Four missing children found dead in Chandpur pond

    Sofian Khan: Four children who were reported missing on Monday have been found dead in a pond in Hajiganj, Chandpur. According to Jabedul Islam, Officer-in-charge (OC), the bodies were discovered floating in the pond yesterday morning. The deceased were identified as Rahul (13), Shamim (11), sons of Wasim, Arafat Hossain Raihan (11), son of Ahsan Habib…

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      Global warming pushing Alpine species higher

      ScienceBlog: For every one-degree-Celsius increase in temperature, mountaintop species shift upslope 100 metres, shrinking their inhabited area and resulting in dramatic population declines, new research by University of British Columbia zoologists has found. The study–the first broad review of its kind–analyzed shifts in elevation range in 975 populations of plants, insects and animals. “Most mountaintop…

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        Why Rahul Gandhi cannot peg the 1984 anti-Sikh riots on Hindus, RSS or the BJP

        Peter Appsis, Reuters global affairs columnist/BDnews24 As the West obsesses over Donald Trump’s legal and political challenges, Brexit and a host of other domestic crises, Chinese troops will join their Russian counterparts for Moscow’s largest military exercises in more than three decades. Coming six months after Beijing’s biggest ever offshore naval drills, the joint war…

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          When I challenge the president, I do it directly

          Nikki Haley, US Ambassador to the United Nations/Gulf News If there is an issue, the ‘anonymous’ US administration official should have raised it with Trump as he always listens We have enough issues to deal with in the world, so it’s unfortunate to have to take time to write this, but I feel compelled to…

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            Trolls Do Not ‘Affect’ Sonakshi Sinha

            TS Actress Sonakshi Sinha has been a subject of trolls on social media for a long time now but says it deosn’t affect her mentally. She is a strong woman who knows how to handle issues both in her real and virtual life. “No, it (trolling and criticism on social media) doesn’t affect me mentally….

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              Australia recognises West Jerusalem as Israeli capital

              Arafat Hasan of DOT Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison has confirmed that his government will officially recognize West Jerusalem as the capital of Israel. However, he added that Australia’s embassy would not move from Tel Aviv until a ‘peace settlement’ was achieved. Nevertheless, Australia also recognized the aspirations of Palestinian people to a state with…

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                What Happens When You Donate Your Body To Science

                Nusrat Jahan Maybe you were a sad little person who never had any friends and could not accomplish anything in their life. So you decided to donate your body to science in order to advance human knowledge. All in the hopes that maybe in death you could accomplish something good. However, you might want to…

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