News Now I am on the record as loving snow and cheerfully tolerating cold. So you’d think I would love winter. And I do, mostly. But as of this week, I am very much ready for winter to pack up its bags and leave the D.C. area. The reason: ice. Ice is the worst. Ok,…
Hossen Sohel of DOT A petition was filed with the High Court yesterday seeking its directive on the Election Commission to disqualify 25 Jamaat-e-Islami candidates so that they cannot contest the 11th parliamentary elections, reports The Daily Star. Bangladesh Tariqat Federation and Amra Muktijoddhar Santan (AMS) filed the petition on the ground as the High…
Sky News It has been a big week for Harold McDowell, of Lakewood, New Jersey, and not because of Christmas. On Friday, doctors confirmed that his wife was cancer free, after multiple surgeries for liver cancer and hospital stays for colon cancer. Then on Saturday afternoon he won $1m (£790,000) at a casino in Atlantic…
Hossen Sohel of DOT Awami League candidate for Dhaka-3 seat Nasrul Hamid has visited his counterpart Gayeshwar Chandra Roy, a BNP leader who has been injured in violence before the election, reports bdnews24.com. The state minister for power visited Gayeshwar in his offices in Paltan yesterday. They both spoke for a while and Nasrul offered…
Science Alert What would convince you that aliens existed? The question came up recently at a conference on astrobiology, held at Stanford University in California. Several ideas were tossed around – unusual gases in a planet’s atmosphere, strange heat gradients on its surface. But none felt persuasive. Finally, one scientist offered the solution: a photograph….
Alice Hutton, Journalist with Der Tagesspiegel as part of The George Weidenfeld Bursary/The Atlantic The right-wing resurgence in Germany recalls prewar Berlin. It may signal an ominous turn for the country’s gay community. The fetish cruising bar Bull is a place of pilgrimage in Berlin for more than one reason. To patrons, it is a…
Hossen Sohel of DOT The government has launched 16 digital services and platforms this year in line with its vision of transforming the country into ‘Digital Bangladesh’ to render services to the citizens through digital means, reports BSS. The Access to Information (a2i) Programme under the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) has introduced two online-based platforms…
Monirul Alam of DOT Bangladesh Financial Intelligence Unit (BFIU) will scan United Corporation’s financial transactions through banking channels.“The firm’s (United Corporation) financial transactions in banks will be scanned,” BFIU Chief Razee Hassan told Amader Orthoneeti yesterday. The BFIU is an independent wing of Bangladesh Bank to deal with money laundering and terrorist financing issues….
UNB Awami League joint secretary Jahangir Kabir Nanak on Wednesday said the BNP-Jammat-Oikyofront clique is not only spreading false allegation and propaganda to make the election controversial but also distributing illegal money and trying to destroy the congenial election environment. He came up with the complaints at the party’s regular press briefing at its president’s…
NDTV Rudolph the red-nosed reindeer seems to be exploring alternative career options. Security footage released by police in Colorado, USA, shows a woman wearing a Rudolph mask to conceal her identity during a burglary. Dubbed ‘Rudolph the Red Nosed Burglar’ by Fort Collins Police, she has now gone viral on Facebook for her bizarre Christmas-themed…