Entertainment Desk The official promotional campaign titled ‘Doob Goes to Campus Campaign’ of film Doob kicked off on Saturday with Notre Dame College. The production house, Jazz Multimedia, revealed this on Friday on its official Facebook page. It said, ‘The…
Mexico City will reinforce its earthquake alert system by installing between 800 and 1,000 new speakers on the streets, after the 7.1 earthquake which hit the capital on Sep. 19 and killed 228 people, the government announced on Saturday. Mayor…
The growing split between the United States and the rest of the world spilled into the annual meetings of the International Monetary Fund and World Bank in Washington this week. The US administration showed a diminished view of the Bretton…
Aamir Khan’s last release Dangal was a gift to Indian cinema that broke major box office records not only in his homeland (Rs. 385 crore) but in China and Hong Kong too. However, Aamir, 52, who played the role of…
Entertainment Desk Trilling actress Shabana Azmi and her husband Bollywood’ music master Javed Akhter are flying to Dhaka with one of their most popular drama. Blues Communications which invited Bollywood actor Nasiruddin Shah and his family earlier this year has…
Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy and People’s Theatre Association today jointly organised 2nd phase drama therapy to boost mental health of the Rohingya children who flee from Myanmar and living country’s South East part. Earlier, a troupe consisting of cultural activists visited…
Russia on Friday launched a European satellite dedicated to monitoring the Earth’s atmosphere, the protective layer that shields the planet from the sun’s radiation, live footage from the cosmodrome showed. The Sentinel-5P orbiter took off on time at 0927 GMT…
Award-winning Bangladeshis baul folk singer Kiran Chandra Roy along with a musical troupe from Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy have enthralled the audience at the International Folk Dance and Music Festival organised by Indian Council for Cultural Relations (ICCR). Kiran Roy presented…
SpaceX on Wednesday launched a rocket that had already flown to space and landed it successfully on an ocean platform, as part of its ongoing effort to recycle costly rocket components. On a clear autumn evening at 6:53 pm (2253…
The International Monetary Fund said Wednesday that the situation for banks in Spain remains unsettled after Catalonia’s declaration of independence from the country. With banks and companies in the economically rich northeastern region hedging their bets over the future of…
Ghana is facing calls to update its laws on wildlife crime after fears the country has become a transit route for the illegal trade in pangolin scales. More than 31,000 kilograms (68,000 pounds) of scales from the nocturnal mammal have…
The government on Wednesday appointed Anupam Kher as chairman of Film and Television Institute of India (FTII), Pune. Anupam Kher will replace Gajendra Chauhan, whose turbulent tenure ended in March this year. Chauhan’s appointment was met with strident opposition from…
New fossil evidence has pushed back a key step in the evolution of bird flight by millions of years. Skeletal changes that helped birds take to the air happened 120 million years ago, during the hey day of dinosaurs, according…
Culture Desk Russian Centre of Science & Culture (RCSC) in Dhaka, in cooperation with the Bangladeshi-Russian Friendship Society, Muktijuddho Academy, the Bangladesh Academy of Fine Arts (BAFA) and the Kanthashilon arranged a cultural event to mark the 87th anniversary of…
Actor Akshay Kumar and filmmaker Karan Johar have joined hands for an upcoming film “Kesari”, based on the battle of Saragarhi, which is scheduled to hit the screens during Holi 2019. Karan on Tuesday announced the news on Twitter. He…
In the darkest reaches of Brazil’s Amazon, solar panels are bringing light—and could help save the rainforest. Aurelio Souza is working to install solar panels in villages along the remote Purus and Ituxi rivers in the western Amazonas state. “The…
Eminem savaged Donald Trump as a racist and warned fans not to support the US president as the rap superstar appeared at the BET Hip Hop Awards broadcast Tuesday. Eminem, the top-selling rapper of all time, made a rare and…
The head of the United States Environmental Protection Agency signed on Tuesday a draft decision to roll back Obama-era measures to counter climate change. Repealing the Clean Power Plan (CPP) was a campaign promise by President Donald Trump and follows…
Tax overhauls and black market clampdowns have been touted as radical medicine to modernise India’s economy, but for small traders like Swarn Singh Darera, “Modinomics” has been a bitter pill to swallow. At his factory in the northern Punjab city…
A weeklong solo tapestry exhibition of artist Tajul Islam began on October 7 at Gallery Cosmos in the capital’s Mohakhali area. President of Bangladesh Enterprise Institute Farooq Sobhan and Spanish Ambassador to Bangladesh Alvaro de Salas jointly inaugurated the exhibition…
Japan’s space agency on Tuesday successfully launched into orbit a fourth and final satellite as part of an overall new system to improve global positioning data for a number of services and systems. An H2A rocket carrying the Michibiki No.…
Entertainment Desk Anushka Sharma has forever shied away from talking openly about her relationship with Virat Kohli, but the star cricketer compensates for both. Every now and then, Virat Kohli shares an adorable picture of the two or makes an…
Organisers of the Busan International Film Festival say they are confident they can cast off the politics that has overshadowed the influential event as its 22nd edition kicks off on Thursday. The annual festival, which has long championed independent Asian…
Nearly 100 environmental and poverty fighting groups jointly released a letter Tuesday slamming a UN proposal that backs large-scale use of biofuels in commercial planes. Extensive burning of biofuels would vastly expand the production of palm oil, which critics say…
Hong Kong shares opened slightly higher on Tuesday after the previous day’s losses but gains were muted following a weak lead from Wall Street. The Hang Seng Index added 0.15 percent, or 41.88 points, to 28,368.47. But the benchmark Shanghai…
Entertainment Desk Since its release on March 1, Bhuban Majhi has continued to enjoy a fair degree of success. The film already received a huge appreciation from the viewers in Europe, USA and Australia after it was screened in different…
Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein was fired from his film studio The Weinstein Company on Sunday following reports that he sexually harassed women over several decades. “In light of new information about misconduct by Harvey Weinstein that has emerged in the…
Superstar Aamir Khan said he is upset that his and megastar Amitabh Bachchan’s looks from Thugs of Hindostan were leaked online. The 52-year-old star said it was disheartening for the team as they wanted to release the look officially in…
This weekend might mark the 30th anniversary since the first running of the world’s foremost solar car competition, the World Solar Challenge, but event organizers have made sure they are “still pushing boundaries” to ensure a future involving sustainable solar-powered…
Shanghai soared more than one percent Monday as Chinese trading floors reopened after a long break while other Asian markets were mixed following last week’s surprising fall in US jobs. Geopolitical concerns also returned on worries North Korea will test…