The Guardian, UK: A man has been bitten by a blue shark while fishing off the coast of Cork in the Republic of Ireland. The man from Belfast sustained a serious lower arm injury while deep-sea angling on Saturday evening. He was given immediate first aid by the crew of the angling boat, before being…
BBC: Police in Seoul have raided the offices of a South Korean company which claimed to have found a sunken Russian warship with billions of dollars of gold on board. Shinil Group attracted global attention when it claimed last month to have discovered the Dmitri Donskoii, a 5,800-ton warship that had sunk during the 1905…
Desk Report: The government will appoint music and sports teachers at the country’s primary schools for the first time to make classrooms more lively and amusing for the young students, reports Daily Sun. According to the Primary and Mass Education Ministry, a total of 5,106 music and sports teachers will be appointed for around 65,000…
Arafat Hasan: India’s top court has asked WhatsApp, already facing pressure in India over fake news, to respond to a petition which alleges that it breaches certain Indian regulations. According to a Reuters report published yesterday, India’s Supreme Court asked the messaging service to respond to the petition, filed by a Delhi-based think-tank called the…
UNB A young man was hacked to death allegedly by miscreants at Dingamanik in Naria upazila early Monday. Quoting locals, officer-in-charge of Naria Police Station Ikram Ali said a gang of miscreants entered the house of Rigan, 28, in the dead of night and beat him. Later, the gang members hacked him indiscriminately with sharp…
UNB A septuagenarian man was killed in an attack allegedly by a young man over a trifling matter at Baruikhali village in Morelganj upazila on Friday night. Tarek Biswas, officer-in-charge of Morelganj Police Station, said Jabed Ali Mallik, 70, of the village, had an altercation with Razib Khalifa, 18, brother-in-law of Jabed’s son over a…
Kamrul Hasan of DOT Bangladesh Supreme Court lawyer Shahdin Malik said that, the incidents regarding the upcoming Election are getting out of hand. Even if nothing fatal in happening, the minor casualties are summing up in a big violence. Attacks are occurring in different parts of the country to mislead the amity. Attack on Dr….
Rahat Islam of DOT Millions of users of Amazon’s Echo speakers have grown accustomed to the soothing strains of Alexa, the human-sounding virtual assistant that can tell them the weather, order takeout and handle other basic tasks in response to a voice command. So a imagine the shock a customer received last year when Alexa…
Sayeed Muhammad: In a latest bid of assassination, Pakistan’s Interior Minister Ahsan Iqbal has been shot in an attack. Ahsan, however, was not severely injured, his special aide Asim Khan confirmed narrating the attack, reports AFP. “Ahsan Iqbal was targeted and shot in the arm,” Khan said, adding, “He is out of danger and being taken…
France24: The United Arab Emirates has selected its first two astronauts to go on a mission to the International Space Station, Dubai’s ruler said Monday. Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashed al-Maktoum named the new astronauts as Hazza al-Mansouri, 34, and 37-year-old Sultan al-Neyadi. Writing on Twitter, he said the duo “raise the bar of ambitions for…