By ApunKaChoice It seems one movie per year resolution is going to be null for Aamir Khan who will start working for a cricket-based film as soon as he finishes 3 Idiots . The movie, titled ‘Ferrari Ki Sawaari’, has cricket as the central subject. Aamir, who is riding high on success with Ghajini making ... Read more
Dhaka Mirror
Upazila polls influenced
EC slams ruling party for misusing offices, controlling administration; tells of violence, ballot-stuffing, seizing polling stations by AL men; decides to probe low turnout reason Shakhawat Liton and Shariful Islam Low turnout, ministers and ruling party lawmakers meddling in balloting, and irregularities in places marked the long-awaited upazila elections yesterday, meaning a letdown for the ... Read more
Ghosts of past return
Ruling party interference, clash, voter intimidation, ballot box hijack mar upazila polls Staff Correspondent More than 100 people including policemen were injured across the country during clashes between supporters of rival candidates of upazila polls yesterday. Clashes, ruling party activists influencing polling, snatching of ballot boxes and ballot papers, preventing voters from going to the ... Read more
Rigging, forgery across country in UZ polls, alleges BNP
Staff Correspondent BNP on Thursday alleged massive irregularities and vote rigging took place during upazila election across the country under the very nose of law enforcers. “Ruling Awami League’s MPs, leaders and workers in association with the law enforcers influenced people for casting votes in favour of their candidates. Even they issued threat to the ... Read more
Ashraful terms upazila polls peaceful
Staff Reporter Local Government and Cooperative Minister Syed Ashraful Islam yesterday expressed his satisfaction over the law and order situation during the upazila polls across the country. He said that the presence of voters at the polling centres would have been much higher if the political parties would participate in the upazila elections directly. Ashraful ... Read more
Clashes spoil JS polls success
Say observers Staff Correspondent Several election monitoring orgainsations yesterday in preliminary findings said voters’ turnout in upazila parishad polls was low and incidence of violence in polling centers overshadowed the bright achievements of the recently held national polls. The Election Working Group, a non-partisan network of civil society organisation, in a press release said that ... Read more
45 of 122 ordinances to be placed in JS
BSS, Dhaka Law, Justice and Parliamentary Affairs Minister Barrister Shafique Ahmed yesterday said out of the total 122 ordinances promulgated by the immediate past caretaker government, 45 of them would be placed in the first phase during the first session of the Ninth parliament for enacting laws. “The issue to make some ordinances laws will ... Read more
Dhaka tipped to qualify this time
Muhith, US envoy see bright prospect for MCA fund Staff Correspondent Bangladesh may qualify by this year for the Millennium Challenge Account (MCA) fund if it makes a little improvement in the fields of functional democracy, governance and economic policies and cutting corruption. “Bangladesh will achieve quick improvement in the fields of curbing corruption, good ... Read more
Castro breaks silence to praise Obama
Reuters/Bdnews24 . Havana Cuba’s Fidel Castro praised the US president, Barack Obama, on Wednesday for his ‘noble intentions’ but said in his first opinion column in five weeks that the new American leader had many questions to answer. President Raul Castro dismissed rumours that his older brother Fidel Castro was at death’s door, saying on ... Read more
Hillary confirmed as new US chief diplomat
Agence France-Presse . Washington Hillary Clinton became president Barack Obama’s top diplomat after pledging to fight climate change, push hard for Arab-Israeli peace and take a new approach to US foes like Iran. The confirmation came on Obama’s first full day in office. Hillary, a former Obama presidential campaign rival, was confirmed as secretary of ... Read more
Shakib best all-rounder
Series decider today Sports Reporter Shakib Al Hasan has been named the top player of ICC All-rounder’s ODI Championship Rankings this week following his sparkling performance with both bat and ball. The 21-year old from Magura, who now heads the rankings with 380 points, was number three last week but ran ahead of New Zealand’s ... Read more
Corruption in BTCL: 9 officials to be chargesheeted, 47 to be sued by ACC
Staff Reporter Anti Corruption Commission (ACC) has approved the submission of charge sheet against nine officials of Bangladesh Telecommunications Company Limited (BTCL) for accumulating about Tk 4 crore beyond known source of income and concealing information about another Tk 4 crore. One of them is former director Mohammad Toufiq of BTCL, who was accused of ... Read more
Microsoft slashes 5,000 jobs as recession hits
From Times Online Software giant will make first company-wide job cuts in its history as economic downturn hits its second-quarter profits Murad Ahmed Microsoft announced today that it will eliminate 5,000 jobs worldwide, the first company-wide cuts in its history. The software giant said that posts will go from nearly all its departments, including research ... Read more
Nazi angel of death Josef Mengele ‘created twin town in Brazil’
The Nazi doctor Josef Mengele is responsible for the astonishing number of twins in a small Brazilian town, an Argentine historian has claimed. By Nick Evans in Buenos Aires The steely hearted “Angel of Death”, whose mission was to create a master race fit for the Third Reich, was the resident medic at Auschwitz from ... Read more
Mexico police chief’s head found in ice box
The head of a Mexican police chief was delivered to his colleagues in an ice box in the country’s latest drug-related violence. The incident came as 16 other people were also killed in Mexico’s northern state of Chihuahua in attacks the authorities believe are linked to the country’s drug wars. “Hitmen cut off commander Martin ... Read more
Victoria Beckham’s live-in clothes
Victoria Beckham says she “lived” in her new dress designs. The 34-year-old former Spice Girl, who sucks her thumb while wearing a military cap covering her eyes on the cover of Russian Vogue magazine, was inspired by herself to create her latest fashion range. She said: “Vintage underwear played a big influence on the collection, ... Read more
Killing of children in Gaza condemned
Cultural Correspondent Dhaka will host a week-long festival featuring films from home and abroad for the children. More than 120 films from will be screened at the second international children’s film festival, beginning on January 24, said the
Chronic obstructive lung disease
Easir Abedin Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is a lung disease in which the lungs are damaged, making it hard to breathe. In COPD, the airways-the tubes that carry air in and out of your lungs – are partly obstructed, making it difficult to get air in and out. Cigarette smoking is the most common ... Read more
‘Banchte Shikho Nari’
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Relieved but not resting
Bishwajit Roy It was not a victory to celebrate. It rather came as a relief for Bangla-desh when they handed a six-wicket defeat to Zimbabwe in the second game to square the three-match series 1-1 at the Sher-e-Bangla National Stadium in Mirpur yesterday. Anything other than a victory would not only have awarded the series ... Read more