Busy actress Several TV serials, featuring Moushumi Nag, are now on air on different channels. At present she seems to be busy with her shooting more than ever. Almost everyday she is shooting for TV plays. Alongside she is continuing modelling as well. “Ladies First”, featuring Moushumi, is being telecast on Banglavision. The drama is ... Read more
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Asif Iqbal returns with 3 albums
Renowned lyricist Asif Iqbal is going to hit the country’s music industry again with his three latest albums. After a break of about two years, the talented artiste is coming soon with his coffers of lyrics to stimulate the listeners. Among the three albums, two titled as “Shobta Jure” and “Obhimani Akash” will be released ... Read more
Michael Learns to Rock to perform in Dhaka
Danish pop-soft rock band Michael Learns to Rock will perform in Dhaka on June 22 at the Bangabandhu International Conference Centre in their first ever visit to Bangladesh, said a press release. A local talented singer will get the chance to perform with the internationally acclaimed rock band in the concert. The singer will be ... Read more
Mir Sabbir shoots for a new drama
Sound, lights, action Mir Sabbir shoots for a new drama Approaching Dhanmondi Lake near a dead end on road number 4, a crowd of curious rickshaw-pullers and pedestrians gather around a spot. A shoot for a play is underway. Mir Sabbir — the director of the drama — sits in front of the monitor, while ... Read more
Chemical storing goes on unabated
Nimtoli Inferno Tragedy Chemical storing goes on unabated Septuagenarian Chan Mia now runs a tiny tea stall and has been living hand to mouth since the devastating Nimtoli inferno in 2010 gutted his precious semi-grocery shop. All he has in his eight-feet-by-five-feet tin-made stall are two kettles, two pairs of cups, a small jar of ... Read more
Biman flies into a tailspin
Glitches in aircraft lead to chaotic flight schedule Biman Bangladesh Airlines has been failing to maintain its flight schedules since May 1 due to technical glitches in a number of aircraft. In the latest incident yesterday, a Kathmandu-bound A310 airbus returned to Dhaka Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport because of a fault in its hydraulic
QUBEE Summer Laptop Fair starts June 7
A three-day ‘QUBEE Summer Laptop Fair 2012’ begins on June 7 at Ruposhi Bangla Hotel in the capital. Event management organisation Maker Communication is organising the fair with the slogan ‘Enlighten up the Technology’ for the 11th time in Bangladesh, the organisers said at a press briefing at city’s Pan Pacific Sonargaon Hotel on Saturday
Realtors protest Sahara’s entry
The government’s decision to allow Sahara India Pariwar to invest in the real estate sector has been met with vehement objections from the local realtors. The government is set to provide Sahara with one lakh acres of land to develop a satellite township around Dhaka. The move comes at a time when the government failed to ... Read more
Buriganga in its death throes
Waste continues to be dumped into the River Buriganga despite a June 2011 High Court order which prohibited the dumping of waste in the river or on its banks as well as ordering the sealing of sewerage outlets and industrial wastes lines within a year. The High Court directed the chairman of Dhaka Water Supply ... Read more
Farah Ruma: All in one
Farah Ruma has been in media for more than a decade. She has demonstrated her brilliance in drama, modelling, cinema, and in hosting TV shows. “Amaro Gaite Ichche Holo”, a music show hosted by her has been aired for about two and half years. The programme is telecast on ntv at 9pm once a week. ... Read more
Group exhibition features women artists
Women artists of the country have exhibited their spirit of womanhood, enlightenment, enthusiasm and creativity through an ongoing group exhibition at Bay’s Galleria, Radius Centre in Gulshan. Thirteen celebrated artists like Farida Zaman, Naima Haque, Kanak Chanpa Chakma, Nasreen Begum, Bipasha Hayat and are displaying 23 artworks at the exhibition titled ‘Illuminating
12 killed in Keraniganj traffic accident
Twelve, including nine of a family, were killed after a microbus carrying them had collided head-on with a bus on the Dhaka–Mawa Road at Dhakkhin Keraniganj in Dhaka on Wednesday morning. Dhakkhin Keraniganj police subinspector Robiul Azam, who recovered the body from the spot, said that he had found 10 dead on the
HC asks eight policemen to appear
Molestation at Police Club HC asks eight policemen to appear The High Court on Wednesday issued a rule on its own asking the government and the police to explain in two weeks why the authorities should not be ordered to prosecute the five police officers for their alleged involvement in the molestation of a teenaged ... Read more
GPS tracker mandatory for trucks, vans
The government on Wednesday ordered that GPS (global positioning system) tracker must be installed in all trucks and covered vans carrying goods along the highways to help check hijacking of vehicles, now a big concern to businessmen. The directive came at an inter-ministerial meeting that discussed extortion and other problems in transport sector at the ... Read more
Girl, parents give deposition to probe body
The teenaged girl, who was molested on Tuesday by two policemen in the Police Club near the judges’ courts in Dhaka, gave her deposition late Wednesday night to a committee the police set up for an investigation. The girl and her
MLM plundering money of commoners: ACC chief
Chairman of Anticorruption Commission (ACC) Golam Rahman on Wednesday termed the Multi Level Marketing (MLM) companies as plunderers.“Plundering of money is going on across the country in the name of MLM business. They are involved in money laundering. The activities are being carried out to make commoners pauper
Enforce house rent act
Tenants’ association asks govt Jatiya Bharatia Parishad, an association of tenants, yesterday demanded the enforcement of House Rent Control Act, 1991, to prevent the house owners from increasing the rent arbitrarily. The council also urged to bring an end to the practice of evicting tenants without prior notice. “Each year house owners
Strategy for Community Radio installation, broadcast and operation launched
A national policy strategy for the implementation of community radio installation, broadcast and operation was launched on Wednesday. The Government of Bangladesh, with technical support from UNICEF, hope that their vision for the growth of community radio will be
Marketers of greed reign supreme
Star finds many multilevel companies not making headlines, silently swindling fortune-seekers before vanishing abruptly Shady multilevel marketing (MLM) companies are cheating people across the country by offering them double return on deposits in less than a year, high monthly returns and huge profits from product sales. These companies rent top-class office rooms and create eye-catching ... Read more
Bid to save sister costs him his life
A family feud led to the murder of a man by his brother-in-law in the city’s Shahjahanpur area yesterday. The incident happened when Mozammel Hossain Milon, the victim, tried to save his sister when she was attacked by her husband Hafizur Rahman Khan at the latter’s Shantibagh residence, relatives said. Milon went to his