Desk Report Authorities have imposed a general bar on all types of motor vehicles on election day, with special emphasis on motorcycles, reports The Daily Star. While motor-driven vehicles, including public and private transports, have been banned on election day only, the ban on motorcycles will be on for three days.
Desk Report Citing that no political parties had kept all of their promises after assuming power in the previous election, Shushashoner Jonno Nagorik (Shujan) yesterday urged the party, regardless of whoever wins, to fulfill their manifesto this time. “All political parties come up with optimistic pledges in their manifestos but they become valueless if the…
DOT Desk BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia yesterday filed separate petitions with the Supreme Court, seeking stay on the High Court order that rejected her three writ petitions challenging the Election Commission’s decision to uphold cancellation of her nomination papers by the returning officers, reports The Daily Star. In the petitions, Khaleda prayed to the Appellate…
Science Alert For centuries, Peruvian locals have talked about a river in the Amazon that burns so hot it can kill. According to legend, Spanish conquistadors foolishly ventured into the rainforest in search of gold, and the few men that returned told stories of poisoned water, man-eating snakes, and a river that boiled from below….
DOT Desk Doctors at a programme on Saturday said that total knee replacement by specialists is now possible on low cost in Bangladesh, reports The Daily Sun. They claimed that such surgery was carried out in BRB hospital in the capital recently. They came up with the statements at a press briefing at the conference…
Jeffrey Goldberg, Editor in chief of The Atlantic/The Atlantic And his resignation means he knows that the president will never change. In the spring of 2016, not long after The Atlantic published an article I had written about President Barack Obama’s foreign-policy record, I visited the Hoover Institution, a think tank on the campus of…
Tech Explorist Roots are basic for plants to get water and dissolvable supplements from the soil. Water is essential for plant growth, yet changing climatic conditions makes obtaining moisture from soil significantly all the more difficult. Plants can adjust to various soil moisture conditions by changing their root design, yet as of recently, it was…
Mark Leonard, Director of the European Council on Foreign Relations/ Project Syndicate The partnership at the center of European integration is unraveling just when Euroskeptic forces are coming together. If French President Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Angela Merkel cannot start rebuilding the political center, next year’s European Parliament election will produce the biggest victory…
AFP An Indian startup is turning its attention towards usurping the West’s largest hotel chains after establishing itself as India’s biggest player and shaking up the Chinese market. Oyo Rooms, which specialises in no-frills accommodation, was only formed in 2013 but is already worth an estimated $5 billion after receiving funding from international venture capitalists….
Hindustan Times A 20-year-old Indian woman in Sharjah was saved from committing suicide in the nick of time by police on Saturday, after she threatened to end her life and livestream the act following trolling on social media. The woman was reportedly upset over negative comments about her photo she had posted online. She posted…