Samiul Bashar Samin Ariana Grande filled in for a hologram of Whitney Houston during her performance with Christina Aguilera on American TV last night. The pair duetted on the season finale of the US version of talent show The Voice. A hologram of the late Houston was due to be included in the show, but…
Desk Report: Banglalink, the country’s mobile operator, signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with PriyoShop.com to facilitate rural e-commerce in the country. Ritesh Kumar Singh, chief sales officer of Banglalink, Rashed Moslem, head of e-business of Banglalink, Md Ariful Hoque, eBusiness Manger of Banglalink, Sonia Bashir Kabir, chairperson of PriyoShop.com, Ashikul Alam Khan Shujon, managing…
Hossen Sohel: China’s film authorities have denied a release to Disney’s new Winnie the Pooh film, reports BBC. Winnie the Pooh, also called Pooh Bear, is a fictional anthropomorphic teddy bear created by English author A. A. Milne. No reason has been given for the decision, but it is believed to be part of a…
Richard Branson is the founder of the company called Virgin which has found its way from a small record outlet to a global brand. He was asked what kind of advice he had for the aspiring entrepreneurs. This is how he responded. The Key Attribute: An entrepreneur according to him has to remember at all…
BBC: “In the 1980s, people just didn’t think frogs were disappearing. Scientists said ‘don’t panic, we need the stats to prove it, all populations have natural fluctuations over time,’ and so on,” says Dr Lee Berger of James Cook University in Australia. “By the time of the World Congress of Herpetology [the study of reptiles…
DOT Desk Members of Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) in a drive arrested five suspected robbers from Railway Colony besides Tejgaon Station Road in the city on Monday night, reports The Daily Observer. The arrestees were Md Jahangir, 40, Md Rumon, 26, Md Wadud, 30, Md Khorshed and Md Lalchand, 22. Being informed that a gang…
Hindustan Times: With the advancements in photo-editing technology through applications like Snapchat and Instagram on a rise, the level of physical ‘perfection’ is now all over social media. People’s perceptions of beauty worldwide are changing, which can take a toll on a person’s self-esteem and can trigger body dysmorphic disorder. Boston Medical Center (BMC) researchers…
Sayeed Muhammad India have bagged the Under-19 Cricket World Cup in continuation of their winning streak as they beat Australia by eight wickets in the final held at the Bay Oval ground in New Zealand yesterday.This is the fourth time that India has lifted the trophy, erasing erased Australia’s record of three title triumphs, reports…
AP, Istanbul Amnesty International says Turkey has forcibly returned hundreds of Syrian refugees to their homeland since mid-January. It said this practice exposes “fatal flaws” in an agreement between Turk and the European Union. The organization says its research on the Turkish-Syrian border suggests that around 100 Syrians __ who often have not registered in…
Hossen Sohel of DOT Branding Bangladesh’s December 30 parliamentary elections not perfect, the United Nations secretary general has called for engaging in meaningful dialogue in Bangladeshi political sphere as positive as possible, reports New Age. UN secretary-general Antonio Guterres came up with the remark during a press conference held at UN headquarters in New York…