MNA Entertainment Desk: The much-awaited Bangla cinema ‘Paathshala’ is set to be released in November. The story of ‘Paathshala’ revolves around the life struggle of a talented 10-year-old street child Manik. The release date of the film, produced by Faysal Raddi and Asif Islam, was declared earlier, but deferred later. First trailer of the film has already been released on YouTube. Earlier, the film was screened in a number of festivals of Germany, Canada and India. Habib Arinda plays the main character of the film (Manik) , and Emma Akhter in the role of Chumki. Other characters include Nazmul Hussain ...

MNA Life Style Desk: The digestion process is an intricately choreographed ballet during which your body performs the many steps needed to break down the food you eat and unlock the vitamins, minerals, calories, fats, and proteins you need and then efficiently clean sweep the rest. Most people don’t contemplate these inner workings unless they’re not working smoothly, but you can proactively take steps to avoid problems. One of the easiest digestive health tips is to fuel up with good foods for digestion. Ginger A traditional Asian remedy for tummy aches and nausea and a favorite condiment used in Japanese ...

MNA National Desk: Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today paid rich tributes to Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and four national leaders marking the Jail Killing Day, reported news agency. In memory of the leaders, the premier placed wreaths at the portrait of Bangabandhu in front of Bangabandhu Memorial Museum at Dhanmondi Road No 32 in Dhaka this morning. Sheikh Hasina first laid a wreath as the prime minister at the portrait of Bangabandhu around 7:00am. After placing the wreath, she stood in solemn silence there for some time as a mark of profound respect to the memories ...

MNA Sports Desk: Visiting Zimbabwe captain Hamilton Masakadza has won the toss and decided to bat first in the first Test against Bangladesh at the picturesque Sylhet International Stadium, which is hosting its first five-day game, reported news agency. Hosts are looking to boost their Test record in the two-match series against Zimbabwe despite missing big names Shakib Al Hasan and Tamim Iqbal. Bangladesh XI: 1 Liton Das, 2 Imrul Kayes, 3 Nazmul Hossain Shanto, 4 Mominul Haque, 5 Mushfiqur Rahim (wk), 6 Mahmudullah (capt), 7 Ariful Haque, 8 Mehidy Hasan Miraz, 9 Taijul Islam, 10 Nazmul Islam, 11 Abu ...

MNA Education Desk: The Junior School Certificate (JSC) and Junior Dakhil Certificate (JDC) examinations of November 4 have been rescheduled for November 9. Professor Ziaul Haque, chairman of the Dhaka Education Board, confirmed the matter on Saturday, reports news agency. The English examinations for regular JSC students, English 1st paper for irregular students, and Arabic 2nd paper for JDC students will begin at 9am on Friday. The JSC and JDC examinations began across the country, on Thursday, with the participation of 2,670,333 students.

MNA Fetaure Desk: The nation is observing the Jail Killing Day today (Saturday) with due solemnity. On November 3, 1975, four national leaders and heroes of the country’s Liberation War — Syed Nazrul Islam, Tajuddin Ahmad, Captain Mansur Ali and AHM Quamruzzaman — were assassinated inside the Dhaka Central Jail. The four leaders played a key role in forming the Mujibnagar government in exile that led the Liberation War of 1971 with Syed Nazrul Islam as the acting president, Tajuddin Ahmad as the prime minister, Mansur Ali as the finance minister and AHM Qamruzzaman as the home, relief and rehabilitation ...

MNA National Desk: Chairman of Jukta Front Dr AQM Badruddoza Chowdhury on Friday night said their dialogue with the 14-party alliance has been successful as Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina agreed in principle on most of their demands, reported news agency. “The Prime Minister responded positively to the demands that we placed for a fair election. She also agreed in principle to our most of the demands,” he said. B Chowdhury, also the president of Bikolpo Dahra Bangladesh, came up with the remarks while speaking at a press conference at his Baridhara residence after the talks between the Prime Minister-led 14-party ...

MNA International Desk: The order to kill journalist Jamal Khashoggi came from the “highest levels” of the Saudi government, Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said in the Washington Post on Friday and he called for the “puppetmasters” to be unmasked. Khashoggi, a Washington Post columnist critical of the Saudi government and its de facto ruler Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, disappeared after he entered the Saudi consulate in Istanbul exactly one month ago on October 2. Erdogan, in an op-ed piece in the newspaper, said he did not believe “for a second” that King Salman had ordered “the hit” on Khashoggi ...

