Monsters – Movie Reviews
November 30, 2010
Director: Gareth Edwards
Screenwriter: Gareth Edwards
Starring: Whitney Able, Scoot McNairy
Running time: 92 mins
The title conjures up images of sinister creatures battling it out across vast pixellated landscapes, yet Gareth Edwards’s directorial debut Read more
Eva plans to adopt a child from Haiti
November 30, 2010
Longoria, 35, who married Parker in 2007, had spoken about adopting before her and Tony split
Eva Longoria is refusing to let divorce stand in the way of her plans to adopt a child.
The Desperate Housewives actress, who split from her basketball star husband Tony Parker after finding out that he had been texting Read more
Lily Allen calls journalist the C-word on Twitter
November 30, 2010
Singer lashes out after gossip writer claimed she planned to marry to get over miscarriage
Lily Allen has used Twitter to brand a “cunt” the female journalist who wrote on Sunday that she was planning to marry her boyfriend, Sam Cooper, to “ease her baby grief”.
The feisty singer, who suffered her second miscarriage just four weeks ago, was responding to an article in the Mail on Sunday by columnist Katie Nicholl.
Nicholl quoted an unnamed friend of the couple Read more
Dancer turned actor Tathoi
November 30, 2010
Promising classical dancer Sudeshna Swayamprabha Tathoi has recently come into discussion for her performance in renowned Indian filmmaker Gautam Ghose’s yet to be released feature film ‘Moner Manush’.
Tathoi plays the role of Golapi, the wife of the young Lalon in the film, which is based on the life and philosophy of the great baul, Fakir Lalon Shah.
‘My performance as the main character named “Elida” in Read more
Women and workplace dilemma
November 30, 2010
Mamun Rashid
I recently wrote a piece for The Daily Star business section on our lady colleagues. As usual, I received a few e-mails and phone calls. One of them was from a younger friend of mine, working for a regional conglomerate. He thought I did not do enough justice to the male colleagues, while championing the cause of our lady colleagues.
He felt there are plenty of male colleagues who help the women in the office excel and find a good balance between work and personal life. There are plenty of organisations too that promote diversity at the workplace Read more
Youth held for nuisance on Facebook
November 30, 2010
A young engineer was arrested yesterday for harassing a female university student on the social networking site Facebook. Arrested Aleem Uddin, 28, an assistant engineer of Western Marine Shipyard in Chittagong, hails from Noakhali.
Police said Aleem had opened a fake account of the victim, whom he termed his former girlfriend, Read more
Siddons wants Tigers to give best
November 30, 2010
Bangladesh need to give their best if they want to beat Zimbabwe in the impending five-match one-day international series, warned coach Jaime Siddons on Monday.
‘Zimbabwe came here to play good cricket and they are an improving team. We’ve to be at our best and ensure that we maintain rhythm,’ Siddons said at the Read more
Zimbabwe lose tour opener
November 30, 2010
The Bangladesh Cricket Board XI gave Zimbabwe a lesson of what they should expect in the five-match series winning the lone warm-up match by 29 runs at the BKSP on Monday.
Young leg-spinner Nur Hossain produced a magic spell and 20-year-old BKSP boy Asif Ahmed, an off-spinner with high promise, aided him with 2-22 as the BCB XI Read more
ICC Cricket World Cup History
November 30, 2010
New stars galore
World Cups often work as a process of regeneration as new upstarts start to take centre stage and old hands move to the side, leaving their final marks on public memory by performing in a global event. So it was with the 1987 World Cup, where a lot of champion cricketers took their initial steps on the global stage.
It was the last World Cup for all-time greats like West Indian Viv Richards — undoubtedly the Read more
U-17 booters falter in qtrs
November 30, 2010
Bangladesh U-17 football team’s impressive run in the 51st Subrata Mukherjee Cup ended in the quarterfinals when they suffered a 5-4 defeat to Army Boys in tiebreaker at the Ambedkar Stadium in Indian capital of Delhi yesterday.
The game rolled into shootout after the regulation time produced no goal. Bangladesh’s Read more
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