I quit social media for six months: Here is what changed
I deactivated my accounts in part because I had stopped noticing I was using them. The phone came out while eating, on the bus, in the middle of conversations. Six months later, the thing I would tell anyone considering it is that the first week is misleading.
How much caffeine is too much? A dietitian weighs in
Most people drinking three or four cups of coffee a day are within safe limits. The problems tend to come from timing and from drinks whose caffeine content is easy to underestimate.
Your parents are getting old and you’re running out of time
There is a point at which you notice your parents have become careful on stairs. Nothing announces it. You simply register that a hand has gone to the banister where it never used to, and something rearranges itself.
Jim Carrey marries longtime girlfriend Min Ah in private ceremony
Jim Carrey has married his longtime partner Min Ah in a private ceremony in Los Angeles, attended by close friends and family. A spokesperson confirmed the marriage to PEOPLE magazine.
Tom Cruise takes on striking new look in ‘Digger’
Tom Cruise looks almost unrecognisable in "Digger", the Alejandro G Iñárritu film that Warner Bros releases worldwide, including in Bangladesh, on October 2.
Macklemore’s ‘Free Palestine’ tour sells out all three shows
Macklemore has sold out all three dates of a newly announced "Free Palestine" tour, with shows in Dublin, Paris and London going within hours of being put on sale. The rapper announced the sellout on Instagram on September 30, saying he was blown away by the response.
‘Acting lets me live many lives’
Intekhab Dinar has been working steadily across television, film and the stage for long enough to have a settled view of why he keeps doing it. Acting, he says, lets him live many lives, trying on characters he would never otherwise encounter within a single lifetime.
‘The removal of my films was almost certainly a politico-ideological decision’: Tanvir Mokammel
Filmmaker Tanvir Mokammel says the removal of two of his films from Biman Bangladesh Airlines' in-flight catalogue was almost certainly a politico-ideological decision, and that he was given no notice before it happened.
When we become the people in Manna Dey’s ‘Coffee House’
There is a particular kind of recognition that arrives late. You hear a song for years without it meaning much, and then one afternoon you look up at the people around a table and realise the song has been describing you the whole time.
Turkish Airlines eyes three more Dhaka flights
Turkish Airlines wants to add three weekly flights on the Dhaka-Istanbul route, taking its schedule from seven services a week to ten, under a proposal put to the government at a meeting in the Secretariat.
