Jayasmita Ray Bollywood movies are spreading their wings much far away than before marking their territories in unprecedented domes. With the encroachment of technology and reversal ideologies the topics, movies are converging complex and reflecting modernity. Most recently many Bollywood movies have brought out some female centric movies that propagated the oxymoron our society is…
Marilyn Thipthorpe Do you throw away or keep misplacing or are just plain confused about what to do with your old pen/flash drives. Don’t be, we have a solution for it and it comes with a cause. Recently at the South by Southwest Festival a booth was showcased with a board covered with cartoonists’ drawings…
Syed Badrul Ahsan, Editor-in-Charge, The Asian Age : Bangabandhu should have lived longer. But, then again, we did not permit him to live beyond three and a half years into freedom. He was a mere fifty five when he was assassinated and none of us in this country had the courage to stream out on…
Reuters Pakistan is planning to ease visa restrictions for visitors from 55 countries, including most European nations, in a bid to revive tourism that was devastated by Islamist violence in the fallout from the 9/11 attacks in the United States. “We are reviewing our visa policies. We are trying to bring 55 countries into a visa-free…
NDTV: The past four years have been the four warmest that humans have ever recorded – and now, according to a new scientific forecast, the next five will also probably be “anomalously warm,” even beyond what the steady upward pace of global warming would produce on its own. That could include another record warmest year,…
Syed Manzoorul Islam, Academic and Writer: omestic awareness has to be raised if drug-addicted students are to be brought back to schools and colleges. Offspring should have sound and healthy relationships with their parents. It is a sad reality that corrupt households will have adverse impact on the growth of its children. When the father…
Lila MacLellan/QUARTZY The earliest surviving film to depict African-American actors in an intimate moment made its online debut to modern audiences last month—on social media, of course. Viewers found the 29-second silent film, Something Good — Negro Kiss, made in 1898, deeply moving. “The restored film opens on a couple with lips locked in a…
Hossen Sohel: Banglade-sh has expressed the hope that Rohingya repatriation will begin soon with sending the first batch of over 3,000 Rohingyas though no specific date is there to begin the process, reports UNB. “We’re thinking of beginning the first batch repatriation soon. I cannot tell you the date at this moment. Clearance for over…
BSS, Bandarban State Minister for Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT) Affairs Bir Bahadur on Saturday said the government is bringing the whole hill region under communications network by constructing roads in remote areas. The pace of ongoing development activities is being enhanced maintaining peace and harmony in the CHT, he said speaking as the chief guest…
BSS, Dhaka Although Bangladesh is facing various water related challenges, the country has brought its 91 percent people under safe water coverage and it has enhanced its efforts to introduce environment friendly water management system. Bangladesh’s water sector is facing significant challenges including arsenic mitigation, lowering of water table, climate change impact and rampant pollution,…