Nicaragua signed the Paris climate agreement Monday, leaving the United States and Syria as the only two holdouts on the global climate pact. The government of President Daniel Ortega said the global 2015 pact represented “the only international instrument that…
Culture Desk To celebrate the 20th anniversary of Bloomsbury publishing Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone the British Council has organised Harry Potter Festival from 15-28 October for the Harry Potter Fans across the country. Harry Potter is a series…
Farmers are seen humming towards cotton farming in Rajshahi region including its vast Barind tract as they are getting extra benefit from the cash crop. Toufiqur Rahman, Upazila Agriculture Officer in Godagari, said current year’s favourable weather makes them optimistic…
Culture Desk The one and only regular musical magazine on music of Bangladesh, Sargam passed 21 years and stepped into 22 on October 1. To celebrate this, discussion, greetings exchange and a grand cultural programme was organised at Sufia Kamal…
7 plays to be staged in Kolkata Prangonemor’s popular production Ami O Rabindranath will be staged on the inauguration day of six day theater festival in Kolkata. Prangonemor, the leading theater troupe of Bangladesh is organizing a theater festival in…
The Karan Johar-Kajol patch-up was no whitewashed photo-op. The two have indeed sorted out their differences and if the buzz coming from Karan Johar’s Dharma Productions is to be believed, the two BFFs have shaken hands over another movie deal.…
Tesla has reached an agreement with Shanghai authorities that would make it the first foreign automaker to build its own plant in China, putting it in the driver’s seat in the world’s biggest electric-vehicle market, the Wall Street Journal reported.…
Drivers of the most polluting vehicles will face an extra daily charge for driving into central London on weekdays from Monday in a bid to improve air quality in one of Europe’s most polluted cities. London Mayor Sadiq Khan announced…
Stock markets closed the second session of the week on Monday with downward trends due mainly to price fall in large-cap securities. The falling major sectors were food and allied, engineering and textile. A total of 177 securities of the…
Entertainment Desk For the last three years the personal life of the Dhallywood film star Apu Biswas has been making the headlines, but not so much her career. Most news stories were about her going missing, her love life, marriage,…
Entertainment Desk Mostofa Sarwar Farooki and Amitabh Reza Chowdhury, two celebrated filmmakers of the country have announced their new films. The next film of Mostofa Sarwar Farooki is going to be titled ‘Saturday Afternoon’ and Amitabh Reza Chowdhury’s next is…
Entertainment Desk The Ambani’s love throwing ‘em lavish parties at their Mumbai residence Antilla. And off late, they’ve been throwing one party after another for our Bollywood celebs. Be it Ganpati or Diwali… the best of Bollywood heads to South…
General Electric’s newly-installed chief executive vowed Friday to do whatever it takes to turn around the industrial giant after weak quarterly results initially sent shares plunging. “It’s clear we need to make some major changes,” John Flannery said. “Our results…
Huawei said Saturday its mobile phone shipments have exceeded 100 million units, up 19 percent year on year, in the first three quarters this year. The growth raised the company’s operating revenue by more than 30 percent from January to…
Culture Desk A press conference was held on October 19 to respond to the recent controversy over eminent director Khan Ataur Rahman. The conference was held at Zahir Raihan Hall of Bangladesh Film Development Corporation in the capital. Veteran film…
As the row over the Hollywood industry and its treatment of women and all actors in general continues, huge A-List starlet Jennifer Lawrence has come out to reveal her own experiences as a young actor. The Hunger Games lead revealed…
Culture Desk Indira Gandhi Culture Centre is organising a musical evening by Bulbul Mahalanobish at Kabi Sufia Kamal Auditorium, Bangladesh National Museum, Shahbagh, Dhaka at 6.30 pm on October 21. The former Southeast University Chairperson for the Department of Bengali…
Hong Kong stocks on Friday recovered some of the previous day’s losses in the first few minutes of trade but Shanghai extended losses that came after data showing a slight easing in Chinese economic growth. The Hang Seng Index rose…
The three-day Bangladesh ICT Expo-2017 today witnessed huge crowd on the second day of the fair at Bangabandhu International Conference Center (BICC) in the city. People from all walks of life, mostly the youth, thronged the BICC premises to gather…
The admission test for first year honors courses of ‘Gha’ unit (combined unit for science, business studies and humanities group students) under the academic session 2017-2018 of Dhaka University (DU) was held peacefully today. The one-hour test was held from…
The film is set to release in six theatres of international Cineplex chains Cinemark, Cineplex and Regal in Dallas and New York City in USA and in Toronto, Mississauga, Calgary and Winnipeg in Canada on October 20. The film will…
Entertainment Correspondent Bringing popular band music straight to the audience, special band-based musical show “Band Gallery” begins today on ATN Bangla at 9:30am. Prominent band music that has been archived by ATN Bangla throughout the years will be played on…
Scientists at Japan’s space agency have discovered a huge moon cave that could one day house a base that would shelter astronauts from dangerous radiation and wild temperature swings, officials said Thursday. Data taken from Japan’s SELENE lunar orbiter has…
Virtual Reality will change the face of cinema in the next decade — but only if content keeps up with the advances in technology, industry experts at the Busan International Film Festival predict. VR is already being heavily promoted by…
Lake Baikal is undergoing its gravest crisis in recent history, experts say, as the government bans the catching of a signature fish that has lived in the world’s deepest lake for centuries but is now under threat. Holding one-fifth of…
The United States vowed Wednesday to work with India in preference to China over the next century to promote a “free and open” Asia-Pacific region led by prosperous democracies. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson delivered his unexpectedly sharp message to…
Entertainment Desk The Asian Journalist Human Rights and Cultural Foundation is all set to honor actor Ilias Kanchan with a long due Lifetime Achievement award. The actor will receive this honor for his outstanding contribution to the social movement ‘We…
Entertainment Desk Eminent filmmaker Mostofa Sarwar Farooki will commence production on Bengali- and English- language film Saturday Afternoon in December. Farooki describes the film as “a thriller where the lives of several people collide on one fateful day.” Farooki is…
The registration process for the 4th convocation of Islamic University (IU) in Kushtia will begin on October 22. “The registration beginning on October 22 will continue till November 15,” said Professor Dr Paresh Chandra Barman, director of Computer Centre of…
From toilet-paper dispensers to fast- food restaurants, travel and crime-fighting, China is taking the lead in rolling out facial-recognition technology. But while advocates warn it makes life easier, quicker and safer, opponents counter that it is another example of how…