MNA Science & Tech Desk: A team of Spanish and Argentine paleontologists have discovered the remains of a dinosaur that lived 110 million years ago in the centre of the country, the National University of La Matanza revealed Friday. The remains came from three separate dinosaurs from the herbivorous group of sauropods, the best known of which are the Diplodocus and Brontosaurus. This new species has been named Lavocatisaurus agrioensis. “We found most of the cranial bones: the snout, the jaws, a lot of teeth, also the bones that define the eye sockets for example and, in that way, we ...

MNA Business Desk: The government has formed an inter-ministerial body to lower the number of documents required for exports as part of easing doing business in line with the standards set by the World Bank, an official said. Additional secretary of the ministry of commerce Tapan Kanti Ghosh is heading the 10-member body peopled by representatives from the Bangladesh Bank, National Board of Revenue, Export Promotion Bureau, Office of the Chief Controller of Import and Export, and other relevant parties. The move comes a day after Bangladesh ranked 176th among 190 nations in the World Bank’s Ease of Doing Business ...

MNA Entertainment Desk: The pre-wedding celebrations of Bollywood actress Deepika Padukone, who will marry actor Ranveer Singh later this month, began with a traditional puja at her hometown here. Dressed in an orange traditional suit by designer Sabyasachi Mukherjee, Deepika matched her look perfectly with gold earrings, neatly tied hair and subtle make-up, exuding radiance, elegance and happiness. The designer wished the actress for new beginnings. “A new and exciting journey has just begun for you and all of us at Sabyasachi wish you the very best. Always. Deepika Padukone in Sabyasachi for her pre-wedding functions,” Mukherjee posted on Instagram. ...

MNA National Desk: Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has urged people to re-elect the Awami League to allow her party to continue the projects initiated by the present government and lead Bangladesh to development and prosperity. “We declared a plan to modernise everything and it brought changes to people’s lives,” said the prime minister as she inaugurated 321 projects in 56 districts through a videoconference at Ganabhaban, reported news agency. “The election is approaching. The Election Commission will announce the election schedule anytime. We’ll again urge the people to vote for us,” said Hasina. Bangladesh is now on the fast-track to ...

MNA Sports Desk: Bangladesh on Thursday beat neighbours India 4-2 on penalties to reach the final of the six-nation SAFF U-15 Championship, reported news agency. India had taken an early lead in the 17th minute when Patre Harsh Shailesh scored from about 35 yards. Bangladesh were looking all set to for an exit, but the tournament’s leading scorer Nihad Jaman Ucchash scored the equaliser in the third minute of the stoppage time from a penalty. It was his fifth strike of the tournament. In Saturday’s final, Bangladesh will play the winners of Pakistan and Nepal, who play the second semifinal ...

MNA International Desk: One black box from the crashed Lion Air jet has been recovered, the head of Indonesia’s National Transportation Safety Committee said, which could be critical to establishing why the brand new plane fell out of the sky. The devices record information about the speed, altitude and direction of the plane as well as flight crew conversations and could hold vital clues to the cause of the deadly accident. The Boeing-737 MAX 8, which went into service just a few months ago, plunged into the Java Sea off Indonesia’s northern coast on Monday, killing 189 people, just 12 ...

MNA Editorial Desk: The much-talked-about dialogue between the ruling alliance leaders, led by Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, and the newly-formed Jatiya Oikyafront, led by Dr Kamal Hossain, has begun at the Ganobhabanin Dhaka on Thursday evening. In her introductory speech Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina urged all to get united to build the country. Development of the country is now visualized after nine years’ rule of Awami League, she said. The talks began around 7pm. Through the talks with the Oikyafront, the Prime Minister opened her door of discussions over the 11th parliamentary polls before the announcement of its schedule as ...

