A historic Hollywood strike robbed the Venice Film Festival of some of its usual glitz as it launched its 80th edition on Wednesday, but a raft of big-name — and controversial — directors are keeping the film world buzzing. The world’s longest-running film fest was due to start with “Challengers”, a tennis romance with one of the biggest stars of ...

French President Emmanuel Macron is likely to visit Bangladesh after attending the G20 Leaders Summit in New Delhi in September, Foreign Minister Dr AK Abdul Momen said in Dhaka on Wednesday. “The President of France has been invited to visit Bangladesh and if he comes, Bangladesh will welcome him,” he told reporters after attending a discussion at the Foreign Service ...

In a world first, scientists say that an 8cm worm has been found alive in the brain of an Australian woman. The “string-like structure” was pulled from the England-born patient’s damaged frontal lobe tissue during surgery in Canberra last year. The red parasite could have been there for up to two months, reports BBC. Researchers are warning that the case ...

Ingredients: v 8 cloves garlic v 1 fresh ginger (1″ cubes) v 5 tbsp slivered almonds, blanched v 1 cup water or 1 cup beef broth v 7 tbsp vegetable oil v 2 lbs boned lamb or 2 lbs beef, cut into 1″ cubes v 10 whole cardamom pods v 6 whole cloves v 1 cinnamon stick (1 inch long) ...

A Pakistani court on Wednesday extended the jail custody of former Prime Minister Imran Khan for 14 days to investigate him on charges of leaking state secrets, his lawyer said, a day after another court suspended his prison sentence for graft. The special court held the proceedings at Attock Jail, where Khan began the three-year prison term on Aug 5 ...

The government will purchase 40 lakh litres of rice bran oil and 6,000 tonnes of lentil from the country’s domestic market for the state-owned Trading Corporation of Bangladesh (TCB). Sayeed Mahbub Khan, additional secretary to the cabinet division, said the cabinet committee on public purchase on Wednesday approved the proposals for purchasing the rice bran oil and lentils. The oil ...

Bangladesh’s U-16 football team reached Bhutan on Wednesday afternoon to compete in the six-nation South Asian Football Federation (SAFF) U-16 Championships to be held in Thimphu from September 2–10. All the players and officials of the Bangladesh team are in sound health in the Bhutanese capital Thimphu, and the team will start their practise session on Thursday after a recess ...

A child drowned in a water body at Shantiganj upazila in Sunamganj district on Wednesday afternoon. The dead was Maha, 6, daughter of Afizur Rahman, a resident of Chandrapur village of the upazila. It was known that the girl drowned in a water body adjacent to the village while she was taking bath with her two friends. Family members rescued ...

BNP’s central cooperative affairs secretary and former Habiganj municipality mayor GK Gaus has been picked up by detective Branch (DB) of police from the city’s Kakrail area, alleged the partymen. Asking about truth of the allegation, one of the DB official said to media that GK Gaus has ben taken under their custody. But he did not disclose the details. ...

Arshad Adnan Rony, only son of running President Mohammed Shahabuddin, has announced his candidacy for Pabna-5 (Sadar) constituency in the upcoming national elections. Rony, a prominent cultural figure and central Awami League leader, disclosed this while interacting with the journalists at his residence adjacent to President Sahabuddin in the city on Tuesday (August 29) night. ‘I’m aspiring to become a ...