The board of Irish pharmaceutical company Shire will recommend a new o46 billion ($64 billion) takeover bid by Japanese firm Takeda to its shareholders, it said in a statement released Tuesday night. The decision comes after Dublin-based Shire rejected a…
Abu Ali carefully crank- starts a generator to pump water from a well out into his parched field in southern Iraq. There used to be no need for a well in his village, but a creeping drought is now threatening…
Disney treated attendees at Las Vegas movies convention CinemaCon to footage from its hotly-anticipated “Solo: A Star Wars Story” on Tuesday as it whetted appetites for its upcoming slate of blockbusters.
Entertainment Desk Ranbir Kapoor is all set to impress the audience with his performance in Sanjay Dutt’s biopic. It is being said the Ranbir has left no threads loose in acing his act in the film. The actor’s look in…
Happy Bhag Jayegi took the audience by surprise two years ago when it turned out to be a laughter riot with its hilarious plot and impressive acting by its lead cast. Diana Penty stood out in it and was appreciated…
California will zigzag between droughts and floods which will become more intense and more frequent in the coming decades unless global emissions of planet-warming greenhouse gases are checked, researchers said Monday.
The dollar extended gains against its main peers and most other currencies Tuesday as rising US bond yields fan speculation of a sharp rise in interest rates, while most of Asia’s major markets edged up after recent losses.
Year 2017 turned out to be great for Varun Dhawan with huge hits like Badrinath Ki Dulhania and Judwaa 2. 2018 has just started and Varun has already won hearts with his latest release October. Currently, Varun has started shooting…
Sonam Kapoor’s wedding has been one of the most talked about topics of discussion in the industry. A lot of speculations are being made about Sonam-Anand’s wedding. Recent reports suggested that Sonam will be shifting to London post her wedding…
‘Kaala was originally supposed to have been out on April 27, but plans changed after the Tamil industry went on a strike on March 1 Ending weeks of speculation, the producer of Rajinikanth’s new film “Kaala” announced its release date…
A national park in central Italy is investigating the death of a rare brown bear during an operation to capture it. Biologists at the park in the Apennine mountains had trapped the animal to fit him with a radio collar…
The Murchison Widefield Array radio telescope in Western Australia is set to receive 2,048 additional antennas, it has been announced Monday, making the instrument 10 times more powerful.
People in sunny climes install air conditioning systems, tiled flooring and shutters to keep their dwellings cool during summer. Here in Blightly, however, things aren’t so perma-chilled. As you may notice over the coming 48 hours, our homes are well…
Culture Desk Bengal Creative Fest will start today arguably for the first time. The two daylong event chiefly targeting film professionals will start at 11am at Krishibid Institution Bangladesh (KIB), Farmgate in the capital. The fest has been specially designed…
Culture Desk Batighar has brought about a new theatrical look into the movement against British Imperial domination. The drama was staged yesterday at the National Theatre Hall of Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy in the capital.
The 110th traditional Abdul Jabbar Wrestling Competition, popularly known as Abdul Jabbarer Boli Kela, will commence at its permanent venue, the Laldighi Maidan, on Tuesday.
A four-day Thai trade show has begun today aiming to build relation, especially in trade, between the people of Bangladesh and Thailand.
Tabu’s start to her Hollywood career can make any actor, who aspires to be in the Western film industry, jealous. Her first film, The Namesake (2006), directed by Mira Nair, opened to positive reviews, and was lauded by almost every…
Radhika Apte, who was last seen in PadMan with Akshay Kumar, has now signed a Hollywood film. She will step into the shoes of World War II heroine, Noor Inayat Khan, who is also known as Nora Baker. She was…
Verne Troyer, best known for his role as Mini-Me in the “Austin Powers” movies, died Saturday. He was 49. While no cause of death was revealed, a post on Troyer’s official social media accounts spoke of the diminutive actor’s “recent…
A 117-year-old Japanese woman, thought to be the world’s oldest person, has died, a local official told AFP Sunday. Nabi Tajima, who was born August 4, 1900, died around 8:00 pm (1100 GMT) Saturday at a hospital on her native…
The EU and Mexico said Saturday they had reached an “agreement in principle” to modernise an existing free trade deal, as the Latin American country faces pressure from protectionist measures threatened by US President Donald Trump.
Entertainment Desk Ashraf Shishir’s second feature film Gopon – The Inner Sound will participate in the 20th International Festival of Detective Films and Television programs on Law-Enforcement Themes, known as Detective Fest, in Moscow, Russia. The five-day festival will begin…
Entertainment Desk A new 21 member committee of Television Nattokar Shongho was formed on Friday at the association’s bi-annual meeting at Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy.
Prabhas’s Baahubali 2 is on its way to get bigger. After winning the audiences globally, Baahubali 2 will finally have its China release on May 4. Considering Baahubali: The Beginning didn’t perform that well in China, it’s said that Baahubali…
Speakers at a post-rally discussion here today opined sustainable protection and use of renewable energies is essential for protecting environment. They viewed there is an enormous scope of reducing gradually mounting pressure on fossil fuel through boosting use of renewable…
Trade tensions between the United States and China, which threaten to spill over into the global economy, are dominating a gathering of world finance officials even as the Group of 20 avoided the topic on Friday. Official after official has…
Australia’s Great Barrier Reef suffered a “catastrophic die-off” of coral during an extended heatwave in 2016, threatening a broader range of reef life than previously feared, a report revealed Thursday. Scientists said some 30 percent of the reef’s coral died…
Asian markets enjoyed another day of gains Thursday as energy firms tracked a surge in oil prices, while fears over Syria and a possible China-US trade war eased. Fresh hopes that Donald Trump and North Korea’s leader Kim Jong Un…
NASA on Wednesday blasted off its newest planet-hunting spacecraft, TESS, a $337 million satellite that aims to scan 85 percent of the skies for cosmic bodies where life may exist. “Three, two, one and liftoff!” said a NASA commentator as…