PTI, New Delhi, 12 April : To honour literary great Rabindranath Tagore, Bangladesh government intends to bring out a series of books this year that will explore the different facets of the personality of the Nobel Laureate.In the offing are at least 30 books on the painter, musician, novelist and poet who redefined Bangla literature and was the first Asian to win the Nobel Prize in literature.
The Dhaka-based Bangla Academy that is dedicated to promoting Bangla language in the country is leading the efforts to produce a large number of literary tributes to Tagore on his 150th birth anniversary.
"We are publishing 30 books by different authors on Tagore during the year 2011-12.
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Screenplay-writer Sachin Bhowmick passes away in Mumbai
PTI, Mumbai, 12 April : Well known screenplay writer Sachin Bhowmick, who has worked for films like Aaradhana, Love in Tokyo, Koi Mil Gaya and Krrish, died here today following a massive cardiac attack.
PTI, Mumbai, 12 April : Well known screenplay writer Sachin Bhowmick, who has worked for films like Aaradhana, Love in Tokyo, Koi Mil Gaya and Krrish, died here today following a massive cardiac attack.
He was 82 and is survived by his wife and two sons. Family sources said he breathed his last at his residence in suburban Mumbai this evening.
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Bangladesh can earn $ 80 Mil. annually thru carbon trading
UNB, Dhaka, 12 April : Bangladesh can earn US$ 80 million annually through selling carbon as carbon credit in the international market by using modern technology in brickfields surrounding Dhaka city, said a World Bank official on Tuesday.If the opportunity of carbon trading can be spread throughout the country, Bangladesh can earn huge carbon credit. The total carbon emission from the brickfields in Dhaka is 8 million ton. Issues related to environment pollution by the brickfields, shifting the brickfields to environment-friendly place, utilization of modern technology, reducing carbon emission and World Bank’s support in carbon trading were discussed in the meeting.
The WB representative Pommier said initiatives should be taken for the management of carbon like waste management of ship-breaking industry. “Bangladesh can be benefited through producing and exporting environment-friendly bricks through using modern technology in the brickfields,” he said.
He suggested for building a planned industrial zone for brickfields to produce environment-friendly bricks. The World Bank is keen to provide technical and financial support in this regard.
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Finance Min Pranab Mukherjee campaigns for son Abhijit
Nalhati ( Birbhum), 12 April : Indian finance minister Pranab Mukherjee today held roadshows in Nalhati constituency where his son Abhijit is the Congress candidate for the upcoming West Bengal Assembly elections.
Seated in an open jeep with his son and daughter-in- law Chitralekha, the Union finance minister started his roadshow from Mahabir Tala to Nalateswari Mandir.
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Cong demands payscale for Andaman' sick PSU employees
UNI, Port Blair, 12 April : The Congress unit of Andaman and Nicobar Islands urged the Union Minister of Environment and Forest to extend pay scale to the employees of Andaman and Nicobar Islands Forest and Plantation Development Corporation Limited (ANIFPDCL).
UNI, Port Blair, 12 April : The Congress unit of Andaman and Nicobar Islands urged the Union Minister of Environment and Forest to extend pay scale to the employees of Andaman and Nicobar Islands Forest and Plantation Development Corporation Limited (ANIFPDCL).
ANIFPDCL, a Public Sector Undertaking of the Government of India, is facing acute financial crisis since 2002, after tree felling was banned in Andaman and Nicobar Islands, by the Supreme Court.
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I want Kolkata Knight Riders to win for Ganguly: Shah Rukh
Kolkata, 12 April : Aware of the negative vibes in Kolkata after the exclusion of local boy Sourav Ganguly from the team, Kolkata Knight Riders co-owner Shah Rukh Khan on Monday night dedicated his team's nine-run victory to Sourav Ganguly and the sports loving people of the city. "I came back only for the fans. I wanted to do this for Knight Riders, the fans of Kolkata, I wanted to do this for Sourav Ganguly. "I want my team KKR to win the IPL for Kolkata and Sourav Ganguly," said the matinee idol.
