Reuters: An 83-year-old Japanese disc jockey, an elderly flying trapeze artist, the owner of the world’s fastest jet-propelled go-kart and a dog named Feather with a flair for jumping are among the record-breaking stars to win a place in the latest edition of Guinness World Records. Others to feature in the 2019 edition of the…
AP: President Donald Trump poured scorn on the “ideology of globalism” and heaped praise on his own administration’s achievements in a speech to the U.N. General Assembly that drew headshakes and even mocking laughter from his audience of fellow world leaders. “The U.S. will not tell you how to live and work or worship,” Trump…
BSS, Dhaka Police arrested two activists of Islami Chhatra Shibir in possession of fire-arms and bullets at Satkania Upazila in Chittagong on Sunday morning. The arrested were identified as Mohammad Rifat, 22 and Didarul Alam, 20. Police recovered a light gun (LG), a country-made single barrel gun and four cartridges. A team of Satkania police…
Sheersho Zaman ” You’ve got your solitude And I’ve got my peace And nothing in that moment matters more If only in just this one fragment Together it grows This tree may be aimless may be lost Right where I need to be…” Steven Wilson is one of the biggest names in the progressive rock…
BDnews24: The new information minister of Bangladesh has vowed to stop ‘shady’ online news outlets from spreading fake news. Hasan Mahmud was speaking to reporters at the Secretariat, on his first day in office on Tuesday. “After my inauguration yesterday, journalists asked me questions about shady news sites that have been popping up online. They…
The Straits Times A week after his girlfriend said he had physically assaulted her, Chinese actor Jiang Jinfu turned himself in to the authorities. The 27-year-old, who was wearing a face mask and hat, was filmed entering a police station in Tokyo on Wednesday by TBS News. Japanese media reported that he had admitted to…
Nusrat Jahan 19-year old Anna Karavaeva was studying to be a plumber in Kemerovo city, in the south-central Kemerovo Oblast region of Russia. But her calling in life – being a model – won over her passion for fixing the plumbing and she joined the hundreds of young women entered a televised contest, which was…
DOT Desk Chhayanaut Sangeet Bidyayatan, in association with University of Dhaka, organised a cultural programme titled, Hajaro Konthe Deshgaan to mark Bangladesh’s 47th Victory Day at central playground, DU, where a thousand voices harmonised to the national anthem, reports The Daily Star. The programme commenced at the exact hour when the Pakistani army had surrendered…
DOT Desk: The government has taken a special initiative for improving the socio-economic condition of small ethnic groups living on plain land through a combined livestock development scheme, reports The Daily Sun. The Ministry of Fisheries and Livestock has submitted a Tk 381 crore project to the Planning Commission which is scrutinising the proposal to…
UNB: An assistant superintendent of police (ASP) of the district has been withdrawn over vandalising the Karnaphuli Toll Plaza in the city and beating up its two staff members allegedly in an inebriated condition on Friday morning. Moshiar Rahman Khoken, ASP (Mirsarai circle), was closed to the district police lines over the incident, said Rezaul…