Desk Report: A mobile court in Biral upazila of Dinajpur sealed off a factory and sentenced its owner to six months in prison for manufacturing adulterated beverages including sexual stimulants, reports Daily Star. The court, led by Executive Magistrate ABM Rawshan Kabir, also UNO of Biral, later confiscated and destroyed the chemicals that were used…
DOT Desk Bambi has a special place within cinematic history as Disney’s fifth full-length feature film, and among the reasons it’s endured within pop culture over the decades is that tragic scene where the eponymous protagonist’s mother is killed by a hunter, reports The Daily Observer. Now this scene, and the movie overall, is being…
Reuters: Singapore will scan travelers’ eyes at some of its border checkpoints, local media reported on Monday, in a trial of expensive technology that could one day replace fingerprint verification. It is the latest in a series of high-tech initiatives in the city-state, some of which have stoked privacy concerns among rights advocates, aimed at…
Ronnie Jordan/Seven Billion Today I don’t know about you all, but I for one am extremely pissed off. Charity has been around for hundreds of years. The first charity was established in 1756. We have big corporate bosses donating BILLIONS on an annual basis (Bill Gates, anyone?). We also have the middle-class collectively donating BILLIONS…
Rubya Tripty Brothers Geo-rge and Alfred Degiorgio, aged 55 and 53, and Vincent Muscat, 55, all three have been charged with the murder of Maltese investigative journalist and blogger Daphne Caruana Galizia and also accused of possession of bomb-making material and weapons, Time Malta reports.The 53-year-old, Caruana Galizia who was known for her blog focusing…
Hamid Dabashi, Hagop Kevorkian Professor of Iranian Studies and Comparative Literature at Columbia University/Aljazeera If truth is not truth, as Trump’s legal consigliere Giuliani says, then it inevitably follows that he is a rhinoceros. War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength. He was using alternative facts. It was a bright cold day in…
Hossen Sohel of DOT Election Commission (EC) Secretary Helal Uddin Ahmed today said the 11th praliamentary election held on Sunday will remain as a ‘bright example’ in national life, reports BSS.“This is a huge event in the history of Bangladesh as the voting to the 11th parliamentary election took place in a very free, fair…
Joanna Slater and Azad Majumder, Majumder reported from Dhaka/Washington Post On Sunday, Bangladesh, the world’s eighth most populous country, held what was billed as its first competitive election in a decade. But the results were anything but close: The incumbent prime minister, Sheikh Hasina, and her ruling coalition won 288 out of 300 seats in…
Reuters: Thailand’s long-delayed general election to end military rule will have to be postponed from its Feb. 24 date and will likely be held in March, two officials in the Election Commission said on Tuesday. The Election Commission of Thailand has not announced the postponement, but two senior election officials told Reuters it was impossible…
BSS Three members of a family were killed and two others injured when a truck collided head on with a CNG run auto rickshaw in BKSP area under Sadar upazila in the district on Wednesday night. The deceased were identified as Salma Begum (70), her son Harunur Rashid (45) and his daughter Sayra Khatun (28)….