UNB Poet and engineer Habibullah Siraji joined as the new director general of Bangla Academy. The Public Relations Department of the academy informed UNB of taking charge of the post on Thursday. Siraji replaced Shamsuzzaman Khan, whose tenure ended in May after 10 years. He will serve as the DG of the academy for three…
Rahat Islam of DOT Millions of users of Amazon’s Echo speakers have grown accustomed to the soothing strains of Alexa, the human-sounding virtual assistant that can tell them the weather, order takeout and handle other basic tasks in response to a voice command. So a imagine the shock a customer received last year when Alexa…
AFP Americans have got fatter over the past two decades, adding girth to their bellies and even growing fractionally shorter on average, according to federal health data released Thursday. The report gave no specific reasons for the trends, which come as no surprise as the nation battles with an ongoing obesity epidemic and a record…
Hossen Sohel of DOT BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir has accused the government of using the court to invalidate the nominations of BNP candidates, reports Dhaka Tribune. He said this during a press briefing at the BNP chairperson’s Gulshan office yesterday. Fakhrul also claimed: “Law enforcement agencies, especially the police, are our main…
Hossen Sohel of DOT Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s leadership in women empowerment was highly praised at a meeting, held recently at the UK House of Lords, as some eminent British parliamentarians, British-Bangladeshi academics and politicians were discussing the development occurred in Bangladesh in the past ten years, BSS reports. “Bangladesh has become a beacon to…
DOT Desk To revive and retain the art form of Jatrapala, the central drama section on Bangladesh, Udichi Shilpa Goshthi performed Biallisher Biplob at the Experimental Hall of Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy on December 19. Written by Krishna Bhattacharya and directed by Vittor Daniyel, the story narrates the Swadeshi movement of the British India during 1942….
AFP Peruvian fishermen need only dive down a few meters to find the scallops considered the “golden nuggets” of the country’s seas — and cherished in European and North American kitchens. Sechura Bay, off northwest Peru’s Pacific coast near Ecuador, is the source of 80 percent of Peru’s exports of the seafood to France, Spain,…
NDTV A Sweden-born Instagram influencer has come under fire for posting obviously altered pictures on the photo sharing platform. 28-year-old Johanna Olsson visited Paris a few months ago on an all-expenses paid trip, reports the Mirror. However, pictures from her Paris trip led to more than just a few raised eyebrows. This is because it…
Ritu Sarin/Indian Express A reporter recalls 1984 — an assassination and the massacre that followed. It was the age when news was transmitted through teleprinters. That morning, when I reached the Nehru Place office of Delhi Recorder, the magazine where I worked, I found my colleagues in a huddle around the clattering machine. Then I…
Abdul Latif Al-Sadoun/Middle East Monitor Fathy Ghanem’s great character in the novel The Man Who Lost His Shadow, journalist Youssef Abdel Hamid Al-Suweifi, does not appear to have much in common with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammad Bin Salman. There is no similarity between the way that Al-Suweifi climbed to the top after much effort and…