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  • Neil Nitin Mukesh visits Bangla Sahib Gurudwara for new flick

    Neil Nitin Mukesh visited Bangla Sahib Gurudwara in New Delhi to pray for the success of his upcoming movie, 'Shortcut Romeo'. During his interaction with media persons, the 31-year-old actor said that he was happy to be in Delhi, which he considers to be his home. "My film is releasing this Friday on 21st June and I am really happy that I am in a city which I consider my home." the actor ...

  • Bangladesh may lose ICC membership warns BCB chief

    Bangladesh might lose its ICC membership if the cricket board doesn't hold its election according to the ICC's guideline, BCB president Nazmul Hassan has ...

  • Prayers to drive out ghost at Bangladesh garment plant

    Bangladesh garment workers arrive for work in the morning in Dhaka, Bangladesh, Thursday, June 13, 2013. AP FILE PHOTO/A.M.Ahad DHAKA -- Owners of a Bangladesh garment factory were forced to offer prayers and distribute food to the poor on Wednesday in a bid to drive out what workers believed was a ghost at the plant, police said. Some 3,500 workers stopped work at the plant in Gazipur, north ...

  • ACSU report may delay Dhaka league

    BCB president Nazmul Hassan has said he is unsure whether Bangladesh's domestic one-day competition, the Dhaka Premier Division Cricket League, will start on time. He admitted to an underlying anxiety around the possibility of finding more names in the BPL corruption report to be submitted by the ICC's Anti-Corruption and Security Unit (ACSU) later this ...

  • 17 killed 30 injured in road accident in Bangladesh

    At least 17 people were killed and about 30 others injured as a goods laden truck and a night passenger bus collided head on in Bangladesh's Shajahanpur sub- district of Bogra district, 197 km northwest of the capital Dhaka, on Thursday morning.Police was quoted by private news agency UNB as saying that the Dhaka bound truck collided head on with the passenger bus, leaving 11 passengers ...

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An Ideal Husband [DVD]

An Ideal Husband [DVD]

"An Ideal Husband" is an amusing comedy of manners that takes a sharp look at love, marriage, honesty and public scandal. The film, adapted from the play by Oscar Wilde and directed by Oliver Parker (who also adapted and directed Shakespeare's "Othello" in 1995), successfully alternates between a light, witty touch, and a darker, more somber exploration of public humiliation and the price of ... ...

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  • Mass hysteria blamed for Bangladesh garment workers illness say officials

    Hundreds of Bangladesh factory workers who fell sick in recent weeks could have been struck down by a mysterious illness described as a type of "mass hysteria," officials said on Tuesday. Garment workers at several factories fell sick with stomach pains and vomiting, leading officials to initially suspect contaminated drinking water at their workplaces as the cause. But doctors ...

  • Bangladesh Bank gives green light to ninth new bank

    Bangladesh Bank yesterday decided to grant a licence to NRB Global Bank, taking the number of new banks to nine, a spokesman for the central bank said. BB took the decision at its board meeting yesterday with Governor Atiur Rahman in the chair, said AFM Asaduzzaman, general manager of BB. Nizam Chowdhury, a US-based expatriate and chairman of NRB Global Bank, also confirmed The Daily Star on ...

  • Bangladesh approves $154 million for power textile investments

    DHAKA, June 18 | Tue Jun 18, 2013 12:56pm EDT DHAKA, June 18 (Reuters) - Bangladesh's central bank approved $154 million worth of investment on Tuesday to boost electricity supply and enable a number of textile investments. The move was made by the Investment Scrutiny Committee dealing with approvals of private sector foreign borrowing at a meeting presided over by bank governor ...

  • Nadir Shah issues mercy letter to BCB

    10-year ban after a BCB investigation found him guilty of corruption after a Indian TV channel's sting operation in 2012. "I have submitted a mercy letter addressing the board president [Nazmul Hassan], and it [has been] received by the [acting] CEO [Nizamuddin Ahmed]," Shah said. "I have asked to lift the ban that the cricket board has issued against me as I have already ...

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