BSS: With the increase of cold wave here, district administration has intensified warm cloth distribution among cold affected people of the district to mitigate their sufferings. Officials said District Relief and Rehabilitation office received a total of 41,700 pieces of blankets from the Ministry of Disaster Management and Relief this season to distribute those to…
Eurek Alert: Researchers from Singapore’s Duke-NUS Medical School, in collaboration with scientists in China, have identified and characterised a new genus of filovirus from a Rousettus bat in China. Their findings were published in the journal Nature Microbiology. Bat-borne viruses around the world pose a threat to human and animal health. Filoviruses, especially Ebola virus…
Nobonita Chowdhury As you’ve all heard by now, we had a hostage situation at the Holey Artisan Bakery in the evening of Friday, July 1st. The attack led to 28 death casualties among which 20 were hostages. In the midst of this entire ruckus, we as bystanders haven’t been doing much to help the situation…
UNB A mobile court here on Tuesday sentenced a sales representative of a pharmaceutical company to one year’s imprisonment for assaulting a girl in Banghjal area of the town. The convict is Golam Kabir, a sales representative of Incepta Pharmaceuticals in Natore. Quoting locals, police said locals caught Kabir as he assaulted the class IX…
BSS Bangladesh Air Force (BAF) will replace 358 peace keepers in United Nations Mission in DR Congo (MONUSCO), says an ISPR press release. Chief of Air Staff Air Chief Marshal Masihuzzaman Serniabat briefed the new contingent members at Bangladesh Air Force Base Bashar at capital’s Tejgaon yesterday. Addressing on the occasion, Chief of Air Staff…
Reuters: Italy will negotiate with the European Commission over next year’s budget, defending its interests but not be “foolish” in its demands, Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte said on Wednesday. “We will negotiate with the European Commission with a serious, reasonable and courageous programme that will protect our interests,” Conte told a news conference. “We will…
Reuters An Indian court on Thursday remanded in police custody 10 people suspected of plotting suicide attacks in New Delhi, while more investigations are carried out, a defence lawyer said. Members of the cell, which police said had links to a Daesh-inspired group, were arrested in raids in Delhi and nearby cities on Wednesday, the…
Reuters: Voters in St. Gallen on Sunday approved by a two-thirds majority a ban on facial coverings such as the burqa, becoming the second Swiss canton to do so. Full-face coverings such as niqabs and burqas are a polarizing issue across Europe, with some arguing that they symbolize discrimination against women and should be outlawed….
Dr M Shamsul Alam, Energy Expert : Stones belonging to Madhyapara Granite Mining Company Ltd (MGMCL) have disappeared the way coal from Dinajpur did. It was told after the coal disappearing that it got mixed with the air after being vaporised. But how will the authorities concerned narrate the stones going missing now? Stones neither…
Tara Sattar Lara Dutta who plays a lawyer in the upcoming movie “Azhar” said cricketer Azharuddin is a phenomenal person. The film is based on the life of the most controversial captain of the Indian cricket team in history. In her role in the movie, Lara Dutta is a lawyer who is adamant to prove…