State-owned mobile operator Teletalk Bangladesh Limited will provide all sorts of technological supports to the Bangladesh Chemical Industries Corporation (BCIC) to ensure transparency in fertilizer management. In this regard, a corporate memorandum of understanding (MoU) was signed today between Teletalk…
Entertainment Desk The first police action thriller from the country Dhaka Attack is set to get released on October 6. The worldwide promotion of the film started on August 5, two months prior to the release date. As part of…
After a three-year long battle with lung and kidney cancer, Sitaram Panchal who was mostly known for his role in the movie ‘Peepli Live’ passed away on Thursday morning. He was 54. According to an Indian Express report, a relative…
Computer Science and Engineering Department Professor of the University of Moratuwa in Sri Lanka, Dr Gihan Dias today paid a courtesy call on Dhaka University (DU) Vice-Chancellor Professor Dr AAMS Arefin Siddique at his office on the campus. During the…
Environment and Forests Minister Anwar Hossain Manju said collective approach has become an urgent need to mitigate the adverse impact of climate change in the country. “Climate change and global warming are a big problem. If it can be tackled,…
Asian equities headed back into the red Thursday afternoon, wiping out a nascent recovery in the morning as spiralling tensions over North Korea lingered for a second day. Markets had taken heart from reassuring words from the US Secretary of…
Rhinestone Cowboy singer Glen Campbell has died at the age of 81 after “a long and courageous battle” with Alzheimer’s disease, his family said. “It is with the heaviest of hearts that we announce the passing of our beloved husband,…
Culture Desk Bangladesh National Musuem organised solo musical evening of Noted Media Personality and reputed Tagore Singer Kamal Ahmed at Sufia Kamal Auditorium on the occasion of Rabindranath Tagore’s Death Anniversary on August 6. The musical night was designed after…
The US International Trade Commission on Tuesday said it will look into Qualcomm’s complaint that Apple is violating its patents in some iPhones. The step, arguably procedural, means that the commission will assign Qualcomm’s complaint to an administrative law judge…
A world class film archive equipped with modern technologies will be inaugurated soon in the city’s Agargaon area, official sources said. “The building for the archive, which has been constructed with all kinds of modern facilities and technologies at cost…
The world’s biggest polluter China has a “big job” ahead of it in the global fight against climate change, the UN’s environment chief said Wednesday. Since US President Donald Trump’s decision in June to quit the Paris agreement on reducing…
Toshiba shares jumped Wednesday on expectations it will meet a deadline to submit long-delayed earnings to financial regulators, easing fears the troubled conglomerate’s stock will be yanked from the Tokyo Stock Exchange. The stock soared more than nine percent in…
Google on Monday fired the author of an internal memo defending the gender-gap in Silicon Valley tech jobs as a matter of biology, according to media reports. The move, which was not officially confirmed by Google, splashed fuel on a…
Average US temperatures have risen dramatically and fast, with recent decades the warmest of the past 1,500 years, according to a draft federal government report cited by The New York Times on Tuesday. “Americans are feeling the effects of climate…
Indonesia said Tuesday it would trade palm oil, coffee and tea for Russian fighter jets, saying it wanted to capitalise on international sanctions on Moscow as Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov was due to arrive for a visit. Indonesia and Russia…
Culture Desk Singer Lopa Hossain and lyricist Sirajum Munir has launched a new album celebrating their first marriage anniversary. The album contains five songs, reports Bangla Tribune. This is Lopa’s third solo album. One of the songs is a duet…
Karan Johar has been talking about his children every now and then. The 45-year-old filmmaker also romised to soon share the first glimpse of his twins keeping us eagerly waiting. Finally, on the occasion of Rakshabandhan, the actor revealed the…
Bollywood superstar Aamir Khan on Sunday revealed that he and his wife Kiran Rao are down with swine flu. The ‘Dangal’ actor, along with his wife, were scheduled to attend the Satyamev Jayate Water Cup, organised by their NGO Paani…
Jeremy Clarkson will have to take a break from work for “quite some time” after contracting pneumonia, the TV presenter has said in a statement. The Grand Tour presenter was admitted to hospital on Friday after falling ill while on…
Shah Rukh Khan, Anushka Sharma-starrer Jab Harry Met Sejal collected a dismal Rs 45.75 crore in its first three days. The Imtiaz Ali film emerges as one of the lowest openers of Shah Rukh Khan in recent years. Anushka Sharma…
When 82-year-old Masako Wakamiya first began working she still used an abacus for maths—today she is one of the world’s oldest iPhone app developers, a trailblazer in making smartphones accessible for the elderly. Frustrated by the lack of interest from…
Action star Chris Pratt and comic actress Anna Faris announced their separation after eight years of marriage in a joint statement on Sunday. The couple, whose son Jack turns five this month, said they were “disappointed” to be making the…
Stocks maintained upward trend on Monday as the major indices of both Dhaka and Chittagong Stock exchanges were found upward on higher transactions. The daily turnover in volume increased to 43.81 crore shares from Sunday’s 35.09 crore shares and the…
As many as 20,000 ordinary graduates will be developed as skilled human resources by December this year through world-class Information Technology (IT) trainings. The training of 11,000 post graduate students of colleges and universities have already been completed while the…
Deaths due to extreme weather in Europe could increase fifty-fold from an estimated 3,000 per year recently to 152,000 by century’s end if global warming is not reined in, researchers warned Saturday. The toll would be especially high in temperate…
World Bank (WB) will provide additional US$ 47.50 million financing to continue construction of new water infrastructure in Chittagong and provide access to safe water to around 6.5 lakh inhabitants in the city. The government and WB today signed a…
Just like all the other star kids in B-town, Sara Ali Khan is yet another paparazzi favorite. The to-be-actress has been in news for several reasons, be it her fashion statements or her random outings and now her debut film,…
Salman Khan is a busy bee indeed! The actor just recently returned from Morocco post shooting Tiger Zinda Hai with Katrina Kaif and the team, and while he was busy shooting for the promo of a TV reality show the…
Entertainment Desk Films from Asian countries including Malaysia, China, Japan, Macau, the Philippines, Indonesia, Pakistan, Iran, Bangladesh, Taiwan, Thailand, India, Nepal and Mongolia have participated in the festival. Bangladeshi film Oggatonama (The Unnamed) has won the best film award at…
Entertainment Desk Popular film actress Pori Moni will act in a Chinese movie named ‘Chasing Murder.’ The film will be made by Huxiahui and Denipang, confirmed the actress. Pori said, “The movie will be based on an incident which took…