UNB Three people, including two women, were killed and three others injured in a head-on collision between a bus and a CNG-run auto-rickshaw at Natherpetua on the Comilla-Noakhali regional highway in Monohorganj upazila on Tuesday morning. Sub-inspector Lutfar Rahman, in-charge of Lalmai highway police camp, said the accident took place at about 7:00am when the…
Md. Habibul Alam : The media landscape in Bangladeshi started changing when the then-Awami League (AL) government in the late 90’s adopted a liberal media policy as well as encouraged the private ownership of media. The terrestrial transmission of ETV in April 2000 had been the unique example of the liberal media policy of government. ETV…
Eshan Maitra Slovenian scientists are excitedly celebrating as a new ‘dragon’ just hatched inside Postojna Cave in southwestern Slovenia, last week! Well, not fire-breathing drakes like in Game of Thrones. This beautiful aquatic creature is nicknamed Dragon because of their long and slender bodies. Kind of like Mythical Chinese Dragons but tiny, only13.5 inches long…
DOT Desk The errant garment factories, inspected under National Initiative, will finally face strict measures like suspension of production, upon their failure to complete the post-inspection remediation work in certain phases, officials said, reports The Financial Express. The Ministry of Labour and Employment (MoLE) is set to approve the draft of an ‘escalation protocol’ soon…
Science Alert: New guidance for under-18-year-olds from the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health in the UK said the evidence that time in front of a screen has a negative effect on children is “contested” and that the “evidence of harm is often overstated”. The evidence is so weak, the group said, that it…
Samiul Bashar Samin I need to earn a salary. I am doing what I can to make a living, but hoping to do what I would like to do,” the writer and director says. Charlie Kaufman said Friday that making independent films in the U.S. has been getting more and more difficult for him. The…
Women have always been working, say it medieval age or modern age, when recognized, when not, women always took care of their duties. They not only worked when they were less educated or illiterate but also when highly qualified. Since the wind of industrialization touched the society only men working for livelihood was not enough…
Myisha Nawar Even though the ridiculous and misogynistic practice of slut-shaming is starting to become less and less socially acceptable these days, it is still far from extinction. Slut-shaming doesn’t always come from men; many women slut-shame each other, often without even noticing that they are doing it. But while even the most judgmental of…
DOT Desk: The textbook festival will be celebrated across the country on Tuesday, marking the distribution of free textbooks among the students of schools and madrasa, reports The Financial Express. Education Minister Nurul Islam Nahid will distribute books from Azimpur Government Girls’ School and College field around 9:30am, said senior information officer Arfazur Rahman of…
Science Alert: No matter how abundant or renewable, solar power has a thorn in its side. There is still no cheap and efficient long-term storage for the energy that it generates. The solar industry has been snagged on this branch for a while, but in the past year alone, a series of four papers has…