South Asian artists display their best works in Dhaka

October 8th, 2009 $250K winner of art competition to be announcedGRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — A new art competition that for more than two weeks filled lobbies, streets and even a river with hundreds of works of art and attracted thousands of people to Grand Rapids, Mich., is winding down.

August 23rd, 2009 DHAKA - Bangladesh has decided not to recognise Kosovo as an independent Balkan state, rejecting a request from the US. Dhaka has made it clear that it would like to keep away (from the Kosovo issue), New Age newspaper said Sunday quoting Foreign Secretary Mirajul Quayes.

July 14th, 2009 DHAKA - Despite bursting at the seams and poor civic amenities, Dhaka, the four centuries-old city that is now the capital of Bangladesh, remains the country's "most attractive" city, says a survey. Dhaka gets 7.3 points in a scale of 10 -- well below the international criteria of competitiveness of a city in terms of cost of doing business, dynamics of local economy, human resources and training, infrastructures, and quality of life.

May 27th, 2009 DHAKA - A team of lawmakers and experts from Bangladesh will visit the Tipaimukh project in India's northeast to study if it could adversely affect the flow of river Barak that is common to both the South Asian neighbours. The team was being dispatched by Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina following a proposal mooted earlier this month by India through its high commissioner Pinak Ranjan Chakravarty.

April 24th, 2009 NEW DELHI - At the core, all artists are travellers; picking up ideas, colours, flavours and snapshots from their physical journeys across countries and continents. 'Zip Files', an exhibition at the Religare Arts-I gallery in the capital, is an artistic travelogue featuring impressions and images of the distant lands that artists have visited.

April 10th, 2009 Indigenous Australian artists Otto Jungarrayi Sims and Ormay Nangala Gallagher share something with the tribal artists of India. Both husband and wife love to paint their traditions, life and their legends of origin in bright colours.

April 6th, 2009 DHAKA - Dhaka may forward Bangladesh Standard Time (BST) by one hour from June under a proposed Daylight Saving Time (DST) plan to manage the power crisis. What it means is that offices and businesses will open and close an hour early, resulting in a change of habit for people.

March 20th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Terror is a reality of our times, whose echoes can be felt across the country. Now leading artists and top galleries from Kolkata have joined hands for a mega exhibition, 'Art Against Terrorism'.

March 19th, 2009 DHAKA - India's Maruti is on display along with major global vehicle makers at the Dhaka motor show, hoping to increase its share in Bangladesh's tiny auto market. Car sales registered a 15 percent rise from 3,500-4,000 in 2007 to 4000-4,500 during 2008.

February 17th, 2009 DHAKA - Bangladesh wants to get down to the nitty gritty of demarcating its maritime boundary, first with India in mid-March and shortly thereafter with Myanmar, an official said. The technical discussions have been scheduled to be held in New Delhi, Bangladesh Foreign Secretary Touhid Hossain said Tuesday.

February 17th, 2009 CHANDIGARH - South Asia's future can be bright if its youth can come together to share ideas and work together as young people remain largely unaffected by some of the animosities and conflicts between their countries, said students at a South Asian festival here. For the students gathered here for the South Asian Universities Youth Festival's (SAUYF) Synergy-2009 event, the fest was a unique meeting point of diametrically opposite cultures on a single platform.

February 11th, 2009 MADRID - The global economic downturn has had a surprisingly positive impact on Indian contemporary art with the focus shifting from price to quality. It has also led to the emergence of European collectors as the main buyers due to the erosion of the US market, say experts.

January 25th, 2009 BANGALORE - A bus bay in this overcrowded city provided a rare sight - art aficionados admiring paintings at a bus bay and asking artists what motivates them to paint. About 1,500 artists from Karnataka and other parts of the country displayed their works on both sides of the busy Kumara Krupa road near Karnataka Chitrakala Parishat (KCP), the state's prominent art school-cum-gallery Sunday.

January 12th, 2009 DHAKA - Joint fight against terrorism and some of the long-pending bilateral issues will be discussed when Indian External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee visits Dhaka in early February, an official said. Announcing Monday the tentative programme of the minister's visit, Indian High Commissioner Pinak Ranjan Chakravarty said the main concern of the Indian government was to ensure security in the region by eradicating terrorism, New Age newspaper reported.

January 3rd, 2009 DHAKA - India's External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee is scheduled to be here mid-January, among the first foreign dignitaries to visit Bangladesh after the new government led by Sheikh Hasina is sworn in next Tuesday. The outgoing caretaker government's Foreign Affairs Advisor Iftekhar Ahmed Chowdhury confirmed this, but said details of the visit would be worked out by the new government.