“I don’t want to talk about the lack of facilities anymore. Many journalists have come before, interviewed me about it, but nothing ever happens,” said Masud Rana, a Bogura-based swimming instructor, who was frustrated by the years of false promises and obliviousness of the authorities.

The enduring literary legacy of the late writer Qazi Anwar Hussain lives on through his immortal creation “Masud Rana”. An upcoming film titled “Cheetah” has been written based on the author's novel “Operation Cheetah”.

The screenplay of this second film of the series has been adapted from the immensely acclaimed Bangladeshi novelist Qazi Anwar Hossain’s original spy-thriller novel titled “Operation Chitah”. Abdul Aziz, chairman of Jaaz Multimedia, wrote the screenplay and dialogues for the film.

Directed by Kamruzzaman Roman, Puja Chery will be seen opposite Ador Azad in this film.

This behind-the-scene story illustrated a connection between the two actors and the production company brought them together. “MR9: Do or Die” will be released on August 25 in Bangladesh, USA and Canada in more that 100 cinema halls. Swapna Scarecrow is the distributor of the film in North America.

It concerns me that Tate’s apologists range from impressionable boys in my grade 9 classroom to 30-something-year-old single dads. My own mother calls me a ‘feminist’ with such chagrin in her tone, it begins to feel like a slur.

Attorney General Mahbubey Alam today prayed to the High Court to uphold the trial court verdict that sentenced 26 people, including 16 former Rapid Action Battalion men, to death and jailed nine others for various terms for killing seven people in Narayanganj in April, 2014.

A Narayanganj court frames charges against 35 people including prime accused Nur Hossain and three former Rab officials -- Tareque Sayeed, Arif Hossain and Masud Rana – in two cases filed for killing seven people in the district in 2014.