The annual council of Bangladesh Abritty Somonnoy Parishad will be held on Friday at Shilpakala Academy here. Marking the council, a three-day recitation workshop will begin from tomorrow at the same venue, said a release today. Cultural Affairs Minister Asaduzzaman…
Planting more trees, farming more sustainably and conserving wetlands could significantly slash the amount of carbon emissions that humanity spews into the atmosphere through fossil fuel use, researchers said Monday. Better land use could reduce carbon dioxide 37 percent, enough…
10-storey building may look like a hotel, but it is thought to be the world’s biggest large-scale house-share, offering modest rooms and upscale services for hundreds of young adults caught in London’s housing crisis. The Old Oak building, situated on…
Sierra Leone said Tuesday it plans to auction off a massive 709-carat diamond at a December sale in New York, aiming to make a clean break with the “blood diamonds” of its past. The stone, which was unearthed in March,…
The 127th death anniversary of Fakir Lalon Shah, the most prominent figure of country’s baul tradition, will be observed here today amid tight security measures. Marking his death anniversary, different programmes including a three-day fair from October 16 to 18,…
Ireland has ordered all schools to close Monday as the country braces for an “unprecedented storm” with the arrival of Ophelia, the largest hurricane ever recorded so far east in the Atlantic Ocean. “In response to the imminent Storm Ophelia,…
South Korea’s exports of information and communications technology (ICT) products hit a new record high in September thanks to strong demand for semiconductors, a government report showed Monday. The ICT exports reached 19.26 billion U.S. dollars in September, topping the…
Maintenance work of country’s first international submarine cable has been shifted to October 22, but the overhauling would not pose any internet disruption, said officials. “Now the maintenance work would begin on October 22 and run for the next three…
Culture Desk The eight hundredth episode of ‘Amaar Chobi’ will be aired today on Channel i at 6pm. The film oriented programme has often been dubbed as the private archive for Bangladeshi films. The number eight hundred is a milestone…
Culture Desk Dhaka Attack has bagged a profit of three crore taka in the first week of release. As of the first day of the second week the earnings stood at the same rate Dipankar Dipen has claimed. In the…
Officials and experts at a post-rally discussion here today suggested for taking comprehensive steps to adapt to climate change for reducing risks of natural disasters and calamities. They forwarded the suggestion at the discussion organised by the district administration in…
Actress and BJP MP Hema Malini feels honoured that Prime Minister Narendra Modi has penned the foreword for her authorised biography Beyond The Dreamgirl. “I am truly honoured that Narendra Modiji has penned the foreword,” Hema tweeted on Saturday. Beyond…
With the Supreme Court refusing to modify its earlier order banning the sale of firecrackers in Delhi and the NCR, a lot of Bollywood celebrities are stepping forward to support a cracker-free Diwali. Amidst all the debate, actress Alia Bhatt…
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…