Dishika Tasnim All my life, I have read books that I found intriguing. I considered myself to be in those books, a character playing a part and not as just an audience. I have lived their lives, I have won battles and I have cried and felt joy along with them. These books have been…
Al Jazeera The United States and Britain have accused Russia of fabricating a story about chemical weapons used by Syrian rebels. In separate statements issued on Friday, London and Washington also warned Moscow against undermining a shaky truce in the war-torn country. Russia’s defence ministry said rebels fired weapons containing chlorine on November 24 on…
BSS The White House pressed Chinese President Xi Jinping on Friday to expand his non-militarization pledge to cover the entire South China Sea, despite Beijing’s recent military activity in the area. Daniel Kritenbrink, senior director for Asian affairs at the National Security Council, spoke amid rising tensions between the two countries over China’s deployment of…
Eurek Alert: Researchers from Singapore’s Duke-NUS Medical School, in collaboration with scientists in China, have identified and characterised a new genus of filovirus from a Rousettus bat in China. Their findings were published in the journal Nature Microbiology. Bat-borne viruses around the world pose a threat to human and animal health. Filoviruses, especially Ebola virus…
Sofian Khan Following his groundbreaking six months visit to Israel, Prime Minister Narendra Singh Modi left on a three-nation tour yesterday that will take him to Palestine on a short, but hugely symbolic visit before traveling to United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Oman. He will wrap up the tour on Monday. “This will be the…
Tech Explorist Almost 10 days ago, NASA’s new Mars lander had touched down the Mars’ surface. Now the Lander has captured the first ever “sounds” of Martian winds on the Red Planet. The Jet Propulsion Laboratory released audio clips of the alien wind Friday. The low-frequency rumblings were collected by Insight lander during its first…
Mohammad Alamgir Mia speaks to DOT The vote casting started at sharp 8.00 a.m. in the constituency 183, Dhaka-10, where the Honorable Prime Minister of Bangladesh, Sheikh Hasina casted her vote. She reached at the polling centre before the scheduled time for casting vote and she had to wait approximately for eight minutes for inaugurate…
DOT Desk: The High Court today scrapped its earlier order that granted bail to BNP Joint Secretary General Aslam Chowdhury in a corruption case filed for misappropriating Tk 135.8 core from Chattogram’s Halishahar branch of South East Bank, reports The Daily Star. The HC also directed the trial court to try former managing director of South East…
UNB: Police recovered the body of a schoolboy at Barkamta village in Debidwar upazila on Wednesday. The deceased was identified as Joy Chandra Ghosh, 15, a Class VII student of Chandina Pilot High School and son of Amar Chandra Ghosh of Nabiabad village in the upazila. Zahirul Anwar, officer-in-charge of Debidwar Police Station, said locals…
Sejuti Mourin: The Sup-reme Court has set July 2 to decide whether uphold the bail granted to BNP chief Khaleda Zia in the murder case over the 2015 petrol bombing of a bus in Cumilla’s Chauddagram. A four-member appellate bench led by the Chief Justice set the date yesterday after hearing a state petition to appeal…