Bangkok Post: A top North Korean diplomat was travelling to Sweden Tuesday, she told reporters, as speculation mounts over the next summit between the isolated state’s leader Kim Jong Un and US President Donald Trump. Choe Son Hui, a North Korean vice-minister of foreign affairs, landed in Beijing on a flight from the North Korean…
DOT Desk: The government has no facilities in place to provide any service to increasing number of HIV infected returnee migrants, reports The New Age. Absence of intervention programmes exposes spouses and children of infected returnees to the risk of getting infected, migrant right campaigners told New Age. An unknown number of infected returnees die…
CNN: The past few years have been huge for South Korean pop music. Although the nation’s music industry has been going strong since the 1990s, more recently K-pop has managed to make serious inroads in other parts of the world. The year 2017 in particular saw history made via the seven-member group BTS. They became…
Hossen Sohel of DOT Visiting Minister in charge of Economic Revitalisation of Japan Toshimitsu Motegi yesterday said his country will continue to support Bangladesh in key development arenas, showing interest to invest in the IT sector of Bangladesh, reports UNB. Toshimitsu Motegi came up with the assurance when he met Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina at…
DOT Desk: Most of the student organisations in Dhaka University want amendment to the university’s students’ union constitution so that the balance of power among the president and vice-president posts could be created, reports The New Age. The organisations came up with their demands as they submitted their recommendations in writing to Dhaka University Central…
CNN: Scientists love to study twins because they help answer age-old questions about nature vs. nurture. Identical twins share the same genes, so any differences between them — say, more wrinkled versus less wrinkled skin — could be the result of their environment. “Studies of human health are plagued by these confounding factors,” Craig said,…
Eurek Alert: Poor cardiorespiratory fitness could increase your risk of a future heart attack, even if you have no symptoms of a lifestyle illness today, a new study has found. “We found a strong link between higher fitness levels and a lower risk of heart attack and angina pectoris over the nine years following the…
BSS: Bangladesh’s role in the United Nations (UN) Peacekeeping was appreciated at a conference at The Hague in the Netherlands yesterday. UN Under Secretary General for Peacekeeping Operations Jean-Pierre Lacroix made the appreciation during a two-day “Preparatory Conference on Peacekeeping” at The Hague hosted jointly by the Netherlands and Rwanda, said a press release received…
Hossen Sohel of DOT Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan yesterday rejected claims about ‘ghost’ cases, saying they had been filed on specific charges, reports UNB. He made the comment at a rally of party activists in Dhanmondi, organised for making the January 19 victory rally a success. “There are no ‘ghost’ cases. Legal steps are taken…
BSS: Chattogram district council has taken up projects to built 17 shaheed minars and 7 independence mausoleum in Chattogram aimed at creating awareness among the young generation about Language Movement and historic Liberation War of Bangladesh. These mausoleums and shaheed minars will be built at Govt primary schools located in different upazilas of the district….