Sky News: A teenage driver has crashed into another car after pulling her hat over her eyes as part of the so-called “Bird Box Challenge”. The 17-year-old was (unsuccessfully) trying to emulate characters from Bird Box, a Sandra Bullock movie where characters are forced to blindfold themselves to escape an apocalypse caused by supernatural beings….
DOT Desk: A section of traders set up wholesale kitchen and fruit markets on many busy roads in the capital, paying extortion to local influential persons, reports The Daily Sun. Locals said some traders grab roadsides to set up kitchen and fruit markets, posing a risk to a road accident. Most of the traders pay…
Banglanews24: February 1, 2 have been fixed to celebrate Jatiya Kabita Utshab on the premises of Dhaka University. The organizers of National Poetry Council made the announcement at a news conference at TSC of DU on Friday (January 11). Poet Asad chowdhury will inaugurate the function. The registration for the festival, as already has begun…
DOT Desk: The government is set to create a database of buyers of government-sponsored savings instruments, reports The Financial Express. The objective behind the creation of database is to see whether the savings opportunity is abused by exceeding the investment limit or making ‘benami’ (fictitious) investments. From February next, the savers will require national identity…
UNB: Healthy Heart Happy Life Organization (HELO) on Friday distributed warm clothes among 700 cold-hit poor people in Raumari upazila of Kurigram. HELO members distributed blankets, jackets and sweaters among the poor people at the Baitkamari Govt Primary School field, said a press release. HELO General Secretary Dr Asifur Rahman Sazal said they have also…
Monirul Alam of DOT The cost of living in Bangladesh increased by 6 percent in the calendar year 2018 compared to the previous year, said Consumers Association of Bangladesh (CAB) yesterday. CAB said it has monitored and analysed prices of foodstuffs, daily essentials, services and house rent in the city and other urban cities and…
Sky News: Dozens of seals have become stranded in a Canadian town after waters they used to navigate from the ocean froze over. Police in Roddickton-Bide Arm, Newfoundland, have confirmed that at least two of the 40 or so animals to have become cut off have died – many likely hit by cars. Mayor Sheila…
UNB: Despite Bangladesh’s “serious efforts” to resume the halted repatriation process, the recent deteriorating condition in Rakhine State of Myanmar has brought “much worries” among all concerned, clouding the repatriation prospect, officials indicate. More Rohingyas, not in a big number, entered Bangladesh territory in recent days amid the further deteriorating scenario in Myanmar, they said….
13DOT Desk: An unidentified young man was found dead at Khejurbagh in South Keraniganj area, reports The New Age. Being informed by local people, police recovered the body of a young man, aged about 25 years, clad in a shirt and trousers, in front of a graveyard in the morning, said sub-inspector of Keraniganj police…
Babu Ram Neupane/My Republica An urge to connect, communicate and share is inherently human. There is nothing queer about using social media in today’s virtual world. However, motivations to use them diverge vastly based on the worldviews and choices of statements we want to make. Medium is the message. The medium is the manifestation of…