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Will Bangladeshi actor Ferdous Ahmed be replaced in the role of Bilash Bihari in another Tollywood feature film being made on Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay’s popular novel “Datta?” The question is doing the rounds as Ferdous faces difficulty in getting a fresh visa to visit Ind...
World,Front Page
An increasingly isolated Pakistan is on the verge of stringent action by the international anti-terror financing watchdog FATF by being put in the ‘Dark Grey’ list, the last warning before financial sanctions could kick in. Officials attending the ongoing plenary of the Financial Action ...
It’s time for Irfan Pathan to explore the world of cinema.The India pacer is all set to make his debut on the big screen as he has been roped by director Ajay Gnanamuthu for his upcoming Tamil film which has Vikram in the lead.The Vikram film, which will introduce Irfan Pathan to the big scree...
The prestigious Presidency University in Kolkata said on Monday that it is a proud moment for the institute that Abhijit Binayak Banerjee, one of its alumni and mentor group members, is a joint winner of the 2019 Nobel Prize for Economics. “Presidency University feels happy that two of its alu...
Pakistan is under a lot of pressure at the inter-governmental Financial Action Task Force (FATF) meeting, currently under way in Paris, to rein in terror groups operating from its soil, India’s National Security Advisor Ajit Doval said on Monday. Doval, who was addressing a meeting of the chie...
World,Back Page
West Bengal’s ruling Trinamool Congress leadership has decided to conduct a survey to assess its support base and the inroad made by its chief challenger Bharatiya Janata Party ahead of elections to be held in 107 municipalities of the state and the Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) next yea...
Sports,Cricket
Former India captain Sourav Ganguly was on Monday elected unopposed the new President of the Board for Control of Cricket in India (BCCI) in a dramatic turn of events in the race for the for the top post of the world’s richest cricket body in which he pipped another former cricketer Brij...
Google doodle on Saturday remembered Kamini Roy, a crusader of women’s empowerment and the first woman to graduate with honours in British-ruled India, on her 155th birth anniversary.Born into an affluent family on October 12, 1864 in Barisal district now in Bangladesh, Roy graduated with hono...
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and visiting Chinese President Xi Jinping on Saturday wrapped up their two-day “informal summit” in the coastal town of Mamallapuram near Chennai with Modi saying a “new era of cooperation” would start between the two countries.After ...
Chinese President Xi Jinping reached Chennai to a red carpet reception on Friday afternoon to take part in an "an unscripted and unparalleled" informal summit" with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi in the seaside resort of Mamallapuram in Tamil Nadu in a bid to reset bilateral ties...
A former promoter of India’s leading healthcare firm was arrested on Friday for allegedly misappropriating funds of Religare Finvest Limited (RFL) and causing losses to the tune of Rs 2,397 crore, officials said. Malvinder Singh, erstwhile promoter of Fortis Healthcare hospital chain, was held...
Former Congress President Rahul Gandhi on Thursday appeared before a trial court in Surat city in Gujarat court in a defamation case filed by a local Bharatiya Janata Party leader and pleaded not guilty. BJP lawmaker Purnesh Modi had filed a complaint against Rahul for his remark “why all thie...
Pakistan has activated at least 20 terror camps and another 20 launch pads along the de facto border with India and stepped up efforts to ensure infiltration of as many terrorists as it can into Jammu and Kashmir before the onset of winter and closure of infiltration routes by heavy snow, Indian off...
Over two and half months after tourists were asked to leave Kashmir valley due to terror threat, Jammu and Kashmir administration on Monday night directed the withdrawal of the security advisory in yet another sign of easing of the situation in the region. Jammu and Kashmir Governor Satya Pal Malik ...
National,Front Page
Major Indian dailies on Monday urged the Indian government to address the unresolved issue of water-sharing of Teesta and other common rivers. The dailies also described as positive the outcome of Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s latest visit to India saying it ‘marks a new chap...
City
It was an emotional moment for Congress General Secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra when she met visiting Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina after a long hiatus and received an ‘overdue hug’ from the latter in New Delhi on Sunday. Priyanka was effusive about the meeting with Hasina and said the Ba...
National,World,Front Page
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has said that pluralism is a strong point of South Asian region and countries in the area should move beyond ‘majority-minority mindset’ to uphold diversity.Speaking at the closing plenary session of the India Economic Summit of the World Economic Forum (WEF)...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Friday invited Indian entrepreneurs to make substantial investment in three Special Economic Zones (SEZs) at Mongla, Bheramara and Mirsarai and to use Bangladesh as a manufacturing hub for export to north eastern Indian states and South East Asia. Addressing the India...
On the second day of her India visit, Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Friday categorically expressed her dissatisfaction over India’s sudden decision to ban export of onion which has resulted in skyrocketing of the price of the bulb in her country. “Bangladesh was taken by sur...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has disfavoured Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee government’s proposal for renaming West Bengal as ‘Bangla’, saying it would leave for ‘confusion’ with Bangladesh. Asked about the proposal to change the name of West Bengal, Hasina told reporte...
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