DOT Desk Family members and friends of recently demised internationally renowned photographer Anwar Hossain are going to set up a foundation after his name to preserve his works,reports The New Age. The foundation will help promote and preserve Anwar Hossain’s photographs and other works, said Hossain’s family members at a press conference on Saturday held…
Arafat Hasan of DOT Electoral symbols for the 11th national parliamentary elections will be distributed among contesting candidates starting today. The election campaign will be allowed to be conducted after the allocation of the symbols. The last date for the withdrawal of candidature was yesterday, reported Daily Sun.
Xinhua Drinking a glass of orange juice daily could significantly reduce one’s risk of getting dementia, a new study suggested. The study, published in the journal Neurology, tracked nearly 28,000 U.S. men over their consumption of fruit and vegetables from 1986 to 2002 and subjective cognitive function for nearly three decades. The mean age of…
UNB Distinguished fellow of the Centre for Policy Dialogue (CPD) Debapriya Bhattacharya on Sunday said economic disparity in the country has increased manifold for lack of political competition in the last 10 years. “Life and livelihood issues didn’t come up for discussion despite extensive discussions and debate about the upcoming election,” he said. He made…
NDTV The patient had come in for heart failure, and physicians at the University of California at San Francisco had an aggressive plan to help. Doctors there inserted a heart pump through his leg artery to flood his organs with blood. But there is a downside to the strategy – clots can form through its…
DOT Desk angladeshi firms continue to be the most optimistic out of the 34 countries in which British banking giant HSBC operates, said one of its top officials, reports The Daily Star. “The reason for the optimism is favourable situation and stable political environment,” Md Mahbub-ur-Rahman, deputy chief executive officer of HSBC Bangladesh, told The…
DOT Desk Nrityajog –a Bangladesh chapter of World Dance Alliance – Asia Pacific, will be organising Ocean Dance Festival of Bangladesh on November 22-26, 2019 in Cox’s Bazar. Dancers from all over the world are going to participate in the festival. A prodigious festival such as this requires a lot of preparations, which have already…
DOT Desk An international crafts exhibition featuring crafts and sculptures by artists from 12 countries kicked off on Saturday at the National Art Gallery of Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy, reports The New Age. Artists from Bangladesh, China, France, Germany, India, Iran, Japan, Kenya, Korea, Sri Lanka, United Kingdom and the United States have displayed crafts bearing…
DOT Desk Women entrepreneurs have fallen far behind others in getting access to SME loans over the years though the overall SME financing keeps rising, reports The Financial Express. According to data available with the central bank, the women entrepreneurs could manage only Tk 52.65 billion or 3.37 per cent of the total SME loans…
Peter Brannen, Science writer based in Boston/ The Atlantic The worst extinction in Earth’s history offers chilling predictions for the planet’s future—and for humanity’s efforts to keep climate doom at bay. Identifying a killer can be difficult when it seems like every murder weapon imaginable has been used in the crime, and when the victim…