The Guardian: The former superintendent of Joshua Tree national park has said it could take hundreds of years to recover from damage caused by visitors during the longest-ever government shutdown. “What’s happened to our park in the last 34 days is irreparable for the next 200 to 300 years,” Curt Sauer said at a rally…
Sayeed Muhammad of DOT Duplex mansions, mostly in the middle of farmland, forest or just beside the road, along the 13km road stretching from Teknaf Zero Point to Shah Porir Island in Cox’s Bazar will leave many surprised. The landlords do not stay there any longer as they are either on the run or in…
Channel News Asia: The operator of Japan’s All Nippon Airways said on Tuesday (Jan 29) it has decided to order a total of 48 aircraft from Boeing and Airbus for deliveries from 2021 through 2025. NA Holdings said it would buy 30 Boeing 737 MAX 8 planes and 18 Airbus A320neo units, citing growing demand…
Brac.net: While many employers see it as a revolutionary way to drive organisational growth, others tend to be more skeptical about the ultimate outcome. Is it worth taking the time and effort? Does it make sense to burden employees to do things that are not necessarily part of their job description? Google is one such…
DOT Desk: Sanzida’s father was suffering from cardiac problems. When their family admitted him to a hospital in Bangalore in India, he was diagnosed with kidney problems as well. The vastly increased medical expenses have dealt a stunning blow to the Master’s student at Rajshahi University and her family. As Sanzida continued to fret over…
Afsan Chowdhury/Southasian monitor.com “India is such a big country and economy, it should not worry about OBOR. Rather, it can also join so that all the countries can benefit economically,” Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina recently said in an interview to CNN-News18 television channel. Mentioning “Bangladesh-China-India-Myanmar Economic Corridor (BCIM-EC)”, an agreement to establish connectivity, Hasina…
Hossen Sohel of DOT The Wage Earners’ Welfare Board has decided to conduct mass hearing of the migrant workers on the first Wednesday of every month, reports The Daily Star. The hearing will be held at the office of the director general of the Wage Earners’ Welfare Board on Prabashi Kallyan Bhaban at Old Elephant…
DOT Desk: Pragati Publishers launched two pop-up books based on horror stories by famous Indian Bengali writer Shirshendu Mukhopadhyay at a programme held at Dhaka Reporters Unity on Sunday, reports The New Age BD. The books namely Nishi Kobrej and Kogramer Madhu Pandit have been published to encourage reading habits in children, said speakers at…
Jamilah Amburo/ Seven Billion Today Elated that a Duke University Professor has been removed from her post after she sent an e-mail to students demanding that they speak English and saying that speaking Chinese could lead to serious consequences.As a foreign person living in America, I am elated to hear that this woman has been…
Mark Ellison/ The Conversation, Australia The first thing to think about is that at one time there was no spoken language.We’re confident language as we know it did not exist around 6 million years ago because our ancestors then were also the ancestors of chimpanzees, who do not have language.And our best guess (from this…