Mills to face sugarcane crisis
October 26, 2009
Ahead of beginning of the sugarcane crushing season, the government is worried about the availability of sugarcane to run the 15 state-owned sugar mills.
The Bangladesh Sugar and Food Industries Corporation has announced that sugarcane crushing at the government-owned mills would begin on November 13.
The season will be inaugurated on the day at the North Bengal Sugar Mills in Nature while 14 other mills Read more
Landline maker set for automation
October 26, 2009
Telephone Shilpa Sangstha Limited (TSS), the state-run telephone equipment manufacturer, is set to go under an automated production system by December, eyeing production of more than a thousand landline sets a day.
“An automated system by the year-end will enable our company to make telecom equipment,” TSS Managing Director Mohammad Ismail told The Daily Star.
TSS is the prime supplier of land phone sets and analog system equipment to Bangladesh Read more
Bangladesh ranks low in South Asia mobile use
October 26, 2009
Bangladesh’s mobile penetration rate stood at 28 percent in 2008 lagging behind war-ravaged Afghanistan’s 29 percent in South Asia, according to a regional report.
“Of course, the fact that Afghanistan is ahead of Bangladesh in mobile penetration should cause all sorts of palpitations in government offices in Dhaka,” said the report tilted ‘Telecom Access Rankings in South Asia’.
LIRNEasia posted the report Saturday on its website based on statistics of UN International Read more
Food festival starts today
October 26, 2009
A three-day British fusion food festival — Taste of Britain Curry Fest — is set to start at Dhaka Sheraton Hotel today, which will present the culinary success of British Bangladeshis in the UK.
Dhaka Sheraton Hotel and Curry Life, a British magazine on UK’s fusion food industry, are co-organising the festival. GM Quader, civil aviation and tourism minister, is scheduled to inaugurate the Read more
Aila victims sink deeper
October 26, 2009
Woes of waterlogged victims compounded as they slip out of spotlight; thousands still live on embankments, aid flow stopped
From The Daily Star
Lutfar Gazi doesn’t even tries to recall that disastrous day when cyclone Aila ripped through the area he lives and wrecked havoc on his life in May this year. Since then he is too busy struggling to cope with the plight with little time to look back to his past.
Staring blank at the Kobadak river that left him homeless, he tries to figure out in vain how to maintain his family with no source of income and no-one for his rescue.
He was a resident of Shora-9 under Gabura union in Read more
Abahani begin with bang
October 26, 2009
Defending champions Dhaka Abahani kicked off their campaign with a facile 3-1 victory over newcomers Biyanibazar SC in the opening match of the Citycell Bangladesh League at the Bangabandhu National Stadium on Sunday.
Ghanaian forward Sheriff Deen Mohammed scored a brace finding the net in either half of the match while in-form midfielder Ujjal netted the other for Abahani. Biyanibazar midfielder Toufiq Hasan Gafur reduced the margin in the Read more
10 STEPS TO GREAT SEX
October 25, 2009
Your sex life is great. You and your husband are deeply in love with each other, and are terrific in bed. But if you miss that first night excitement and anticipation, we assure you, getting it back is easier than you think. So get set to rock and roll between the sheets.
Change the way you touch
Sure you rub each other the right way – but there are many right ways. If you usually stroked his hair while kissing, try stroking his neck, or shoulders. Think of new ways to touch each other. Cut down on the kissing and Read more
Paranormal Activity–Film Review
October 25, 2009
Bottom Line: Effective jolts await in this ultra-low-budget haunted-house tale, but audiences will need extraordinary patience.
Hoping to catch lightning in a bottle (or the ghost in the machine), Paramount Pictures has been treading carefully with its release of “Paranormal Activity,” a pickup from Slamdance 2008 whose ridiculously low budget of $15,000 and cinema-verite approach to the supernatural evoke that ultimate sleeper success, “The Blair Witch Project.” The movie’s utter lack of Read more
Michael Jackson’s Kids ‘Dream of Hollywood Stardom’
October 25, 2009
MICHAEL Jackson’s children want to be film stars.
The late singer’s brother Jermaine has revealed the three youngsters — Prince Michael I, 12, Paris, 11, and seven-year-old Prince Michael II, also known as ‘Blanket’ — are keen to work on movies when they are older rather than follow in their father’s footsteps with a music career.
“I think they are going to go into the film business,” he said.
“If we instill the right morals and principles in them at a young age then they will be able to handle whatever comes before them.”
The 54-year-old singer also revealed the trio are being looked after by family members Read more
Deepika Blames It All To Katrina Kaif
October 25, 2009
Now when the cracks have started to appeear between Deepika-Ranbir’s love masion, we are going to tell the reason behind it. It’s Ranbir’s Ajab-Ghazab co-star Katrina Kaif who is making Deepika Padukone one insecure lass, at least that is what Deepika thinks.
Apparantly after working in two films Ranbir and Kat get along like house on fire. Katrina has been heard saying that she feels pretty comfortable working with Ranbir. She even has her own take on their sizzling ‘chemistry’.
She said that their great chemistry is an outcome of people who have the same Read more
Advertisement
