UNB As Hungary’s ‘Son of Saul’ took home the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, it nailed the already-destined coffin for Bangladesh’s Oscars aspirations this year. Not that debutant Abu Shahed Emon’s ‘Jalaler Golpo’ was nominated in the final five, but it blew the candle on Bangladesh’s hopes of ever reaching the big show,…
UNB A housewife, who received burn injuries as her in-laws set her ablaze over dowry at Dadan village in Pirgachha upazila on February 25, succumbed to the injuries on Monday morning. Tahmina Begum, 27, wife of Abdul Mannan of the village and mother of two girls, died on her way to Dhaka, said Dr Maruful…
UNB Ahead of the party’s sixth national council, BNP on Monday announced the schedule for elections to the party chairperson and senior vice chairman posts. BNP standing committee member and its election commissioner Jamiruddin Sircar announced the election schedule at a press briefing at BNP’s Nayapaltan central office. Sircar said the elections will be held…
UNB In an underdog win for a movie about an underdog profession, the newspaper drama “Spotlight” took best picture Sunday at an Academy Awards riven by protest and outrage, and electrified by an unflinching Chris Rock. Tom McCarthy’s film about the Boston Globe’s investigative reporting on sexual abuse by Roman Catholic priests won over the…
Zayaan Alamgir That time of the year has come around again, the time for music lovers to unite and gather around their television sets with their music players and snacks as they’re about to spectate the year’s biggest night in music, The Grammy Awards Ceremony, held annually. Every year an award ceremony is held usually…
Our Time Desk Leap year comes once in four years and with history and superficial, there are plenty of facts about 29th February! •Bachelor’s Day: Back in 1288, Scotland passed a law which allowed women to propose to men and if they refused, they had to pay fine for their refusal! Thus, 29th February is…
Our Time Desk With endless availability of the wrong, very few wants to do it right! Bad things somehow look more appealing to us than the fine things does! Even though nature has to offer so much of positive and healthy food, we still chose to find a way to leave out the good and…
Tahsin Rahman Oshin In recent years, teenage depression has become an alarming fact that is rising more than ever before. Even twenty years ago, it was not a familiar case and such cases would go unnoticed. However, recent research shows that childhood and teen depression is a reality and it is not just the bad…
Dishika Tasnim “Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time” – a very famous quote by Thomas Merton says all about art. I think art is not just a creative skill or imagination, but it is what comes from your soul. What you can make other people see, is what…
A recent meme on Facebook caught my eye the other day, a real conversation between a man and his boss in a multinational company. Boss: What does your wife do? Man: Nothing. Boss: Really? Who cooks? Who cleans? Who looks after your children? Who feeds you? Man: mmm Boss: tell me in your honest opinion…