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]]>Md Obaidul Hoque, executive director of the SME and special programmes department at the Bangladesh Bank, and Muhammed Ali, adviser of Premier Bank, handed over the crests of the SME Women Entrepreneurs Award to the winners, a press release said.
Jahanara Begum of Suntex International won the award in the trading category, Sharmin Akter of Material Handling Solution in the service category and Saria Hossain of Knots Logistics Ltd in the service category.
M Reazul Karim, managing director of Premier Bank, presided over the programme.
Md Jaker Hossain, general manager of the SME and special programmes department at the BB, Liza Fahmida, Rozina Akhter Mostafi, deputy general managers, and Afsana Choudhury, deputy director, and Syed Nowsher Ali, Shamsuddin Choudhury, Shahed Sikandar, Kazi Ahsan Khalil, Syed Abul Hashem, deputy managing
directors of Premier Bank, were also present.
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]]>The BSSF has planned to select the shooters from the championships to provide them further training with a target to produce good results in the 2020 Olympics.
The selected players will initially be sent to five Rifle clubs – Kushtia, Pabna, Tangail, Dhaka and Chittagong Metropolis – and the federation will provide all logistic supports including pocket money of the players, informed BSSF joint secretary Ishfaq Ahmed.
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A book titled Intentional Smile, co-authored by Shazia Omar and Merrill Khan was launched at Red Shift Café in Gulshan on Saturday. They outlined concepts for an individual’s mental well-being such as gratitude, positive outlooks, significance of a healthy lifestyle, and the law of attraction in the book. A book titled Intentional Smile, co-authored by Shazia Omar and Merrill Khan was launched at Red Shift Café in Gulshan on Saturday. They outlined concepts for an individual’s mental well-being such as gratitude, positive outlooks, significance of a healthy lifestyle, and the law of attraction in the book.One minute of silence was observed at the book launch
for the victims of the Savar tragedy.
Inshra Russel Sakhawat shared a stop-motion-film on colour. Palki Ahmad rendered a Lalon song Dhonya dhonya boli tarey and Shaveena Anam sang an English number Imagine there is no heaven.
Kolpotoru, a dance troupe staged a dance synchronised with the song O bodhuya tor chulete Keno, choreographed by Amit Chowdhury.
Breathing techniques were demonstrated and the art of living was explained. The main message of the evening was that it is possible to find healthy options of entertainment in Dhaka.
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]]>The restaurant was inaugurated by Dato Francis Lee, president of Kenny Rogers Roasters International, and Mukarram Husain Khan, chairman of Capita Food and Beverage Limited.
BRAC chairman Sir Fazle Hasan Abed, Italian ambassador to Bangladesh Giorgio Guglielmino, consul of Singapore Darryl Lau, Pakistan high commissioner to Bangladesh Afrasiab Mehdi Hashmi Qureshi, Philippines ambassador in Dhaka Bahnarim A Guinomla, Malaysian high commissioner in Dhaka Norlin Binti Othman, British deputy high commissioner Nick Low, Pakistan deputy high commissioner Afzal Mahmoud, European Union charge d affaires Libuse Soukupova and United States of America’s economic counsellor Tobias H Glucksman were present.
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]]>the butcher shop, said a news release.
Company’s managing director Mazharul Islam, chief executive officer Wayne Gaskell, chief operating officer SM Momtazul Islam and brand manager Tanvir Hasan were present, among others, on the occasion.
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]]>The victim Fazlul Haque, 72, was owner of Haque Paints. He lived in his duplex, Haque Palace, on Road 51 in the area.
The victim’s daughter Hasina Zaker Hasu said that her mother had found Fazlul Haque lying dead in the bed about 10:00am on Sunday.
‘He used to sleep in a separate bedroom with no air conditioner as he had health problems. He went to sleep at 10:00pm on Saturday,’ she said.
‘My mother found the door locked in the morning and did not get any response as she knocked on the door,’ she said.
‘She then opened the room with the extra key, found my father lying in the bed inside the mosquito curtain. She spotted an injury mark in the neck and blood stains on the bedside table and floor,’ Hasina said.
The family then called in a doctor from United Hospital who pronounced him dead. The family then informed the police of the matter, the deceased’s grandson Sihab said.
The Gulshan police officer-in-charge, Rafiqul Islam, said that they had sent the body to the Dhaka Medical College Hospital morgue for a post-mortem examination.
The police found injury marks in his the neck, some found blood stains on the floor, from the bedroom door to the staircase, and a foot print on the bonnet of a Pajero parked near the staircase.
‘After we get the forensic report, we will know for certain whether he was killed with a sharp weapon or bullet,’ the police officer said.
The victim had a business of chemicals in Old Town of Dhaka and his son looks Azharul Islam looks after the business.
His four daughters live in different places in the capital. Azharul Islam, his son and their two children live with the family on the second floor of the house.
The police detained a security guard, a driver and four domestic helps for interrogation, the police officer said.
