Starchild Uma Thurmans said tatt she felt violated after being kissed on stage by Italian businessman Lapo Elkann. Photographs of Elkaan and Thurman kissing while holding in each other’s face could be seen in many reports. They were both present at the amFAR’s annual Cinema Against Aids gala event. The event was being hosted in…
DOT Desk As many as 35,21,97,882 free textbooks would be distributed among 4,26,19,865 primary and secondary level students on January 1 across the country in the academic year 2019, reports The Independent. “All preparations for distribution of free textbooks have been completed….. We have been able to send textbooks to all schools across the country,”…
Dr. Forqan Uddin Ahmed, Former Deputy General and Commandant, Ansar VDP Academy: Rabindranath Tagore is the greatest literary genius of Bengali literature. He had a vast knowledge in all the branches of literature. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1913 for ‘song offerings’ (Gitangali). Not only do Bengali readers enjoy his poems and songs,…
Tara Sattar In February of this year, the A-Listers appeared in a left-field direction for their fashion inspiration: Walt Disney. Dresses worn by Brie Larson, Saoirse Ronan and Alicia Vikander all channelled Disney cartoons: Beauty and the Beast, The Little Mermaid and Cinderella. These references were prophetic. In the next few months, fashion embraced Disney…
AFP Unilever chief Paul Polman is “retiring” from the consumer giant, the firm said Thursday, a month after it was forced to ditch a controversial post-Brexit plan to move its headquarters from London to the Netherlands. The Anglo-Dutch group, maker of iconic brands like Marmite and Dove soap, will be headed from January by Alan…
Sofian Khan: Six workers have been killed with 32 others injured after two separate road accidents in Tangail. In one accident at Kalihati upazila, 5 labourers from Gaibandha were killed when it veered out of the driver’s control in the bus stand area and crashed into a roadside ditch, said Kalihati Police OC Mir Mosharraf Hossain….
Pakistan Vs Sri Lanka was a knockout match. Sri Lanka lost the chance to make position in semi final. Pakistan and Sri Lanka had 50-50 chance to the semi. Sri Lankan batsmen didn’t click well for the knockout. Sri Lanka lost all their wickets at 236 in 49.2 over. Dickwella added the highest…
BBC: Félix Nadar is a legend in his native France. A tall, exuberant red-haired dynamo with a fascination for fame, he came to know everyone who was anyone in his career as a journalist and caricaturist. Instinctively understanding the emerging interest in celebrity – and the role photography could play in it – he created…
AP: Top U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration officials will unveil new plans to combat Mexican drug cartels Wednesday in Chicago alongside members of the Mexican government and federal police, DEA officials told The Associated Press. The announcement at a joint news conference will be a public display of bilateral cooperation amid ongoing tensions over President Donald…
UNDP Fourteen years ago Razia Bewa`s husband passed away, as a 30-year old widow with 4 daughters, she was not prepared for what life had in store for her. Her husband was a landless farmer who worked as a day laborer in other people`s farms and after his death their hand to mouth existence disintegrated….