Straits Times: Former mayor of San Antonio, Texas and Obama-era Cabinet member Julian Castro is expected on Saturday (Jan 12) to launch his bid to become the nation’s first Hispanic president, scheduling his announcement in a border state central to America’s immigration debate. Castro would become the most high-profile Democrat to date to officially enter…
Reuters: More than 50 boxes handed over by North Korea to the United States last week appear to hold human remains from the 1950-1953 Korean War and are likely American, according to an initial forensic analysis, a U.S. official said on Wednesday. A U.S. military transport aircraft on Friday flew the remains from the North…
Abrar Hussain: The Election Commission (EC) has claimed it will learn from its experience in conducting the polls in Khulna city and correct possible ‘flaws and shortcomings’ in future, reports Bdnews24. According to the organization, the election in Khulna last week saw a voter turnout of 62% in 286 polling centers, although voting was postponed…
DOT Desk The Information Ministry is all set to launch a media centre at Pan Pacific Sonargaon hotel in Dhaka city to provide election related information from December 29-31, reports The Daily Star. State Minister for Information Tarana Halim came up with the announcement at her secretariat office yesterday. The media centre will remain open for…
DOT Desk: Police detained a 28-year-old woman at Dhaka Medical College Hospital on Wednesday evening as she turned up at the hospital to receive a newborn baby form its mother who had earlier promised to sell the baby to the woman, reports The New Age. The two-day-old newborn’s mother said she gave birth to her…
Maloy Kumar Dutta/BSS Somebody came there singly, somebody with their spouse, some with friends and some were with their families. Although they are from different places, but the aim is common-to enjoy the beauty of sea beach and sea waves at Patenga in Chattogram in the last week of June. Of them, children were the…
DOT Desk Prosecutor refuses allegations of negligence and blames the delay on ‘legal complexities’, reports he Dhaka Tribune. Legal complexities are being blamed for the failure to begin the trials in two cases filed over the Rana Plaza building collapse, over five years after 1,136 people died and thousands more were injured in the country’s…
BSS: Owner of Jabal-e-Noor Paribahan will pay Taka five lakh each to the families of Rajib Uddin Rajib and Dia Khanam Mim, who were crushed to death by his bus in the capital on July 29, as per a direction of the High Court (HC). Bangladesh Road Transport Authority (BRTA) informed the court about this…
Taiara.F.T Did you know a human’s attention span is shorter than a goldfish? According to research, our attention span has fallen to 8 seconds whereas a goldfish has an attention span of 9 seconds. In today’sworld having a huge list of fanand followers have become obsolete to the bigger picture. The measurement of success should…
Reuters U.S. President Donald Trump said on Saturday he is likely to meet North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in January or February and that three sites for their second meeting are under consideration. “We’re getting along very well. We have a good relationship,” Trump told reporters aboard Air Force One on his return from…