MNA National Desk: Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) leaders and activists started observing a six-hour mass hunger strike in the city on Thursday, protesting the conviction of its chairperson Khaleda Zia in Zia Charitable Trust graft case. The protest programme began around 10:00am at Mohanagar Natya Mancha in the capital and it will continue till 4:00pm. Several hundred leaders and activists joined the programme amid tight vigilance by police. BNP senior leaders, including its secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir, is scheduled to address the programme. However, similar programmes are being observed in other districts and metropolitan cities, reported news agency.

MNA Education Desk: A total of 26,70,333 examinees are expected to participate this year’s Junior School Certificate (JSC) and Junior Dakhil Certificate (JDC) examinations which began on Thursday, reported news agency. The examinations started around 10am across the country. Students from 29,677 educational institutions appeared for the examinations at 2,903centres across the country. A total of 22,67,343 students –10,43,752 boys and 12,23,591 girls –sat for the JSC examination, while 4,02,990 examinees — 179,980 boys and 2,23,010 girls –for the JDC examination, raising the total to 26,70,333. The JSC examinations will end on November 15 while JDC on November 14.

MNA International Desk: The outcry in the United States demonizing Saudi Arabia over the murder of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi in the kingdom’s consulate in Istanbul threatens US-Saudi strategic ties, the former Saudi intelligence minister warned on Wednesday.  “We value our strategic relationship with the United States and hope to sustain it. We hope the United States reciprocates in kind,” royal family member Prince Turki bin Faisal al Saud said in an address to the National Council on US-Arab Relations, a non-profit advocacy organization. Turki, to whom Khashoggi once served as an adviser, has also served as an ambassador to ...

MNA Business Desk: Bangladesh has shown the sign of slight improvement as the World Bank’s Doing Business report put it on 176th position among 190 countries. Bangladesh was ranked at 177 among 190 countries in the last year’s index. In a first for South Asia, two of the region’s economies earned coveted spots in the global top improvers, according to Washington-based global lending agency. In the World Bank Group’s annual ease of doing business rankings, the top 10 economies are New Zealand, Singapore and Denmark, which retain their first, second and third spots respectively for a second consecutive year, followed ...

MNA Sports Desk: A Spanish magistrate leading an investigation into alleged irregularities in Neymar’s move to Barcelona in 2013 said Wednesday the Brazilian superstar could face up to six years in prison. “The term imposed, in principle, could be between four and six years,” said a decree issued by judge Jose Maria Vazquez Honrubia, reported news agency. Neymar, his parents, Barcelona president Josep Maria Bartomeu and his predecessor Sandro Rosell are all awaiting the trial over alleged corruption concerning Neymar’s move to the Spanish La Liga giants in 2013. However, the Brazilian international forward is now with Paris Saint-Germain in ...

MNA Exclusive Desk: Myanmar will take back a first group of 2,000 Rohingya refugees from camps in Bangladesh in November, said a top official of the country on Wednesday. Officials from the two countries announced on Tuesday that some of the 720,000 Muslim Rohingya who fled a deadly military clampdown in the Buddhist-majority country last year would start returning next month. Myanmar foreign secretary Myint Thu visited the camps in Cox’s Bazar on Wednesday to discuss the repatriations with refugees, reported news agency. Thu said Myanmar has verified 5,000 names on a list of 8,032 Rohingya that Bangladesh authorities sent ...

MNA Science & Tech Desk: Apple has unveiled a new version of its MacBook Air laptop, this time made of recycled aluminum, as well as a new Mac Mini and an iPad Pro, all pricier than their predecessors. Nearly 10 years after the launch of the first MacBook Air by the late Steve Jobs, his successor Tim Cook presented on Tuesday the latest version of this PC, just 1.56 cm thick, compared to 1.94 cm (0.75 inches). This model was made with 100 percent recycled aluminum and recycled plastic, a change which reduces its carbon footprint, Apple said. Last year ...

MNA Entertainment Desk: Shveta Salve took a unique way to hit it back at the trolls, the actress did exactly what she was trolled for, shared a photo in a bikini, drinking a glass of wine and smoking a cigarette. With the photos Shweta Salve is sharing on her social media handle, it looks like the actor is in a bliss and enjoying a peaceful getaway. However, the trolls didn’t let her have it all in peace. The actor was called out and trolled for sharing a bikini photo, drinking wine and smoking a cigarette. The trolling took a serious ...