Hindustan Times, India: The blue light transmitted by smartphones and digital devices can accelerate blindness by transforming vital molecules in the eye’s retina into cell killers, a study has found. Blue lightemitted from smartphones and other digital devices can accelerate blindness by transforming vital molecules in the eye’s retina into cell killers, a study has…
Hossen Sohel: Most drivers in Bangladesh are not interested in driving lessons, but unskilled drivers are often blamed for road accidents, reports bdnews24.com. The industry needs about 1.5 million of skilled drivers but owners are compelled to employ ‘unskilled’ workers due to the lack of training, according to two of the top leaders of transport…
UNB: Members of Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) in a drive arrested a suspected drug trader couple along with 5,300 pieces of Yaba tablets from Pahartoli area in the port city yesterday. The arrestees are Md Kamal Hossain, 38, and his wife Juthy Begum, 25, hailing from Madaripur district. On information, a team of Rab-7 conducted…
Russia Today: Israel has opened a segregated road in the West Bank divided by an 26 foot wall, with one side for Israeli settlers and another for Palestinians. The stretch has been dubbed the ‘Apartheid Road’. Route 4370 opened Wednesday after a long delay. The east side of the road is for settlers only, and…
Marilyn Thipthorpe It seems that each and every day at some moment or another we are popping pill. Painkillers, anxiety meds, pressure and diet pills; nothing is left behind in the race to be healthy. More often than not, when you fall seriously ill antibiotics are prescribed by the doctors and with the rate that…
President Xi Jinping will make a major speech tomorrow to mark the 40th anniversary of China’s reform and opening up. Xi will speak at a conference to be held at the Great Hall of the People from 10 a.m. (0200 GMT) on Tuesday, Xinhua said on Sunday. The report was in line with what diplomatic…
CNN: Abdullah Hassan, who was on life support by the time his Yemeni mother was granted a visa to see him one last time, has died. The 2-year-old passed away Friday at the UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital in Oakland, California, according to the Council on American Islamic Relations. His mother, Shaima Swileh, was barred from…
Sayeed Muhammad of DOT Local Government, Rural Development and Cooperatives (LGRD) Minister Tajul Islam has said the Water Supply and Sewerage Authority have been swamped with irregularities and that will not be allowed to go on. “Dhaka and Chittagong Wasa have gone through extreme negligence and mismanagement,” he said. The minister was addressing a meeting…
AFP: Venezuela’s all-powerful constituent assembly is launching proceedings Wednesday to try opposition lawmakers over an alleged drone attack on President Nicolas Maduro that was denounced by exiled opposition leader Julio Borges as a staged “farce”. Constituent Assembly chief Diosdado Cabello called the session to strip the lawmakers of their parliamentary immunity so they could face…
Hossen Sohel of DOT : aBNP yesterday extended support to independent candidate Salma Islam for Dhaka-1 constituency, The Daily Star. Now, Salma, the reigning lawmaker from this constituency, isfacing Awami League’s heavyweight candidate Salman Rahman with BNP’s blessings on her shoulder. BNP’s move to support Salma came in a bid to fill up the void…