Nandini Ramnath/ Scroll.In Thiagarajan Kumararaja’s second film after ‘Aaranya Kaandam’ includes Vijay Sethupathi, Fahadh Faasil, Samantha Akkineni and Ramya Krishnan in the cast. It has been nine years since Thiagarajan Kumararaja’s debut Aaranya Kaandam, but he hasn’t exactly been sitting idle. The 42-year-old Tamil filmmaker has been busy with this and that – trying to…
DOT Desk: Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy is going to organize national jatra festival featuring 64 palas from 64 districts in March, reports The New Age. The festival is an outcome of an initiative to promote the traditional performing art form. As part of the initiative, the academy has facilitated production of 64 jatra palas by jatra…
UNB: Many think public universities are meant for only providing education. Not exactly! These days, students come up with their basic health needs and university medical centres are supposed to address those. A few days back, a female student of Dhaka University shared in social media what she experienced at the institution’s medical centre. She…
Business Insider: If you’ve ever wondered what US President Donald Trump would look like as a woman (not sure why you would want to), you may now have your answer. A Spanish potato farmer has accidentally found fame in 2018 after a journalist visiting a rural area in Cabana de Bergantiños interviewed her for an…
DOT Desk: Bangladesh’s overall balance of payment (BoP) recorded US$ 837 million deficit during the July-November period of this fiscal year (FY), 2018-19, over the corresponding period of the previous fiscal, reports Financial Express BD. The overall deficit in BoP was $479 million during the same period of FY 2017-18, according to the central bank’s…
Penny Anderson, Writer and artist/ The Guardian, UK Many people disagreed with an piece I wrote on HMV, but the abuse I got on Twitter was distressing and isolating Ilove social media, I really do. I relish any opportunity to interact with people I may never meet in person, strangers with similar interests. Sadly, I…
Monsur Iqbal,Maulvibazar Correspondent A young man named Jalal Uddin, a Bangladeshi-born British citizen, was allegedly beaten to death in a drug-healing center in Maulvibazar. The incident took place in the Sreemangal road in the city on the drug drug healing center. There are injuries marks in different parts of Jalal’s body. After this incident no…
Banglanews24: Health and Family Welfare Minister Zahid Maleque said a 100-bed cancer hospital will be set up in every divisional city of the country. The minister was exchanging views with reporters after taking office at the secretariat on Tuesday (January 8). Zahid Maleque said, “The construction work of all medical colleges will be completed as…
DOT Desk: Walton Hi-Tech Industries Limited will provide information about the company to eligible institutional investors at a road show as part of its plan to go public. The show will be held at 6:30pm on January 15 at Walton Corporate Office in Dhaka’s Bashundhara Residential Area, reports The Daily Sun BD. Walton aims to collect…
BBC: A French writer is being criticised after saying he would be “incapable” of loving a woman aged 50 or above… despite being 50 himself. Yann Moix told Marie Claire magazine he found women of that age “too old”. “I prefer younger women’s bodies, that’s all. End of. The body of a 25-year-old woman is…