Radio

Radio’s last stand: Can FM survive in a digital world?

Like many traditional media, FM radio has struggled to maintain its once-strong relevance in the face of rapid digitalisation, changing listener habits, and the rise of online streaming platforms.
15 September 2024, 11:28 AM

This year has been educational for me: Zakia Bari Mamo

Zakia Bari Mamo, the National Film Award-winning actress has been part of two recent films, "Ora 7 Jon" and "Radio", in addition to featuring in several web-series, including "Mercules," released this year. Nowadays, she is actively engaged in acting for web-series and television dramas. Today, December 19, marks her birthday.
19 December 2023, 06:53 AM

Anonno Mamun's ‘Radio’ to air on Channel i today

Anonno Mamun's film "Radio", based on the historic March 7 speech of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, will have its TV premiere today. The film will be aired on Channel i at 3 pm. 
7 March 2023, 05:06 AM

Radio, ghazals, and “Islami gaan”: What Nazrul’s shift to music said about his syncretism

The adoption of the ghazal by Nazrul, with renewed fervour in the late ’20s and ’30s, signaled an understanding that his earlier literary and linguistic world was an impermanent one, as was a politics in which the unity of Hindus and Muslims was achieved through an appeal to a shared culture and language.
1 September 2021, 18:00 PM

Cricket: Kiwi radio station fined over Stokes prank

New Zealand radio station was fined Tuesday over a "deceptive" prank in which a heated conversation with England all-rounder Ben Stokes' mother was broadcast live without her knowledge.
8 November 2016, 06:38 AM

19 dead in Somalia restaurant attack

Somalia's Islamist Shebab militants killed at least 19 people when five gunmen detonated a bomb before storming a popular seaside restaurant in the capital Mogadishu.
22 January 2016, 07:59 AM

Taylor Swift sued for false groping accusation

Singer Taylor Swift has reportedly been sued by former radio host David Mueller after he was wrongly accused of inappropriately touching the popstar.
12 September 2015, 14:50 PM

As mother, stress on immunization for child's healthy future: Madhuri

Madhuri Dixit Nene pitches for awareness of routine immunization as a UNICEF celebrity advocate at the Radio4child awards.
9 September 2015, 07:01 AM