Entertainment Desk The first edition of MercadoDel Cine Frances will be released this week during Miami Intl Film Festival. UniFrance is arranging 26 French films in Regal Theaters. The first edition has drawn 17 French sales agents including Wild Bunch, Le Bureau, Elle Driver, Le Pacte, Bac, Gaumont, SND and Versatile, and 27 Latin American…
Wio News: Your privacy on Facebook and Twitter may be at risk even if you have never been on social media or have deleted your account, a study suggests. Individual choice has long been considered a bedrock principle of online privacy, said scientists from the University of Vermont in the US and the University of…
Md. Taqi Yasir Jennifer Lopez has been laden with the character of a prima donna for a lot of her career. Sarah Paulson has nonetheless to land a leading-lady role while not being asked to dye her naturally brown hair blond. And Julianna Margulies probablystately would be fighting for reception into the Producers association had…
Hindustan times: India and China have a border dispute but the fact that they have not even ‘fired a single bullet at each other’ in the last four decades shows their maturity, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has said in an interview to Hindustan Times. Modi, in the email interview, spoke about Doklam, a disputed border…
Reuters: The family and friends of an Israeli student who was killed in Australia walked in a funeral procession through the streets of her home town on yesterday. Mourners gathered to witness the body of 21-year-old Aiia Maasarwe being laid to rest in a cemetery in the Arab town of Baqa al-Gharbiyye in northern Israel, a…
Dr. Atiur Rahman, Former Governor, Bangladesh Bank: Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and almost all of his family members were murdered in 1975. Later, Bangladesh faced difficult challenges. In the absence of Bangabandhu, the architect of independent Bangladesh, we were blessed to have his daughter Sheikh Hasina to deal with those tough…
Sky News The world’s oldest known bird is set to become a mother again – after raising at least 30 other youngsters. Wisdom the albatross has laid another egg at her nest site in Midway Atoll National Wildlife refuge on a tiny island about 1,200 miles northwest of Hawaii, in the Pacific Ocean. Biologists believe…
Asian Age: Ahead of the Eid-ul-Azha, the second largest religious festival for the Muslims, cattle markets in the city and nine upazilas of Rajshahi along with its adjacent areas are getting vibrant with numerous buyers and hundreds of sacrificial animals, reports BSS. A huge number of sacrificial animals are being brought for sale at different…
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…
UNB: A mobile court in Sadar upazila on Tuesday sentenced four people to different jail terms on charge of possessing drugs. The Department of Narcotics Control and police conducted anti-drug drives in Palpara, Bakultala road at Puran Bazar, Ramdasdi and Modna villages.