The motive behind the killing could not be established as yet, he added.
-With New Age input
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Though the world enthusiastically celebrated the great bard Tagore’s yearlong 150th birth anniversary, yet Bangladeshi dancers are still continuing their celebration programme commemorating the occasion.Dance and dance drama subcommittee of the Ministry of Cultural Affairs of Bangladesh is organising five open-air Tagorean dance programmes at five different venues of Dhaka city. It was the first of its kind held at Justice Shahabuddin Ahmed Park, Gulshan-2 on May 18. Artistes performed dance pieces with Writu Parjaya (seasonal songs) songs of Tagore at the programme.
Depicting six seasons of Bangladesh artistes of twelve noted dance troupes and schools –Dibya Shangskritik Sangathan, Rewaz Performers’ School, Pallabi Dance Centre, Spondon, Bulbul Academy, Bangladesh Academy of Fine Arts, Angikam, Ghash Phul Nadi, Nandanik, Benuka Lalitkala Academy, Sukanya Nrityangan and Jhankar Lalitkala Academy danced to twelve Tagore numbers including “Darun Ogni Banerey”, “Pagla Hawar Badol Diney”, “Amol Dhobol”, “Hemontey Kon Boshonter-i Gaan”, “Shiter Hawar Laglo Nachon”, “Eki Labonye Purna Pran” and more at the event.
Jhunjhun, Panna and Raka of Dibya Shangskritik Sangathan put up an impressive performance while Shoma, Ridita, Roopkalpa, Oroni and Ongshu of Rewaz Performers’ School stood out in their presentations based on autumnal compositions of the bard.
Deepa Khandakar, Munmun Ahmed, Minu Haque, Anik Bose, Shahidul Islam Babu, Farhana Chowdhury Baby, Tabassum Ahmed, Noor-e-Alam Chandan, Nilufar Wahid Pappi, Golam Mostafa Khan, Sultana Haidar and Tabassum Ahmed choreographed the pieces. Noted personalities, including dancers, presented bouquets, uttario, books and crests to the featured choreographers and dancers at the event.
Prior to the performance, convenor of the open-air dance programme Laila Hasan spoke at the programme while Deepa Khandakar emceed the event.
Set on Tagore compositions, four other open-air dance programmes will be held at Rajuk Open Premises (adjacent to Sonargaon Waterways); behind DUS (Dhaka University Snacks) of TSC, Dhaka University; Rabindra Sarobar, Dhanmondi and Russell Park of Mirpur-1 on May 26, June 1, 8 and 15 respectively.
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]]>Tearing down the main entrance to the amusement park, Rajuk started the drive, led by magistrate Rokon-ud-Doula, following a court order that declared illegal the lease of the land by the erstwhile Dhaka City Corporation on which the park was built.
‘We have begun demolishing the park, as the land belongs to the erstwhile Dhaka City Corporation and the Supreme Court has declared the establishment illegal on this land,’ said Rajuk magistrate Rokon-ud-Doula.
He told New Age, ‘Though Rajuk is supposed to remove the entire commercial set up of Wonderland to make the playground open to public, the authorities decided to give the park authorities a two-day time to remove heavy and expensive rides and equipment inside the park.’
Though the then Dhaka City Corporation mayor in 1990 was officially entrusted to take care of the playground, he leased out the said portion of the Gulshan Central Playground to develop the commercial amusement park, he said.
He said that the park authorities were supposed to renew the lease but they did not do it.
A High Court bench on May 24, 2007, in response to a public interest litigation, ordered the authorities of Wonderland to remove all its establishments in six months.
A vacation chamber judge, however, stayed the order till July 26, 2007 with the appeal petition pending with the appellate division.
Another HC bench later asked Rajuk to find an alternative site for Wonderland before eviction.
The appellate division finally cleared the HC order making way for eviction, said the Rajuk magistrate, adding that in 2009 Rajuk had notified the park authorities about eviction.
Wonderland Amusement Park managing director M Mustafizur Rahman, however, said, ‘We have several times requested the court to allot an alternative land for the park and we applied many times for the renewal but they did not respond.’
He said, ‘Rajuk got no eviction order. Petitioner’s lawyer gave his opinion that Rajuk can evict and according to his opinion Rajuk is conducting the drive.’
Mustafizur claimed that the city development agency did not notify them before the drive.
The park was built occupying around a four acres of land of the Gulshan Central Playground which had 120 games for kids and cost more than Tk 150 crore, he informed.
Rajuk executive engineer Nurul Islam told New Age that they had launched the drive following a May 3 order of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court.
He said, ‘We will knock down the heavily-built entry gates and boundary wall of the park with two bulldozers and more than 30 labourers will be backed up by around 100 riot police for the drive.’
An owner of a ride ‘Rocket Rider’, AKM Rahamatullah said, ‘This is just stupidity to destroy a high technical rider of an amusement park, which was built for kids with all love and emotion to give them some refreshment.’
The ride cost Tk 1 crore and it is 64 feet in height and in one jet eight children can sit, he said.
