SpaceX on Wednesday deployed a broadband communications satellite for IntelSat, after twice ditching launch plans in the final seconds before liftoff earlier this week. The satellite, known as IntelSat 35e, soared into the blue sky over Cape Canaveral at 7:38…
Victor Hugo would be appalled to see the ravages inflicted by time, pollution and weather on his beloved Notre Dame, the soaring cathedral that adorns the heart of Paris. The celebrated French novelist wrote “The Hunchback of Notre Dame”, published…
Bollywood young guns Varun Dhawan and Anushka Sharma have joined forces for the very first time and will be seen together in Yash Raj Films’ ‘Sui Dhaaga—Made In India’. The venture was announced yesterday and since then social media is…
Entertainment Desk Dhallywood superstar Shakib Khan has thanked his fans especially who have watch ‘Nabab’. Shakib made his remark celebrating the grand success of Nabab which has become the major hit of this Eid. Shakib starrer ‘Nabab’ and ‘Rajniti’ as…
Entertainment Desk National Award winning film actress Nipun Akter lashed out at Dhallywood superstar Shakib Khan in a recent Facebook post. In a Facebook post on Monday, the heroine accused a lot of allegations against the superstar. Shakib Khan took…
Rajshahi University (RU) is going to celebrate its 64th founding anniversary tomorrow, a RU press release said today. To mark the day, RU authority has chalked out elaborate programmes, including tree plantation, colourful rally and discussion meeting. The university administration…
ASE Group, an engineering company and member of Russia’s state nuclear corporation Rosatom, has launched tenders related to the construction of new units at Hungary’s Paks nuclear power plant (NPP), the company said in a statement on Tuesday. Read also…
Contraceptives may give us the advantage of avoiding accidental and unwanted pregnancies as well as keep us protected from STDs, but the chemicals from them may be messing with fish’s gender. As per a study, researchers have said that chemicals…
The musician, who had been diagnosed with prostate cancer, died at Dhaka’s Green Life Hospital early Tuesday, said his wife Joli Sengupta. Doctors had previously informed the family that the cancer had spread from the prostate gland to other parts…
Veteran actress Shabana Azmi today said she has always raised her voice against hate crime and her outrage over mob lynching is not selective. The 66-year-old actress took to Twitter to clarify her stance after she took part in the…
The rapid macroeconomic success accelerates empowerment of rural women in the district when the nation has engaged in all-out efforts to attain the sustainable development goals (SDGs). “As a result of self-reliance achieved by thousands of rural women through income…
Culture Desk Theatre troupe Loko Natyadal will organise a four-day theatre festival at Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy marking its 36th founding anniversary. The festival will feature the troupe’s eight plays including Abak Jolpan, Kanjush, Majh Raater Manushera, Mujib Mane Mukti, Dakghar,…
The Indira Gandhi Cultural Centre, High Commission of India was beain Kathak Dance classes in the New Chancery Complex of the commission in Baridhara here from July 1 Country’s eminent Kathak dancer Munmun Ahmed was the dance teacher, said a…
Entertainment Desk Filmmaker Mostofa Sarwar Farooki’s “Doob: No Bed of Roses” has won the Kommersant Weekend Prize at the 39th Moscow International Film Festival. Doob, a Bangladesh-India joint production, found its place among the best jury films. It is also…
Alia Bhatt, who is undoubtedly b-town’s favourite girl amongst the young stars is at the peak of her career and it surely has been an interesting journey for her. Alia made her big Bollywood debut with Karan Johar’s Student Of…
Jacquie Barnbrook had grown tired of the high electricity bills and her gas-guzzling luxury car when she finally decided to take the plunge last year. The 52-year-old Los Angeles resident joined an ever-growing number of Californians who are switching to…
After buying big American brands like Apple, Pepsi and Yahoo!, activist shareholders – investors in search of big dividends – now are setting their sights on European companies like Nestle. “No company is really immune from activism except perhaps for…
Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission (BTRC) has rejected the appeal of mobile phone operator Banglalink for direct assignment of 5MHz spectrum in 2100MHz band without any auction. The telecom regulator has termed the appeal as “illogical” and “unwanted” saying that the…
There were rumours that Priyanka Chopra and not Aishwarya Rai Bachchan was approached first for Fanney Khan. A source close to the actress has revealed thus to a tabloid: “The actress is busy reading Bollywood projects, but nothing has been…
Entertainment Desk Shakib Khan-starrer Nabab has enjoyed a great opening run over Eid, with most cinema halls screening it reporting full houses and sales of advance tickets. Reporting from across the country our correspondents said people are still rushing to…
Salman Khan is a force of Nature. Who would have thought that the lanky youngster, who made his debut in Biwi Ho To Aisi (1988), would one day be regarded as the gold standard of box-office collections? He’s been destiny’s…
If the United States fails to take decisive measures to combat climate change, it will become a poorer country facing more dramatic inequality, according to a study published Thursday. The poorest third of US counties could see income drops as…
US stocks finished mostly higher Friday, bucking the trend in most global equity markets as worries about tightening monetary policy pressured sentiment. The Dow and S&P 500 ended modestly higher, but the Nasdaq faded into negative territory at the end…
Apple co-founder Steve Jobs, who died in 2011, contemplated putting the company’s hardware and software smarts to work in a car nearly a decade ago, according to reports in trade press. Speculation about an Apple Car became the stuff of…
Entertainment Desk Selected full length and short films from well-known Bangladeshi filmmakers will be screened at the 1st Mostra de Cinema Sul Asiático (1st South Asian Film Festival) in the city center of Lisbon, Portugal. The film festival focusing on…
Entertainment Desk Though she is just four films old, the beautiful Nusraat Faria is confident of her position as an actress. In Kolkata for the release of her upcoming film, this Dhallywood actress talked about her experience of working with…
‘O Mon Ramzan-er Oi Rozar Sheshey Elo Khushir Eid’, the impressive song of National Poet Kazi Najrul Islam, has completed 85 years on the day of this Eid-ul-Fitr. The song has become an unofficial title or theme song for the…
Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba said Wednesday it would inject another $1 billion into Southeast Asia’s Lazada, as the cashed-up company increases its stake in the region’s nascent online shopping market. The investment will raise Alibaba’s holding in Lazada to 83…
Throughout its 4.5-billion-year history, Earth has been repeatedly pummelled by space rocks that have caused anything from an innocuous splash in the ocean to species annihilation. When the next big impact will be, nobody knows. But the pressure is on…
Ocean levels rose 50 percent faster in 2014 than in 1993, with meltwater from the Greenland ice sheet now supplying 25 percent of total sea level increase compared with just five percent 20 years earlier, researchers reported Monday. The findings…