Arab News: Daesh has executed one of dozens of Druze hostages abducted from Syria’s southern province of Sweida last month, a Syrian news website and a monitor said Sunday. Daesh killed the 19-year-old male student on Thursday after kidnapping more than 30 people, mostly women and children, from a village in Sweida during a deadly…
Nasif Chowdhury Batman V Superman – Dawn of Justice is one of the most anticipated movies of 2016 is here and we can’t keep ourselves calm. Many of us are debating who would win in the actual fight between the Caped Crusader of Gotham and the Last Son of Krypton. But this isn’t the first…
Reuters: Tears welled up in Gabriel Malavolta’s eyes on Saturday as he realized his dream of a new life in Peru was over, at least for now. The 50-year-old mechanic fled Venezuela three days ago. He had hoped to make the over land crossing into Ecuador and then on to Lima, saying the deepening economic crisis…
Tech Explorist A cocktail of chemicals from many human activities is making U.S. rivers saltier and more alkaline across the nation. Surprisingly, road salt in winter is not the only source: construction, agriculture, and many other activities also play roles across regions. An ongoing study driven by University of Maryland specialists found that streams and…
DOT Desk Members of Forest Department in a drive recovered 22 kilograms of venison from the Sundarbans at Charkhali Beel area of Sharankhola upazila in Bagerhat, reports The Financial Express. Acting on a tip-off, a team conducted a drive in the mangrove forest, said Md Joynal Abedin, forest officer of Sundarbans. Sensing the presence of…
Marilyn Thipthorpe Meet Stepan, a domesticated bear who lives with his humans Svetlana and Yuriy Panteleenko in Moscow, Russia. The Panteleenkos adopted Stepan when he was just a 3-month-old orphaned cub. He was found by hunters in a forest all alone and in a very bad condition, so Svetlana and Yuriy decided to give him…
Reuters: A court in central Vietnam has jailed an activist for 12 years, on an accusation of trying to overthrow the state, his lawyer said on Thursday, days after two rights campaigners were barred from attending a meeting of the World Economic Forum in Hanoi. Despite sweeping economic reform and increasing openness to social change,…
Afroza Yasmin, Natore correspondent Natore’s first ever woman lawyer Shamsun Nahar is seeking the candidacy for the reserved women seat of the 11th national parliamentary election. District Woman Awami League Vice President Shamsun Nahar has been active in different protests since 1980. After passing her LL.B in 1979, she began her occupation as a lawyer…
NDTV: The Army is giving final touches to a long-pending project to manufacture specialised clothing, sleeping kits and key equipment for its soldiers deployed in the Siachen glacier – the world’s most dangerous battlefield. India spends around Rs 800 crore annually in import of Extreme Cold Weather Clothing System (ECWCS) and mountaineering kits for soldiers…