BSS One person was killed in a road crash in Bhanga upazilla headquarter when his motor cycle he was riding was hit by a unidentified passenger coach on Friday morning. He met the accident on Bhanga-Mawa road in front of Bhanga Fire Service station when he was going to Dhaka from Nalchiti of Jhalakathi district…
AP, United Nations Britain, France and Russia on Thursday backed the new U.N.-brokered unity government in Libya and called for international support for its efforts to reunite and stabilize the deeply divided country. Russia’s U.N. Ambassador Vitaly Churkin said creating a central authority that can work effectively throughout the country is especially important “in light…
Mandy Len Catron/ New York Post It’s the perfect Christmas movie and a towering masterpiece of American cinema. I’m speaking, of course, of “It’s a Wonderful Life,” the much-loved 1946 Frank Capra feature that also anticipated something we badly need today: morals to moderate capitalism. All this, even though it very much reflects the race…
Reuters: U.S. stock indexes were on track to open slightly lower on Monday as investors focused on escalating trade tensions between the United States and China. China proposed a set of differentiated tariffs on $60 billion worth of U.S. imports last week.
BBC: The American space agency (Nasa) is all set to launch one of the most daring ventures in its history. It’s going to send a satellite closer to the Sun than any mission has done before.The Parker Solar Probe will dip directly into our star’s outer atmosphere, or corona. The spacecraft’s data promises to crack…
BRAC Access to finance – be that credit, or savings, is a universal need. People living in poverty are disproportionately excluded from the formal financial system. Access to finance is particularly difficult for women in Bangladesh with 64% of women left out of formal financial services. Microfinance helps people excluded from the formal banking system…
Al Arabiya: Iran has given ballistic missiles to Shi’ite proxies in Iraq and is developing the capacity to build more there to deter attacks on its interests in the Middle East and to give it the means to hit regional foes, Iranian, Iraqi and Western sources told Reuters. Any sign that Iran is preparing a…
Becky McQuire, California /Seven Billion Today For god’s sake. I am sick to death of seeing and hearing these RIDICULOUS suggestions when it comes to personal health. Let me give some examples of things I have heard (in all seriousness): – If you drink cold water while eating fatty foods, the fat will solidify in…
BSS Members of Rapid Action Battalion (RAB)-5 arrested two alleged drug peddlers with 200 grams of heroin from Achua village under Godagari upazila in Rajshahi district on Wednesday. The arrested were M Mikail, 22, son of M Intaj Ali and M Khairul Islam, 21, son of M Intaj Ali Kalu, both of them residents of…
Lt. Gen. (Retd.) M Harun-Ar-Rashid, security analyst : There are many cities in the world that are aged one and a half to two years. Cities like London, Rome, Paris and Athens are not about just 150-200 years of age, but they also contain tradition of a thousand years. Do these cities have less traffic than…