Oscar-winning actor Morgan Freeman was on Friday spotted filming at a Sarnath Buddhist monastery in India’s Uttar Pradesh for a documentary on the greatest religions of the world.Dressed in a blue Kurta teamed with black trousers, the actor was seen…
In a first, NASA’s Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution (MAVEN) mission has revealed the process that may have played a key role in turning the Martian climate from an early, warm and wet environment supporting life to a cold, arid…
Coldplay have revealed their seventh album, A Head Full of Dreams, will be released on 4 December.The band have previously hinted it could be their last, with Chris Martin describing it as “the completion of something”.The upbeat, summery first single,…
US teenagers average more than six and a half hours a day in front of screens, from televisions to tablets, with pre-teens lagging close behind, a report released Tuesday said.Authors of the study, which was conducted by the Common Sense…
Officials at the Dhaka airport have seized a large consignment of contraband gold from a flight that flew in from Malaysia.“We found 120 gold bars hidden under a seat of Regent Airways on Friday morning,” customs’ Joint Commissioner Sohel Rahman…
In preparation for a manned mission to Mars and returning the human spaceflight launches to the US soil, the space agency will soon begin accepting applications for the next class of future astronauts.NASA will accept applications from December 14 through…
Dean Elgar was the unlikely bowling hero for South Africa as the tourists skittled India for 201 on the opening day of the first Test in Mohali on Thursday.The part-time left-arm spinner, who had managed just six wickets in 17…
Allegations have been raised that women are being trafficked to war-torn Syria from Bangladesh as sex workers and domestic help.The women are reportedly being lured with the prospect of jobs in different countries in the Middle East and but once…
The Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) chairperson, Khaleda Zia, on Thursday called on the government to initiate a national dialogue to bring an end to the crisis facing Bangladesh.“We hope that good sense will prevail upon the government and it will…
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has urged the Netherlands to invest in Bangladesh and import ‘world-class’ products from the country.She made the appeal when Dutch Minister for Foreign Trade and Development Cooperation Lilianne Ploumen called on her in The Hague on…
Bangladesh will be awarded only one point in ICC’s one-day rankings if they are able to whitewash Zimbabwe in the forthcoming ODI series.Bangladesh are now seventh with 96 points while Zimbabwe are 10th with 46.The Tigers are about to face…
Amid ongoing debate over intolerance, Bollywood superstar Salman Khan says he doesn’t believe in judging people onthe basis of where they come from or their religion.The superstar also has a message to send out — “We all are humans, and…
Islamic State (IS) has claimed responsibility for the attack on a police check post in Savar on Wednesday that left a constable dead, monitoring group SITE says.Print Friendly and PDF.Unknown assailants attacked a check post at Savar’s Ashulia around 8am…
A cargo plane has crashed on take-off near the international airport in South Sudan’s capital Juba, killing at least 36 people.South Sudan’s transport minister says two people were found alive, but one of them later died. Earlier an official had…
An industrial police constable was killed and another was injured as some unidentified miscreants attacked on them and hacked them indiscriminately at Baraipara in Ashulia on Wednesday morning.The deceased was identified as Mukul, a constable of Sripur police camp, reports…
A cartoon featuring the first Disney character, Oswald the Lucky Rabbit, is to be screened for the first time in 87 years.A restored print of Sleigh Bells (1928) will have its world premiere at the BFI in London in next…
Taiwan’s President Ma Ying-jeou will meet his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping in Singapore on Saturday – the first ever meeting between leaders of the two sides.Both said the talks would focus on relations across the Taiwan Straits.China has claimed sovereignty…
In today’s selfie-obsessed world, how many self-portraits do you think an average youngster snaps in a year? Well, more than 2,000 selfies a year, according to a new study.The study from Intel and Lineage Labs found that millennials take an…
Former Pakistan captain Shoaib Malik announced his retirement from Test cricket after he failed in the second innings of the third Test against England in Sharjah on Tuesday.The 33-year-old only made a comeback in the longer format of the game…
Actress Deepika Padukone says when it comes to acting, she is selfish.“We all work so hard on every movie and want each one to have its own space to do it… sort of properly. But I look at the overall…
BNP is worried about the health condition of its acting Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir, who has been ordered into jail after his surrender in cases of violence.Party spokesperson Asaduzzaman Ripon warned the government on Tuesday that the people…
Looks no longer centre only on the face in beauty-obsessed South Korea, where more women are hitting the gym to improve muscle tone and physical health.As the ideal of beauty evolves in a country that is a trendsetter in cosmetics…
Swiss sensory motor scientists are hoping to inspire a new generation of more flexible, less constraining, powered exoskeletons that improve the lives of the severely disabled and paralysed.Metal exoskeleton suits worn outside the body, delivering energy for limb movement, are…
An increase in Antarctic snow accumulation that began 10,000 years ago is currently adding enough ice to the continent to outweigh the increased losses from its thinning glaciers.Areas of the continent like the Antarctic peninsula have increased their mass loss…
It was a scene right out of “Om Shanti Om” — with a gleam in his eyes, SRK stood in a balcony of his house Mannat here, blew kisses to his fans, waved and smiled at them. On his 50th…
The Ganajagaran Mancha will take out a procession towards the home ministry with symbolic coffins and hold a rally at Shahbagh.The secular platform is protesting against the murder of a publisher and another attack on three others.It announced these fresh…
Turkey’s ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) has won a critical parliamentary election, regaining the majority it lost in June.With almost all ballots counted, state-run Anadolu Agency said AKP had won 49.4% of the vote, with the main opposition CHP…
Former batting great Sunil Gavaskar believes New Delhi and Islamabad must start a dialogue to pave the way for the revival of regular matches between India and Pakistan.Pakistan Cricket Board is awaiting a response from their counterparts—Board of Control for…
Standing at the meat counter at a Mariano’s grocery store in Chicago, a half-dozen customers bantered with the butchers about the recent World Health Organisation report linking processed meat to colorectal cancer.”Give me two pounds of bacon,” said Roland Marks,…
The well-preserved partial skull and skeleton of a gibbon-like creature that lived 11.6 million years ago in Spain is shedding new light on the evolutionary history of modern apesScientists on Thursday announced the discovery in Catalonia of fossil remains of…