Bangladeshi Cinema: All about Shaasti (Punishment)

Written by Taslima Akter




Shaasti (Punishment)

For Impress Telefilm
Director: Chashi Nazrul Islam
Starring: Iliash Elis Kanchan, Champa, Riaz, Purnima and others
Music Director: Khandakar Nurul Alam
Singers: Sabina Yesmin, Endru Kishor, Sadi Muhmud, Rezwana Chowdhury Banna.


Sidam (Riaz) and Dhuki() Ram are two brothers. Their little family around Sidam, dhuki and Dhuki’s wife Radha. Sidam very respect his elder bother Dhuki. He also very much love his younger brother. They are not rich man but they are happy. Sidam fall in love with Chandra. Many way Sidam expressed her love passionate but Chandra no want try to understand anything.


Chandra is crazy girl. One day Sidam say to her “I love you and I can’t think anything without you. I can’t sleep and every night I make sweet dream around you”. But Chandra brush off and call her father. Chandra’s father come and and Chandra are loved each other. Dukhiram and rada are husband and wife and they also love each other. Chandra is crazy girl from beginning. What is love? Chandra say that, she has know something about love and something unknown.

Two Children was died by Wild beast in Cox's Bazar

In the past, we heard that wild animal attacked in the eastern district in Bangladesh. Some times it destroyed the crops killed men’s life. On Wednesday, two children died by the attacking by wild best.

Reuters reported:

The victims, a boy and a girl, failed to escape when a herd of elephants swooped on their village near a forest at Ramu, 430 km (269 miles) southeast of the capital Dhaka.

The elephants also destroyed five houses, uprooted trees and demolished standing crops.

At least 15 people are killed by elephants in Bangladesh each year as their foresthabitats shrink due to encroachment by the rising human population, forest officials say.

One of the world's most densely populated nations, Bangladesh has forest cover of only 17.5 percent.

Flower of Bangladesh: Chandra Mollika

Flower of Bangladesh: Dalia

World Cup Cricket 2007: what will be in the Bangladesh vs. Sri Lanka?

From the last performances, we can observe that Bangladesh did well and also the last match between Bangladesh vs. India. It is clear that Bangladesh is doing well. Today (Bangladesh Time) Bangladesh will play with Sri Lanka. In this match, all fans are waiting to see the new miracle.

Stuff New Zealand reported:

Sri Lanka crushed Bermuda by 243 runs. India won by a record margin of 257 runs to remain in the race ahead of Friday's must-win game against the islanders.

Sri Lanka feel Bangladesh would have no fear because of the number of young players in their ranks, coached by Dav Whatmore, who also guided them to Cup glory in 1996.

"We should give credit to Bangladesh the way they have played," Sri Lankan spinner Muttiah Muralitharan said.

"We should not be surprised (by their wins) anymore.

"We started in 1982 (by getting our test status) and in 14 years' we won the World Cup," he said on Monday. "They haven't delivered in the past but they could after this World Cup."

The fast-improving Bangladesh, granted test status in 2000, would again pin their hopes on their young guns against a team they beat last February.

5000 US droller for poor Bangladeshi school children

For poor Bangladeshi school children, England A cricket team has donated 5000 US dollars that will be used for school feeding programme in Bangladesh.

Malaysia Sun reported on Monday:

The initiative by England team would encourage others to come forward to assist poor children to meet their immediate needs and gain capacity to cope with difficulties in their lives in the long run," WFP Representative Bangladesh, Douglas Broderick said.

"They're excited by the prospect of a visit from the England A team, and also extremely grateful for the funds that have been raised towards their school feeding programme."

During their visit to Gaibandah, the England players will also hand over a school cricket kit and participate in a game of cricket with schoolchildren from the Durgapur Kalitola Government of Bangladesh Primary School.

School feeding programmes are an integral part of United Nations World Food Programme's work in Bangladesh.

The provision of food in schools has been shown to be a highly effective way of increasing enrolment and attendance, enhancing the learning experience of children, and improving their intake of micronutrients.

