UNB: A college student was shot by unidentified assailants in Jashore early Tuesday. The victim, Sajib Hasan Sujon, 22, is a second-year management student at Uposhohor College. Police said Sajib and his friends had gathered for a picnic at Dhaka Road when they were attacked by a group of 10-12 men for yet unclear reasons….
Al Jazeera: In the two years since Colombia signed a peace deal with the left-wing FARC rebels, 85 members of the armed-group-turned-political-party have been killed, the United Nations said. Colombia’s special investigation unit, quoted in a new UN report published on Monday, blamed “illegal armed groups and criminal organisations” for the killings. In his quarterly…
Hossen Sohel of DOT Information Minister Hasanul Haq Inu has announced that new members of parliament will take their oaths of office on Jan 3, reports bdnews24.com. The information minister made the announcement during a Secretariat Reporters Forum discussion at the Secretariat Media Centre yesterday. Jatiya Samajtantrik Dal (JaSaD) President Inu said: “The members of…
Elena Hoicka, Senior lecturer in developmental psychology at the University of Bristol/Channel NewsAsia Playing with apps can encourage play and learning, says one developmental psychology researcher. Young children learn through play. That’s why it’s the basis for early education in the UK, the US, Canada, Australia and many other countries around the world. But with…
BSS: Overcoming many hurdles and extreme poverty, Bharoti Rani Sen has become an icon of women empowerment in remote Gangadas Baraipara village. Bharoti was born as the fifth among her three brothers and three sisters in their poor family of nine members of the village under Haridebpur union of Sadar upazila here in 1977. At…
David Leonhardt, Op-Ed columnist at The New York Times/BDnews24 Our best hope may be the weather. For a long time, many people thought that it was a mistake to use the weather as evidence of climate change. Weather patterns contain a lot of randomness. Even as the earth warms and extreme weather becomes more common,…
BSS: Awami League Advisory Council member and Commerce Minister Tofail Ahmed yesterday said people cast their vote on December 30 general polls against the BNP-Jamaat and militant outfits. “The victory of Awami League is the reflection of people’s longstanding distress against BNP-Jamaat and militancy,” he told journalists at a view-exchange meeting at his secretariat…
UNB: In the wake of its debacle in Sunday’s polls, BNP has convened an emergency meeting of the candidates who contested the 11th national election with its symbol the ‘Sheaf of Paddy’. The meeting will be held at 10am on Thursday at BNP chairperson’s Gulshan office, said BNP senior joint secretary general Ruhul Kabir Rizvi. Earlier…
Tech Explorist: Neuroscientists have successfully hooked up a three-way brain connection to allow three people share their thoughts – and in this case, play a Tetris-style game. The team thinks this wild experiment could be scaled up to connect whole networks of people, and yes, it’s as weird as it sounds. It works through a…
Suzanne Moore, Guardian columnist/The Guardian, UK From the Presidents Club to Christine Blasey Ford, it’s not been a great year. But there were glimmers of hope, such as in Ireland Apale, slouching Harvey Weinstein has so far escaped criminal charges for the allegations of sexual assault against him. A “millionaire” is given a three-year jail…