Nusrat Jahan Summer may be the time to have fun in Western countries, but here in sweaty Bangladesh, it is the time where you just might die of a heatstroke any day. While a small percentage of the crowd is lucky enough to always have someone chauffeuring them around, most of us have to resort…
AP, Seoul South Korea’s president said Monday there are signs that North Korea is preparing a fifth nuclear bomb test amid reports of increased brisk activity at the country’s main nuclear test site. President Park Geun-hye told her top advisers that North Korea could carry out such a test to try to bolster its internal…
AP, Washington President Barack Obama sets out this week on his first in a series of international farewell tours, a sometimes wistful tradition for presidents in legacy mode. But in a reminder of this president’s uneven ties to allies, Obama’s first stop will involve more damage control than nostalgia, more friction than fondness.
Md. Taqi Yasir Mary and her family were members of the Nuer tribe in South Sudan, caught up in a vicious power struggle between the new country’s President Salva Kiir, a member of the Dinka tribe, and his Vice President, Riek Machar, a Nuer. Their war, fought largely along ethnic lines, has turned the northern…
UNB, Dhaka As Japan’s meteorological agency has warned of more tremors in the coming days, the authorities have asked nearly 2,50,000 people to evacuate their homes. This was confirmed by nn aid agency carrying out humanitarian activities after last week’s two devastating earthquakes in south western island of Kyushu in Japan. The tremors last week…
Nusrat Jahan Stephanie Kurlow, a head-scarf or hijab wearing Muslim teenage has had quite the week with a video of her letting her gain the support of many people on an international level. Yes, I am talking about that girl from the online crowd-funding campaign video who is on a mission to become the first…
Md. Taqi Yasir Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi had an unusual sex life. He spoke constantly of sex and gave detailed, often confrontational, instructions to his followers as to how to they might best monitor chastity. And his views were not always popular; abnormal and unnatural was how the first Prime Minister of independent India, Jawaharlal Nehru,…
Marilyn Thipthorpe Have you ever wanted to make a great first impression on someone but don’t exactly know how? There are time when you just want someone to like you. Noe there’s noting about being underhand in wanting this sort of thing, there’s no secret or subterfuge involved either, it’s plain and simple science. Science…
Md. Taqi Yasir Scientists have launched the world’s largest project to scan the internal workings of the human body, which could enable doctors in the near future to treat diseases before they actually happen. The brains, hearts, bones, arteries and body fat of some 100,000 volunteers will be scanned to create a massive database as…
Myisha Nawar Lunar Mission One- an ambitious British crowd funded project using public donations to fund a moon landing in 2024- has been gathering momentum ever since the desire to explore space started escalating. The question about how this mission would sum up human life in outer space has been creeping at the back of…