Channel News Asia: A giant panda born in a Malaysian zoo celebrated her first birthday Monday (Jan 14) with a cake made of ice in front of adoring visitors. The youngster looked around shyly as a zookeeper carried her to a platform in her enclosure where the cake, which had a large number “one” on…
UNB: Officer-in-charge of Bandar Police Station Azharul Islam was withdrawn on Sunday over Saturday’s clash between locals and police at Madanpur in Bandar upazila that left a person dead. He was attached to the district police lines in the evening at the order of the Superintendent of Police of the district, said Additional SP (Crimes)…
Anadolu Agency: The terrorist PKK/PYD group does not represent Kurds, a Kurdish official said on Monday. Speaking to Anadolu Agency, Nuri Brimo, representative of the National Council of Syrian Kurds at the Kurdish Regional Government (KRG) said that the terrorist organization created animosity between Kurds and Arabs. “The PYD has been sowing a seed of…
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…