The demolition of the park thundered many city dwellers and kids like Labanya Faria, who came with her three daughters to have some refreshment.
Labanya, who lives at Banani, said, ‘We are here as my kids love this place and as their exam has ended but it is very shocking for them and to me too to see such a wonderful place demolished in such way.’
The owner of this park has seven parks for kids across the country, informed the park officials.
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“When I’m engrossed in painting, I lose myself. Without fear, I might even destroy the image or create a new pattern, as the painting takes over me; I believe each painting has a life of its own,” says Monirul Islam, renowned Bangladeshi painter. Islam’s latest painting exhibition, titled “Of Rupture and Continuity”, is now on at Bengal Art Lounge in Gulshan, Dhaka.Without much deliberation, Monir applies colours and creates forms, lines and compositions. He puts layer upon layer of paint, until he feels that he has achieved what he’s striving for. The outcome is a contemplative, subtly balanced arrangement of colours and space that draws an art enthusiast’s eyes.
Islam is mainly recognised as a printmaker. However, currently he has focused more on painting. His application of paint is intense and the lines are more minimised; colours seem to be bold and vivacious. These works simultaneously display technical finesse and mature intellect.
At the exhibition, his paintings on display often feature surprising elements. He believes art can be enriched through changing mediums. Each medium has a special quality. As part of experimentation and developing new features, Islam has used oxide colours, smoked black, different types of soil, coffee, marble dust, brick dust, burnt ground rice, acramin and natural pigments. The painter has used special glue that bonded the materials.
The artist knows where to stop — which is a strong suit of his paintings. He avoids rigid forms and over-embellishment. As a result, a good sense of proportion is noticed in his works. He has a fascination with local materials. The materials are easily available and cheap. One remarkable feature of his works at the exhibition is that he has pasted paper (grimy, uneven and torn) on corrugated board for a number of his works. Corrugated board is another medium that enables him to portray his illusions and fantasies.
“The materials’ rough texture and rutted surface give me some advantages; I can easily apply colours and create lines. Most of the time, the paper encourages me to create something novel,” he says. The artist has worked on them in acrylic, oil, pencil and other mediums to portray varied surrealistic, geometric patterns and symbolic images. His relationship with geometric abstraction has made him one of the pioneers of abstract painting in our country. Some of his works feature scribbles and clean compositions — articulating fantasy, longing and melancholy.
The exhibition will continue till December 25.
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]]>A group of stalkers beat up an eighth-grader, her mother and two brothers for protesting harassment of the girl at Kalachandpur of the city’s Gulshan Sunday night.
Police detained two persons including one of the alleged stalkers Jamal in this connection.
The injured are Bipasha Rani Barman, 14, student of Kalachandpur High School, her mother Subhashi Rani Barman, 47, and brothers Niranjan Chandra Barman, 26, and Subal Chandra Barman, 22.
The injured were first rushed to a local hospital and later treated at Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH).
DMCH sources said the condition of Bipasha was the worst. She was very weak and could not speak properly. Subal said she could not take a class test yesterday due to the injuries.
Daughter of fish trader Nitai Chandra Barman, Bipasha lives in a rented house at Kalachandpur Sarker Bari with her family.
Subhashi told The Daily Star yesterday that six youths including detained Jamal were hanging around in front of their house around 10:00pm on Sunday when she and her daughter were returning home from a drugstore.
While they were passing by, one of the youths threw a burning cigarette at Bipasha which Subhashi protested. Sending Bipasha home, she gave the youths a piece of her mind.
At this, two of the stalkers held her by the left hand and injured it while another slapped her on the face.
As she screamed, Bipasha came into the scene to her aid. According to her, one of the youths then swooped on her. He caught her by the throat, slapped her, beat her with a stick. Then holding her by the hair he banged her head against a wall.
Bipasha’s two brothers who came in rescue of their mother and sister were also given a severe beating.
Hearing call for help, locals gathered at the place, but the youths managed to flee the scene.
On information, Gulshan police raided the area and detained Jamal. They also detained Muhit, father of another alleged stalker Kamal.
Subal said the youths had been harassing his sister for the last three months.
Meanwhile, detained Jamal claimed that he was innocent and that he was not involved in the assault. According to him, he was passing by the spot when the incident took place and he paused there for a while noticing the chaos.
During a visit at the scene last night, the members of the victim family informed The Daily Star that they have settled the matter with the youths through arbitration.
However, locals said Bipasha’s family came to a compromise thinking of their safety and business in the locality. They demanded punishment to the alleged stalkers.
Gulshan zone Deputy Commissioner (DC) of Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) Khandker Lutful Kabir confirmed The Daily Star about the detentions and said that they were investigating the matter.
Police kept the detainees under custody till filing of the report at 12:45am.
About two years ago, two stalkers had shot dead the parents of another student of the same school as the family refused their marriage proposal for their daughter. It created panic among locals over protesting harassment of girls in the area.
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