Vidya Balan’s upcoming movie The Dirty Picture seems to be a lucky one for the actress since it has opened the gates of International modelling for her. DNA reports suggests that a leading international lingerie brand is apparently interested in roping Vidya Balan as their brand ambassador for one of their future campaigns. [...]
Fact or fiction? Tokyo wouldn’t exist without the efforts of real-life ninja. Fact — 100 percent fact. And they’re still here today, in a manner of speaking. Don’t get us wrong. There aren’t any secret training grounds or black-clad assassins leaping from rooftop to rooftop (if only). The signs are subtler than that, but [...]
Stocks witnessed frequent ups and downs in their prices in early trading Tuesday in a show of lack of trust among the investors. The general index of Dhaka Stock Exchange (DGEN Index) shed 22 points or 0.43 percent to reach 5,202 at 1:20pm when the report was filed. Of the issues traded on the [...]
Roger Federer won a record sixth ATP World Tour Finals title with a 6-3, 6-7 (6/8), 6-3 victory over France’s Jo-Wilfried Tsonga on Sunday. Federer came to London’s O2 Arena determined to end a frustrating year on a high and he fulfilled that ambition by moving ahead of Pete Sampras and Ivan Lendl on the [...]
Egyptians came out to vote in record numbers, defying widespread predictions of violence and chaos and fears that the country was yet to break free from three stagnant decades of dictatorship. Polls were kept open two hours past their scheduled closing time to allow long queues of people at polling stations throughout Cairo to cast [...]
China has ordered a ban on advertisements during TV dramas as part of its reform of cultural activities. Adverts will not be allowed in the middle of programmes lasting for 45 minutes from 1 January next year. The authorities said this was in line with the “spirit” of a recent Communist Party meeting. Senior leaders [...]
Pakistan’s prime minister ruled out “business as usual” with the United States on Monday after a NATO attack killed 24 Pakistani soldiers and the army threatened to curtail cooperation over the war in Afghanistan. Saturday’s incident on Pakistan’s border with Afghanistan has complicated U.S. attempts to ease a crisis in relations with Islamabad and stabilize [...]
The German president is baffled by conflicting attitudes of the top two leaders of the two major political parties, the Transparency International’s Bangladesh chapter head says. “Christian Wulff said Bangladesh is a land of great potential and it can be a role model for many countries and that he can understand. But he doesn’t understand [...]
BNP acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Tuesday said the government’s decision to split the Dhaka City Corporation (DCC) is undemocratic and unconstitutional. “BNP will announce their next course of anti-government movement if the government do not change their decision of splitting DCC” Alamgir said this while addressing a rally at Paltan Party [...]