Cultural Correspondent The Dhaka International Poets Summit 2017 will be held on February 3 at 6pm at the National Art Gallery of Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy in the capital. Minister for Civil Aviation and Tourism, Rashed Khan Menon will be present…
Keeping your brain busy and sharp with a steady flow of activities is likely you help you fight against mild brain disabilities. Rochester-based Mayo Clinic researchers have found that engaging in mentally stimulating activities, even late in life, may protect…
Apple on Tuesday reported a rebound in iPhone sales to lift the tech giant to record revenue in the past quarter in quarterly results that eased concerns of slowing growth. The results showed strong demand for Apple’s iPhone 7 models…
Johnny Depp’s lavish spending—including $3 million to blast author Hunter S. Thompson’s ashes from a cannon—led him to the brink of financial ruin, according to an explosive lawsuit filed Tuesday. Over the best part of two decades, the 53-year-old actor…
A wing-deforming virus shortens the lifespan of wild honeybees already contending with a startlingly long list of existential threats, researchers said Wednesday. Spread by microscopic mites, the microbe disrupts bees’ foraging and curtails their lives, experiments confirmed for the first…
Government has marginally revised upwards GDP growth for 2015-16 to 7.9 per cent from the earlier estimate of 7.6 per cent after factoring in latest data on agriculture and industrial production. “Real GDP or GDP at constant (2011-12) prices for…
David Beckham has rubbished claims that he and wife Victoria stay together because of “brand Beckham”. The former professional footballer was appearing on BBC Radio 4’s Desert Island Discs to celebrate the show’s 75th anniversary. “People have talked about ‘do…
NASA on Friday marked the 50th anniversary of its moon program’s fatal Apollo launchpad fire with the first public display of the scorched hatch that trapped three astronauts inside their spaceship during a routine pre-launch test. NASA astronauts Virgil “Gus”…
Narail Correspondent A two-day “Cake Festival-2017”, popularly known as “Pitha Utsab,” a traditional fair in winter season was concluded on Amada Adarsha College premises under Lohagora upazila of the district last night. Amada Adarsha College organised the festival to keep…
Agriculture experts have stressed the need for switching over to environment-friendly farming to produce pure food staffs free from hazardous chemical pesticides and insecticides.They made the opinion at the concluding ceremony of ‘Environment and Seed Fair-2017’ organised by Udaynkur Seba…
Delta Air Lines, one of the largest US carriers, temporarily grounded its domestic flights in the United States on Sunday over a computer glitch that did not impact planes already in the air. “Delta teams are expeditiously working to fix…
The dollar tumbled against its major peers in Asia on Monday while regional markets sank in holiday-thinned trade as traders were spooked by tensions caused by Donald Trump’s divisive immigration ban. A disappointing reading on US economic growth added to…
Bread, chips and potatoes should be cooked to a golden yellow colour, rather than brown, to reduce our intake of a chemical which could cause cancer, British food scientists are warning. Acrylamide is produced when starchy foods are roasted, fried…
Entertainment Desk Filmmaker Karan Johar has praised Hrithik Roshan’s performance in Kaabil and has called him a “powerhouse of talent”. Karan took to Twitter to congratulate Hrithik for his act as a blind man driven to avenge. “As a filmmaker…
While the shooting of the Deepika Padukone, Shahid Kapoor and Ranveer Singh starrer Padmavati was on in full swing at the Jaigarh Fort in Rajasthan, a mob of protestors barged in and vandalised the set. What comes in as a…
As US President Donald Trump pushes hard for goods to be “made in America,” how realistic is it to expect Apple to stop manufacturing its iconic devices in China? The freshly installed president vowed while campaigning that he would force…
French actress Emmanuelle Riva, star of 1959 classic “Hiroshima Mon Amour” and more recently the oldest best actress Oscar nominee in a late-career revival, died Friday from cancer. She was 89. Riva died in Paris “after a long illness,” her…
A fishing boat glides across the shimmering surface of Europe’s oldest lake, a haven of biodiversity and a UNESCO World Heritage Site—one that conservationists warn faces multiple development threats. Lake Ohrid, which straddles the mountainous border of Macedonia and Albania,…
Transplantation of Boro rice seedling has been continuing in full swing as the farmers already completed the process on around 21 per cent of the targeted land area in Rangpur agriculture region this season. According to sources in the Department…
Entertainment Desk The Matt Damon starrer, The Great Wall was released in Bangladesh yesterday, January 27 and is now available for movie enthusiasts at Bashundhara City’s Star Cineplex. Interestingly, the film is yet to be released in its country of…
At a recent award function the gorgeous Rekha was honored with the Lifetime Achievement Award. The perfectionist that she is, she made it known to the organizers that the AV which would be played at the event should be according…
Shah Rukh Khan left us crackling when he narrated this incident from the airport. So the actor was returning to Mumbai along with AbRam and naturally, there were tons of photographers waiting to click pictures of SRK. To protect AbRam,…
Asthma patients must learn the proper way of using inhaler as the device has been proved to be the most effective means to control the disease, a leading chest disease expert told BSS. “Inhaler is an effective way of treatment…
Microsoft on Thursday reported a rise in profits over the past quarter, showing gains in cloud computing and other new areas of focus as it absorbed the LinkedIn social network. The US tech giant said profits rose 3.6 percent in…
Bangladesh Bank (BB) Governor Fazle Kabir will unveil the Monetary Policy Statement (MPS) for the second half (H2) of the financial year 2016-17 (FY17) tomorrow at 11 am at the central bank headquarters in the city. The governor would also…
Michael Jackson’s only daughter, Paris, says she believes her father was murdered. In her first in-depth interview, Paris told Rolling Stone she was convinced Jackson’s 2009 death was “a setup”. The singer died from an overdose of the powerful anaesthetic…
After a long wait, Shah Rukh Khan’s latest release Raees landed in the theatres on Wednesday. Even before its release, the movie managed to create a lot of buzz, courtesy brand Shah Rukh Khan. The makers of the film encashed…
Culture Desk Agnila-Azad the couple who made news while performing in a memorial music video for singer Lucky Akhand last year have come together again. This new video will be released on satellite channels on January 27. This new video…
Farmer Folahan is one of up to 200 people in the west African country of Benin who still contract leprosy every year. Her face is covered in nodules—a symptom of the condition—when she arrives at the screening centre in the…
A two-day International Conference on Computer, Communication, Chemical, Material and Electronic Engineering began at Rajshahi University (RU) today. Science Faculty of RU organized the conference in order to provide a unique opportunity for the science and technology professionals, scientists, engineers,…