By Sheersho Zaman Imagine for a second you are sitting at school and having fun with friends. Or you’re just in the middle of class. Through the corner of your eye, you notice the quiet kid sitting at the back. He always sits there; usually head-down on the table. But this time, he looks different….
Syed Nasir Ershad In yesteryears, friends used to mean someone we knew and an opinion was something we arrived at after long thought. Since the time of my upbringing I heard people identifying newspapers on the basis of political bias. However, it appears to be difficult to discover that there were politics in any certain…
Marilyn Thipthorpe One commonly alleged myth is that rape is chiefly a sexual act. People with this conviction often involuntarily place the victim on trial. Motives, dress and actions become suspect not only to law enforcement officials but also to family and friends and the public. The person’s credibility may be questioned and their sexual…
Eshan Maitra Mark Tuszynski from the University of California, San Diego proudly announced on behalf of his team that, they have been successful in regenerating damaged spinal cords in rats. This revolutionary process has eradicated the past beliefs that neurons cannot undergo stem cell culturing process. They used neural progenitor cells both from the rats…
Marilyn Thipthorpe How can offshore banking is explained in ways that even a kid can get it? Often times we get so mixed up with schematics and technical analogies that we forget that there’s an easy explanation to everything. So here’s a short story to explain the good and bad reasons behind having an offshore…
BSS Two persons were killed in a road accident when their vehicle turned turtle in Chonbunia area in Bamna upazila on the Barguna-Bamna road of the district on Friday. Police said the accident occurred when a lorry turned turtle as one of its front tyres was punctured. The driver of the lorry Yusuf,30,and helper Arif,25,…
BSS Singra Thana Police in raids arrested eight persons including a couple with 70 yaba tablets, 500 grams of ganja and 6 packets of heroin from Singra Pourashava areas on Friday night. The arrested were identified as Md. Alauddin, 50, and his wife Aklima Khatun, 38, of Pat Singra area, Masum,35, son of late Ismail…
UNB A young man died after falling from the rooftop of a building at Duppara village in Benapole port area on Saturday morning. Quoting family members, police sad Rezoan, 18, son of Korban Ali of the village, slipped and fell from the building rooftop while placing straw to erect a shed there in the morning….
UNB At least seven shops were gutted by a fire that broke out at Joydebpur bus stand in the city on Saturday morning. Hasibul Islam, an official of Joydebpur fire service station, said the fire originated from an electric short circuit at a shop of one Anwar Hossain around 6:30 am and soon engulfed six…
UNB Members of Bangladesh Coast Guard in a drive seized 20 maunds of jatka (hilsa fry less than 10 inches in length) from the Bhola river in Sadar upazila on Saturday morning. Coast Guard sources said on a tip-off, a team of the force conducted the drive in the river around 8am and seized the…