In the age of Science, the Bangladeshis children are depraved of proper education. So it is a great challenge for Bangladesh.

VoIP and Bangladesh

After long time Bangladesh is going to open VoIP for all. This step has a good future. The people of Bangladesh will get more opportunity.

VoIP News reported:

The seven-member technical committee submitted a nine-point recommendation to Post and Telecommunications Adviser Mirza Azizul Islam at his ministry office, says the report.

The recommendations are meant to overcome the country's "crisis in overseas telecommunications" and suggest continuing VoIP operations through the existing data gateway of theBTTB submarine cable network.

In fact the technical committee says new equipment is needed within two months to boost capacity and suggested enhancing the BTTB international telephone circuit capacity by "introducing 3,000 more circuits in addition to the existing 11,000 circuits within shortest possible time and another 24,000 within next three months to

India-Bangladesh-Myanmar gas pipeline is going to be open?

India wants to take the gas pipeline from Myanmar to Indian thorough Bangladesh. After long process now Bangladesh become agree to let India. In a meeting with Bangladesh and India at New Delhi, the option comes out.

Domain-b reported:

Definitely the tri-national pipeline issue will come up for discussion," power and energy adviser in the caretaker government Tapan Chowdhury said before leaving for Delhi to attend SAARC energy ministers' meeting.

The minister said he would raise the pipeline issue with his Indian counterpart. "There will be no conditions tagged with the pipeline. If it is beneficial for us economically we will move forward," he added.

Talks between the two countries on the proposed gas pipeline have remained stalled for over a year after New Delhi refused to accept three pre conditions Bangladesh had sought to impose.

The Khaleda Zia government in Bangladesh wanted India provide a hydro-electricity corridor from Nepal and Bhutan and transit facilities for its trade with the two Himalayan countries. Bangladesh also wanted India to reduce the trade gap before talks on the gas pipeline project can proceed.

World Cup Cricket 2007: Bangladesh Team

If we observe the last year’s wining rate, Bangladesh won 18 one-day internationals out of 28. From this statistic, it is clear the Bangladesh could do well in the World Cup Cricket 2007.

tvnz reported:

Although most of Bangladesh's victories have come against Zimbabwe and Kenya, they won 64.24 percent of their matches in 2006, second only to Australia (71.42).
"The morale of the team is very high. Everybody is in a positive frame of mind and keen to perform." said Bashar.
"And we hope to fight effectively to move forward for the second round in the coming World Cup."
Bangladesh now has a number of reliable batsman including Shahreer Nafees and Aftab Ahmed.
In 39 ODIs, Nafees has scored 1,391 runs with three centuries and seven fifties while Aftab made 1,374 runs with 12 fifties.
"If a batsman fails, the other will take up the charge," Bashar added.
Bangladesh will play in Group B in the World Cup, featuring former champions India and Sri Lanka, plus Bermuda.
Bashar said the side also had two dependable spinners, including Abdur Razzak with 45 scalps in 2006.
At the last World Cup in South Africa, Bangladesh lost five of their six games including one against Canada while they were also at the receiving end of a hat-trick by Chaminda Vaas in the first three balls of the match against Sri Lanka.
"That is now a part of history. Now we target to reach the second round of the next Cup," Bashar said.
"Just two wins can take us to the Super Eight, though the job is very difficult. We have two teams in the group who will be looking to win the trophy so it won't be easy to beat them.

World Cup Cricket 2007: Bangladesh and The second round

In the last world Bangladesh has no expectation. But the situation has been changed. Now Bangladesh wants to do something. Anticipation of Bangladesh is to go to the second round or more. If they have to full the target, they have to fight the former champion India and Sri-Lanka.

gulfnews reported:

"Beating Sri Lanka and India will be a tough job, but not impossible," Bashar said before the team left for the Caribbean.
"Our target is the second round. We have to play very well, but we are hopeful." As well as former titleholders Sri Lanka and India, Bangladesh is grouped with Bermuda in limited-overs cricket's biggest competition from March 13-April 28. The top two teams from each group qualify for the second round.
The South Asian side had a humiliating campaign in the 2003 event in South Africa - even losing to a Canadian team made up of amateurs - finishing bottom of its group that also included Sri Lanka, New Zealand, South Africa, West Indies and Kenya.

