Season’s first Nor’wester left trees uprooted in Kolkata; trains and flights disrupted
GB Today Five incoming flights diverted and departure of 12 flights delayed, movement of trains in Sealdah and Sealdah South…
2023
Independent intellectuals and cultural activists are now isolated: Abul Kashem Fazlul Haque
Educationist and social analyst Abul Kashem Fazlul Haque is presently professor of the Ahmed Sharif chair at Dhaka…
Mrinal Sen, the epoch changing auteur from Bengal
।। Syed Faiz Ahmed ।। Mrinal Sen would be 100 had he lived today. The great auteur director,…
Shakib Al Hasan ruled out for six weeks
Sports Desk: Bangladesh all-rounder Shakib Al Hasan has has been ruled out for around six weeks with a…
Netflix plans to cut $300 mn in spending this year: Report
Entertainment Desk: Streaming giant Netflix is reportedly slashing its spending by $300 million this year, including related to…
Bihar: State govt willing to take all legislative and statutory steps to complete caste survey
Bihar Finance and Parliamentary Affairs minister said the government has moved Supreme Court to seek clarity on a…
Sudan Conflict: 262 back from ‘city of horror’
Community News Desk: Mohammad Shahadat, 29, was earning a decent living from his laundry in the Sudanese capital…
Astronomers puzzled by ‘largest’ ever cosmic explosion
AFP: Astronomers said on Friday they have identified the “largest” cosmic explosion ever observed, a fireball 100 times…
Four-member expert panel formed by Assam government to examine legality to ban polygamy
Himanta had announced that the state government would set up an expert committee of legal luminaries to scrutinise…
Malaysian palm oil firms ‘not hiring Bangladeshis over recruitment concerns’
A man unloads the fresh fruit bunches from his car boot at a palm oil fruit collection centre…
Google answers ChatGPT challenge with Bard expansion
AFP: Google on Wednesday said it is opening Bard, a rival to Microsoft-backed ChatGPT, to 180 countries as…
Mammograms should start at 40, says US task force
AFP: All women should get mammogram screening for breast cancer starting from age 40, rather than 50, an…
Assam government launches cashless healthcare scheme
The scheme is aimed at promoting accessible and affordable healthcare, and will initially cover around 26 lakh families…
Assam launches cashless healthcare scheme, to benefit 26 lakh families
The scheme is aimed at promoting accessible and affordable healthcare, and will initially cover around 26 lakh families,…
Scented Basmati rice has takers in Tripura, but irrigation a big concern
Basmati does not have the same presence as other varieties of rice in the northeast, but now there…
800 farmers, entrepreneurs authorised to use GI tag for 13 NE products
North Eastern Regional Agricultural Marketing Corporation (NERAMAC), under the DoNER Ministry, will forward the 800 user authorisation applications…
IMF concerned over power overcapacity
Shamim Jahangir: The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has expressed concerns over the overcapacity of power generation in Bangladesh,…
Little evidence antidepressants help chronic pain: study
AFP: There is little evidence that most antidepressants are effective against chronic pain, the largest study conducted on…
Rarely-seen Basquiat paintings reunited 41 years after canceled show
CNN: More than four decades after Jean-Michel Basquiat and his gallerists canceled a contentious exhibition in Italy featuring…
Odisha: Polling begins for Jharsuguda by-election
A total of 2,21,070 people are eligible to exercise their franchise in 253 booths PTI, Jharsuguda, Odisha: Polling…