Abrar Hussain A powerful typhoon battered Japan’s southern island of Okinawa yesterday, injuring at least 17, as weather officials warned the storm would tear through the Japanese archipelago this weekend. The Category-2 Typhoon Trami, with maximum wind speeds of 216 kilometres per hour near its centre, is forecast to hit the mainland early today and…
BBC One sunny summer afternoon, a group of 30 people line up to enter a mysterious concrete tower on a small island off the coast of Taiwan. They are not curious tourists waiting to take a peek at the three-storey structure made up of 48 loudspeakers. In fact, they are there on an artistic mission…
Hossen Sohel : The death toll from the earthquake and tsunami on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi jumped to 384 yesterday, authorities said, with many of those killed swept away by giant waves as they played on the beach, reports Reuters. Strong aftershocks continued to rock the coastal city yesterday morning after waves up to…
Nahian Arefin Anwar Ibrahim, Malaysia’s prime minister-in-waiting, has began his campaign for a by-election which will take place next month. In spite of facing some problems, he is willing to complete the campaign and seeks a return to active politics. The by-election follows the resignation of a lawmaker to make way for Anwar’s comeback, who…
Sadiya S. Silvee : The learned Additional Sessions Judge, Khulna referred the Death Reference No. 15 of 2011 to the High Court Division (HCD) under Section 374 of the Code of Criminal Procedure (CrPC) for the confirmation of death sentence awarded on 28.03.2011 under Section 302/34 of the Penal Code (PC). The prosecution case, in…
Catch News Hundred Member of Parliaments (MPs) from across India have contributed an amount of Rs 43.66 crore from the Members of Parliament Local Area Development Scheme (MPLADS) fund for the rehabilitation works in flood-affected areas of Kerala. The scheme has a provision for MPs to contribute funds for rehabilitation and reconstruction works in the…
Asthma Association Bangladesh Celebrated 2nd “World Lung Day” on 25th September 2018. This Year the main theme of lung day is “Health Lungs for life”. Like every year, this day is celebrated with lung enthusiasm. To observe this occasion, a colourfull rally was arranged in the campus of National Institute of Diseases of the Chest…
France24 UN nations voted 21 to 8, with 18 abstentions, in favour of a resolution that renewed the UN-backed investigation for a year. Last month, investigators detailed evidence of possible war crimes committed in Yemen by both the Saudi-led coalition and the Houthi rebels supported by Iran. In that report, the team of UN-mandated investigators…
Hossen Sohel Facebook said it recently discovered a security breach affecting nearly 50 million user accounts, reports AP. The hack is the latest setback for Facebook during a year of tumult for the global social media service. In a blog post , the company says hackers exploited a bug that affected its “View As” feature,…
Reuters British Prime Minister Theresa May’s Conservative Party began gathering for its annual conference on Saturday, bitterly divided over her plans to leave the European Union which threatens to derail any deal and put her own job in doubt. Just six months before Britain is due to leave the EU on March 29, 2019, May…