Sky News A suspected armed robber has been caught after a bank was held up in a remote archipelago near the North Pole, police have said. The heist was a first for Svalbard, which is located in the Arctic Ocean halfway between Norway and the North Pole, and is famous for its glaciers and polar…
Hossen Sohel of DOT Chief Election Commissioner KM Nurul Huda yesterday claimed that the deployment of army will increase the confidence in voters, reports The Daily Star. The CEC made the comments after a mock-voting session using Electronic Voting Machine (EVM) at the Residential Model School and College field yesterday. “I use this opportunity to…
Ashley Rodriguez/QUARTZ Disney dominated the box office in 2018 even before its big holiday blockbuster, Mary Poppins Returns, hit US theaters on Wednesday (Dec. 19). The mammoth movie studio said on Dec. 9 that its movies had grossed more than $7 billion worldwide year-to-date, or roughly 19% of the global box office at that time,…
Hossen Sohel of DOT Bangladesh umpire Tanvir Ahmed, who wrongly no-balled West Indies pacer Oshane Thomas twice in the fourth over of the third and final T20I has admitted that he made a mistake owing to his inexperience, reports The Daily Star. “In terms of a no-ball, there is always the issue of the foot…
Mandy Len Catron/ The Guardian, UK Acknowledging the biological reality of a woman’s body is still unladylike. But if we can’t talk about our reproductive lives, we can’t defend them I must have been four or five the first time I was told to “sit like a lady” – that is, with knees together. After…
Techradar Huawei has revealed it sold 200 million smartphones in 2018, setting yet another new milestone for the company. The Chinese phone giant confirmed sales had risen by almost a third compared to 2017, surpassing last year’s total of 153 million devices shipped as it cemented its place as the world’s second largest smartphone maker…
AFP Turkey has sent reinforcements to the border with Syria, Turkish media reported on Monday after Washington ordered the withdrawal of its ground forces from the war-ravaged nation. A Turkish military convoy with howitzers and artillery batteries as well as different units of the armed forces was deployed to the border district of Elbeyli in…
Sayeed Muhammad of DOT Activists, researchers and journalists have urged the authorities concerned to provide security to religious and ethnic minorities, and under-previliged groups during the general election as they are most vulnerable to attacks during polls. They also feared that Jamaat-Shibir leaders and activists may turn violent, especially targeting the religious and ethnic minority…
Metro The Queen will use her Christmas Day speech to spread a message of ‘peace on earth and goodwill to all’, which she believes is needed ‘as much as ever’. In the tradition started by her grandfather King George V in 1932, Queen Elizabeth II will also encourage those with strongly opposing views to bridge…
Al Arabiya After forming a joint judicial committee, Iraq’s Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) handed over about 1,400 detainees belonging to ISIS to the federal government in preparation for the extradition of more. Dindar Zebari, the KRG coordinator for international advocacy said in a press release that Erbil has begun handing over detainees to Baghdad, adding…