Desk Report: The shipping minister has warned launch owners of taking legal actions, if they carry extra passengers during the Eid-ul-Azha festival, reports Financial Express. “I urge you (launch owners) not to carry extra passengers during Eid. We will take legal actions, if any owner violates our directives,” Shajahan Khan told the media after visiting…
BBC: Crazy Rich Asians beat expectations to take the top spot at the US box office on its opening weekend. The Warner Brothers film starring Constance Wu and Henry Golding is the first romantic comedy in three years to take the top spot. Since it opened five days ago, the film – which cost $30m…
Desk Report: Filming has begun on the sequel to It, the Stephen King adaptation directed by Andy Muschietti, with an all-new cast on board. Unfortunately, one of the actors – James McAvoy, who plays the adult version of Jaeden Lieberher’s Bill Denbrough – has already had some trouble on set. While battling Pennywise, McAvoy managed…
Russia Today: A video has emerged on Twitter showing a faceless yet worryingly realistic humanoid robot walking in what looks like a perfectly mundane courtyard. The trip down the uncanny valley caused some to proclaim an impending apocalypse. The clip shows the stoop-backed robot making its way past the cameraman, with ominous music playing in…
UNB: The Cabinet on Monday approved the draft Sarkari Chakori Ain 2018 with a provision for the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) to take prior permission of the authorities concerned for arresting any public servant. The approval was given at the weekly meeting of the Cabinet held at the Prime Minister’s Office with Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina…
Kabir Humayun: Three more students involved with the recent student protest and quota reform movement were granted bail in cases filed with different police stations in Dhaka. The students who secured bail are Risalatul Ferdous, student of East West University, Saber Ahmed Ullash of Uttara Asian University and Aminul Ehsan Baizid of Turag IUBAT, reports…
The Guardian, UK: A kindergarten in Indonesian has been criticised for dressing girls up in black, Isis-style costumes and replica rifles for an independence day parade, with organisers forced to apologise for the embarrassing gaffe. Photos of the “cultural” parade held in the city of Probolinggo, East Java, on Saturday showed lines of young girls…
Desk Report: To give a relief from every pressure and tension of the arrangement of a wedding or a corporate arrangement of the city dweller, an IT firm called “Cloud Next Generation Limited” come forwarded with a new initiative, reports Asian Age. They have built a web platform named VENUE.com.bd that will serve you information…
Desk Report: Global Youth Film Festival Rangpur (GYFFR) will take place in Rangpur city with the slogan, “Let’s Cinema.” From September 27-29, Cinema Bangladesh will organize this assembly of young directors from around the world at the Town Hall of Rangpur, reports Asian Age. In the international section, 1270 movies were submitted, directed by 101…
John Lloyd/BDnews24 The British political crisis deepens. This is not a Brexit matter, though that is critical enough. Rather it concerns Jeremy Corbyn, leader of the opposition Labour Party – which is now, according to a poll last month, four points ahead of the ruling Conservative Party. Though Corbyn isn’t personally popular, he could become…