AFP: Global targets aimed at warding off runaway planetary warming could be breached sooner than expected, experts warned Monday, as gases released by melting permafrost threaten to undermine human efforts to avert climate disaster. Under the current rescue plan, outlined in the 2015 Paris climate treaty, countries have agreed to limit global temperature rises to “well…
BBC The Bollywood superstar and the Texan singer, formerly part of the Jonas Brothers, wed before family and friends in Jodhpur’s Umaid Bhavan Palace. People magazine said the ceremony was officiated by Jonas’s father Paul Kevin Jonas. The couple will have a traditional Hindu ceremony on Sunday. Jonas and Chopra became engaged four months ago…
Hossen Sohel of DOT The results of Junior School Certificate (JSC), Junior Dakhil Certificate (JDC), Primary Education Completion (PEC) and Ebtedayee examinations will be published on Dec 24, reports banglanews24.com. As many as 26,70,333 students sat for JSC and JDC and around 57 lakh for PEC and Ebtedayee exams this year. Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina…
DAILYBITE,Daily O, India “Fortnite is causing divorces” is a headline one could not have imagined even a little more than a year ago. Yet, it makes perfect sense in 2018. Highly addictive online recreational software has a negative impact on your real life.Who’d have thunk it, eh? According to a report on Divorce Online, a…
Sayeed Muhammad: Around three decades after being allegedly raped, US television host Padma Lakshmi has explained why she kept silent on the matter as a teenager. In a piece for the New York Times, Lakshmi, 48, says she was raped by a man over 30 years ago, reports BBC. She said she began feeling the…
Hindustan Times: The Kerala government on Friday told Supreme Court that 51 women have entered the Sabarimala temple since the top court’s order in September turning down the age-old practice of denying entry to women of menstruating age. This is the first time the Kerala government has given a consolidated number of the women who…
DOT Desk: A minor boy was killed after being smashed by a minibus at Hogla in Gomostapur upazila of Chapainawabganj, reports The Financial Express. The victim was seven-year-old Ibrahim, son of Anarul, as per a UNB report. Sub-inspector Aminul Islam of Gomostapur Police Station said the minibus ran over Ibrahim while he was crossing the…
Written by: Eshan Maitra Days of the rainy season are becoming more & more unbearable day by day. Unpredictable weather making it harder keep a proper routine. On top of that, roads are becoming inaccessible just with a little rain. Because of ditches & small basins in the middle of the roads of…
BSS: The government yesterday started distributing rice at Taka 10 per kg to around 50 lakh families or 2.50 crore extreme poor people under the food friendly programme across the country. Under the programme, each of the families including widows, elderly women, women dominant and lower income distressed families, will get 30-kg rice per month…
Samiul Bashar Samin The internet was a boon for independent artists, or so they thought until people started ripping them work. For most independent artists, the internet has proved to be an instrumental tool for exposure. Their work gets retweeted on Twitter, shared on Facebook and Tumblr. Publicity like this was impossible to even think…