NDTV: Celebrity nutritionist Rujuta Diwekar says that eating according to traditions, a healthy balanced diet and regular exercise can help in improving hair and skin quality, and also help in achieving a flat stomach. Can eating according to ancient traditions lead to good hair, good skin and flat stomach? Celebrity nutritionist Rujuta Diwekar says that…
DOT Desk: The extended term of reserved women’s seat at the parliament has been challenged at court, reports The Daily Star. Supreme Court lawyer Advocate Eunus Ali Akond filed a petition with the High Court yesterday against the constitutional amendment that extended their term to 25 years. Advocate Akond prayed for a rule upon the…
Independent, UK: Nasa is working to contain a small leak onboard the International Space Station. The issue appears to be contained and the people on board the station do not appear to be under any immediate threat. But it did trigger a real alarm through the floating lab, which sent astronauts scrambling to find the…
News Age Different organisations campaigning for rights to national minorities in Chittagong Hill Tracts on Wednesday said the election atmosphere in the CHT is not congenial for the hill people for voting or engaging in election activities. At a press conference at Dhaka Reporters Unity in the capital, they said alongside the obstacles created by…
NDTV: A man allegedly shot at a 24-year-old woman in Delhi’s Bharat Nagar area after she broke-up with him, police said. The incident took place Friday night, following which the man was arrested, they said. They were in a relationship but the woman ended it. He attacked the victim at her relative’s house, police said….
Desk report: The youth has become a role model in the area by cultivating vegetables commercially, reports The Dhaka Tribune. A youth named Ashik Iqbal Badal has found huge success in cultivating papaya and lemon in Tangail’s Sakhipur upazila. The 32-year-old has changed his fate and set an example in his neighbourhood of Pratima Banki…
Tahmeed Taha At a series of sessions designed to connect children with the environment, children spent three hours learning about farming, making compost, identifying various insects, and were shown a live aquaculture demonstration featuring the eating habits of fish. Thirty children had the opportunity to get the taste of experience of firming. Read a press…
Abdulaziz Kilani/Middle East Monitor The US Defense Secretary, James Mattis resigned yesterday creating a new episode of the series of resignations that the US President Donald Trump has faced since he took office. This significant step comes a day after the president’s unilateral decision to pull US troops out of Syria, which indicates that Trump…
AFP After a year of record bloodshed, Afghans are bracing for an even deadlier 2019 with the threat of a United States drawdown and a looming presidential vote likely to fuel violence. President Donald Trump’s plan to slash the number of US soldiers in Afghanistan before negotiators have struck a peace deal with the Taliban…
Science Alert: The markets of Southeast Asia are common places to find the fossils of insects, embedded in amber millions of years old. But last year, gemologist Brian Berger found something much more rare and astonishing. The piece he bought features an insect inclusion, except it’s not preserved in amber – the lithified resin of…