Starchild Sad for the fans, the Big Bang’s guerilla concert, which was to be held, in Korea was canceled due to numerous reasons. This news came as a wave of grief to the fans of the popular band, reported allkpop.com. The news was confirmed by YG in a press release on May 23. The guerilla…
DOT Desk The dredging of inland waterways is set to come under real-time monitoring as part of a government plan to develop a web-based system to track all such schemes, reports The Financial Express. Shipping ministry is working to initiate a year-long project to develop software in order to monitor public and private dredgers working…
Science Alert All the planets in our Solar System have their charms, but few are as flashy and iconic as Saturn’s glorious rings. But, like everything in the Universe, they’re not going to last forever – and now planetary scientists have discovered that they’re disappearing at an incredibly fast rate. Well, fast in planetary terms….
Reported by: Masum Bilah Written by: Tanzim Taqrim Genocide of Rohingyas is associated silently by the Hindutva organization RSS in Myanmar. This organization has been working in Myanmar for a long time using a different name ‘Traditional Faithful Friends’. The violence on Rohingyas occurred when RSS were with the Myanmar’s Buddhists. This was given in…
Gulf News ‘I will be in my best behaviour. But, in case, I get scared, my parents have packed a goody bag with ear plugs …” read the note in the picture. It was sent by my sister. She had found it on a domestic flight in India. I have read newspaper reports about parents…
The Guardian, UK: A man has died after being stabbed multiple times at a retail park in north Devon. Devon and Cornwall police said officers were called to Barnstaple Retail Park on Station Road at about 6.30pm on Friday. The victim, aged in his 30s, died at North Devon District hospital. Armed officers arrested a…
Mahmudur Rahman writes for DOT : The choking pollution that Dhaka faced a decade and a half ago was due largely to the the two-stroke baby-taxis as well as bulk of vehicles using petrol with dubious exhaust systems. Conversion to Compressed Natural Gas led to the baby taxi becoming a CNG forever and made a…
Hossen Sohel: Pakistan’s military is using fear and intimidation to stifle the media and undermine press freedom even as overall violence against reporters has fallen, the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) said yesterday.The press freedom group said the military had established “lines of control” to pressure the media and journalists who pushed back or were…
Russia Today: Hamas is offering a million-dollar reward to anyone who can reveal the identities of Israeli commandos who took part in a failed operation in Gaza that sparked an intense cross-border fire fight between Palestinians and the IDF. Following months of preparation for their mission, fifteen members of the Israeli Sayeret Matkal special forces…
NDTV The Enforcement Directorate said Nirav Modi’s seized properties, jewellery, flats and bank balances are in India, UK and New York among others. Fugitive jeweler Nirav Modi’s wealth and properties worth Rs. 637 crore in India and abroad have been seized, the Enforcement Directorate said today. High-priced jewellery, luxe apartments and bank accounts stowing hundreds…