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Online Valentine’s contest held
Prize Giving Ceremony of a mobile-based contest 'Valentine's Dhamaka 2009' was held at the Lakeshore Hotel in the capital on March 12. HottDhaka.com (owned by hottMedia Ltd) and Communication-2 (C2) organised the contest.
Over 7000 participants across the country participated in the contest, which lasted from 9 to 22 February.
'Valentine's Dhamaka 2009' had three 3 categories of contests 'Win a Dinner with a Celebrity', 'Mr. Romeo or Ms. Juliette' and 'Love Guru'.
Lucky winners of the 'Win a Dinner with a Celebrity' contest won dinner dates with celebrities like Arnob, Apurbo, Monalisa and Bindu.
The contestants had to send in the highest number of SMS's for their favourite celebrity to win the contest.
Farah Tahsin from Dhaka Cantonment, who won dinner with Arnob, sent 5,000 SMS's.
The second contest, 'Mr Romeo or Ms Juliette', was call-based, where the contest who dedicated the most songs on the newly launched song dedication platform by dialing 3355 won a trip to Cairo for two, courtesy of Qatar Airways.
Navidul Huq won the trip by dedicating 1,200 songs during the contest.
The last contest was the 'Love Guru,' an interactive quiz contest and Mohammad Abdul Wadud from Comilla, with his highest numbers (5,000) of correct answers, won Acer Laptop, courtesy of Executive Technologies, Ltd.
After the great response from their inaugural contest, hottDhaka.com and C2 are planning several new products and promotions for the country's youths.
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