Five cultural personalities were accorded a reception and awarded in recognition of their outstanding contributions to the cultural field. The award winning persons are: Abdur Rahsid (drama), Freedom Fighter Abdul Jalil (musical instrument), Abdul Khaleque Chhana (song) Abdus Samad (folk…
Dhaka Power Distribution Company Limited (DPDC) today signed an agreement with mobile phone operator Grameenphone (GP) for vending its pre-paid meter.Joint Secretary and Company Secretary of DPDC Jayanta Kumar Sikder and Head of Financial Services of GP Rasheda Sultana signed…
Culture Desk Pandit Vishwa Mohan Bhatt resumed the musical segment with Mohan Veena shortly after the discussion session while Pandit Subhen Chatterjee accompanied him on tabla. Pandit Vishwa Mohan Bhatt resumed the musical segment with Mohan Veena shortly after the…
Entertainment Desk Masuma Rahman Nabila cracked a bomb on the last day of the year. The Aynabaji famed actress is going to end her bachelor life in the upcoming 2018. This lustrous actress is going to tie knot in April…
Celebrations will be held across Taiwan on New Year’s eve, but with less fireworks amid air pollution concerns.
Transactions of all banks will remain closed today as it is the last day of 2017.
Rajinikanth, the wildly popular Indian cinema icon who inspires almost god-like adulation in some parts of the country, announced his entry into politics Sunday. The 67-year-old actor’s announcement ended a wait of almost two decades for many of his fans,…
Priyanka Chopra can easily be called one of the most successful Bollywood Divas to have made an impact globally. Priyanka not only has a huge fan following in India but enjoys a strong fan following in the United States of…
The relationship between Kriti Sanon and Sushant Singh Rajput has been the talk of the town for a while now. Both Kriti and Sushant have been spotted together multiple times after they did a movie together. Apparently, the couple hit…
Entertainment Desk One of the leading playwright-writer of the country Begum Mumtaz Hossain has passed away at the age of 77. She breathed her last at the Uttara Crescent Hospital in Dhaka at 9:30pm on Thursday, her niece Tania Mostafiz…
Entertainment Desk Renowned television director Badrul Anam Saud’s debut venture on the silver screen “Gohin Baluchor” hit 26 cinemas across the country on Friday .
Known best for her wit, Mrs Funnybones – Twinkle Khanna celebrates her 43rd birthday today. The actress cum writer is currently in Cape Town, South Africa with husband Akshay Kumar and kids Aarav and Nitara. Coincidentally what many of you…
U.S. stocks ended lower on Friday, the last trading day this year.
India’s Space Research Organisation, ISRO has announced to launch 31 satellites, including Cartosat-2 series earth observation spacecraft, in a single mission next month, state-run broadcaster – All India Radio (AIR) said Saturday. The satellites according to the broadcaster would be…
Speakers at a function urged the grassroots level growers to adopt modern technologies in mango farming as it could be the vital means of making juicy fruit more profitable.They said there is no alternative to use modern technologies in the…
Improved water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) related practices in health service providing outlets can reduce the risk of disease and death of infants and mothers by up to 25 per cent. Recently published 4th Health and Nutrition Sector Plan (HNSP)…
Senior bankers at a meeting here on Thursday stressed the need for boosting investment in Small and Medium Enterprise (SME) sector. They termed the SME sector as labour-intensive and viewed that successful promotion of the sector could be the effective…
US President Donald Trump on Thursday made light of climate change science as an Arctic chill settled on much of the central and northeastern United States and Canada, forcing people indoors, stranding motorists with dead car batteries and complicating firefighting…
Virus infections made computer users in Vietnam to rack up losses of 12.3 trillion Vietnamese dong (544 million U.S. dollars) in 2017.
The experimental R&B singer Solange has revealed a struggle with an autonomic disorder as she canceled a New Year’s Eve performance in South Africa.
Entertainment Desk Snapshots of some of the performances on the second night of BCMF 2017 Mahmud Hossain Opu/Dhaka Tribune Aditi Mangaldas, Gauri Diwakar, Minhaz, Amrapali Bhandari and Sunny Shishodiya were the performers of the Kathak numbers
Showtime Desk Rezwana Choudhury Bannya for Tagore songs, Swapan Basu for folk and Debashish Bhattacharya for guitar Tagore singer Rezwana Choudhury Bannya was honoured with the prestigious “Sangeet Maha Samman” award in Kolkata, India recently.
Bangladesh Bank (BB) has requested all to abstain from online-based virtual currency or crypto currency, like bitcoin, ethereum, ripple and litecoin as there is no legal framework of the currencies in any country across the world. “Virtual currency is not…
Japan’s nuclear watchdog Wednesday gave a formal green light to the operator of the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant to restart two reactors, the first since the 2011 atomic crisis.
Culture Desk The third edition of National Dance Drama Festival was began on December 19 at National Theatre Hall of Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy. The five-day festival has been jointly organised by Bangladesh Dance Artistes Association and Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy. The…
Culture Desk Written by Harunur Rashid and directed by Saiful Islam Mannu, ‘Putro’ was made in 2015. The long awaited Jaya Ahsan and Ferdous Ahmed’s “Putro” will see released in theatres on January 5, 2018.
Fans and critics are predicting that ‘Tiger Zinda Hai’ will break ‘Baahubali 2’s’ box office record of 511.30 crore. The recently released spy thriller “Tiger Zinda Hai” starring Salman Khan and Katrina Kaif is breaking Bollywood records, one after another.
Tokyo stocks were flat on Tuesday, with investors keeping to the sidelines as major global markets remained closed for the Christmas holidays.
The Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) report for the Kuala Lumpur-Singapore High Speed Rail (KL-SG HSR) is ready for public viewing from Wednesday.
Bangladesh Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine Society organised its first international conference at Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University here today focusing on the latest innovations and breakthroughs.