CNN Miley Cyrus has just rewritten a holiday classic and it’s pretty catchy. Given the recent debate over songs such as “Baby, It’s Cold Outside” for lyrics that some see as demeaning to women, Cyrus turned the 1953 hit “Santa Baby” into a feminist anthem. The singer performed the song Thursday night alongside Mark Ronson…
Abrar Hussain: The heir to the Samsung empire as well as the leaders of several other South Korean conglomerates are expected go to Pyongyang this week to attend an inter-Korean summit as part of South Korean President Moon Jae-in’s delegation, officials in Seoul confirmed yesterday. Samsung’s Lee Jae-yong and the heads of the SK and…
BSS: Health experts urged the people, especially those leaving the city to celebrate the Eid-ul-Azha elsewhere, to keep clean their houses and destroy all potential stagnant water sources to prevent outbreak of dengue disease. “All holidaymakers should clean their houses and destroy potential water containers before leaving the city for celebrating Eid with their dear…
Fuad Khan Though Disney films are made for children,they tackle serious themes and reinforce important messages in their films. This is the reason why Disney films have been popular among people of different ages. Beauty and the Beast is a conventional fairy tale written by French novelist Gabrielle-Suzanne Barbot de Villeneuve. Recently Disney has published…
Marilyn Thipthorpe Change in an existing mole or appearance of a new one: Skin cancer is tightly related to changes in moles, but these changes can also indicate breast cancer. In a study that lasted for 18 years and which included 89, 902 women, between the ages of 40-65 and over, scientists had taken note…
Reuters: India’s cabinet has approved an executive order to make instant divorce among Muslims, a procedure called “triple talaq”, a punishable offence, a government minister said on Wednesday, as Prime Minister Narendra Modi looks to woo Muslim women voters. The Supreme Court outlawed the practice last year, but Modi’s government wants to make it a…
DOT Desk The nation is set to celebrate the Victory Day tomorrow (December 16), marking the most precious day when the country was liberated from the Pakistani occupation forces after a nine-month-long bloodstained War of Liberation. Forty-six years back on December 16 in 1971, Bangladesh was born as an independent country under the leadership of the…
Rahima Ali writes for DOT : Now-a-days we see so many students to whom if we ask who is your favorite teacher most of them would answer no one! This is such a shock to me because when I ask the same question to myself and my classmates or relatives, they still do remember and…
The Guardian: In a major policy development, the Malaysian government has cancelled the Government-to-Government (G2G) Plus recruitment system in a bid to stop the ‘syndicated monopoly business’ in recruiting migrant workers from Bangladesh. Jeremy Corbyn has been made the subject of an official complaint to the Labour party over his suggestion in 2013 that some…
BSS: Islamic Development Bank (IsDB) President Dr Bandar MH Hajjar yesterday said Bangladesh is now a role model of development for the IsDB member countries, particularly the African ones, as it has been attaining higher growth on a continued basis.“Bangladesh is now a role model for the IsDB member countries, especially for the African member…