Md. Fakrul Islam Chowdhury of DOT : On January 3, 2019, The House SpeakerNancy Pelosi swore in RashidaTlaib, using the Quran instead of a Bible during the 116th Congress swearing in ceremony. Tlaib, one of the first two women from Muslim origin to be elected in the Congress, however, recently tweeted to correct the widely…
Annie Karni/The New York Times The Trump administration announced late Friday night that it would freeze a pay raise for Vice President Mike Pence, members of the cabinet and other high-ranking political appointees in light of the partial government shutdown. The high-level officials were positioned to receive a raise of about $10,000 a year —…
UNB: The vitamin A plus campaign slated for Saturday (Jan 19) has been postponed for ‘unavoidable’ reasons, said the Institute of Public Health Nutrition in a press release. The government put the campaign on hold as it had reports of the capsules get glued with one another in the packets. Asked, an official wishing anonymity…
bKash customers can enjoy up to 20 percent cash back if they make payments through bKash account to buy products from 441 outlets of 56 reputed brands across the country. bKash, the leading mobile financial services provider in the country launched the offer for its customers as part of celebrating the ‘Pohela Boishakh,’ the first…
NDTV: Barack Obama shared a throwback picture of him and his wife Michelle Obama to wish her on her 55th birthday. Shared on social media yesterday, the picture, along with a heartwarming message by Barack Obama, has gone viral with over 4.6 million ‘likes’ on Instagram alone, and another 1.15 million on Twitter. It has…
The learning and creativity: ‘RD Burman’s music is eternal, universal and a life-long joy.’ Each and every song RDB composed and set to tune has a unique identity in its treatment, an unmistakable RDB stamp. A straight-from-the-heart tribute to the musical genius of RD Burman by Peeyush Sharma. More than two decades of music has…
Science Alert: In the water, it’s getting harder to breathe. Suffocating dead zones with little or no oxygen are pervading the world’s oceans, rivers, and streams. This phenomenon – which has exploded in recent decades – poses an extinction-level nightmare for marine populations already beset by a complex interaction of human-made menace. When it comes…
Science Alert: We know that Venus, our closest planetary neighbour, has a volcanic terrain and a hellish atmosphere with extreme temperatures. But we don’t know much about seismic activity on the planet, which in turn could give us more clues about its internal composition. Now, NASA has a rather exciting proposal to try and answer…
DOT Desk BNP’s candidate for Shariatpur-3, Miah Nuruddin Apu was attacked yesterday during his election campaign in the area and left in a “critical state”, reports The Daily Star. He was campaigning in Gosairhat Upazila this afternoon when unidentified assailants pounced on him, a close associate said. Apu is being taken to Dhaka for better…
Myisha Nawar June 10th was National Iced tea Day and while it’s only an unofficial food holiday, it makes sense that Americans would set aside a day to celebrate this amazing summertime sip: THEY POPULARIZED IT! While tea itself has been consumed in America since the Colonial Times (umm remember The Boston Tea Party?), iced…