Daily Mail: A Chinese space probe has moved into position to land on the dark side of the moon for the first time, the official Xinhua news agency reported. The probe, the Chang’e-4, entered a planned orbit on Sunday ‘to prepare for the first-ever soft landing on the far side of the moon’, the news…
Wionews: Google wants to know where you go so badly that it records your movements even when you explicitly tell it not to. An Associated Press investigation found that many Google services on Android devices and iPhones store your location data even if you’ve used a privacy setting that says it will prevent Google from…
Arab News: At the age of just 15, a schoolgirl has become the youngest Saudi to publish an English-language novel. Leena Althekair started writing her book, “Foreshadow,” in the summer of 2017, when she was still only 14.“I have always had this idea but it wasn’t clear,” she said. “But as I kept writing, it…
Mohammad Ali Sattar Even if you are not directly related or affected by the US election, you in a way concerned. The concerns are sort of a seduction. Because anything that happens in America creates interest in all parts of the world regardless what you do. For obvious reasons, people get involved in debates on…
Dr. Mizanur Rahman, Vice Chancellor, Jagannath University : The lack of dedicated teachers is the reason for the disastrous state of our country’s education system. Our own students are far more talented than those from abroad. There is no lack of talented students in our country; rather, quality education is rare. Some 30% students failed and…
DOT Desk A schoolboy was found dead at his house at Hamdah in Jhenaidah district town on Wednesday. The deceased was identified as Samiul Alam, a class VI student of Jhenaidah Government Boys’ School and son of Alamgir Hossain, former chairman of Kalicharanpur union, reports The Financial Express BD. Mother of the victim Shahida Parveen,…
Hamid Dabashi, Hagop Kevorkian Professor of Iranian Studies and Comparative Literature at Columbia University/Aljazeera If truth is not truth, as Trump’s legal consigliere Giuliani says, then it inevitably follows that he is a rhinoceros. War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength. He was using alternative facts. It was a bright cold day in…
DOT Desk: More than 50 students of Silver Jubilee Government Primary School in Kumarpara area of Rajshahi city were given free tiffin boxes to encourage them to avail institutional learning, reports The New Age. Professional Social Workers Foundation donated the boxes with financial support from Eleven Star Social Services Group in Luxmipur of Rajshahi on…
Wionews: The Government of Nepal on Friday said it would block the publication and dissemination of pornographic content in the nation, citing an increase in incidents of rape. The Ministry for Information and Communication issued a release citing pornographic content to be the reason for rape. “The Criminal Code 2071 article 121 and other prevalent…
Reporter by: Jafar Ahmad Written by: Eshan Maitra National Wages and Productivity Commission (NWPC) of Bangladesh have not finalized salary-report for industrial employees. Labor-employee leaders of 5 industrial sectors, Sugar & Food, Forest, Steel, Jute & Chemical industry corporations, gathering in order to make their voices heard and to find a possible solution. New pay-scale…