AP, Sao Paulo Former Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said Monday that he believes his embattled successor and protege can survive mounting pressure in Congress for her impeachment. Silva told international journalists that President Dilma Rousseff will be able to resist even if leaders of a major ally, the Brazilian Democratic Movement Party,…
Sky News The Metropolitan Police is to test live facial recognition in Westminster as part of an ongoing trial of the controversial technology. A deployment of the surveillance software will take place on Monday 17 and Tuesday 18 December in and around Soho, Piccadilly Circus and Leicester Square. It will be used “overtly” with a…
Myisha Nawar Forty years after the original literally gripped half the entire nation, a violence enhanced, more accurate remark has entered Hollywood, gambling on happening stars including Forest Whitaker and Anna Paquin and the unresolved emotional center of America’s toughest conversation: “He was calling me a n__er, but at the end of the scene he…
Desk Report: The first biopic on the legendary actor Razzak, also known as Nayak Raj, is all set to be delivered before the first death anniversary of the hero on August 21, reports Daily Sun. The biopic is expected to have its broadcast premiere on 17th August on channel-i, several days ahead of Eid-Al-Adha. The…
BBC: The Indonesian capital of Jakarta is home to 10 million people but it is also one of the fastest-sinking cities in the world. If this goes unchecked, parts of the megacity could be entirely submerged by 2050, say researchers. Is it too late? It sits on swampy land, the Java Sea lapping against it,…
NDTV The shock winner of the Maldives’ leadership vote was declared president-elect on Saturday, with election authorities saying they had been pressured to delay the final announcement of strongman Abdulla Yameen’s decisive loss. Common opposition candidate Ibrahim Mohamed Solih won last week’s election with 58.4 percent of the ballot, or 134,705 votes, election commission chief…
UNB The country’s available power generation increased by about 2,200 MW in the last one year while installed production capacity saw a rise by around 4,000 MW, according to statistics of state-owned Power Development Board (PDB). The PDB data placed in its website’s generation archive show that the country’s installed capacity reached 17,685 MW in…
Sayeed Muhammad: With the countrywide crackdown on drug dealers continuing, 11 more alleged drug peddlers were killed in ‘gunfights’ with law enforcers in Chattogram, Feni, Cumilla, Brahmanbaria, Narayanganj, Netrakona, Chuadanga, Dinajpur and Nilphamari districts yesterday. The tally of those killed in the shootouts since May 12 has reached 40 across the country, reports UNB. In…
BSS Taking the burden of her five-member family expenses on her tiny shoulder, 10-year Rokhsana works at a bidi factory in Lalmonirhat leaving her out of education, a basic right of children. Living in Kalmatirpara of Lalmonirhat district, she has been preparing bidi shells with her mother as a child labour since the age of…
NTV Model Pranksters TV just conducted a pretty damn near genius social experiment. In an effort to see how observant New Yorkers are, the team hired body art company The Body Of Art to paint a woman’s legs to resemble jeans, and they sent her out sans pants on the streets of NYC. The point…