Sejuti Mourin: Shus-hashoner Jonno Nagorik (Shujan) has claimed the recent Khulna City Corporation elections were marked by “peaceful rigging”, adding that there is no scope to term it free, fair and flawless, reports The Daily Star. “We feel the Khulna City Corporation elections were a questionable one,” said Dilip Kumar Sarkar, central coordinator of Shujan at…
Science Alert American explorer Colin O’Brady became the first person to cross Antarctica alone and unaided on December 26, when he reached the Ross Ice Shelf. The 33-year-old skied 932 miles (1,500 kilometres) across the southern continent in 54 days without getting resupplied – which required him to carry everything he’d need throughout the journey…
Desk Report: Overall investment crossed 31 percent of GDP for the first time in Bangladesh’s history last fiscal year thanks to a spike in public spending on mega infrastructure projects now being implemented. In fiscal 2017-18, overall investment to gross domestic product ratio stood at 31.23 percent, which was 30.51 percent the previous year, according…
Tanvir Ahmed We have started our Scandinavian holiday from Sweden. From there we travelled to Norway and then to Denmark. In the middle of our holiday my wife & I had caught flu somehow. My son was safe as he had flu jab in his school. Apparently, there was a massive outbreak of flu that…
Abrar Hussain: Novelist Sir VS Naipaul, who won the Nobel Prize in literature, has died at the age of 85, his family said. Sir Vidia, born in rural Trinidad in 1932, wrote more than 30 books including ‘A Bend in the River’ and his masterpiece, ‘A House for Mr Biswas’. His wife, Lady Naipaul, called…
BanglaNews24 Soroj Mehedi, a researcher and university teacher, has been elected the chief coordinator of Bangladesh chapter to the 5th World Conference on Media and Mass Communication (MEDCOM-2019), said a press release issued by the Managing Director of the International Institute of Knowledge Management (TIIKM), Isanka P Gomez, The conference is scheduled to be held…
Tarannum Sattar Just few days after their return from California, the duo was spotted in a beach in Malibu again. The picture caught them kissing on the beach. “They looked very loved up and were paying more attention to each other than the view,” an eyewitness tells E! News exclusively. In the recent past they…
BBC: Italian President Sergio Mattarella is presiding at a state funeral for 18 of the victims of Tuesday’s bridge collapse in Genoa. Mr Mattarella and Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte are leading mourners at the ceremony at a hall in the city. So far 38 people are confirmed to have died in the disaster and five…
Md. Taqi Yasir The issue of rights for women first became prominent during the French and American revolutions in the late 18th century. In Britain, it was not until the emergence of the suffragist movement in the late 19th century that there was significant political change. A second wave of feminism arose in the 1960s,…
Sky News: A judge ordered a convict appearing in his court to have his mouth gagged with duct tape when he refused to stop interrupting. Judge John Russo ordered that Franklyn Williams’s mouth to be taped over to prevent him from speaking after warning him to be silent at least 12 times over the course…