Marilyn Thipthorpe With all the hype going around of Oculus VR Goggles, expectations are high and producers are scrambling for last minutes modifications to the tech. If your one of the many thousands lining up to buy this new fad, be ready to strap on a black 1.5 pound mask to your face and experience…
Timeline You might have a mental image of Neanderthals as some ancient, sloping-browed, granting human beings who carried quite funny large clubs. But recent discoveries claim that Neanderthals were anything but brutish cavemen. About 200,000 years ago they lived in Europe whereas we, modern humans showed up on the continent 40,000 ago. There were actually…
By Syed Nasir Ershad Perhaps there is a general perception among a significant section of the younger generation of these days that politics is not their cup of tea. They carry a negative vibe against the political affairs of the present era. But that raises a big challenge for the future and the ability of…
Nazrul Islam Mukul, Kushtia Bheramara Upazila BNP has raised demands for elections conducted in a fair and proper manner in a press conference on Tuesday. 6 of the Union Councils that fall under the Upazila will be holding polls on March 31. Former MP Prof. Shahidul Islam said, “Awami League and JSD are prepared to…
AP, Anchorage Strong winds Monday pushed an ash cloud from an Alaska volcano into the heart of the state, grounding flights and limiting travel to western and northern communities off the road system. Pavlof Volcano, one of Alaska’s most active volcanoes, is 625 miles southwest of Anchorage on the Alaska Peninsula, the finger of land…
Desk Report Myanmar’s outgoing President Thein Sein has lifted the emergency of state according to the state media, said reports from BBC. This comes as Thein Sein ends his 5 year term as president. The emergency of state was issued back in June 2012 when violence erupted between Buddhist and Muslim communities. There were many…
AP, Sao Paulo Former Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said Monday that he believes his embattled successor and protege can survive mounting pressure in Congress for her impeachment. Silva told international journalists that President Dilma Rousseff will be able to resist even if leaders of a major ally, the Brazilian Democratic Movement Party,…
AP, Athens The Greek government said Monday it will set up loudspeakers at the country’s border with Macedonia to try and persuade thousands of refugees and migrants to ignore false rumors that the Balkan route to central Europe will reopen. More than 15,000 people — nearly a third of the total stranded in Greece —…
AP, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and his envoys are ready “to spare no effort” to restore the U.N. peacekeeping mission in the disputed Western Sahara to its full operation and end the controversy with Morocco — as called for by the U.N. Security Council, the United Nations said Monday. U.N. spokesman Stephane Dujarric said…
BSS Roads and Highways (R&H) department in Rangamati has launched eviction drive to recover encroached lands worth over Tk. 100 crore at different places in the district. The Roads and Highways department launched eviction drive in Rangamati on Monday. Executive Magistrate of Chittagong Zone Abdul Mannan dismantled unauthorized structures of 61 families on Monday, said…