The Art Newspaper Moscow residents angry about the reconstruction of their neighbourhood have taken a page from the playbook of Western protestors and started a Change.org petition calling on the Garage Museum of Contemporary Art to end its sponsorship deal with the Russian property developer PIK. Garage was founded by Dasha Zhukova and the billionaire…
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…
NDTV This is not a video for the faint-hearted, you’ve been warned. A terrifying clip that has gone massively viral on Facebook shows a man discovering more than 30 rattlesnakes in his shed, and it has everyone shuddering. According to the San Antonio Express-News , the incident occurred with Bobby Cowan visited his ranch in…
Science Alert American explorer Colin O’Brady became the first person to cross Antarctica alone and unaided on December 26, when he reached the Ross Ice Shelf. The 33-year-old skied 932 miles (1,500 kilometres) across the southern continent in 54 days without getting resupplied – which required him to carry everything he’d need throughout the journey…
BSS The district office of Department of Social Services (DSS) here has disbursed safety net allowance worth over Taka 601.85 crore among 1.16 lakh beneficiaries during the last 10 years. Some 69,145 people got old-age allowance worth Taka 217.63 crore while 15,227 others with special needs received disabled allowance of Taka 40.12 crore. Each of…
Eurek Alert University of Queensland researchers have discovered a key mechanism in the brain that may underlie our ability to rapidly focus attention. Our brains are continuously bombarded with information from the senses, yet our level of vigilance to such input varies, allowing us to selectively focus on one conversation and not another. Professor Stephen…
Chris Patten/Project Syndicate The Leavers lied: The costs of withdrawing from the European Union were always destined to outweigh the benefits. Alas, the responsible, imaginative, and inclusive political leadership needed to minimize the damage is nowhere in sight. Day after day, week after week, most British citizens think that the turmoil over their country’s proposed…
Abrar Hussain of DOT Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader claimed yesterday that the nation will witness a “vote revolution” in favor of the ‘Boat’ on December 30. “The revolution of vote will be against the communal and evQuader, also the minister for Road Transport and Bridges, said while inspecting repair works on the Feni-Noakhali-Laxmipur…
DOT Desk Awami League today claimed six of its activists were killed by opposition BNP men during the period of election campaign across the country, reports The Daily Star. “The BNP men attacked and injured 445 of our men and vandalised 174 of our election camps,” Jahangir Kabir Nanak, joint general secretary of the party,…
DOT Desk People have been suffering much for long due to deplorable condition of a five-kilometre long road in Sadar Upazila of the district,reports The Daily Observer. Thousands of people of Rajibpur, Barahir Char, Gazipara, Dakkhin Makimpur, Paschim Char Makimpur and Gabtoli villages alleged that though the road has remained damaged for long, the concerned…