Timesnownews: United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Friday said that the world body has not received requests from other countries to initiate a criminal investigation into the murder of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi. Guterres said that he himself does not have the power to launch any criminal probe unless the Security Council provides a mandate…
M Humayun Kabir: The US Embassy in Dhaka yesterday condemned the attacks on the protesting students who took to the streets demanding safe roads and justice for the deaths of their two peers in a road accident at the capital’s Airport Road. The US Embassy made a statement in this regard published in its official…
BBC: Flying toward hurricanes is their job, but when they took off over the weekend, they were making history. As part of the first hurricane hunting mission piloted by an all-female flight crew, Lieutenant Commander Rebecca Waddington and Captain Kristie Twining’s flight to Hawaii marked a major milestone for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration….
AFP: Ugandan navy speedboats sliced through murky Lake Edward towards a fleet of wooden canoes carrying illegal fishermen from the Democratic Republic of Congo, hightailing it back to their own waters. “Stop the boat, hands up, surrender any weapons,” yelled Lieutenant Deogratius Kato as the soldiers surrounded a motorised canoe after a 20-minute chase, pointing…
Desk Report: Wife of former commanding officer of Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) Lt Col Hasinur Rahman today pleaded to the prime minister for directing law enforcers to find her husband, who has remained traceless for over a week, reports the daily star. “Please bring my husband back. He [Hasniur] is innocent and not involved with…
EurekAlert: The local LGBT community reports twice the number of poor mental health days as the general population of Richmond and Columbia Counties, and those who identified as transgender report twice that, according to a health needs assessment conducted by faculty and students at the Medical College of Georgia at Augusta University. Area LGBT individuals…
Md Taqi Yasir Born in Vienna, Austria on June 14, 1868, Karl Landsteiner saved the humanity by introducing the modern concept of blood groups, which on later part served as a mean of blood donation concept. Landsteiner was a medical science graduate of University of Vienna in 1891. Before the invention of blood groups people…
By Sheersho Zaman Music is something that has been around almost as long as humanity itself. Since the early ages of Man, people have been fascinated by music and it has deeply rooted itself in every culture all over the world. As the years went on, and humanity made further developments and a long with…
Kabir Humayun: Actr-ess Quazi Nawshaba Ahmed was taken to Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH) yesterday afternoon after she fell ill. Nawshaba , who is on remand in a case filed under the Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Act, was admitted to DMCH around 3:30pm as she was feeling ill, DMP Deputy Commissioner (Media) Masudur Rahman…
E. Maitra We all faced this nightmare of sending a wrong message to the wrong person. Then facing them to sort out the misunderstanding. Often the receiver felt weird or sometimes thought it was funny. But tragically on some bad occasion it tangled you into a big mess. Common, it is not so rare of…