BSS “Spotlight” triumphed Saturday at the Spirit Awards, the latest of a string of honors it has picked up in Hollywood’s annual prize giving season, with the Oscars just one day away. The movie, about the Boston Globe’s investigation into child sex abuse in the Catholic Church,took best film as well as best director for…
Kabir Humayun: Mem-bers of Bangladesh Coast Guard have rescued 10 workers after a brick-laden trawler capsized in the Meghna river in Munshiganj yesterday. The rescued people are Abdul Mannan, 32, Md Harun, 27, Md Alamgir, 23, Md Ismail, 30, Md Nurul Haque, 28, Md Moin Uddin, 36, Md Abu Bakar, 26, Md Hatem, 22, Md…
CBS News: An Australian state has offered a large reward for information after sewing needles were found in strawberries sold in supermarkets, in what the federal health minister described as a “vicious crime.” The issue came to light last week when a man was taken to hospital with stomach pains after eating the fresh produce…
AFP: A high-level South Korean delegation will fly to North Korea this week to discuss arrangements for an inter-Korean summit there this month, as relations grow cooler between Washington and Pyongyang. The South’s President Moon Jae-in Sunday named his top security adviser as a special envoy to the North to discuss details before Moon’s planned…
Hossen Sohel of DOT A Dhaka court yesterday asked BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia and 16 others to appear before it on January 16 in connection with the Gatco corruption case as it got High Court orders regarding vacation of the stay order on behalf of several accused in the case, reports The Daily Star. Judge…
UNB Detective Branch of police arrested the ringleader of a robber gang along with a pistol and eight rounds of bullet from Mollar Char in Gaibandha Sadar upazila on Tuesday night. The arrestee was identified as Saidur Rahman. Officer-in-charge of Gaibandha DB police Shamim Hasan said the Saidur Rahman-led gang had long been carrying out…
DOT desk Residents in Old Dhaka, Mirpur, Mohammadpur, Jatrabari, Rampura, Banasree, Agargaon, Khilgaon and Khilkhet, are among those most affected, reports the Dhaka Tribune. Dhaka city dwellers continue to suffer as shortage of gas supplies across the city deepen due fall in temperature as the winter season draws near. Residents in Old Dhaka, Mirpur, Mohammadpur,…
Tech Explorist Launched on Aug. 5, 2011, from Cape Canaveral, Florida, the spacecraft entered orbit around Jupiter on July 4, 2016. It then started collecting data in earnest on Aug. 27, 2016. During these flybys, Juno’s suite of sensitive science instruments probes beneath the planet’s obscuring cloud cover and studies Jupiter’s auroras to learn more…
Sofian Khan A Dhaka court has sentenced Mezbaul Alam, a Asia Pacific University student to life imprisonment for the murder of Daffodil University student Setu Sarkar in 2013. The 25-year-old inmate was sentenced to life imprisonment along with a Tk 50,000 fine in one charge. A failure to pay the fine will be punished by…