Kabir Humayun: Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday received two international awards in recognition to her government’s campaign against early marriage. The awards given by the UNICEF are: the Accolade Global Film Competition 2017 Huma-nitarian Award for Outstanding Achievement and the Accolade Winner Award of Excellence End Child Marriage, reports BSS. State Minister for Women and…
Marilyn Thipthorpe Alexander and Jeanette Toczko, an elderly couple in California that had been married for 75 years, recently passed away in each others’ arms within less than a day of each other, professing their love for each other until the very end. Their last loving embrace was documented by their bereaved daughter Aimee Toczko-Cushman….
Nobonita Chowdhury The herbal tea trend has really received a lot of attention over the recent years. With an added amount of health benefits, herbal tea is now consumed by a much larger population than ever before. These special teas are made by infusing the right kinds of herbs and brewing it. Herbal teas are…
Rokhaya Diallo/Aljazeera The wave of protests sweeping through France is not a rejection of green policies. It’s a revolt against the 1 percent. For the past three weeks, France has been experiencing one of the most significant social mobilisations in its recent history, which laid bare the country’s social ills, anti-elite sentiment, growing inequalities and…
Major General (retd) Mohammad Ali : BNP and Jatiya Oikya Front have a plan or alternative to boycott the next general election. The party and the alliance have been saying that they would not quit the polls race. The message keeps the information secret that they have an alternative choice. This is reason they are…
Reuters: British foreign minister Jeremy Hunt denied on Wednesday that warnings about fallout from a disorderly exit from the European Union were an attempt to scare opponents of the government’s preferred Brexit plan into supporting it. With less than eight months until Britain leaves the EU, the government has yet to agree an exit deal…
UNB The driver and a passenger of a rented motorcycle were killed as a bus crashed into their vehicle at Pathalia on the Dhaka-Khulna highway in Sadar upazila on Thursday morning. Sub-inspector of Sadar Police Station Shah Alam said the accident occurred when a speeding bus hit from behind a rented motorcycle killing passenger Idris…
The Guardian: A bed net designed to kill insecticide-resistant mosquitoes could prevent millions of cases of malaria across sub-Saharan Africa, scientists have found. A two-year clinical trial in Burkina Faso showed that dousing bed nets with a combination of chemicals resulted in a 12% reduction in clinical malaria cases, compared with conventional bed nets. The…
Md. Taqi Yasir Fifteen years ago, David Erickson was at a crossroads. He’d sunk time and effort into building a service to let users conduct screen sharing and videoconferencing, but then a rival company began offering a similar service for free. So, he decided to get into the free business model himself named as FreeConferenceCall.com….
BSS: Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader yesterday said the nation finally boycotted the people, who do not believe in the ideology of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, in the last parliamentary elections. “The country’s people boycotted those who don’t follow the ideology of Bangabandhu in the 11th general elections. The nation…