The nation is set to observe the Martyred Intellectuals Day on Friday to commemorate those intellectuals who were killed systematically by the Pakistan occupation forces and their local collaborators at the fag-end of the country’s Liberation War in 1971. On this day in 1971, country’s renowned academicians, doctors, engineers, journalists, artists, teachers and other eminent…
NTV A class II student from Ambur has approached the police with a complaint against her father for failing to fulfil his promise of constructing a toilet in their house. Accompanied by her mother, seven-year-old E Hanifa Zaara stepped into the All Women Police Station on Monday to lodge a complaint with sub-inspector Valarmathi seeking…
Arab News The Daesh group’s deliberate destruction of agriculture in northern Iraq has hindered the return of hundreds of thousands of residents, Amnesty International said in a report released Thursday. The New York-based rights group said Daesh fighters burnt or chopped down orchards and sabotaged wells by filling them with rubble, oil or other h…
Interpol has removed Yousef al-Qaradawi, head of the Doha-based International Union of Muslim Scholars, from its “wanted” list. A source from al-Qaradawi’s office confirmed receiving an official notification from the Interpol of lifting the scholar’s name from the list, describing the motion as a “positive step”. Interpol removed “red notice” for al-Qaradawi on Nov. 30…
Tech Explorist Drones are fast emerging as agents of change with widespread applications ranging from wedding photography and entertainment to agriculture and infrastructure asset maintenance. Drones require far less effort, time and energy and can reach remote and difficult terrains while being controlled by a single person sitting at a far off place. Known also…
A fire broke out in an electoral commission building in Kinshasa in the Democratic Republic of Congo on Thursday, officials said, 10 days before presidential elections that have been foreshadowed by violence. The blaze destroyed thousands of voting machines and ballot boxes that were due to be used in the election, a presidential adviser said….
Tech Explorist Even though stress is a normal physical reaction, it can sometimes have negative effects on your health. It wears down the body and compromises the immune system, leaving a person more vulnerable to illnesses and other conditions. It is still unclear that how the association between stress and health plays out at the…
Reuters The Maldives will do all in its power to keep “our heads above water”, the head of its delegation at U.N. climate talks said on Thursday in an impassioned appeal for nations to overcome their divisions over how to tackle global warming. The low-lying Maldives is among countries most vulnerable to the effects of…
Abrar Hussain of DOT BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia’s lawyer has expressed no-confidence in the High Court bench of Justice JBM Hassan assigned to hearing her writ petitions regarding the cancellation of her nomination papers. Chief Justice Syed Mahmud Hossain assigned the bench yesterday to hear and dispose of Khaleda’s three writ petitions. The lawyer,…
Lamiya Siraj, former banker and resident of Abu Dhabi/Gulf News Discrimation is still present between genders We all are living in the 21st century. People have started understanding equality in a broader sense. People understand the importance of equality of people’s rights on all fronts. Education with knowledge is helping to narrow these differences. We…