Desk Report: Fish, vegetables and many grocery items were rare in the city markets, the weekend just after the three-day Eid-ul-Azha holidays, as most vendors did not turn up, reports Financial Express. Cashing in on this situation, some traders charged high prices for the items available, consumers claimed. However, transaction in the kitchen markets remained…
Md. Shamsul Islam, Executive Editor, Our Time : With yet another death from road accident in Dhaka on Thursday, our streets are gradually turning into the most lethal ones in the world. People are now sacrificing their organs or their lives almost regularly due to the reckless and whimsical driving on our roads. By now, road…
BBC: A Renoir painting looted by the Nazis during World War II has been returned to its rightful owner, New York federal officials announced Wednesday. The painting, “Deux Femmes Dans Un Jardin,” painted in 1919 by Pierre Auguste Renoir, was stolen by Nazis from a bank vault in Paris in 1941, said a news release…
Samiul Bashar Samin Game of Thrones actress Emilia Clarke has revealed that she wants to play the first female James Bond, and says she would choose Leonardo DiCaprio to be the first ‘Bond boy’.Earlier this week X Files star Gillian Anderson hit headlines when she said she could replace Daniel Craig as the first female…
/My Republica At 55, my daddy has 419 friends in Facebook yet he wants to be in politics. The enthusiasm has not faded. Daddy, your budding political career came to a halt 20 years ago. You were a regular delegate of Nepali Congress Trade Union’s gatherings and I remember the trips you used to take…
DOT Desk: The week-long ‘Madhu Mela’, an annual festival marking the birth anniversary of the pioneer of Bengali sonnets poet Michael Madhusudan Dutta, will begin at his birth place in Sagardari of Keshabpur upazila on January 22, reports The Daily Sun. Marking the poet’s 195th birth anniversary, the festival will feature discussions, exhibition and cultural…
Money control: Friends of a man who got married here presented him with five litres of petrol, the price of which has skyrocketed, as a ‘wedding gift.’ The young man and his newly wedded wife were greeting guests at a marriage hall when his friends trooped in and gave him the petrol in a five…
Desk Report: Ever since ‘Debi’ was announced, it has intrigued the Bengali movie lovers, especially those who are a big fan of Bangladeshi writer Humayun Ahmed. The upcoming thriller brings the iconic fictional character Misir Ali to the big screen for the first time, reports The Daily Asian Age. The interesting teaser and a series…
Gary Seidman, Salt Lake City, Utah/UNHCR(United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees) Founder Samira Harnish, an Iraqi immigrant, is named Nansen Award regional finalist from the Americas. The bill was more than US$27,000 and, having recently arrived from Iraq, she had no insurance to cover it. “It’s a really big amount. I can’t afford it,” she…
Metro The Queen will use her Christmas Day speech to spread a message of ‘peace on earth and goodwill to all’, which she believes is needed ‘as much as ever’. In the tradition started by her grandfather King George V in 1932, Queen Elizabeth II will also encourage those with strongly opposing views to bridge…