"I am very happy. It was really a cool moment. (Skipper Gautam) Gambhir and (Jacques) Kallis were really cool. It was really a cool moment as our team is unused to wins," said Shah Rukh Khan after KKR clinched their first win in IPL edition four.
Shah Rukh also expressed his disappointment over unnecessary controversies revolving the team for the last three seasons. "A win is always welcome. We had lot of unnecessary controversies in the last three seasons," said Shah Rukh. န Photo : AFP
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140 Bru families repatriated to Mizoram from North Tripura
PTI, Aizawl, 12 April : Around 140 Bru families from Naisingpara relief camp in neighbouring North Tripura district returned to Mizoram today as the third phase of repatriation of Bru refugees finally began.
According to SP (Mamit) H Sangawia, some of the families, proposed to be resettled in Damparengpui and Tuipuibari villages in the district, came directly to the two villages without first going to the transit camp. The rest of the repatriated refugees would be first lodged at the transit camp from where they would be brought to the villages where they would be resettled, he said.Refugees from Naisingpara, the largest relief camp, were brought back first as a devastating fire ravaged the camp on 19 March, killing 17 people and gutted more than 3,000 houses.
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Total 49 West Bengal vote candidates face criminal charges
Kolkata, 12 April : A total of 49 candidates out of 253 contesting the 54 assembly constituencies in the first phase of West Bengal polls 18 April have criminal cases pending against them, 27 of them charged with serious offences like murder and extortion, according to an election watchdog Monday. The self-declared affidavits of the candidates revealed that of the 49 candidates with criminal backgrounds, 10 are from the Congress, eight each from the CPI(M) and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), and three each from the Trinamool Congress and the Gorkha Janamukti Morcha (GJM), said the West Bengal Election Watch (WBEW).
WBEW state coordinator Biplab Halim also told media persons here that 143 candidates have declared that they have never filed income tax returns.
"As many as 92 of the 253 candidates have not given their PAN details. Moreover, Left Front partner Revolutionary Socialist Party (RSP) nominee Janab Abdur Rahim Boxi has never filed any income tax despite having a property worth over Rs.1 crore." ..... READ FULL STORY
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5 killed, 15 injured at Dumuria upazila road crash in Khulna
UNB, Khulna, 12 April : Five people including an agriculture officer were killed and 15 others injured as a bus overturned after hitting an autorickshaw at Sarua bazar in Dumuria upazila this morning.
Police said a Fultola-bound bus from Rupsa hit a three wheeler auto-rickshaw when its driver lost control over the steering and skidded of the road, leaving four bus passengers dead on the spot and injuring 16 others at around 10:30 am (BDST). The injured were rushed to Khulna Medical College Hospital while another died on way to the hospital.
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Art house films make waves in West Bengal : Rahul Bose
IANS, Mumbai, 12 April : Art house films are making waves in West Bengal as the state has a vast cinema literate audience, feels actor Rahul Bose who has starred in Bollywood as well as Bengali movies.
"I think the semi-art house and art house films in Bengal are really making waves. The quality of people who come to watch in Kolkata is far more cinema literate in one place than in the rest of India," Rahul told IANS. "In the rest of the country, there are many cinema literate people but they are too few, scattered in too many places, to justify exhibition," said Rahul.
He is on to another Bengali film. This time he shoots for "Laptop" directed by actor-director Kaushik Ganguly. "'Laptop' is an awesome piece. It has four stories and I am in one of them," Bose told IANS. He has worked with acclaimed Bengali directors like Aparna Sen in "Mr and Mrs Iyer" (2002), "15 Park Avenue" (2005) and "The Japanese Wife" (2010) and Aniruddha Roy Chowdhury in "Anuranan" (2006) and "Antaheen" (2009).
Rahul had earlier done a small acting sequence with Ganguly in "Antaheen", but this is the first time he will be directed by the latter. Talking about "Laptop", Rahul said: "It's the story of travel of a laptop that ends up with me. I play a publisher. The film has four stories and I am in one of them. I liked the stories very much. Kaushik is a wonderful actor. It's a pleasure to work with him," said Bose.
Ganguly's last film "Arekti Premer Galpo" drew huge applause and marked filmmaker Rituparno Ghosh's debut as an actor.
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