To mark the birth anniversary of Biswakobi Rabindranath Tagore a special programme “Amader ’71 Amader Rabindranath” will be aired on NTV at 12:10pm on Friday, May 8. Swikriti Prasad Barua produces the programme where country’s leading Tagore artistes including Tapan Mahmud, Salma Akbar, Sajed Akbar, among
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Ten receive Anannya Top Ten awards
Ten women received the ‘Anannya Top Ten 2008’ awards yesterday for their outstanding contributions to different potential sectors in society. The women from 10 distinct fields, including music, media, business, science, liberation war, publication, archaeology, instruments, photography and mountaineering, received the awards. The Anannya, a fortnightly magazine for
Exhibition of Bangladeshi painters in South Korea
The Bangladesh Embassy in South Korea and Korean Foundation are jointly organising an exhibition of eleven Bangladeshi painters at the Korea Foundation Cultural Centre. The exhibition will display around 100 paintings by eleven renowned Bangladeshi artists. The participating painters are Mohammad Kibria, Rafiquan Nabi, Mahmudul Haque, Kalidas Karmakar,
Trying to make sense out of nonsense
Installation by two up and coming artists at Drik Opening the door to the gallery on the second floor of Drik (in Dhanmondi), a gargantuan human form — made of 5,000 shoe soles — stretched across the whole floor baffles and awes one. Big labels with words “abstraction,” “power,” “policy,” “decency,” “ethics” etc make one ... Read more
Space & Decor at Kaya
A dual art exhibition titled ‘Space & Decor’ by Bishwajit Paul and Raton Sarker is being held at Gallery Kaya in Uttara. The exhibition was inaugurated on May 1 and will remain open from 11:00am to 8:00pm till May 12. Fifty-seven artworks including seven sculptures are being displayed at the gallery. Fifty artworks are made ... Read more
An European treat to Dhaka audience
A ten-day European film festival jointly organised by Alliance Française and Jahir Raihan Film Society begins today at the auditorium of Alliance Française in Dhanmondi. The organisers will screen twenty films from 20 countries of Europe at the festival. The countries include France, the United Kingdom, Iceland, Norway, Denmark, Sweden, Germany and Italy. Two films ... Read more
Poor products dominate bottled water business
Bottled water supply has become a fast growing business as a growing number of people over the years have turned to the bottled drinking water against the backdrop of diminishing confidence on water supplied by the authorities. But substandard suppliers are dominating the market in absence of proper monitoring and legal action by the authorities ... Read more
IBM should reveal truth about engineering layoffs
Perhaps more than any other U.S. high-technology company, IBM Corp. has been subjected to intense media scrutiny in the aftermath of a string of recent under-the-radar layoffs. Much of that unwanted attention is a direct result of union activism that has taken on a decidedly “we’re mad as hell and we’re-not going to take it ... Read more
Japan solar cell makers eye 1GW production
As power plants go green, Japan’s solar cell panel developers are expanding their focus from residential applications to deployments on a grander scale, targeting 1GW-class production within a few years. Sanyo Electric Co. Ltd and Nippon Oil Corp. have jointly launched Sanyo Eneos Solar to target the solar power plant market. The parent companies are ... Read more
Wireless chipset delivers 1080p HD content
Amimon Inc. has announced the immediate availability of the second generation transmitter and receiver chips (AMN 2120/2220) designed for the Wireless Home Digital Interface (WHDI) standard. The device is the first chipset capable of wirelessly delivering full uncompressed 1080p/60Hz high-definition content throughout the entire home. The chipset is based on video modem technology operating in ... Read more
Strip Sircar of MP status
Corruption In Sangsad Strip Sircar of MP status JS probe body also recommends criminal cases against Akhtar Hamid, Delwar A parliamentary sub-committee, probing alleged corruption of former speaker Jamiruddin Sircar, yesterday recommended revocation of his membership in the parliament for ‘massive financial graft involving moral turpitude’. The sub-committee also recommended filing of criminal cases against ... Read more
Dhaka to seek outside help in BDR recast
Taj says; new name, uniform being picked for overhauled force State Minister for Home Tanjim Ahmed Sohel Taj yesterday said that the government would take necessary assistance from the friendly countries to modernise the border security force Bangladesh Rifles (BDR), if necessary. Earlier, India and the USA had offered to help Bangladesh reorganise its border ... Read more
No job for vice-chairmen in upazila parishad rules
No role of upazila, union parishads in TR programme The government on Tuesday issued a guideline on the functioning of the newly-formed upazila parishads without defining the jurisdiction of vice-chairmen. The LGRD and cooperatives ministry issued the guideline, which will remain effective until the Upazila Parishad Rules of Business 2009 is framed. The food and ... Read more
BNP launches protests over power, water and gas
The opposition BNP launched on Tuesday a series of protests spread over a month to protest power, water, and gas crises and ‘worsening security’. Party supporters were holding processions and rallies in Upazila, districts and metropolises to put pressure on the government to resolve the issues. The protests will run from
Clock may go 1hr behind June 16
Advance work in daylight to save 250MW electricity The government may bring forward the Bangladesh Standard Time by one hour from June 16 if an inter-ministerial meeting decision to introduce daylight saving time (DST) is approved by the cabinet. If the system is introduced, clocks will be adjusted forward by one hour. It means offices ... Read more
No more ‘crossfire’ killings: Ashraful
Local government minister Syed Ashraful Islam yesterday said the government will no more allow the law-enforcing agencies to use “crossfire”- killings without trial-as a tool. “Establishment of rule of law is a must for a democratic country and for that no extra-judicial killings will be allowed to be used as a tool of law-enforcing agencies,” ... Read more
Unauthorised pharmacies, unskilled manpower create health hazard
Around 80 thousand drug license holders throughout the country including 10 thousand in the capital are running pharmacy business mostly with unskilled manpower creating several problems during dealing with customers. Around 80 thousand drug licenses including 10 thousand in the capital for running pharmacy business have been issued to applicants who have trade licenses and ... Read more
Jubok Housing chief held for fraud
Police yesterday arrested Jubok Housing Society Chairman M Lokman Hossain on charges of fraud, in a pre-dawn sweep at a house at Dhanmondi in the city. Meanwhile, police took Lokman on seven days’ remand in connection with two fraud cases filed against him with Dhanmondi police station. Talking to this correspondent SI Atikur Rahman of ... Read more
Cabinet reshuffle likely to be delayed
Fate of some ministers hinges on performance The major reshuffle in the cabinet which seemed eminent earlier is now likely to be delayed by another month in view of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s decision to watch the performance of incumbent cabinet members for six months. Sheikh Hasina reportedly told the cabinet meeting on Monday to ... Read more
3 lakh buildings constructed in capital without approval
Rajdhani Unnayan Kartripakkha would soon go for action against nearly 2,500 buildings identified to have been constructed in deviation from their approved designs, officials said. About 90 per cent of more than 10 lakh buildings in the capital have been constructed without following the designs approved by the city development authorities, officials added. They also ... Read more