Eurek Alert: It’s the archetypal child’s drawing – family, pet, maybe a house and garden, and the child themselves. Yet how do children represent themselves in their drawings, and does this representation alter according to who will look at the picture? A research team led by academics from the University of Chichester has examined this…
Anadolu Agency: Egypt has allowed domestic gas deliveries into the blockaded Gaza Strip for the first time, according to a Palestinian official on Sunday. “Some 250 tons of domestic gas have been allowed into Gaza,” Khalil Shakfa, head of the General Authority of Petroleum, told Anadolu Agency. The official said that the move came as…
DOT Desk How did you come up with the concept of bringing Selim Al Deen’s Putra to the stage? Putra is one of the many gifts that Selim Al Deen left behind for the lovers of Bangla literature. Bearing that in mind, we have tried our best to keep the essence and tone of the…
BSS, Dhaka Civil Aviation and Tourism Mister and Workers Party President Rashed Khan Menon today said the country’s independence did not come in a day rather it came through different movements including 1952 Language Movement, 1954 Jukta Front Election, 1969 Mass Upsurge led the country to independence. “1962’s movement against Hamoodur Rahman Education Commission report…
AFP: Polls have opened in Sweden’s general election in what is expected to be one of the most unpredictable and thrilling races in the Scandinavian country for decades amid heated debate on immigration. Sunday’s election will be Sweden’s first since the government in 2015 allowed 163,000 migrants into the country of 10 million. While far…
Reuters: President Salva Kiir granted a general amnesty to rebels in South Sudan’s civil war, including his former deputy Riek Machar, as a rights organization said authorities in Africa’s youngest country should also free its unarmed critics. The amnesty order was read out on state-run television late on Wednesday, three days after Kiir, SPLM-IO leader…
WIO News Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan on Tuesday highlighted the part Pakistan is playing in the US-Taliban negotiations, a round of which were held in the UAE a day earlier. Imran said he hoped that the could bring an end to “almost three decades of suffering of the brave Afghan people”. “Pakistan has…
UNB: Farmers across the country are misusing some 800 liters of water in producing each kilogram of paddy. Even though it is possible to produce 1 kg of paddy using 2,500 liters of water, currently they are using 3,300 liters for the same only for lack of awareness of certain techniques that can reduce the…
M Humayun Kabir: A speedy trial tribunal in Dhaka has fixed October 10 to deliver its verdict in two cases filed over the August 21 grenade attack on an Awami League rally in the capital in 2004. Judge Shahed Nuruddin of Speedy Trial Tribunal-1 set the date for verdict delivery after hearing the closing arguments…
Marilyn Thipthorpe Are you fed up with your Chrome Browser? Is it lagging or just low on options? Well good news is in, the Vivaldi 1.0 is a new interface created by the creators of Opera for you to break out of the confines of an ordinary browser. No one wants to be stuck in…