NTV The District of Columbia has fired the latest legal salvo against Facebook with a lawsuit seeking to punish the social networking company for allowing data-mining firm Cambridge Analytica to improperly access data from as many as 87 million users . The complaint filed Wednesday by Washington, D.C., Attorney General Karl Racine alleges that Facebook…
Desk Report: The United Nations General Assembly has declared 23 September as International Day of Sign Languages. The resolution was initially adopted by consensus during the 48th meeting of the Third Committee of the United Nations General Assembly on Thursday, 16 November 2017 and officially adopted at the 72nd United Nations General Assembly. The first…
Written by: Eshan Maitra Economists are advising to widen the range of government’s social security that, food and medical services can be ensured for everyone. For that, bigger budget for social security is required in upcoming 2017-18 fiscal year. There 4 cores people under poverty level, 8% are senior-citizens and 10% are impaired, by reports…
Carli Pierson/Al jazeera On July 1, by electing Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador (AMLO) as their new president, the Mexican people did not only speak, they shouted: “No more copycat politicians, no more failed promises, no more violence and no more Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI)”. PRI candidates had dominated Mexican presidential elections since its founding in…
DOT Desk: Criminal gangs are active in the city and elsewhere in the country to rob cash and valuables in disguise of hawkers, tenants, social workers, reports The Daily Sun. Police and Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) officials said they came to know about the gangs and some of their methods of committing crimes after arresting…
Tahsin Rahman Oshin If you are lucky, you may never cross your path with a psychopath. But then again, psychopaths are usually camouflaged as simply normal to such an extent in the society that it is hard to recognize even if you encounter any. But first, let me explain what a psychopath is. Psychopath is…
Mirror, UK A 25-year-old woman has been buried underneath a massive iPhone headstone – leaving mourners stunned. The unusual 5ft tombstone was put up over Rita Shameeva’s burial plot in a Russian cemetery earlier this year. The gravestone features a picture of Rita leaning against railings and surrounded by trees in a park. It…
Myisha Nawar We have all learned in school that hitchhiking a ride is not good or giving a ride to complete strangers is a red-carpet invitation to disaster. Still, the driver in this urban legend has the audacity to give a lift to a lonely woman, with a deadpan face, on a deserted road. An…
Masum Shahriar “He would be fascinated by light. What makes him among the great cinematographers is he understands the film as a language. The conventional way of seeing cinematography is just a set of tools,” Alfanso Cauron says about three time Oscar winning cinematographer Emmanuel Lubezki. He is also known as “Chivo” means goat in…
Hossen Sohel: Malaysia must punish corrupt people but the problem has not reached such a stage that the corrupt should be sentenced to life in prison, says Prime Minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad, reports The Star “They (corrupt individuals) might be jailed. How long they need to be jailed depends on the extent of the…