UNB: Law enforcers on Sunday arrested a man for ‘making derogatory comments’ about Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and spreading their distorted pictures through Facebook. The arrestee is Abul Kalam, 52, son of late Amin Ullah of Narayanpur village in Noakhali district. He used to make derogatory remarks and spread distorted…
Major General Abdur Rashid speaks to DOT : Voting for the 11th parliamentary election was done peacefully in Dhaka; but was tainted with violence elsewhere across the country and cost the lives of at least a dozen people. BNP told the Election Commission that its polling agents had been obstructed in 221 constituencies during the…
Desk Report: What did actress Nia Vardalos, former children’s laureate Malorie Blackman, author Joanne Harris and director Edgar Wright discover that they had in common recently? They have all been rejected multiple times – and, what’s more, they’re proud of it. Vardalos revealed that she was dumped by her agent for “not being pretty” and…
NDTV Ten years ago, Nilanshi Patel from Gujarat decided, after a bad haircut, to not cut her hair again. Today, the 16-year-old has earned a Guinness World Record for the longest hair on a teenager – thanks to her locks that measure 5-foot and 7-inches! “I got my hair cut, a really bad haircut. So,…
Marilyn Thipthorpe Attaporn Boonmakchuay, 38, from near Bangkok, Thailand, called on the help of his wife and neighbor as he wrestled a python that had sunk its fangs into his manhood. Apparently the snake had gotten into the sewer system while the waters had risen and swum up the line in hope of getting out…
DOT Desk: A bridge for pedestrians and light vehicles on the Rayenda river at Rayenda Bazar in Sharankhola upazila has remained at risk of collapse as its iron pillars got badly damaged, reports The Daily Star. The condition of the bridge is so bad that it even shakes while people are crossing it, said Kamal…
Mustapha Karkouti, Columnist and former president of the Foreign Press Association, London/Gulf News Global community should search all possible options that would put an end to this bloody war that has led to so much suffering ‘I believe that with this agreement we prevented a humanitarian crisis in Idlib,” Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan recently…
UNB/ AP, Paris U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry says U.N.-sponsored peace talks on Syria should go ahead Monday as planned, but Russia and U.S. monitors are meeting first to discuss perceived cease-fire violations. Kerry, speaking in Saudi Arabia, said he hoped for a telephone conversation Saturday with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov about accusations…
Myisha Nawar Forty years after the original literally gripped half the entire nation, a violence enhanced, more accurate remark has entered Hollywood, gambling on happening stars including Forest Whitaker and Anna Paquin and the unresolved emotional center of America’s toughest conversation: “He was calling me a n__er, but at the end of the scene he…
Reported by: Shakil Ahmed Written by: Tanzim Taqrim Arnob The mini dustbins are laid down on the side of the Dhaka city’s road because of the negligence. Not only it’s not been used, some of the dustbins are missing. The one’s which are there is not in good condition. Those are not in any shape…