Krishnadev Calamur, Staff writer at The Atlantic, where he covers global news/The Atlantic Members of the House of Representatives are raising concerns over the White House’s reinterpretation of a decade-old deal with Vietnam. Opposition is building against a Trump-administration plan to allow certain groups of protected Vietnamese immigrants to be deported, a day after The…
DOT Desk Customs officials seized 52 gold bars worth around Tk 2.7 crore from an aircraft at Sylhet Osmani International Airport on Saturday morning, reports The Daily Observer. Ahmedur Reza Chowdhury, an assistant commissioner of customs intelligence, said the gold bars, weighing 6.32 kilograms. , were concealed in a box under a seat of Biman…
Navanita Varadpande, Writer based in Dubai/Gulf News People step into newspapers every morning ‘like a hot bath’ Tina frowned at me with a disgusted look on her face as I read the newspaper, while my son played cricket at the nets. She exclaimed: “Do you still buy newspapers? Why do you waste money when you…
Eurek Alert New research from Cornell University raises questions about the timing and nature of early interactions between indigenous people and Europeans in North America. Until now, it’s been assumed that the presence of European trade goods, such as metals and glass beads, provide a timeline for the indigenous peoples and settlements in the 15th…
DOT Desk Stocks tumbled this week as growing political tensions led the investors to sell off their stocks ahead of the national election, reports The Financial Express. Thursday was the last trading day of the week which saw the DSEX, the prime index of the Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE), hit one-month low of 5,251 points….
Science Alert What is thought to be the largest known sinkhole in New Zealand ripped open across a farm on NZ’s North Island earlier this year, revealing a gigantic cavernous void estimated to have been decades or even a century in the making. As of May 2018, the sinkhole, situated about 15 kilometres south-east of…
Sky News Russian President Vladimir Putin has said he wants to control the popularity of rap music so that it does not lead to “the degradation of the nation”. Alarmed by the growing fondness people in his country have for the genre, Mr Putin has told a meeting of cultural leaders in St Petersburg that…
DOT Desk Two local journalists were injured in an attack carried out on an online news portal office in the Jhenaidah town, reports The New Age. The injured are Abdur Rahman Milton, district correspondent of DBC television, and Jahir Hossain, district correspondent of local newspaper Desherbani. Milu Miah Biswas, additional superintendent of Jhenaidah police, said…
DOT Desk Legendary filmmaker Amjad Hossain passed away on December 14 at Bamrungrad International Hospital, Bangkok, Thailand at 2.57pm. He was aged 76, reports The daily Observer. At the demise of the veteran creative artiste members of cultural arena have expressed grief. Music composer Alauddin Ali has spent most of his illustrious career with Amjad…
Science Alert The slugs that we find in the garden are not the most inspiring creatures. They kind of just look like dark, slimy blobs. But deep under the sea, their relatives are quite the opposite. And one particular group of sea slugs, called the nudibranchs (pronounced “nood-i-branks”), are especially gaudy looking. These bizarre-looking creatures…