UNB A college student reportedly committed suicide by hanging himself with the room ceiling at Madhyapara in the district town on Thursday night. Quoting relatives, Mainur Rahman, officer-in-charge of Sadar Model Police Station, said Golam Anwar Russel, 20, an accounting student of Brahmanbaria Government College and son of Gola Kibria, a resident of Medda area,…
Nobonita Chowdhury In case you’re not aware, Fitzgerald is the one who wrote The Great Gatsby, eons before Leonardo Dicaprio turned it into a soap opera. If you just want to read a Fitzgerald novel and get things over with, then this article is not for you. However, if you’d like to have a deeper…
Steven W. Mosher, President of the Population Research Institute & author / New York Post Pope Francis last year created the “World Day of the Poor” to call attention to the less fortunate among us. So far so good. All popes back to Peter have encouraged us to be generous to the poor, a message…
Hossen Sohel of DOT Syed Ashraful Islam’s younger sister Syeda Zakia Nur Lipi has collected an Awami League nomination form to contest in the Kishoreganj 1 re-election, scheduled to be held on February 28, reports Dhaka Tribune. Lipi’s cousin, Anna Milky, collected the nomination form, on behalf of Lipi, at the Awami League president’s political…
DOT Desk: Police recovered the slaughtered body of a woman from her house in Dighirpar area in Nawabganj upazila of Dhaka, reports The Daily Observer. Deceased Parul Aktar, 38, was the wife of Akkas Fakir. Nawabganj Police Station OC Mostafa Kamal said Parul’s son Parvez found the blood-stained body of his mother in her room…
Desk report: There have been marked changes in Bangladesh’s rainfall patterns with increasing rains occurring during the spring and less than the usual precipitations occurring in the monsoon months. In the parlance of the Met Office, Bangladesh has four and not six seasons.This year July, which used to be the wettest month with average rainfall…
AFP McDonald’s USA announced that its iconic burgers, including the Big Mac and the Quarter Pounder with Cheese, no longer have artificial preservatives, artificial flavors or added colors from artificial sources. Only the pickle slices still contain an artificial preservative, the American fast food giant said, noting that “customers are able to skip it if…
The Times: Blood taken from a young person could be the key to maintaining long-lasting health in old age, scientists claim. Blood factors obtained from young beings can improve late-life health in animals, the study published in Nature journal revealed. It could also help reduce the chances of developing age-related diseases, the scientists at University…
BBC: Doctors are being told to adopt a new policy of writing letters that are easier for patients to understand. The Academy of Medical Royal Colleges says too often correspondence contains complex medical jargon rather than plain and simple English. Using the phrase “twice daily” to explain the dosing of a medicine is better than…
MSN News Katy Perry supported a good cause on Sunday and won a date with her boyfriend, Orlando Bloom, all at the same time. The singer sang at the One Love Malibu benefit concert at the King Gillette Ranch in Calabasas, California, which raised money for those affected by the recent Woolsey Fire. One hundred…