Pop star Shakira’s India tour cancelled
Pop star Shakira was scheduled to tour India for the first time in nearly two decades in April. Ticket sales had begun. However, at the...
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Pantha Kanai’s ‘Abar Chumki’ released, model Basar & Parsa
One of the most popular songs sung by Khurshid Alam is ‘Chumki Cholechhe Eka Pothe’. The artiste sang the song in the movie ‘Dost Dushman’....
Susmita gets emotional after watching ‘Rakkhosh’ with audience
Tollywood actress Susmita Chatterjee has acted in the movie ‘Rakkhosh’ directed by Mehedi Hasan Hridoy. This is her first Dhaka movie. Before the movie’s release,...
Tania Brishty returns home after surgery in Chennai
Actress Tania Brishty was undergoing treatment at a hospital in Dhaka last February after being diagnosed with a brain tumour. After a successful surgery there,...
How many more lives must be lost for safe roads?
Eid-ul-Fitr is meant to be a time of reunion, reflection and joy. Yet, once again, as The New Nation reported last Thursday, the country has...
Opinion / Growth potential amid reserve crisis
Bangladesh is the most densely populated non-city-state country in the world, with the eighth largest population (170 million) within a territory the size of Iowa....
Bangladesh’s strategic dilemma over Hormuz crisis
The escalating confrontation involving Iran, Israel and the United States has once again pushed the global energy system to the edge of uncertainty. What initially...
Iran’s Kharg Island: Why is it a target of attack?
While serving in the Bangladesh Armed Forces, I was deputed to Kuwait on three separate occasions as a consultant in hyperbaric medicine. I worked in...
At least 66 killed in Colombian military plane crash
A Colombian Air Force plane crashed shortly after takeoff in the south of the country, leaving at least 66 people dead and dozens injured, officials...