Dishika Zaman My mother was a great book lover. She had tons of books in her shelf and I’ve seen her reading them in a late afternoon or on a lazy weekend. Maybe that was the reason I wanted to have my own books. It wasn’t until the 4th grade that I was lucky enough…
Samiul Bashar Samin There are few things in this world that can put my heart to ease and ironically, a good old horror TV show is sometimes all I need to break away from the horrors in real life: like meeting deadlines or dropping my oreo in milk. I have to admit, I joined the…
Tahsin Rahman Brave Software, a Browser maker, wants to get rid of the worst parts of online ads on the Web, but the biggest newspapers of USA have considered this an ‘illegal’ plan and instigated an attack against it. Lawyers from Washington post, New York Times, Wall Street Journal and other members of the Newspaper…
No-Brainers: We cannot do much with a brain. So is there a thing called a no-brainer, someone or something without a brain? in 1945, farmer Lloyd went to grab a chicken for supper and as he cut the head of the chicken, the chicken didn’t die, it lived for another 18 months and was named…
By Sheersho Zaman Imagine for a second you are sitting at school and having fun with friends. Or you’re just in the middle of class. Through the corner of your eye, you notice the quiet kid sitting at the back. He always sits there; usually head-down on the table. But this time, he looks different….
Syed Nasir Ershad In yesteryears, friends used to mean someone we knew and an opinion was something we arrived at after long thought. Since the time of my upbringing I heard people identifying newspapers on the basis of political bias. However, it appears to be difficult to discover that there were politics in any certain…
Marilyn Thipthorpe One commonly alleged myth is that rape is chiefly a sexual act. People with this conviction often involuntarily place the victim on trial. Motives, dress and actions become suspect not only to law enforcement officials but also to family and friends and the public. The person’s credibility may be questioned and their sexual…
Eshan Maitra Mark Tuszynski from the University of California, San Diego proudly announced on behalf of his team that, they have been successful in regenerating damaged spinal cords in rats. This revolutionary process has eradicated the past beliefs that neurons cannot undergo stem cell culturing process. They used neural progenitor cells both from the rats…
Marilyn Thipthorpe How can offshore banking is explained in ways that even a kid can get it? Often times we get so mixed up with schematics and technical analogies that we forget that there’s an easy explanation to everything. So here’s a short story to explain the good and bad reasons behind having an offshore…
BSS Two persons were killed in a road accident when their vehicle turned turtle in Chonbunia area in Bamna upazila on the Barguna-Bamna road of the district on Friday. Police said the accident occurred when a lorry turned turtle as one of its front tyres was punctured. The driver of the lorry Yusuf,30,and helper Arif,25,…