UNB: Indira Gandhi Cultural Centre in Dhaka is going to present a colourful evening of “Confluence of Music and Poetry” at Kabi Sufia Kamal Auditorium at National Museum in Shahbag tomorrow. The programme will be performed by Madhuban Chakrabarty from India and Afsana Runa and Shihab Shahriar of Bangladesh, said a press release of Indian…
UNB: Newly appointed Afghanistan’s ambassador in Dhaka Abdul Qayoom Malikzad on Wednesday requested Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina to reopen Bangladesh’s diplomatic mission in Kabul saying that Afghanistan is keen to promote trade and business relations with Bangladesh. He made the request paying a courtesy call on Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina at the latter’s official residence…
Tech Explorist: Heart disease is the leading cause of death today, killing 17.7 million people a year. Our genes also interact with traditional lifestyle risk factors, such as smoking, obesity and/or sedentary life. These factors lead to an increased risk of heart disease. Moreover, it is also suggested that the gene-environment interaction before birth may…
Reuters: Boys played and chatted on a rickety wooden ramp under a baking sun in West Java, while just below their feet flowed one of Indonesia’s most horribly polluted rivers, clogged with hundreds of tonnes of smelly trash. Authorities in the nation of 260 million are battling a lack of recycling culture or environmental awareness…
Sky News: The actor, who has played brooding hero Jon Snow since the first episode of the fantasy drama aired back in 2011, is not giving away any spoilers, but did say the much-anticipated conclusion would leave fans “emotionally torn”. Speaking about his plans for the finale, he said he liked the idea of a…
Banglanews24: The user has to type KYD and 15-digit IMEI number (found on mobile phone packet, without the asterisk numbers i.e. *#) with a space and send to 16002 number. (KYD<space>15-digit IMEI number). For checking an old handset, the user has to press *#06# to get the IMEI number and to follow the same process…
Hossen Sohel of DOT Six people including the chairman and manager of unipay2u have been sentenced to 12 years of jail for laundering Tk 1,351 crore through multi-level marketing sham, reports The Daily Star Apart from rigorous imprisonment, they were fined Tk 272 crore each in the order passed by Judge Abu Syed Dilzar Hossain…
Hindustan Times: A man is under arrest in Utah after police say he posted on Facebook about “killing as many girls as I see” the same weekend that Women’s Marches were held around the country. Jail documents filed by police in the city of Provo say 27-year-old Christopher W. Cleary wrote he was angry because…
AP: A decade after discovering natural gas fields off its Mediterranean coast, Israel is starting to feel the geopolitical boost. Its newfound riches have fostered economic bonds with its neighbors, tightening relations with Arab allies, and built new bridges in a historically hostile region — even without significant progress being made toward peace with the…
Wio News: The world is on course to miss its “best chance” of preventing runaway climate change by ensuring global greenhouse gas emissions peak in 2020, researchers warned Tuesday. Even as Earth is buffeted by superstorms, droughts and flooding made worse by rising seas, and as greenhouse gas emissions continue to rise globally, an analysis…