Arab News Katsuya Kodama’s wife died two years ago, and the 77-year-old keeps her ashes on a Buddhist altar in their suburban Tokyo home. “I talk to her morning and night, tell her everything,” he said. “I sit on the chair she used in the bath while ill. Sitting where she sat makes me feel…
Arab News North Korea has significantly expanded and upgraded long-range missile sites, according to satellite images published by CNN, highlighting the lack of progress in negotiations with the US in the months since Kim Jong-un met Donald Trump. The images showed upgrades at the North’s Yeongjeo-dong and revealed another site that was previously not publicly…
DOT Desk The turtle was caught by fishermen at the Tulatuli area of the Meghna River. A 47kg weight endangered Ridley sea turtle has been rescued in Bhola by the Forest Department, reports Dhaka Tribune. The turtle was caught by fishermen at the Tulatuli area of the Meghna River on Wednesday. This breed of turtle…
Sarah Verardo, Chief executive officer of The Independence Fund/USA Today As a caregiver of a catastrophically disabled veteran, I’m in a lifelong battle to support my husband. Too often, the VA forces me into battle alone. Eight years ago, my husband stepped on an improvised explosive device in Afghanistan. He lost his left leg and…
Banglanews24 Veteran Dhallywood filmmaker FI Manik has announced his latest film, slated to hit the shooting floor in February, 2019. Story of the film, titled ‘Kathin Rai’, has been written by another renowned film-maker Chotku Ahmed. “Story developing of the film is now nearly at end. But it may take almost two more months to…
DOT Desk The deputy commissioner of Satkhira on Wednesday exchanged views with journalists on the use of electronic voting machine (EVM), reports the Daily Observer BD. Demonstration of using EVM was also held during the programme held in the conference room of the DC office in the district town. Satkhira DC SM Mostofa Kamal presided…
Hossen Sohel of DOT The Supreme Court asked the authorities concerned to file leave-to-petition in the regular bench against the bail to BNP Chairperson Begum Khaleda Zia in a case filed under the Explosive Substances Act over the arson attack in Cumilla on January 25, 2015, reports Daily Sun. The SC also fixed December 13…
Arafat Hasan of DOT Prime Minister’s Intern-ational Affairs Adviser Gowher Rizvi has called for social boycott of the corrupt to check corruption in the society. “Law is not enough to reduce corruption. They need to be socially boycotted,” he said at a program of the Transparency International Bangladesh. He commented that poverty cannot be reduced…
Hannah Giorgis, Staff writer at The Atlantic, where she covers culture/The Atlantic The outspoken British actor recently wrote that airbrushing should be illegal. But there are far more compelling ways to consider the tyranny of gendered beauty standards. Earlier this week, the British actor Jameela Jamil took a familiar stand. For the BBC, she wrote…
DOT Desk Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission has scrapped all the voice and data packages and offers of the mobile phone operators with up to 6 days validity thus again arbitrarily raising mobile phone cost for the economical users, reports the New Age. The telecom regulator issued a directive to all four mobile phone operators —…