COLOMBO – The leader of Sri Lanka’s Tamil Tigers, Velupillai Prabhakaran, was shot dead Monday while trying to flee advancing troops, defence officials told AFP. Prabhakaran was in a small convoy of a van and ambulance along with several close aides which tried to drive out of the battle zone, but was attacked and killed, ... Read more
Dhaka Mirror
Cybercriminals In The Cloud
So-called reputation services can weed out suspicious IP addresses and behaviors. Security breaches continue to plague organizations, causing CIOs to question whether their traditional network security solutions are adequate for protecting against increasingly sophisticated cybercriminals. Recently, it was reported that foreign hackers broke into the Pentagon’s $300 billion fighter plane weapons program, a security breach ... Read more
Shakila Zafar celebrates 30 years of music
Celebrating thirty years in the music scene, noted singer Shalika Zafar delighted the audiences by performing in a solo musical programme. Amra Surjomukhi, a cultural organisation, arranged the programme at the auditorium of the Bangladesh National Museum on Saturday evening. Eminent cultural personality Syed Hasan Imam inaugurated the programme while journalist Rahat Khan was present ... Read more
Ballads of the Agonised Souls
Photo exhibition on thalassaemia at Zainul Gallery Images at the exhibition, titled “Ballads of the Agonised Souls,” are quite expressive with smiling faces of children, but a strange silence pervades on the whole. The photographs explore the lives — little joys and agonies — of thalassaemia patients in our country. Thalassaemia is an inherited blood ... Read more
Major juice manufacturers flout BSTI rules
Some of the major juice manufacturers are flouting the rule by not marking the juice packs with maximum retail price. The rule of Bangladesh Standards and Testing Institution clearly states that every 250ml juice pack should have been marked with MRP. But, visiting some city outlets that sell packed juices it was found that some ... Read more
BCB XI’s huge win
The England-bound national cricketers warmed up well with a comfortable 63-run victory against Maharashtra Cricket Association in the first T20 match at the Sher-e-Bangla National Stadium in Mirpur yesterday. The most encouraging factor for the Tigers, who are scheduled to fly for England on May 23 to take part in the ICC Twenty20 World Cup, ... Read more
Bashar first at BCB door
Habibul Bashar was the first to come forward to take the opportunity of “amnesty” announced by the Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) for the players who joined the unauthorised Indian Cricket League (ICL). The former national skipper submitted a letter to BCB president Lt Gen Sina Ibn Jamali yesterday mentioning that he wanted to avail the ... Read more
Ashgabat through
Abahani down but not out Ashgabat FC of Turkmenis-tan emerged as the champions of the AFC President’s Cup Group B after playing out a goalless draw with Dhaka Abahani at the Bangabandhu National Stadium on Saturday. The draw put Ashgabat level with Abahani on four points at the top but the Turkmenistan side won the ... Read more
Mashrafe’s losing debut
Indian Premier League Mashrafe’s losing debut Deccan Chargers climbed one place to third in the Indian Premier League table after a thrilling six-wicket win over struggling Kolkata Knight Riders at Wanderers on Saturday. Kolkata made 160-5 after they lost the toss and were sent in to bat and Deccan reached 166-4 off the last ball ... Read more
Ruling party members blamed for the trouble
RED ALERT IN GARMENT SECTOR Ruling party members blamed for the trouble Abdur Rahman Khan County’s export oriented garments industries have been facing grave uncertainty posing a threat to the vital foreign currency earnings and job opportunity of the huge female workers. It is the law and order situation that has been causing concern for ... Read more
35,000-year-old statue thought to be world’s first nude sculpture
A 35,000 year-old buxom statuette has been unveiled by scientists as the world’s earliest sculpture of the naked female form. The sexually explicit figurine was carved out of mammoth ivory and was given huge breasts and private parts along with a bloated belly and thighs that by today’s standards “could be seen as bordering on ... Read more
Woman hunter kills elephant with bow and arrow
Female hunter Teressa Groenewald-Hagerman has become the first woman in the world to shoot an elephant dead with a bow and arrow. Groenewald-Hagerman, 39, she sneaked into the animals herd and killed the creature with one shot from just 12 yards. The woman, from Kansas, was inspired to go on the safari after being challenged ... Read more
Human Rights Violated by Climate Change
The UN Human Rights Council has adopted a resolution proposed by the Maldives to hold a panel discussion on the relationship between human rights and climate change. The resolution states that “Global warming violates human rights of millions of people, especially in countries vulnerable to climate change such as the low-lying island state of the ... Read more
Congress alliance wins India polls: Sonia names Manmohan next premier: BJP concedes defeat
Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s ruling coalition won an overwhelming election victory on Saturday, boosting hopes of a stable government as the emerging Asian power faces economic downturn and tensions with Pakistan. Singh’s Congress-led coalition, riding on the back of years of economic growth, did better than expected and will probably be only just short ... Read more
Two ex-NSI chiefs nabbed for links to Ctg arms haul
They’re to be produced in Ctg court today Former Directors General (DGs) of National Security Intelligence (NSI) Major General (Retd) Rezzaqul Haider and Brigadier General (Retd) Abdur Rahim were arrested in the capital early yesterday for their suspected links to the 10 truckloads of arms haul in Chittagong in 2004. The Criminal Investigation Department (CID) ... Read more
JMB has at least 50 bomb experts now
All of them learnt the ropes from ‘Boma Mizan’ Law enforcers suspect there are at least 50 operatives in the militant Islamist organisation Jama’atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) who can make bombs, and almost all of them were trained by now detained Jahid Hossain Sumon alias ‘Boma Mizan’. ‘Boma Mizan’, key-explosives expert of the banned outfit, ... Read more
Sustainable architecture can ensure best use of resources: BUET team wins world award
Architects at a programme here yesterday said Bangladesh needs sustainable architectures to ensure the best use of its existing resources. “Bangladesh suffers from various problems due to mismanagement of wealth and lack of sustainable architectures,” Architect Ahsan Ullah Mojumder of Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET) told a press conference on the campus. Sustainable ... Read more
Rajuk set to falter on timeline, again
Purbachal, Uttara Projects Rajuk set to falter on timeline, again Rajdhani Unnayan Kartripakkha (Rajuk) may miss the deadline for allotment of plots at Purbachal New Town Project and Uttara Model Town (3rd Phase) by June due to non-completion of scrutiny of around 1.65 lakh applications submitted against over 7,000 plots. Besides, Rajuk has missed the ... Read more
Left’s red fort in West Bengal falls
The red fort in West Bengal crumbled yesterday as the poll results came out there. After being in power in the state for 32 years without a break, ruling Left Front suffered a severe drubbing at the hands of the alliance of Trinamool Congress and Congress, which swept the Lok Sabha elections. Trinamool Congress-Congress alliance ... Read more
Lanka President declares victory in civil war
May 16: Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa said today that his country had defeated the Tamil Tiger rebels on the battlefield and emerged victorious from its quarter century civil war. “My government, with the total commitment of our armed forces, has in an unprecedented humanitarian operation finally defeated the LTTE militarily,” he said referring to ... Read more