Let us put some popular psychological life hacks under the scientific microscope. Power Pose: Power poses make you feel confident and help reduce stress. In 2012 Ami Khali presented the second most viewed ted talk of all. The research showed that after taking a dominant pose for at least two minutes subjects felt more powerful…
Bill Gates and Melinda Gates/Gulf News The extraordinary progress faces threats from high birth rate among the poor and limited opportunities to better their lives Do you think the number of poor people in the world has gone up or down in the past 25 years? This question is an excellent conversation starter because practically…
Desk Report A man named Ibrahim Samaha, an Egyptian who was assumed to have been strapped with dangerous volatiles or explosives, boarded and hijacked an Egyptian plane (Airbus 320) from Alexandria heading towards Cairo on Tuesday. Some Egyptian officials said that the plane was forced to land in Cyprus. According to Egypt Air, as the…
Tasmiah Nuhiya Ahmed, Executive Editor, The New York Times,Bangladesh National Section: Like many other South-Asian countries, Bangladesh has an innate colonial organizational structure categorized by exclusive, protectionist, non-responsive to political direction, political corruption, inconsideration and gripped leadership with sustaining its eminence and freedoms (Khan & Naziz, 2013:125). Bureaucracy plays a dominant role in the development…
Abrar Hussain: Thail-and will ban imports of 432 types of scrap electronics within six months, according to an environment ministry official. This makes Thailand the latest country to respond to China’s crackdown on imports of high-tech trash this year. Many Southeast Asian nations fear that they are the new dumping ground for the world’s trash…
The number of road accidents has leaped all on a sudden. The matter needs to be understood. But why has the number shot up this way? Accidents have long been taking place in Bangladesh for years. They increased at times, while their number dropped in other occasions. Many accidents could be resisted in the past….
UNB The Public Service Commission (PSC) is digitising its all activities to ensure accuracy in recruitment process, its Chairman Ekram Ahmed has told President Abdul Hamid. A 10-member PSC delegation, led by Ekram Ahmed, met the President at Bangabhaban on Thursday to submit its annual report-2015. During the meeting, the delegation apprised the…
Dot Desk Stretching as far as the eye can see, groves of gnarled olive trees in northwest Libya have proudly withstood the country’s devastating conflicts, reports The Daily Sun. But the industry of extracting olive oil, often dubbed “green gold”, is now under threat after Libyan authorities halted exports in a bid to “protect” local…
Desk Report: The Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) has decided to review two more listed firms which did not did not pay any dividend in the last five years. “The performance of the following listed securities will be reviewed by DSE in line with regulation 51(1) (a) of the Dhaka Stock Exchange (Listing) Regulations, 2015,” said…