Aishwarya Rai’s four months old daughter Aaradhya Bachchan is all set to make her first foreign trip to Dubai, along with her mother. Reportedly, Aishwarya will be attending an event in Dubai with Aaradhya. A leading website reports that the passport office had confirmed that the Bachchan family had already applied for a passport for [...]
U.S. President Barack Obama set out Tuesday to clarify private remarks about missile defense to Russian President Dmitry Medvedev inadvertently picked up by a live microphone. At the Seoul nuclear summit, Obama privately told the Russian president that this year is his last election and that he would have more flexibility after he is elected. [...]
The International Union of Muslim Scholars has criticised France for denying an influential Doha-based cleric a visa. Egyptian-born Sheikh Yusuf al-Qaradawi, 86, had been invited to visit France next month by the Union of Islamic Organisations in France (UOIF). “We are surprised, and we admonish France for refusing to grant Sheikh Yusuf Qaradawi a visa. [...]
Hours after a programme of opposition leader Khaleda Zia was cancelled “at an intelligence agency’s behest”, the BNP alleged that the government is trying to control Khaleda’s movement. The BNP chairperson was scheduled to unveil five books of Shafik Rehman at Ruposhi Bangla Hotel Tuesday afternoon. But the authorities informed the organisers that they “cancelled [...]
Intel and its partners are about to launch the biggest promotion of a new product category called Ultrabooks since the company’s wi-fi based Centrino launch early last decade. And Microsoft is about to launch a major update to Windows called Windows 8 that introduces the new Metro touch user interface. Together they are critical products [...]
The Power Development Board (PDB) will supply electricity to export-oriented industries and security installations in all industries, as it has decided not to implement its previous decision to stop providing electricity supply to factories from 6 pm to 6 am during the Boro season, under serious pressure from the chamber bodies. On the other hand, [...]
People who eat chocolate regularly tend to be thinner, new research suggests. The findings come from a study of nearly 1,000 US people that looked at diet, calorie intake and body mass index (BMI) – a measure of obesity. It found those who ate chocolate a few times a week were, on average, slimmer than [...]
The director of “The Abyss” has reached the abyss. Filmmaker and ocean enthusiast James Cameron became the first solo explorer to reach the deepest point of the ocean — almost seven miles down — when his custom-built one-man submarine touched down in the western Pacific Ocean’s Mariana Trench at 7:52 a.m. local time Monday (5:52 [...]
Japan steered off the agenda at a nuclear security summit on Tuesday to hit out at North Korea’s plans for a rocket launch next month, as U.S. President Barack Obama cautioned against complacency in dealing with the threat of nuclear terrorism. A communique issued at the end of the two-day meeting of more than 50 [...]
Former International Monetary Fund chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn was charged in France on Monday with “aggravated pimping” for his alleged participation in a prostitution ring, prosecutors said. He is not allowed to have contact with other people involved in the investigation, nor is he permitted to talk to the media about the case. Strauss-Kahn was released [...]