Sudhirendar Sharma Times may have changed but not for today’s parents whose collective frustration spills out in the open when it comes to discussing their offspring. Unceremonious adages like ‘highly irresponsible’, ‘grossly careless’, ‘poorly empathetic’ and ‘increasingly narcissistic’ are pressed…
Venezuela (AP/UNB) – Venezuela’s socialist president is establishing a peace prize in honor of the late Hugo Chavez and says his pick for the initial award would be Russian leader Vladimir Putin.
Dhaka – The Bangladesh High Commission in London hosted the “Summit Bangladesh Evening” on Thursday at the prestigious Nehru Centre in the heart of London city, UNB news agency reported. It was dedicated to the freedom fighters and martyrs of…
Music legend Dolly Parton will be presented with a special honor during this year’s CMA Awards. The 70-year-old artist has earned the Willie Nelson Lifetime Achievement Award. The honor is given to artists who have “positively impacted and contributed to…
New York (AP/UNB) — A new museum that seemingly rises out of the ground will replace the small exhibition space inside the pedestal of the Statue of Liberty, its grass roof blending with the landscape and affording sweeping views of…
GreenWatch Dhaka Desk – UN (IPS) The International Criminal Court (ICC) will pay more attention to crimes of environmental destruction and land-grabs, according to a new policy paper published by the court. This may see business executives and government officials…
Blue-chip Chinese artist Zeng Fanzhi built up a lucrative career by looking to the West for inspiration and buyers, but a new retrospective in Beijing reveals an unlikely turn back towards China’s own aesthetics and traditions. It is a story…
Cultural Desk Eminent music composer Alam Khan is undergoing treatment for his respiratory problems at the Samorita Hospital in the city. Khan, who composed a number of classic songs for Bangla films, has been suffering from a number of health…
Dhaka (AP/UNB)-Three scientists won a Nobel Prize in chemistry Wednesday for advances in a field that has big hopes for very tiny machines — the smallest ever built. Frenchman Jean-Pierre Sauvage, Scottish-born Fraser Stoddart and Dutch scientist Bernard “Ben” Feringa…
Culture Desk Mehreen to release new album and return to concerts] Pop singer Mehreen Mahmud is about to bring her next album from Impress Audio Vision. The album named Seven has been produced by GoGirl. The album contains ten songs.…
Entertainment Desk Pulling off a $10 million dollar jewel heist is one thing—but finding a buyer is another, say experts, predicting that the robbers who targeted Kim Kardashian would struggle to dispose of their loot. Kardashian, the world’s highest paid…
Dhaka – BBC Bangla will present a series of programmes and events with audiences in Bangladesh and India to mark 75 years of broadcasting. It will engage with audiences via Facebook Lives and radio to discuss the global and national…
US reality TV star Kim Kardashian West has been robbed at gunpoint at a luxury residence in Paris by at least two men dressed as police officers, her publicist and police say. A box containing jewellery worth up to €6m…
Kim Kardashian has been held at gunpoint in her Paris hotel room. Her husband, rapper Kanye West, abruptly left his set early at the Meadows Festival in New York on Sunday night after learning of the news.
Cultural Desk As if the excitement around his rugged muscular look in Dangaal wasn’t enough, Aamir’s avatar in Thug is raising the curiosity bar to another level. While the post production of Dangaal is on in full swing, Aamir is…
Argentina has chosen “The Distinguished Citizen” to compete for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 2017 U.S. Academy Awards (Oscars). The film, a dramatic comedy about an award-winning writer who is first revered and then reviled by his hometown,…
Entertainment Desk Angelina Jolie has reached a temporary agreement with Brad Pitt giving her custody of their six children and granting him visiting rights, reports said on Friday. Several celebrity gossip outlets reported that the divorcing couple were persuaded to…
Robert J. Burrowes As most of the world ignores or hypocritically celebrates the 147th birthday of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi on the International Day of Nonviolence on 2 October, some of us will quietly acknowledge his life by continuing to build…
Entertainment Desk This project had been under wraps for sometime now but Salman Khan’s surprise for cinegoers is out now! Sabka favourite bhaijaan is now going to open cinema halls with low price tickets. Contrary to multiplexes that charge anything…
A once-hugely popular Korean American singer, who was vilified for giving up his South Korean citizenship to avoid military service, lost his legal bid Friday to be allowed back in the country. Just as he was about to be called…
Entertainment Desk One of the most popular radio stations of this era, Radio Foorti steps into the next year, with millions of listeners and well-wishers following suit in their journey as they chant this years theme: “10xfoorti!” On the occasion…
Cultural Desk Hers is truly a mind over matter story. She was just 13 when she lost her father but didn’t let the tragedy get to her, learning the intricacies of music, of playback singing and slowly rising to become…
Dhaka – Versatile writer Syed Shamsul Haq was buried on the Kurigram Govt College premises in his birthplace Kurigram district on Wednesday as per his last wish, UNB news agency reported. The eminent writer was buried abound 5 pm after…
The Hrithik Roshan, Kangana Ranaut saga is far from over. Months after the legal and public face-off between the two hit the headlines, we still keep on hearing that the truth is yet to come out. If last week it…
Playboy magazine, once famous for bunnies and soft porn, for the first time is featuring a Muslim woman wearing a hijab, in a spread that is drawing both praise and criticism. American journalist Noor Tagouri appears in the magazine’s October…
Versatile writer Syed Shamsul Haq passed away at a city hospital on Tuesday evening. He was 81.Haq, who had long been fighting with deadly lung cancer, breathed his last at United Hospital around 5:26, hospital sources said.He left behind his…
Entertainment Desk Life seems to be making a turn for the better for Ranbir Kapoor. With Ae Dil Hai Mushkil creating a positive buzz and his role already being liked in the trailer, things look good for the Kapoor star.…
Noted journalist and former leader of the journalist community Kamal Lohani said on Monday that the works of Ataus Samad should be preserved as an asset for the development of the journalists’ skills and practical knowledge.
Dhaka – The government is formulating a “practical” and “application” based Tourism Master Plan (TMP) to explore all the untapped potential, which is the also a motto of World Tourism Day.
Entertainment Desk Social crusader Anna Hazare is set to make a rare appearance on television. We are not talking about a prime-time debate on some news channel. This is going to be a unique appearance. Anna Hazare will be appearing…