DOT Desk A snapshot of Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy’s cultural programme held on the eve of the National Victory Day at Nandan Manch of the academy, reports The Daily Observer. The second phase of the programme started on the Victory Day at National Memorial, Savar. Artistes who performed in the two-day long event include Nirmalendu Goon,…
Eurek Alert Researchers found that gently stroking a baby seems to reduce activity in the infant brain associated with painful experiences. Their results, appearing December 17 in the journal Current Biology, suggest that lightly brushing an infant at a certain speed–of approximately 3 centimeters per second–could provide effective pain relief before clinically necessary medical procedures….
Carol E. Lee, Kristen Welker and Nicolle Wallace/NBC News Despite public declarations that he’s unconcerned, the president has told people close to him he’s alarmed about the prospect of impeachment. Despite President Donald Trump’s public declaration that he isn’t concerned about impeachment, he has told people close to him in recent days that he is…
DOT Desk Crossing the boundary of the country, ‘Debi’, the first ever film produced by popular actress-turned-producer Jaya Ahsan, is currently being screened in the theatres of different states in the United States of America, reports The Independent. As a part of the film’s promotion, Jaya attended a special screening of ‘Debi’ in Jamaica Multiplex…
Science Alert Everybody has their own weird, idiosyncratic habits that probably don’t make sense to anybody else, but one Chinese man’s tendency for personal daily weirdness turned out to be a serious danger to his health. The man in question, a 37-year-old named Peng in reports, had apparently developed a strange custom of sniffing his…
Arafat Hasan of DOT Russia announced on Monday that it had built new barracks for troops on a disputed chain of islands near Japan and further stated it would build more facilities for armored vehicles, prompting a diplomatic protest from Tokyo. Russia’s Ministry of Defence said it planned to shift troops next week into four…
WIO News Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan on Tuesday highlighted the part Pakistan is playing in the US-Taliban negotiations, a round of which were held in the UAE a day earlier. Imran said he hoped that the could bring an end to “almost three decades of suffering of the brave Afghan people”. “Pakistan has…
Tech Explorist A group of researchers at Nagpur-based Visvesvaraya National Institute of Technology have developed a new technique which promises to help produce high-value graphene from discarded dry cells batteries. Graphene, a form of carbon, is a transparent and flexible conductor with a range of applications including in making solar cells, light-emitting diodes, touch panels,…
The Guardian, UK Three-quarters of women killed by men in the UK in 2017 knew the perpetrator, according to a report on femicide. The Femicide Census, conducted by Women’s Aid and the campaigner Karen Ingala Smith, found that of the 139 women known to have been killed by men in the UK last year, 105…
AFP After nearly half a century navigating Bangladesh’s thousands of miles of rivers, the country’s most celebrated swimmer has hung up his trunks — but not before one final, arduous paddle upstream. Kshitindra Baisya, 67, plans to spend his retirement on dry land inspiring younger generations to embrace the water in a country criss-crossed…