Nusrat Jahan Paralympic sprinters with left-leg prostheses should sit down and pray for an outer lane in the 200-400 meter races that is going to take place in Rio on August. Why? Because Paolo Taboga, a biomechanics specialist at the University of Colorado in Boulder, recorded 17 sprinters, right or left leg amputees and non-amputees…
Desk Report: As many as 274 pirates of 26 gangs have surrendered to the law enforcement in the last two years, choosing to make a return to normal life. Over hundred have been killed in [gunfights[ while around 500 have been put behind the bars. Yet, the situation has hardly improved, with new gangs joining…
DOT Desk Two films of celebrated actor Jaya Ahsan, ‘Debi’ and ‘Ek Je Chilo Raja’, are scheduled to be screened at the Dhaka International Film Festival (DIFF) 2019, reports The Daily Star. With the theme ‘Better Film, Better Audience, Better Society’, the 17th edition of Dhaka International Film Festival, organised by Rainbow Film Society, will…
Sabah Mannan: Recently hit by a data breach scandal, Mark Zuckerberg-led Facebook said it signed data-sharing deals with dozens of phone and tablet makers over the years. Francisco Varela; leader of Facebook mobile partnerships remarked “Facebook along with many other US tech companies have worked with them and other Chinese manufacturers to integrate their services…
DOT Desk T-Aman rice harvest is progressing fast in the district as the growers will bring the same land under Rabi crops, reports The Financial Express. Officials at the Department of Agriculture Extension (DAE) Aman harvest will continue till the middle of December. A good number of farmers said they are expecting a good yield….
Ramzy Baroud, Journalist, author and editor of Palestine Chronicle, Noted columnist/Gulf News Netanyahu is actively pursuing alliances with far-right groups and parties in Europe as state policy ‘Should Israeli politicians be meeting with the European far right?” was a title of an article published in the American Jewish newspaper, The Forward. Writer, Dr. Nimrod Goren,…
Desk Report: Expatriates welfare and overseas employment ministry never took the initiative to ensure safe and orderly migration of workers from Bangladesh as required by the Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration, better known as GCM, reports The New Age. Geneva based International Organization for Migration, in short IOM, provides secretarial service to…
Myisha Nawar 1. Bart’s name is an anagram of Brat. His full name is Bartholomew Jojo Simpson. 2. All characters have 4 fingers on each hand, except for one with five: God. 3. In 1989, it took Danny Elfman just two days to compose the show’s famous theme tune. 4. Krusty the Clown was originally…
Real Madrid won the last match with Malaga 2-0. Now they are at the top position of the La Liga. Malaga couldn’t take the advantage of their home ground. This match was very important for Real Madrid. It was at La Rosaleda. Cristiano Ronaldo and Karim Benzama scored 1 goal each. …
Desk Report: The government has appointed an internationally reputed lawyer to bring back the six fugitive convicted killers of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, reports the financial express. The convicts are absconding in different countries. “We have recently appointed a globally famous lawyer to pave the way for bringing back six convicted…