Tahsin Rahman Oshin •It has been seen that cats are able to make about 100 different sounds, while the more intelligent dogs can make only 10. •In the era of Middle Ages, cats were associated with witchcraft. On the events of Saint John’s Day, peo ple in Europe would collect them in backpacks and toss…
Reported by: Jafar Ahmad Written by: Eshan Maitra Krishi Shomprosharon Council very much concerned about the severity of the Blast disease in the rice paddies. The traditional ways are failing to prevent it. BRRI estimated, over 1% of the seasonal Ropa Rice will be affected in the South-East region of the country. The number is…
Wion News Desperately-needed aid flowed into a stretch of Indonesia’s tsunami-struck coastline Tuesday, but humanitarian workers warned that clean water and medicine supplies were dwindling as thousands crammed makeshift evacuation centres. Fears about a public health crisis come as the death toll from Saturday’s volcano-triggered disaster topped 400 with thousands more displaced many left homeless…
Anadolu Agency: The U.S. on Monday announced giving over $185 million in additional aid to Rohingya relief efforts in Myanmar and Bangladesh.The announcement was made by U.S. Ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley, at a meeting attended by Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu. In a statement, Haley said the bulk of the aid would go…
Adam Johnson speaks to DOT : Adam Johnson used to teach at Stamford and he read a book by a North Korean in which an account of imprisonment in a labor camp of a man named Kang Cholehwan deeply touched him. Since 1957 only 27,000 North Koreans could escape- not many of them. They still…
Abrar Hussain of DOT : BGB Headquarters Media Officer Mohsin Reza announced yesterday that a total of 1,016 BGB (Border Guards Bangladesh) platoons will be deployed across the country to act as law enforcers for the national parliamentary election. 50 platoons will be deployed in Dhaka, said Reza, but he did not elaborate on how…
Desk report: Thousands of customers queuing to buy advance tickets for Eid journeys home are facing difficulties after internet problems interrupted sales, reports the financial express. Ticket sales were interrupted for over one-and-a-half hours at Dhaka’s Kamalapur Railway Station on Saturday, the fourth day of advance ticket sales. Ticket sales were also interrupted for over…
Maj Gen (Rtd) Mohammad Ali Shikder, Security and Political Analyst : With the approach of national election, many known and unknown people gear themselves up for election-centric vote and coalition in Bangladesh. The country’s people are enjoying it as a joke and in a state of confusion at the way the country’s two renowned personalities…
BSS: Rangpur Chamber of Commerce and Industry (RCCI) today distributed 500 blankets among cold-hit poor and distressed people at a ceremony on RCCI Public School and College ground here. The RCCI with the assistance of Dhaka Chamber of Commerce and Industry (DCCI) distributed the blankets among the cold-stricken people to mitigate their sufferings under their…
UNB Two people were killed and three others injured as a lorry rammed a CNG-run auto-rickshaw at Garadoho on the Bogra-Nagarbari highway in Shahajadpur upazila on Tuesday noon. The deceased were identified as freedom fighter Chan Miah, 70, a resident of Rambari and Abdul Mannan, 65. Officer-in-charge of Hatikumrul highway police station Abdul Quader Zilani…