David Cowan, Lecturer, The University of Queensland/The Conversation, Australia Your phone chimes, it’s a message from your partner. You reply instantly because that’s what you always do.Then you decide to add another message: “By the way, I love you ” You see the “read” status appear under the message, and you wait for her reply….
AFSAN CHOWDHURY, senior journalist and researcher : What is the difference between the leadership of government banks and the owners of private ones? Both state-owned and private banks are owned by the same group, said eminent journalist and researcher Afsan Chowdhury. His comments came during a recent interview, mainly focusing on private banks requesting money from state-owned…
Psychology Today: Is it “normal” to call your mother multiple times a day. Is an annual visit at Christmas and a monthly phone call “healthy”? Do you have a family whatsapp group in which you share photos and videos? Or are you part of a family whose videos of your get-togethers have gone viral on social…
Desk Report: Several hundred students of Rajshahi University of Engineering and Technology (RUET) have blocked the Dhaka-Rajshahi highway protesting attacks on students by police and alleged Chhatra League men at Jhigatola in Dhaka, and also demanding safe roads, reports The Daily Star. In solidarity with the protesting students of schools and colleges, the students gathered…
Techradar Huawei has revealed it sold 200 million smartphones in 2018, setting yet another new milestone for the company. The Chinese phone giant confirmed sales had risen by almost a third compared to 2017, surpassing last year’s total of 153 million devices shipped as it cemented its place as the world’s second largest smartphone maker…
BSS Rain or thunder showers accompanied by temporary gusty wind is likely to occur at one or two places over Rajshahi and Khulna divisions and the regions of Dhaka, Faridpur and Comilla and weather may remain mainly dry with temporary partly cloudy sky elsewhere over the country, said a met office release here today. Night…
IndiaTimes: Varanasi is clearing the way for a grand temple corridor by razing hundreds of houses, wiping away its oldest neighbourhood and upsetting locals. In pic: Workers gather next to the remains of a temple before carrying on with demolition work in the Lahori Tola area of Varanasi in Uttar Pradesh. The aim is to…
DOT Desk: Indiscri-minate hunting, trapping and selling of local and migratory birds at different upazilas in Sylhet is posing a serious threat to nature and biodiversity, reports The Daily Star. Rampant poaching by professional and amateur hunters gets quite unruly during winter, starting from mid-October to mid-March, all over the division. Moreover, migratory birds from…
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Dr. Forqan Uddin Ahmed, Former Deputy General and Commandant, Ansar VDP Academy: The world ‘terror’ means the action or quality of causing dread and alternatively, a person, object or force, inspiring dread. Modern words like terror, terrorize, terrible, terrorism and deterrent are believed to have been derived from the Latin verbs terror – to tremble…