The 69th Cannes Film Festival opened Wednesday amid heightened security and the premiere of a new Woody Allen film, 1930s Hollywood romance Cafe Society. Allen helped kick off the Cannes festivities with some help from the movie’s stars, Kristen Stewart…
Entertainment Desk It’s only been a couple of days since Ranbir Kapoor flew to Morocco for Anurag Basu’s Jagga Jasoos. And now, Katrina Kaif has finally reached the city too. It was a long wait for the film’s unit since…
Health Desk Life changes a lot as you get older—so why would you expect your nutritional needs to stay the same? Many people who’ve passed the big 5-0 need more of certain vitamins and minerals than they did when they…
Culture Desk Rabindranath Tagore continues to inspire filmmakers and on the 155th birth anniversary of the poet, two films are released in theaters. Director Nitish Mukherjee’s “Char Adhyay”, based on Tagore’s celebrated eponymous novel, was released recently. The film, which…
Veena Malik, whose appearance in the Indian TV show “Bigg Boss” sparked a row in Pakistan, is now going to devote herself to the study of Islam. Dawn News says she will do this under the guidance of Mufti Naeem…
In 1975, Victor Benno Meyer-Rochow was diving off the Banda Islands in Indonesia, when he collected a leopard sea cucumber—a cylindrical relative of starfish and sea urchins. It was a large and stubby specimen, 40 centimetres long (16 inches) and…
Thai villagers on Wednesday celebrated a junta move to shutter a controversial gold mine, a rare blow to big business in a kingdom where environmental concerns are often secondary to profit-making. The Chatree mine complex straddles three provinces in northern…
Culture Desk Abdul Aziz, the chairman of Jaaz Multimedia, recently shared a post on Facebook on Mother’s Day which somehow, bizarrely, ended up triggering widespread gossip over his alleged relationship with actress Mahiya Mahi. In the post, Aziz expressed gratitude…
Entertainment Desk AR Rahman, the talented music composer from India recently talked about his much-awaited dream project 99 songs. Contrary to the title, 99 songs is not a musical album, rather, a full-length feature film. Bishesh Krishnamurti has directed the…
A fifth of the world’s plant species are at risk of extinction, British researchers warned Tuesday in an unprecedented global census of the plant kingdom. The survey by Britain’s Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew, London, said 21 percent of species…
Health Desk Eating unhealthy food harms the body in ways beyond weight gain. It’s no surprise that junk food is low in healthy nutrients and high in ingredients like sugar and salt. But new animal research suggests that a…
It is perhaps fitting that invasive hippos, with their “hungry, hungry” reputations, would be the lasting legacy of one of the world’s most notorious drug lords. Colombia’s Pablo Escobar built an empire on cocaine that made him one of the…
Rangamati Correspondent Rangamati district administration has imposed a ban on fishing for three months in the Kaptai Lake from May 12 midnight to ensure boosting fish population in the lake. The ban is enforced to protect mother fishes from the…
As the sea ice on which it depends breaks apart, the Baltic ringed seal of northern Europe is declining fast, experts say. A Baltic ringed seal rests on a rock in Estonia’s Hiiumaa Islets Landscape Protection Area. “One, two, three.…
Entertainment Desk Hollywood stars Eva Mendes and Ryan Gosling have welcomed a second daughter, after once again keeping the pregnancy under wraps, TMZ reported. Mendes, 42, who began dating the Canadian actor in 2011, gave birth to Amada on April…
Britain’s Royal Botanic Gardens warned Tuesday about the threats facing the world’s plant kingdom in the first global report of its kind aimed at drawing attention to often-overlooked species. The “State of the World’s Plants” report was drawn up by…
Culture Desk Indira Gandhi Culture Centre (IGCC) organised an evening of Rabindra Sangeet by Himadri Shekhor Talukder and Shimu Dey on May 7 at the IGCC, Gulshan in the city. The artistes were accompanied by Binod Roy Das on keyboard,…
The rate has tripled in the last five years, according to the Changing Diabetes in Children Programme of the BIRDEM hospital. “This is alarming. We are getting type 2 diabetes in children as young as eight years old,” Dr Bedowra…
Health Desk You wouldn’t wear winter sweaters and tights in the summer, so why would you continue to wear your cold-weather makeup when the temperature starts to rise? The products you use most of the year won’t necessarily hold up…
The death of Scarface, a famous Yellowstone bear, has inflamed a fight over protections. The grizzly bear known as Scarface roams Yellowstone National Park in July. He was fatally shot in November. Last week the Montana Department of Fish, Wildlife…
Authorities battling a forest fire in Canada looked to Mother Nature for more help Monday, as cooling temperatures and rain slowed the spread of the blaze that had forced the evacuation of an entire city. There was more good news…
Entertainment Desk Actress Aishwarya Rai Bachchan will be skipping the prestigious amfAR Gala at the 69th Cannes Film Festival this year due to commitments towards her forthcoming film ‘Sarbjit’. The actress, who is the brand ambassador of L’Oral Paris, will…
He made actors like Sanjeev Kumar, Shabana Azmi and Amjad Khan wait for over half an hour on the set of “Shatranj ke Khilari” (1977) as the soot in a lamp was not up to his satisfaction. He rejected around…
Entertainment Desk Rumours are in the air that Deepika Padukone, who just started her Hollywood journey with Vin Diesel’s xXx: the Return of Xander Cage, is starring opposite to Tom Cruise in The Mummy reboot. According to a report published…
Health Desk Climate change is likely to accelerate rates of chronic kidney disease worldwide as rising temperatures and heat stress harm kidneys. New findings show that heat stress nephropathy — chronic kidney diseases are on the rise, especially in many…
Culture Desk A five-day musical event arranged on the occasion of Rabindranath Tagore’s 155th birth anniversary comes to an end at the capital’s Shawkat Osman Auditorium of Central Public Library today. To mark the Bengali polymath’s birth anniversary on May…
Proof that diamonds are getting harder to find can be seen in the South African bush, where one of the world’s largest mining companies is spending $2 billion tunnelling beneath a vast open-pit mine. De Beers spent 25 years digging…
Working Mother magazine exclusively revealed its 50 Most Powerful Moms of the year to PEOPLE and the list – out just in time for Mother’s Day – features some of our favorites, including Beyoncé, Adele, Carrie Underwood and more! Championing…
Entertainment Desk After delivering power-packed performances in Piku and Talvar, Bollywood actor Irrfan Khan will be back on the silver screen with his upcoming film Madaari. Directed by Nishikant Kamat, the film is based on a real life incident that…
Five islands have disappeared in the Pacific’s Solomon Islands due to rising sea levels and coastal erosion, according to an Australian study that scientists said Saturday could provide valuable insights for future research. A further six reef islands have been…