Maruf Two Bangladesh produced short films named “Ranginghuri” and “Dream lithe” is going to be screened in Norway Film Festival. International Youth Film Festival of Langesund has invited the two Bangladeshi shortfilms in its international competition. This time the festival will be celebrated from July 7 to July 11. The films were produced by Zayed…
Sofian Khan: Awami Lea-gue General Secretary Obaidul Quader said they will show no tenderness towards BNP while forming the election-time government. “BNP hasn’t any scope to be included in the polls-time government, as per the constitution”, said Quader, also the Road Transport & Bridges Minister while addressing a press briefing at the party President’s Political…
Eshan Maitra Today is the day we lost our beloved leader and the Father of our nation. But, let us not only mourn on this day. Rather, also remember the legacy that Bangabandhu has left for us, and the nation he left for us. His glory will never fade away from the pages of history…
Raj Abrar of DOT Awami League (AL) General Secretary Obaidul Quader announced yesterday that the final list of the grand alliance candidates for the upcoming Jatiya Sangsad (JS) polls will be declared in a day or two. “We’ll be able to finalize our list for the next polls in a day or two . ….
BSS Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) arrested eight kidnappers and rescued four victims from their clutches from different areas of the country. The arrestees are Md Rokon, 21, Ayesha Akhter Asha, 25, Amir Hossain, 22, Hasan Khandoker, 30, Habib, 32, Milton, 22, Samad 32, and Md Mamun Mirza, 28. RAB in separate raid since February 26…
Desk Report Dengue infection has taken an alarming turn in the capital as thousands of people are contracting the mosquito-borne viral disease even though the rainy season, when the menace peaks, is over, reports New Age. Dengue has so far killed 15 people as of September this year, the highest in a year in the…
Ramin Jahanbegloo, Professor, vice dean and director of Mahatma Gandhi Centre for Peace Studies at O.P. Jindal Global University/ Live Mint Today, critical intellectuals are an endangered species. What will it take for ‘superheroes of the mind’ to be fighters of human dignity? Talking about the public role of intellectuals in today’s world, and more…
The Japan Times: People in Japan have been complaining about the 2020 Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics since Japan’s capital was awarded the games. Netizens have railed against everything from the apparent insensitivity of hosting the two-week competition while the Tohoku region continues to recover from the Great Eastern Japan Earthquake to the mascots that look…
Ishra Chowdhury It seems… It seems, 2016 has entered the warped world of George Orwell’s 1984, a book written in the late, late 40’s about government surveillance, censorship, “democratic” dictatorship and espionage; to put it mildly. Devastatingly portraying a brutal parallel in the current tensions globally, and most recently domestically here in Bangladesh. In the…
Hossen Sohel of DOT The total expenditure of the upcoming fifth Upazila Parishad election was estimated at Taka 677 crore which is double that of the expenditure of the fourth, reports banglanews24.com. The government will bear it. “The 5th UP election is financed with Taka 677 allocation. Out of Taka 677, 225 will be spent…