe 2009 title
Miss Venezuela was the fairest of them all, again. Venezuelan Stefania Fernandez won the 2009 Miss Univere pageant in the Bahamas on monday. Dressed in a flowing red gown, Fernandez embraced runner up Miss Dominican Republic as the announcement was made, and received the crown from last year’s winner, Dayana Mendoza, of Venezuela. The other ... Read more
Govt takes on terror socially, politically
Ansar-VDP assigned to monitor militancy at grassroots; imams join campaign Recognising the fact that anti-militant drive is not enough to uproot the evil of extremism from the society, the government has launched a massive socio-political campaign, involving 14 different agencies, to educate people and
Govt owes Tk 30,832cr to lenders in power sector
The government owes a whopping sum of Tk 30,832 crore as debt service liabilities to lenders, including foreign donors, for the power sector since 1972, though such massive funding failed to yield the desired improvement
Biman struggles to maintain flight schedule
The authorities of Biman Bangladesh Airlines yesterday cancelled two of its international flights and changed timetable of all its flights even three or four times in last
Ministers blame media role for price hike
Finance and commerce ministers have pinned the blame on the media for the price hike of essentials after much-hyped market monitoring and TCB’s sales drives failed to prevent food prices from