Desk Report: A pair of ruby slippers worn by Judy Garland in The Wizard of Oz has been found 13 years after being stolen, according to US authorities. They were taken from a Minnesota museum in 2005, when someone broke in through a window late at night.Three others pairs of ruby slippers worn by Garland…
9Gag: According to The Siberian Times, scientists from Russia’s Northern-Eastern Federal University alongside the South Korean SOOAM Biotech Research Foundation are opening a research lab in the Siberian city of Yakutsk. The $5.9 million lab will be a “world class paleo-genetic scientific hub”. Experts say the centre will aim “to study extinct animals from living…
Hossen Sohel: A major airport that was cut off when a huge typhoon smashed through its sole access road was being evacuated yesterday, as Japan grappled with devastation caused by its most powerful storm in a quarter of a century, reports AFP. Boats were ferrying stranded passengers from Kansai International Airport — one of the…
The Straits Times: Japan has acknowledged for the first time that a worker at the Fukushima nuclear power plant, destroyed by an earthquake and tsunami more than seven years ago, died from radiation exposure. A 9.0 magnitude earthquake struck in March 2011, triggering a tsunami that killed some 18,000 people and the world’s worst nuclear…
Advocate Mohammad Rayhan Uddin, Supreme Court of Bangladesh & Judges’ Court, Chittagong Though legal education is ancient, it is a prestigious one. At present, the demand for LL.B. (Honors), LL.M. yet increased especially since the separation of judiciary from the executive organ. There is a declaration that only those who have legal knowledge are entitled…
NDTV: Sacked Gujarat police officer Sanjiv Bhatt was arrested yesterday by the Gujarat CID in connection with a 22-year-old case of alleged planting of drugs to arrest a man, police said. Mr Bhatt and seven others, including some former policemen attached with the Banaskantha Police, were initially detained for questioning in the case. Shortly after…
Hossen Sohel: Efforts to salvage the North American Free Trade Agreement as a three-country pact were due to resume yesterday when Canada and the US sit down at the negotiating table in a politically charged atmosphere, reports AFP. But the talks will be dogged by President Donald Trump’s repeated threats to leave Canada on the…
Desk Report: The prices of most of the stocks on bourses saw an upward trend in early hour of trading on Wednesday as investors were showing their buying appetite on sector-wise stocks, reports Financial Express. After 30 minutes of trading, the DSEX advanced more than 31 points while the the CASPI of Chattogram bourse rose…
NDTV: Google that came into existence 20 years back with its first product Search engine from a garage today has seven products that are used by more than a billion people every month. The exact date of the company’s founding is up for debate — even for those who are in the business of providing…
Joanna Fuertes/Daily O, India Fueled by support from the Korean government, sheet masks and glass skin have taken over the world Kimchi, K-pop, and K-dramas. Welcome to Hallyu 2.0, in which everyone in the West is losing their minds over all things Korean. Playing a starring role is a glorious onslaught of Korean beauty products,…