Sony Pictures says it is looking at different ways to release The Interview after scrapping its opening following a cyber-attack blamed on North Korea.
Day: December 20, 2014
New record for deepest fish
A new record has been set for the world’s deepest fish.
Cairns deaths: Children’s mother arrested for murder
Mersane Warria, 37, is talking to officers. She has not been charged. She was found at her home with stab wounds, alongside the bodies of the eight children. A coroner is due to conduct post-mortem examinations. The victims were aged…
Four Afghan Guantanamo inmates sent home
Four Afghan detainees at the Guantanamo Bay prison have been sent back to their home country, the Pentagon says.
Antarctic photo science archive unlocked
Aerial photos from the 1940s and 1950s are being used to probe the climate history of the Antarctic Peninsula.
Nature body for impact study, BNP forms its team on Sunderbans
WildTeam, a nature conservation organisation based in Bangladesh, has urged the authorities concerned to prepare a baseline report on the immediate impact of the oil spill on the Sunderbans which would help assess the ecosystem recovery in the long term.…
51 noted Bangladeshis decry curving freedom using court contempt
Fifty-one noted citiznes, writers and activists from home and abroad have expressed deep concern over the use of contempt of court law in curbing freedom of expression. In a joint statement released globally on Friday, they also expressed concern over…
5 killed in Ctg bus-auto-rickshaw collision
Five people were killed and another was injured in a collision between a bus and a CNG-run auto-rickshaw on Chittagong-Cox’s Bazar Highway in Satkania upazila on Saturday evening. The deceased could not be identified immediately.
Human chain protest move for 16 new barrages on Ganges
The International Farakka Committee (IFC) today orgaised a human chain to protest the move to construct another 16 barrages at the upper reaches of the Ganges and unilateral withdrawal of water of the Teesta and all other common rivers, in…
Bangladesh’s Rooppur NPP engineering survey tender floated
Atomenergoproekt, sister concern of Russian state nuclear company- ROSATOM, for general designing of nuclear power plants has announced a tender for engineering survey, environmental monitoring and development of project documents for the Rooppur NPP site. The contract value is estimated…
3 killed 20 hurt as bus fell into Bogra roadside ditch
At least three people, including a woman, were killed and 20 others injured when a bus plunged into a roadside ditch amid dense fog at Manohorpur in Kuliarchar upazila early Saturday. Two of the deceased were identified as Jasim Uddin,60,…
BNP’s observes half-day hartal in Bogra
The half-day hartal, enforced by the local unit BNP demanding the release of its five leaders whom a court sent to jail in a case for crude bomb blast in front of district Awami League office, is going on peacefully…
Sony ‘will not drop’ North Korea film The Interview
Sony Pictures says it is looking at different ways to release the film satire the Interview, after scrapping its opening following a cyber-attack blamed on North Korea. It said it had only cancelled the film’s Christmas Day release after cinemas…
Population dynamics and climate compatible development
Experts provide recommendations to improve access to family planning for climate compatible development Washington, D.C.- Policymakers and others working to slow human-caused climate change and make societies more resilient to its impacts should consider potential contributions to that effort from…
Former minister Sarder Amzad Hossain passes away
Former minister and Liberation War organiser Sarder Amzad Hossain passed away at a hospital in the capital on Friday afternoon. He was 74. Sarder Amzad, also former general secretary of Rajshahi University Central Students’ Union (RUCSU), breathed his last at…
Environ minister tones down oil spill impact on Sunderbans
Environment and Forests Minister Anwar Hossain Manju on Friday said the oil-spill impacts on the Sundarbans’ biodiversity are not as adverse as it was feared. “The biodiversity and the aquatic animals have surely been affected by the oil slick caused…