UNB Maritime ports of Chattogram, Cox’s Bazar, Mongla and Payra have been advised to keep hoisted local cautionary signal no three as the deep depression over coastal Andhra Pradesh and adjoining area moved north-northeastwards weakened into depression and then into a well-marked low over northwest bay of Bengal and adjoining area. It is likely to…
UNB A case was filed with a court here on Tuesday against BNP candidate for Kushtia-4 constituency Mehedi Ahmed Rumi and a Tanti Dal leader under the Digital Security Act over their reported audio clip instigating violence ahead of the upcoming general election. Local Awami League leader and public prosecutor of Kushtia Women and Children…
DOT Desk Afroza Abbas, a BNP candidate of Dhaka-9 constituency, and her supporters came under attack today while campaigning in Dakshin Goran in Dhaka’s Khilgaon area, reports Daily Star. Around 15-20 AL men attacked Afroza Abbas and her party men after they crossed Khilgaon Railgate area around 11:15 am, BNP sources said. Later, more ruling…
Tech Explorist Astronomers have recently detected the most-distant body ever observed in our Solar System. The object has been given the provisional designation 2018 VG18. 2018 VG18, nicknamed “Farout” by the discovery team for its extremely distant location, is at about 120 astronomical units (AU), where 1 AU is defined as the distance between the…
NDTV A man struck gold, metaphorically, while eating lunch at a New York restaurant. New Jersey resident Rick Antosh, 66, was having an oyster pan roast at the Grand Central Oyster Bar and Restaurant in New York when he bit into something hard. “I just all of a sudden felt something like a tooth or…
DOT Desk Rights activists at a discussion in Dhaka on Monday called on the government to include child domestic work in the list of hazardous activities for children which the government formulated in 2013, reports The New Age. Following a tripartite coordinating committee recommendation, the government on March 13, 2013 issued a notice identifying 38…
Raj Ahmed of DOT The High Court directed the Election Commission yesterday to dispose of the applications filed for cancellation of the candidacy of 25 Jamaat-e-Islami men in three working days. The court also issued a rule asking the government to explain in four weeks why the EC’s decision to allow 25 Jamaat candidates to…
F.H. Buckley/New York Post The social-media wars are heating up. Congress has grilled Google’s CEO, and the British Parliament wants to hear from Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg. Across the political spectrum, there are calls for the government to do something about Big Tech’s seemingly unaccountable power. Since we live our lives increasingly on social media, it’s understandable.But…
NDTV Whatsapp for Android has now brought the anticipated Picture-in-Picture (PiP) feature for all users. The feature, which arrived in beta back in October, is rolling to Android users through the WhatsApp stable version 2.18.380. It essentially lets you watch Instagram, Facebook, and YouTube videos in a small window and continue to scroll through WhatsApp…
Eurek Alert African-American men participating in a blood pressure reduction program implemented in barbershops continued to have significant improvements in their blood pressure in a twelve-month follow-up study, according to research published in the American Heart Association journal Circulation. In the study led by Cedars-Sinai’s Smidt Heart Institute, 52 Los Angeles County barbershops were assigned…