Now we have to wait for some day for the result.

The Sky of Spring Season

World Cup Cricket 2007: Bangladesh has more confidence

After Tri-nation series Bangladesh is in confidence now. They hope they will able to show a good performance in World Cup Cricket 2007.

skysports reported:

After impressing with the bat, Bangladesh's Hasan proved he is capable as an all-rounder. He took the wickets of Billcliff and Canada's captain John Davison to finish with figures of two for 36 from 10 overs.

Early on, it looked like Canada might repeat their surprise 2003 World Cup victory over Bangladesh when they reduced the favourites to 30 for three.

The pick of their bowlers was veteran Anderson Cummins who finished with figures of three for 60 from 10 overs. Cummins proved that he has a lot to offer in the World Cup this month.

Bangladesh will be pleased with the way that their middle-order recovered from a disappointing start, Habibul Bashar and Mohammad Ashraful both made quick-fire half centuries.

The tournament win should give Bangladesh confidence. They face India, Sri Lanka and the side who finished bottom of this tournament, Bangladesh in the World Cup group stage.

As its lat wining rate is very good. So they could do well.

Bangladesh to bring in electricity Nepal & Bhutan through India

SAARC conference will held from 7 March 2007 at New Delhi. On that conference power and energy ministers Bangladesh will talk this matter with Nepal, Bhutan and India.

Energy Bangladesh reported:

“I’ll discuss the issue… I don’t know whether any offer from any countries was given on the issue so far. If not, I would try to initiate the matter under the cover of regional cooperation,” said Chowdhury, assigned to the tough task of managing the country’s power-hungry power sector.
He, however, said any regional cooperation like electricity import should be discussed separately without linking any one with others. “Any cooperation should take place unconditionally.”

In Bangladesh electricity is am most considered thing. Govt. decided to close the shopping mall from 7PM for saving the electricity and it is obeyed by the business now. It’s a very good attempt from the govt. that Bangladesh to decided to import electricity.

Bangladesh will loan $300 from World Bank

Bangladesh is a land of river. More than 230 small and big rivers are in Bangladesh. But most of rivers have been become shallow with silt. Now BIWTA want to overcome the problem by the help of World Bank. Sunil Kanti Bose, the chairman of BIWTA was talking at a seminar on the progress of Bangladesh's waterways.

Hindustan Times reported:

Officials said the World Bank had so far offered $51 million to develop the sector.
Water transport offers a cheap, efficient and environmentally friendly means of moving passengers and cargo.
Xian said: "It also has the potential to reach poor rural communities, giving them access to services and markets, thereby significantly helping efforts to reduce poverty."
"...despite its (water transport) poor reputation for accidents, statistically it is considerably safer than roads," the World Bank official said.
On waterways, 56 per cent of accidents are caused by overloading, a shipping document showed. Other causes include collision, human error and storms, the document added.
"There is a growing awareness that roads are not the only solution to Bangladesh's transportation needs and so the World Bank is delighted to support this important sector," Xian said.

As the transport by the waterway is cheaper than highways, so it will save the money of the businessmen.

Day Labor in Dhaka City: Bangladesh

The life of a day labor is very hard in Dhaka City. They start their work in morning and work more than 8 hours.

Pohela Falgun: Also for Babies

In Pohela Falgun (the first day of Spring Season) with the elders the babies also joined. They are similar to nature.

Dear viewers in these pictures you can see some babies who are enjoying freely.

Tata’s $3 billion investment: In Bangladesh

On Saturday, India's Tata Group restarts talking with Bangladesh's caretaker government about their $3 billion investment plan to build a slew of industrial projects.

