The Guardian, UK: Many families in India still mourn the birth of a girl. But when Leena was born, people celebrated. Sagar Gram, her village in central India, is unique that way. Girls outnumber boys. When a woman marries, it is the groom’s family that pays the dowry. Women are Sagar Gram’s breadwinners. When they…
The Straits Times: Britain yesterday pledged to fight air pollution and introduce new legislation this year on air quality to save lives and billions of pounds for the economy. The government said Britain would become the first major economy to adopt air quality goals based on World Health Organisation (WHO) recommendations regarding people’s exposure to…
DOT Desk: All leading furniture manufacturers are offering discounts from 5 percent to 20 percent at the month-long Dhaka International Trade Fair with a view to logging in big sales numbers, reports The Daily Star. Many of them are also offering the facility of equated monthly installment (EMIs) to attract customers. Customers can purchase products…
Wion: As the month of April approaches, makers of the hit series ‘Game of Thrones’ have started to push their final season peeks one at a time. The makers released the first teaser-trailer of the much-anticipated final season of ‘Game of Thrones’. The teaser looks like it has been specially created as a teaser and…
DOT Desk: Shaheed Minar cleaning campaign was observed across the country on Sunday ahead of the International Mother Language Day and Amar Ekushey on February 21, reports The Daily Observer. Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy and Peoples’ Theatre Association jointly conducted the campaign in a bid to clean up all the Shaheed Minars across the country in…
DOT Desk: Fellows of Sylhet Government College student, Sarwar Ahmed, who died on Thursday as a bus hit his motorcycle, gave a 24-hour ultimatum on Sunday to arrest the driver of the bus, reports The New Age. They issued the ultimatum from a rally during a demonstration on Sylhet-Tamabil highway at Islampur in the city…
Josh Calcino, PhD Candidate, The University of Queensland & Jake Clark, PhD Candidate, University of Southern Queensland/ The Conversation, Australia Astronomers like us are hunting for “Earth-like” planets, but they’re not easy to find. And the conditions needed life for to exist have to be just right.It’s likely that if such a planet exists, it…
Hossen Sohel of DOT The High Court yesterday granted anticipatory bail to BNP leader Mirza Abbas and his wife Afroza Abbas for eight weeks in a corruption case of Tk 21 crore, reports The Daily Star. The court, however, directed Mirza Abbas and Afroza Abbas to surrender before the trial court after eight weeks in…
DOT Desk: The cultivation of Baukul, a kind of plum, is getting popular in many areas of Rangpur division and hundreds of growers are making good profit from the sale of the fruit in recent years, reports The Financial Express. Growers are farming the fruit abundantly across the region, sources said. The soil of many…
UNB: A fire broke out at a branch of Arab Bangladesh Bank (AB Bank) in GEC area of the port city. The fire broke out in a store room of the bank from electric short circuit around 11am, said Md Jasim Uddin, deputy assistant director of Chattogram fire service and civil defense. However, the fire…