NDTV: A Pakistani court ordered the arrest of prominent journalist Cyril Almeida on charges of leaking sensitive material after he wrote news reports that angered the nation’s powerful military. The Lahore High Court on Monday issued a non-bailable arrest warrant against Almeida, a reporter for English-language daily Dawn, and requested he be placed on a…
Dr. Forqan Uddin Ahmed The word Eid comes from Arabic; which means frequent coming. Again Eid denotes happiness, joy and pleasure. Again the social connotation of EId directs to festival. Eid-Ul-Fitr is the festival of breaking fasting. This day is celebrated throughout the whole muslim world. The Eid-ul-Fitr comes after a long one month fasting….
Md. Taqi Yasir The Rolling Stones unleashed two hours of screeching, thundering the rock and roll on an elated crowd of hundreds of thousands of Cubans and foreign visitors Friday night, capping one of the most momentous weeks in modern Cuban history with a massive celebration of music that was once forbidden here. The week…
NDTV Instagram has apologised for an update that changed the app’s vertical feed to a horizontal one. A few hours ago, Instagram users across the world were shocked to see the photo-sharing app had rolled out an interface update. The horizontal scrolling update allowed users to browse photographs by swiping left or right, instead the…
Channel News Asia An Indian man released this week after being jailed for six years in Pakistan issued advice on Friday (Dec 21) not to follow his example and fall in love on Facebook. Hamid Nehal Ansari illegally entered Pakistan from Afghanistan in 2012 to meet a woman he had fallen for on the social…
UNB More than 300 of patients of Kotalipara upazila are taking treatment inside dilapidated buildings every day amid heightened risk of an accident occurring at the Upazila Health Complex. Their suffering has worsened as surgeries have stopped taking place at the complex since last April, now over 7 months, due to shortage of doctors, nurses…
Water world: The winners of the 2018 Urban Drinking Water Challenge, a global innovation competition to deploy and scale decentralized drinking water solutions for fast-growing, water-scarce cities, were showcased at an award ceremony hosted by Founding Partners Bluewater and 11th Hour Racing as well as Imagine H2O. Over 160 startups from 37 countries registered for…
Nusrat Jahan If your life has been on a steady straight path, then you are probably a zombie. Life is bumpier than rock road bars and it is not always easy to adapt to all the changes and smoothly transition from one phase to another. However, those who have mastered the art of dealing with…
DOT Desk The Information Ministry is all set to launch a media centre at Pan Pacific Sonargaon hotel in Dhaka city to provide election related information from December 29-31, reports The Daily Star. State Minister for Information Tarana Halim came up with the announcement at her secretariat office yesterday. The media centre will remain open for…
Reuters: Russia’s Ministry of Defense said on Thursday it would hold a major naval exercise in the Mediterranean Sea from Sept. 1 to Sept. 8, the TASS news agency reported, a move that coincides with rising tensions between Moscow and Washington over Syria. Russia has this month been actively expanding its naval forces in the…