The Guardian: Two women in Canada have been arrested and charged after social media posts discussing killing indigenous people and holding a “shoot a [sic] Indian day”. The Royal Canadian Mounted Police said on Tuesday that a 32-year-old from Manitoba and a 25-year-old from Saskatchewan were charged with uttering threats and public incitement of hatred….
David Leonhardt, Op-Ed columnist at The New York Times/BDnews24 Our best hope may be the weather. For a long time, many people thought that it was a mistake to use the weather as evidence of climate change. Weather patterns contain a lot of randomness. Even as the earth warms and extreme weather becomes more common,…
Nobonita Chowdhury The herbal tea trend has really received a lot of attention over the recent years. With an added amount of health benefits, herbal tea is now consumed by a much larger population than ever before. These special teas are made by infusing the right kinds of herbs and brewing it. Herbal teas are…
Reuters: China on Thursday urged the United States to “calm down” and return to reason after the Trump administration sought to ratchet up pressure for trade concessions by proposing a higher 25-percent tariff on $200 billion worth of Chinese imports. U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer said on Wednesday that President Donald Trump directed the increase…
M Humayun Kabir: Suborna Nodi, the Pabna correspondent of Ananda TV, was hacked to death by unidentified criminals near her house in the district town on Tuesday night. Some four to five criminals attacked and hacked 30-year-old Nodi, daughter of Ayub Ali of Radhanagar village, when she was entering home from her office around 10pm,…
Dr. Maleka Banu speaks to DOT : There was a time when women were dependant on the bread-winners of the house to cast their votes. She had to vote for whomever the husband or brother chose to vote. But the situation has changed. Women are now more aware of their political and social rights. They…
Sumaiya Sarwat, Research Assistant, BILIA : The concepts of equality and equity are often misunderstood in our country by the common population. Especially in our day to day life, whenever there arises any question as to opportunity the concept of equality is used as a mode of causing injustice. If we draw some simple examples…
Asian Age: Telenor Health and Bank Asia Limited joined hands to provide digital healthcare services to unbanked community through the state-of-the-art Agent Banking network of the bank. An agreement to this effect has been signed recently between the two organizations at the corporate office of the bank at Purana Paltan in the capital city Dhaka….
Asian Age: BNP on Saturday warned the government that it will be held responsible for the emergence of any ‘disorder’ if the next general election schedule is announced without any discussion with political parties. “We would like to clearly say that a proper atmosphere must be created and all justified demands must be met. The…
Kurtis Tompkins, SPN, Owner at Jobready2dey/ Linked In Afternoon Thought Whatever you do, if you are in a position of influence and you use it to deceive people, that is foul, heartless, and just plain wrong. If you hold a position like this, you are aware that someone will take what you are saying as…