Hossen Sohel: A massive fire raced through Brazil’s 200-year-old National Museum in Rio de Janeiro on Sunday, probably destroying its collection of more than 20 million items, ranging from archeological finds to historical memorabilia, reports Reuters. The destruction of the building, once a palace for emperors that had fallen into disrepair was an “incalculable loss…
Sabah Mannan Robert Mugabe’s reign of presidency from 1987 took only a matter to 10 days to crumble. In what appears to be a coup to end his long rule, Zimbabwe’s military has put the 93-year-old veteran leader under house arrest and taken control of the capital and its key sites. The operation was launched…
Kabir Humayun: Three Patuakhali war crimes, who were awarded death penalty by the ICT, have filed appeals with the Supreme Court challenging the punishment. Abdus Sattar Palwan, lawyer of the death row convicts, lold media yesterday, reports Banglanews24.com. On August 13, International Crimes Tribunal sentenced five war crimes accused from Patuakhali to death. They are—Iman…
UNB: Chattogram, Aug 4 (UNB) – Members of Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) in a drive rescued 11 boys from the clutches of traffickers and arrested a suspected human trafficker along with Yaba tablets atShantir Hat Bazar under Rangunia upazila on Friday evening. The arrestee is Md Kamal Uddin, 25, son of Din Mohammad, a resident…
Wion Video sharing website, YouTube has just become the latest company to join the booming video streaming service trend after it allowed its users to watch feature-length films — for free. According to media reports, YouTube users in some parts of the world — not including India — can now stream selective movies on the…
Marilyn Thipthorpe It seems that each and every day at some moment or another we are popping pill. Painkillers, anxiety meds, pressure and diet pills; nothing is left behind in the race to be healthy. More often than not, when you fall seriously ill antibiotics are prescribed by the doctors and with the rate that…
Labib Murshed writes for DOT : Just few days ago US President Donald Trump ordered full and immediate withdrawal of all US troops stationed in Syria, declaring their complete victory over the physical caliphate of the Islamic State. The order came as a total surprise, but beyond that the biggest question is now, what is…
Monirul Alam of DOT A key-economic policy member of the government has said that time has come to open the scope of foreign direct investment (FDI) for local businesses abroad. “We should open our economy. Time has come to open the scope of investing abroad by our local businesses,” said Dr Shamsul Alam, member of…
Science Alert: This past March, a NASA instrument on the International Space Station spotted a black hole, about 10,000 light-years away from Earth, in the process of devouring a star. What happened next was weird, even by the standards of super-dense celestial objects from which not even light can escape: the black hole started to…
Desk Report: Law enforcement agencies will get access to present and permanent personal database of the country’s 151 million mobile phone subscribers from the next month, reports Daily Sun. The Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications took the decision to allow law enforcers the access at a meeting last week in a move to combat anti-state…