TOKYO, Sept 21, 2026 (BSS/AFP) - Hundreds of flights were cancelled and more than one million people were under evacuation advisories in Japan on Monday as Typhoon Dujuan approached Tokyo, potentially bringing record rainfall. Japan often sees strong typhoons in the late summer and early autumn, and other storms have already disrupted some events at […]

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MOSCOW: President Vladimir Putin’s United Russia party won a record 355 seats in Russia’s 450-seat Duma lower house of parliament, according to preliminary results from the three-day election released by electoral chief Ella Pamfilova on Monday. With almost all votes counted from the poll, in which no parties critical of Putin took part, results showed […]

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WASHINGTON: US president Donald Trump has changed his strategy on Yemen several times, The New York Times reported on Sunday, torn between Saudi pressure to strike the Iran-backed Houthis and the risk of opening another front in the Middle East war. Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthi movement has staged a lightning offensive in recent weeks to take […]

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LONDON: Prime Minister Andy Burnham heads to New York on Monday for the United Nations General Assembly, his first foray into global diplomacy and a test of his vow to press British interests even if they are at odds with US President Donald Trump. Burnham, a former mayor of Greater Manchester in northwestern England with […]

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TBT REPORT Actress Anika Kabir Shokh had stepped away from the intense glare of the limelight, retreating into the quiet warmth of family life, motherhood and raising her child. Amid the demands of everyday life, taking care of herself had perhaps taken a back seat. Behind her familiar appearance, however, a layer of extra weight […]

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TBT DESK Twenty-eight years after its release, the Bangladesh-India joint production Hothat Brishti, one of the most successful films of its time, is returning in a new form. Renamed Abar Hothat Brishti, the film retains the original story but features a different setting. Directed this time by Kamruzzaman, the new film is jointly produced by […]

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TBT REPORT Muntashir Akib’s debut feature “Chirkut”, based on a true incident at Rajshahi University in the 1990s, will hit cinemas during the upcoming Durga Puja. Set against the campus life of the period, the film explores youth, friendship, love, nostalgia, and the experiences surrounding the incident. Akib has written and directed the film, as […]

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Filmmaker Meghna Gulzar’s Daayra, starring Kareena Kapoor and Prithviraj Sukumaran in their first big-screen collaboration, has opened to a slow response at the domestic box office. The crime thriller, which hit theatres on Friday, has collected an estimated Rs 90 lakh nett in India on its opening day so far, according to trade website Sacnilk. […]

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The Gentlemen returns for a second season with everything Guy Ritchie fans expect: gangsters, aristocrats, sudden violence and a great deal of foul-mouthed banter. But for all the expensive suits and international schemes, the show that once moved like a getaway car now spends a surprising amount of time idling. Theo James is back as […]

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From CUET to California, the technology professional is working across artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, machine learning and risk-based decision-making DHAKA: Bangladeshi technology professional, cybersecurity analyst and artificial intelligence researcher Md Naimul Ahsan is building an international career in advanced AI, machine learning and enterprise cybersecurity in the United States, combining professional experience with ongoing research in […]

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