Pulitzer Prize-winning US poet Sharon Olds has been given a $100,000 (£75,000) lifetime achievement award. – See more at: http://www.observerbd.com/details.php?id=32737#sthash.kCLWfF9m.dpuf Olds, 73, was given the Academy of American Poets’ prestigious Wallace Stevens Award for “proven mastery in the art of…
Rajshahi Correspondent Speakers at an anti-corruption quiz competition have stressed educating and inspiring young students with honesty, good moral character and patriotism in building a corruption-free society. They stressed on creating anti-corruption sentiment among the school students for changing their…
The first US spacecraft designed to collect dust from an asteroid and return the sample to Earth blasted off Thursday on a seven-year mission to unveil the origins of the solar system, NASA said. The unmanned spaceship, called OSIRIS-REx, launched…
Bollywood megastar Amitabh Bachchan turns 74 next month but he says he’s still hungry for new challenges after his latest movie about sexual violence against women left him deeply moved. In an interview at his sumptuous Mumbai office, the Hindi…
Oil prices retreated Friday, taking a chunk out of the previous day’s rally as investors digested data suggesting last week’s plunge in US stockpiles was likely a one-off. Both main contracts soared more than two dollars Thursday after the energy…
Recently, as part of a project, the European Journal of Social Psychology studied 62 couples for eight months. The researchers wanted to find out how each participant’s desire for sex and intimacy influenced his or her bond with his or…
Tomorrow(9th September) marks the 2nd death anniversary of legendary Nazrul artiste Firoza Begum. The artiste was born in Gopalganj on July 28, 1930 to the zamindars of Ratail Ghonaparha. Her father was Khan Bahadur Mohammad Ismail, mother Begum Kaokabunnesa. She…
More than 100 countries pledged Wednesday to clear unexploded cluster munitions used in conflict zones worldwide by 2030, a new step in the unfinished battle to prevent deaths by the weapons. Parties to the 2008 Convention on Cluster Munitions set…
IT Desk Robi and LG has introduced mobile device bundle offer that allows customers to purchase the LG smartphones with Hire Purchase Scheme (HPS). Customers will have the option to choose from a wide range of prices to suit their…
Finance Minister Abul Maal Abdul Muhith today urged the Cultural Affairs Minister Asaduzzaman Noor to map out a plan for setting up a permanent venue to arrange different cultural events. The minister made the call while talking to journalists after…
India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday pledged to formally join the Paris climate change agreement this year, a potentially major step toward the pact entering into force. After a meeting with President Barack Obama, a champion of the deal,…
The broader index of Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) crossed the 4600-point mark to close the week on Thursday. The other indices of the bourse, however, ended flat in red due to sell pressure on group specific shares. The major index…
Almost 50 million children throughout the world are “uprooted,” forcibly displaced from their home countries by war, violence or persecution, the United Nations children’s program said Wednesday. “Indelible images of individual children—Aylan Kurdi’s small body washed up on a beach…
Rangpur Correspondent The online registration process for admission tests in the first year honours courses for the academic session 2016-17 at Begum Rokeya University, Rangpur (BRUR), will begin from September 20 next. The registration process will continue round the clock…
IT Desk Buoyed by the success in market, EDISON group, the parent company of Symphony mobile, has brought new smartphone “Helio S2” which is the third device in Helio series. The new Smartphone was unveiled in the market recently, said…
A memorial meeting on eminent poet and a fellow of Bangla Academy Shahid Quadri will be held at 4 pm at Bangla Academy here today. Bangla Academy, Sammilita Sangskritik Jote and Jatiya Kabita Parishad are jointly organizing the memorial meeting…
Sweden vows to strengthen its position as a model nation to tackle climate change, according to the 2017 budget proposal presented by the Swedish government on Tuesday. The budget of nearly 13 billion SEK (1.53 billion U.S. dollars) set aside…
Investment in technology is needed to make the country’s apparel industry more competitive, sustainable and profitable towards attaining US$ 50 billion export goal by 2021, speakers at a seminar said. Besides, infrastructure bottle necks and capacity constraints, which are the…
Vietnam carriers bought 40 airplanes worth $6.5 billion from France’s Airbus Tuesday, as President Francois Hollande visited the communist nation to drum up business ties. Low-cost private airline VietJet, known for its bikini-clad hostesses, bought 20 planes while national carrier…
Vulnerable Pacific island nations will look to maintain momentum for action on climate change at a meeting in Micronesia this week after playing a key role in prompting action from China and the United States. The Pacific Islands Forum (PIF)…
Entertainment Desk The race for the Oscars intensifies this week at the Toronto film festival, where a spotlight will be shined on American politics, youth radicalization, racism, feminism and alien arrivals. Nearly 400 feature and short films from 83 countries…
When your doctor puts you on a prescription medication, reading the list of potential side effects can be daunting. While it may be tempting to ignore that fine print completely—after all, the benefits of being on the medicine will likely…
Nearly 30 million American children and adults suffer from asthma, which is when the respiratory “pipes” (bronchi) that carry air in and out of the lungs are inflamed and spasm. And every year, the disease sends more than 500,000 people…
Entertainment Desk Among all the transformation tales of Bollywood, actress Parineeti Chopra is one of the latest ones. This bindaas actress may have won millions of hearts thanks to her acting talent, but now she’s hogging the limelight due to…
Culture Desk A shocking news came for Hrithik Roshan and for his fans after some ‘enterprising individual’ actually hacked his Facebook account. The hacker went live on Hrithik’s Facebook feed for a few minutes. Later the session was pulled down.…
Nearly 20 thousand women are affected by uterus cancer every year in the country. Of the affected, around 18 die every day but deaths could be prevented with the diagnosis at the primary stage. Specialists said that the socio-economic situation…
Culture Desk Shafin Ahmed the feted son of one of the most prominent singer couple of the country has released a classical album. The rockstar has released the album “Mone Pore Aaj” for his mother Firoza Begum. Veteran musician and…
The determination and joint leadership that China and the United States have demonstrated on the sidelines of the Group of 20 (G20) major economies summit in Hangzhou, east China, in fighting climate change wins widespread applause. In the eyes of…
A new campus of the Jagannath University (JnU) will be built in Keraniganj on the outskirt of the capital city to facilitate teachers and students a comfortable and standard atmosphere for higher education. “The new campus will be an addition…
A toothy, dolphin-like predator which prowled the oceans in the Jurassic era, when dinosaurs roamed the Earth, has been uncovered in a Scottish museum where it lay buried for 50 years, scientists said Monday. First discovered in 1966, the fossil…