Tuesday, March 19, 2024

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

Timeless Nazrul songs presented

Prominent and promising Nazrul singers presented timeless Nazrul songs on Tuesday at the Central Public Library auditorium at the programme organised by Bangladesh Nazrul Sangeet Sangstha marking 113th birth anniversary of national poet Kazi Nazrul Islam. The programme began with a chorus presentation of Nazrul song Jhar jhanjay ore nishan performed

Chinese troupe stages The Mouse Daughter’s Marriage

ITI THEATRE FESTIVAL AT SHILPAKALA ACADEMY Chinese troupe stages The Mouse Daughter’s Marriage In the era of ‘opening up’ and ‘economic reformation’ to meet global challenges, when the Chinese authority is adapting many policies, traditional Chinese culture cannot be left behind! While the western animated movies are gaining popularity amongst Chinese children these days, Chinese ... Read more

Aikik Theatre, Aranyak perform

On the third day of the eight-day ITI theatre festival, Aikik Theatre and Aranyak Natya Dal staged Har Tauranga and Kabar respectively at the Experimental Theatre Hall and Studio Theatre Hall on Tuesday. Har Tauranga features struggles of an ethnic minority group in an imaginary island to resist the oppressive people, who aim to plunder ... 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

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

Rony DUJA new president, Zayeef GS

Daily Ittefaq Dhaka University correspondent Mahbub Rony and Ahmed Zayeef of the daily Protham Alo were elected as president and general secretary of DU Journalists’ Association respectively. The election for the term 2012-2013 was held at its office at Teacher-Student Center of the university on Wednesday

Bangladesh-made uniforms for British army

Satexco has been supplying uniforms to the army for the last 10 years A Bangladeshi company supplies uniforms to the British army, which is another testimony to the excellence of the country’s garment sector. Satexco, a garment company inside Dhaka Export Processing Zone (DEPZ), has been serving the British army for the last 10 years

Jessica Simpson unveils daughter Maxwell

Singer Jessica Simpson has shown off her newborn baby daughter Maxwell to the world in a touching photoshoot. The smiling new mum graces the cover of this week’s People magazine in the U.S., beaming with joy and cradling her sleeping baby. And she’s told how her life with fiance Eric Johnson has turned on its ... Read more