US calling high-level meeting on AI around UN session
The Trump administration is going to organise a high-level event on artificial intelligence (AI) during the United Nations General Assembly session in New York next week. It is thought that the AI issue will get considerable importance at this gathering…
Rishi Sunak at Cowdrey Lecture at Lord’s: ‘Cricket can be a great force for national unity’
Former UK prime minister Rishi Sunak has delivered the 24th ‘Cowdrey Lecture’ of the Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) at Lord’s Cricket Ground. He spoke at this event as the third person after Archbishop Desmond Tutu in 2008 and Stephen…
Not Rohit or Kohli, Pujara is Cummins’ toughest opponent against India
Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma have long been familiar faces of India’s batting line-up. They have always tried to give their best to dominate opposition bowlers and bring the team success. The relationship between the two is also quite friendly.…
Mamitha Baiju’s winning run at box office, films’ earnings cross Rs 1,000 crore
Actress Mamitha Baiju is having a brilliant time at the South Indian cinema box office. She is getting one success after another in films of both languages, Malayalam and Tamil. The combined worldwide earnings of several of her films have crossed Rs…
‘Dream hero’ Salman Shah’s 55th birthday today
Today, 19 September, is the 55th birthday of Salman Shah, Dhallywood’s short-lived hero. The ‘dream hero’ of Bangla cinema was born on this day in 1971 at Zakiganj in Sylhet. Although his life stopped at the age of only 25, his place in…
Special initiative to make youths entrepreneurs, Tk 60,000 crore in stimulus: Governor
Bangladesh Bank Governor Md Mostakur Rahman has said the central bank has taken a special initiative to connect the country’s youths with the mainstream of the economy and develop them as entrepreneurs. At the same time, an initiative has been…
Gold price up Tk 1,691 per bhori, 22-carat now Tk 2,34,621
The price of gold has risen again in the domestic market. The Bangladesh Jewellers Association (Bajus) has raised the price of the best quality, that is 22-carat, gold by Tk 1,691 per bhori (11.664 grams). As a result, the price of one bhori of good…
Relationships, not wealth, are a person’s real riches
Almighty Allah says in the first verse of Surah Anfal, ‘(O Prophet!) People ask you about the spoils of war. Say, the authority (to decide on the matter) of the spoils of war belongs to Allah and the Messenger. So fear Allah and set right the…
Bodies of husband, wife and infant daughter recovered from house in Manikganj
Police have recovered the bodies of three members of the same family from inside a house in Manikganj Sadar upazila. It has been learnt that expatriate Ikram Hossain killed his wife and one-and-a-half-year-old daughter and then took his own life by…
Families of newborns get saplings as gifts in Kalkini
The upazila administration in Kalkini of Madaripur has taken an exceptional initiative by handing over tree saplings to the families of newborns. Keeping in front the slogan ‘Today’s child is the life of tomorrow, a sapling is new life for…