Sayeed Muhammad: The ongoing anti-narcotics clampdown claimed the lives of 10 more people, mostly suspected drug peddlers, in parts of the country yesterday, raising the death toll to at least 94 over the last two weeks. According to The Daily Star, two were killed in Comilla, Pirojpur and Satkhira each, while one was reported dead in…
Sayeed Muhammad of DOT : Nobel Prize-winning scientist James Watson has been stripped of his honorary titles by a leading American research institution, following his controversial conclusions linking race and intelligence, reports RT.com.James Watson, 99, who served half a century service to Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, lost all of his honorary titles of Chancellor Emeritus,…
AFP: “Since they are going to remove Franco, I wanted to see it. It’s morbid curiosity,” says Antonio Nevado, one of thousands of Spaniards who have rushed to visit the late dictator’s tomb before his remains are moved. Francisco Franco, who ruled Spain with an iron fist from the end of the 1936-39 civil war…
Ramin Jahanbegloo, Professor, vice dean and director of Mahatma Gandhi Centre for Peace Studies at O.P. Jindal Global University/ Live Mint Today, critical intellectuals are an endangered species. What will it take for ‘superheroes of the mind’ to be fighters of human dignity? Talking about the public role of intellectuals in today’s world, and more…
Myisha Nawar Dear You, Right now you are feeling like you are not good enough; pretty enough; smart enough. Right now you are feeling insecure. In your heart, you know that you ARE capable. It’s not that you don’t love yourself. You’re just not feeling completely “yourself” right now. I want to take this opportunity…
MSN News Katy Perry supported a good cause on Sunday and won a date with her boyfriend, Orlando Bloom, all at the same time. The singer sang at the One Love Malibu benefit concert at the King Gillette Ranch in Calabasas, California, which raised money for those affected by the recent Woolsey Fire. One hundred…
Reuters: Argentine senators rejected a bill to legalize abortion after an impassioned debate ran into the early hours of Thursday, pushing back against a groundswell of support from a surging abortion rights movement. The Senate voted 38 to 31 against the proposed measure, which would have legalized a woman’s right to seek an abortion into…
Anindya Nahar Habib This is 2010s and most popular songs of the past half decade are pop, electronic-pop, hip-hop, puck-rock. But there is gorgeous 30 year, stage name- Lana Del Rey, produces songs that will take you back to the 50s-60s. Looking at her will make you think that she walked right of a 60s…
DOT Desk: An activist of ruling Awami League (AL), who was injured in an attack allegedly by BNP men at a Rajshahi polling centre on election day, succumbed this morning, reports The Daily Star. With his death, the death toll from polls-violence reached 19. Ismail Hossain, 50, died at Rajshahi Medical College Hospital where he…
Tara Sattar On August 21, 1986 a strange and deadly natural disaster caused the death of about 1,746 people in one night. Located in the Northwest Region of Camerron, Africa, this river carries a tale of great danger. Tales have that an evil spirit used to emerge from the river and take away all the…