Our Time Desk Leap year comes once in four years and with history and superficial, there are plenty of facts about 29th February! •Bachelor’s Day: Back in 1288, Scotland passed a law which allowed women to propose to men and if they refused, they had to pay fine for their refusal! Thus, 29th February is…
Our Time Desk With endless availability of the wrong, very few wants to do it right! Bad things somehow look more appealing to us than the fine things does! Even though nature has to offer so much of positive and healthy food, we still chose to find a way to leave out the good and…
Tahsin Rahman Oshin In recent years, teenage depression has become an alarming fact that is rising more than ever before. Even twenty years ago, it was not a familiar case and such cases would go unnoticed. However, recent research shows that childhood and teen depression is a reality and it is not just the bad…
Dishika Tasnim “Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time” – a very famous quote by Thomas Merton says all about art. I think art is not just a creative skill or imagination, but it is what comes from your soul. What you can make other people see, is what…
A recent meme on Facebook caught my eye the other day, a real conversation between a man and his boss in a multinational company. Boss: What does your wife do? Man: Nothing. Boss: Really? Who cooks? Who cleans? Who looks after your children? Who feeds you? Man: mmm Boss: tell me in your honest opinion…
Syed Nasir Ershad This years’ Ekushe book fair was significant for me in many ways. Obviously I am getting older, if not wiser. So, the experience of going to the fair premises is not as exhilarating as it used to be. However, the number of book writers known to me has increased. And that is…
Spring dominates the nature with fresh air and new leaves in trees. Flowers bloom in bounty in a Palash tree (Butea monospermain) in capital’s Dhanmondi Lake. (Photo: Shakir Shakirul Islam)
UNB The Supreme Court challenge to a Texas law that has dramatically reduced the number of abortion clinics in the state is the justices’ most significant case on the hot-button issue in nearly a quarter-century. One of this election-year term’s biggest cases is being argued Wednesday before a court altered by the death of…
UNB A bill titled ‘Bangladesh Petroleum Corporation Bill, 2016’ was passed in Parliament on Sunday, aiming to scrap the Bangladesh Petroleum Corporation Ordinance, 1976 promulgated during the military regime. State Minister for Power, Energy and Mineral Resources Nasrul Hamid moved the Bill in the House, which was passed by voice vote. The Ordinance,…
BSS Terra, a mobile-first international payment networking company, is planning to launch its operation in Bangladesh to facilitate cross-border mobile to mobile money transfer. The India-based company is now awaiting necessary approval from Bangladesh Bank (BB) for formal launching of its operation here, the local representative of this company told BSS. Founder and Chief Executive…