ThriveGlobal Let your partners talk about themselves:A study by several Harvard researchers found that talking about yourself is a pleasure akin to eating. As in, people love it. Study participants went as far as to give up money for the opportunity to talk about themselves. What this means is that letting people talk about themselves…
Arijit Das, Kolkata Students of Hare school expressed their vanity as Former President of Bangladesh, Ziaur Rahman was also a student there. Hare school is known to be the oldest school in Kolkata. Picture of Ziarur Rahman has been used in the posters printed by Alumni Association to observe the institute’s 200 years anniversary. On…
UNB, Dhaka Though the Bangla literature embraced modernism through Rabindranath Tagore, Bangladesh has seen no ‘great’ writer over the last few decades due to the spread of job-oriented education and fall in readership, bemoan educationists. They also observed that once newspapers had played an important role in creating and promoting new and talented writers of…
The News Asia: Hurricane Lane drenched Hawaii on Thursday (Aug 23) ahead of its arrival in the island state, prompting US President Donald Trump to declare a state of emergency as landslides and flash flooding left roads blocked. The National Weather Service said Lane – located about 320km south of Hawaii – remained a powerful…
Tech Explorist Scientists have developed a new decision tool that can potentially detect patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) who are at high risk of serious complications. Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, mainly caused by smoking, is a common condition that affects breathing and worsens over time. During the experiment with 1415 patients aged 50…
DOT Desk What differentiated Imagine Radio from all other music streaming applications when it launched recently was the earnestness and clarity that the CEO, Shahriar Shahid, promised to bring to the music listening experience, reports The Daily Star. With the endorsement of the biggest names from the music industry, including Feedback, Nemesis, Indalo, Elita, Chirkutt,…
Reuters: China’s defense ministry said on Thursday that it was supporting Afghanistan’s defense and counterterrorism efforts, a day after Beijing denied a plan to build a base in Afghanistan and to send Chinese forces to the war-torn country. China’s foreign ministry on Wednesday dismissed a report by the South China Morning Post that cited sources…
Reuters: An 83-year-old Japanese disc jockey, an elderly flying trapeze artist, the owner of the world’s fastest jet-propelled go-kart and a dog named Feather with a flair for jumping are among the record-breaking stars to win a place in the latest edition of Guinness World Records. Others to feature in the 2019 edition of the…
Desk Report: At least 33 fishermen remain missing in the Bay of Bengal along the coast of Kuakata after rough tides capsized their fishing boats, reports Daily Star. Five survivors of the capsized boats returned ashore. Ansar Uddin Mollah, president of Fish traders association in Alipur, a fish landing station under Kalapara upazila, and chairman…