Khaleej Times reported:

"We are exploring the possibility of seeing if we can start off again from where we left last time and come to a good conclusion. I think, the best thing is to wait for some time," S. Manzer Husain, resident director of Tata Group, told after meeting with Foreign Affairs Adviser Iftekhar Ahmed Chowdhury.

Analysts said Tata's wait-and-watch is prompted by the current situation in Bangladesh that is ruled by a caretaker government that is cautiously taking long-pending economic decisions.

It has so far taken the more urgent ones, including awarding a 240 MW power project to Indian public sector Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited (BHEL).

Husain had earlier this month met Adviser in charge of energy, T. Choudhary, who told the media after the meeting that the government was initially taking only short-term proposals

1700-year-Old Ancient Buddhist Temple in Bogra

Bogra is the 170 km northwest of capital Dhaka. The district is famous for ancient history. Recently, around 1700-year-old ancient Buddhist temple has been discovered in "Bihar Dhap" area under Shibganj upazila in the district.

The Daily Star reported:

Earlier about 1500-year-old pre-Pal period Buddhist temple was excavated on the same premises.

The newly excavated Buddhist temple is more than 1700 years old, archaeology officials said, adding that the lower part of the temple was decorated with arched panels of terracotta and ornamental bricks.

A brick structure comprising some small rooms has also been discovered in the temple.

There are small steps leading to a lawn-like space that was possibly used for placing the statues of worship.

Abdul Khaleque, Rajshahi divisional regional director of Archaeology Department said the entire temple might emerge if the excavation work started early December last year runs properly.

Possibly this Buddhist temple was abandoned before construction of earlier discovered 1500-year-old pre-Pal period temple where more sophisticated terracotta and brick-built structures were found.

Mhasthan is also in Bogra. We can easily guess, in the view of historical importance it is famous.

Bangladeshis Proves his Honesty in NY

Many people lives in New York City in USA. Some are immigrant from different parts of the world. Among them one Bangladeshi named Osman Chowdhury showed his honesty. His honesty has made him an instant celebrity.

BBC reported:

Forty-one-year-old Mr Chowdhury - a Bangladeshi green card holder - was plying his trade as usual in Manhattan on Monday evening, when a female passenger boarded his cab at a midtown Hotel.
The passenger got off at an apartment building on 35th street. She paid $11 for the $10.70 fare. But she left a bag full of diamonds in the boot of the vehicle.

“I think it's beautiful to see both so much praise for Mr Choudhury, he richly deserves it

Bhairavi Desai, Executive Director of New York City Taxi Workers' Alliance”When the next set of passengers tried to put their luggage in the boot, Mr Chowdhury found the bag.
But with the help of the New York City Taxi Workers' Alliance, a cabbies' advocacy group, the bag was opened to reveal around 30 diamond rings, neatly tucked into cases.
There were some loose diamond rings too. There was also a laptop and some bsiness papers. Next Mr Chowdhury, with the help of the taxi workers' alliance, had to contact the owner.
Eventually they found a Texas phone number in the bag, and after repeated calls they traced the mother of the bag's owner.
She in turn contacted her daughter, who came over to the alliance office and thanked Mr Chowdhury profusely.

Although he is poor, he had not temptation. It is a very good example of honesty. People will remember it long time.

Bangladesh :10 HIV/AIDS diagnosis laboratories

On the second meeting of the National Safe Blood Transfusion Council, has announced to set up 10 HIV/AIDS diagnosis laboratories and counseling centers in various hospitals.

Earth times reported:

The meeting, chaired by health advisor Major General (Retd.) Matiur Rahman, also approved the national blood policy, said a press release.The meeting decided to establish a national blood transfusion centre, which will be a referral organisation for all blood transfusion centres, including the country's 98 existing safe blood transfusion centres.The health advisor said the Safe Blood Transfusion Law 2002 was formulated to check blood-borne viruses of HIV/AIDS, Hepatitis B and C, Syphilis and Malaria.'There is also a provision in the law to ensure proper and optimum use of blood,' he said