New Age
The spirit of Ekushey
Weekend
Pirated editions rule towards
the end
The piracy of titles published by local houses began dominating the Ekushey book fair, which will conclude on February 28, as sales increased. Few publishers seemed to care for the copyright issues and some are pirating the titles as they are on high demand. Noted publishers said earlier only books of Indian writers were pirated; but now many of them are bringing out pirated editions of titles by popular writers...[ + ]
Children’s
Festival begins
Several hundred children, individually or from educational institutions, took part in the opening ceremony of the first-ever festival only for children on Sunday. The three-day festival, Bangladesh Children Festival 2006, began at the Bangladesh-China Friendship Conference Centre, featuring games, amusement programmes and lots of information for children...[ + ]
All eyes on
‘sick’ magician
Fans at the Chittagong Divisional Stadium will get a double treat. Firstly, they will witness the venue become the world’s 91st Test venue when the first Test between Bangladesh and Sri Lanka begins on Tuesday and secondly, the five-day contest will also serve as the backdrop for the greatest cricketers of all time, Muttiah Muralitharan, to play in his 100th Test...[ + ]
Big win for
Barisal
Barisal registered a magnificent 115-run victory over Rajshahi on the third day of the Ispahani Mirzapore Tea National Cricket League on Sunday. Sylhet set a daunting target of 331 for Dhaka to chase and Chittagong complied a huge 422 runs against Khulna...[ + ]
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