Written by: Eshan Maitra Most already have received their bonuses for the upcoming Eid vacation. Ignoring the weather or heavy traffic, every is very busy doing their annual festival shopping. People have started crowding up all the popular mega-city shopping malls and markets in Dhaka. In this mechanized capital, workaholic people do not mind shopping…
Kabir Humayun: A Natore court yesterday sentenced five people to death and two others to life term imprisonment for killing a man in Singra upazila in 2004. Natore additional district and session judge Mohammad Saifur Rahman Siddiq handed down the verdict after examining all the records and witnesses, reports UNB. The condemned convicts are Hafizur…
Hossen Sohel of DOT : The body of Public Administration Minister and former general secretary of Bangladesh Awami League (AL) Syed Ashraful Islam, MP, will be brought home around 6pm today. Syed Ashraful Islam died at a hospital in Bangkok on Thursday. He was 68. Ashraful Islam who had been suffering from lung cancer for…
Sejuti Mourin: BNP has rejected the proposed national budget, claiming that the government has placed the colossal budget for “looting money ahead of the general election”, reports NewAge. BNP senior joint secretary general Ruhul Kabir Rizvi made the allegation at a news briefing at the party central office in Dhaka yesterday. The BNP leader claimed that…
AFP Unilever chief Paul Polman is “retiring” from the consumer giant, the firm said Thursday, a month after it was forced to ditch a controversial post-Brexit plan to move its headquarters from London to the Netherlands. The Anglo-Dutch group, maker of iconic brands like Marmite and Dove soap, will be headed from January by Alan…
Hossen Sohel: South Korea yesterday said it would dispatch special envoys to the North Korean capital on September 5 to discuss the timing of a summit between the two countries’ leaders expected to take place later in the month, reports Reuters. The special envoy will also discuss “establishing peace,” “advancing inter-Korean ties,” and the…
Myisha Nawar Moviegoers are flocking to go see the latest entry in the highly successful Marvel film franchise, Captain America: Civil War. The film began circling around a tragic catastrophe involving inexperienced heroes with Iron Man and Captain America as the two main protagonists. (Hey, I’ll keep the spoilers shunned.) Okay, I’m pretty sure everyone…
AFP: Ugandan navy speedboats sliced through murky Lake Edward towards a fleet of wooden canoes carrying illegal fishermen from the Democratic Republic of Congo, hightailing it back to their own waters. “Stop the boat, hands up, surrender any weapons,” yelled Lieutenant Deogratius Kato as the soldiers surrounded a motorised canoe after a 20-minute chase, pointing…
Hindustan Times The glow of kindness is real — even if it has nothing in it for you. Psychologists at the University of Sussex have confirmed the same by undertaking a major analysis of existing research showing the brain scans relating to over 1,000 people making kind decisions. For the first time, they split the…
Eurek Alert: Poor cardiorespiratory fitness could increase your risk of a future heart attack, even if you have no symptoms of a lifestyle illness today, a new study has found. “We found a strong link between higher fitness levels and a lower risk of heart attack and angina pectoris over the nine years following the…