BDnews24: The new information minister of Bangladesh has vowed to stop ‘shady’ online news outlets from spreading fake news. Hasan Mahmud was speaking to reporters at the Secretariat, on his first day in office on Tuesday. “After my inauguration yesterday, journalists asked me questions about shady news sites that have been popping up online. They…
BBC: An Australian senator has been widely condemned for a speech that invoked the term “final solution” in a call for immigration restrictions based on race. Fraser Anning, from the conservative Katter’s Australian Party, called for migration bans on Muslims and others in his maiden Senate speech on Tuesday. Political opponents denounced his speech as…
City Times From veteran actor Amitabh Bachchan to younger talent like Shraddha Kapoor and Abhishek Bachchan – celebrities from the film world on Tuesday wished the legendary Dilip Kumar good health and a long life on his 96th birthday. Dilip Kumar, who is confined to his house due to his frail health, has amassed a…
Kevin Blankinship, Professor of Arabic at Brigham Young University/The Atlantic Even when it goes wrong, body art in another tongue can be a good thing. An Object Lesson. My yoga instructor’s eyes lit up as he bared his forearm. “Look!” In the dim candlelight of the yoga studio, I squinted at the place he’d indicated….
Noor Majid of DOT : In modern combat Tank and armored divisions are considered as the spearhead of any military ground intervention. A classical way of war of movements mastered and successfully executed by German General Heinz Guderian during Second World War. This kind of warfare demands flexible and fast maneuver of troops to attack…
BSS A view exchange meeting on ‘Anti-Corruption Movement at Local Level: Possibility and Challenge’ was held on Monday at a local hotel in the city. Organised by Sacheton Nagorik Committee (SANAC), the meeting was addressed as chief guest by Khulna divisional commissioner Md Abdus Samad while SANAC president Sheikh Abdul Quyaum was in the chair.
BSS: The government has taken a project for modernization and expansion of three Jute mills under the Bangladesh Jute Mills Corporation (BJMC) at a cost of Tk 1.74 billion to retain the lost glory of the golden fiber. After implementation of the project, the three mills — UMC Jute Mills in Narsingdi, Jashore Jute Industry…
Mandy Len Catron/ The Guardian, UK Acknowledging the biological reality of a woman’s body is still unladylike. But if we can’t talk about our reproductive lives, we can’t defend them I must have been four or five the first time I was told to “sit like a lady” – that is, with knees together. After…
Science Alert There’s a kind of exoplanet out there that is suspiciously rare. We call them “hot Neptunes”, and only a few have been discovered among the 3,869 confirmed exoplanets. But astronomers have made an eye-watering discovery of an evaporating planet that could prove to be the missing link. Called Gliese 3470 b, this planet…
Reuters: Tall ships carrying climate change banners sailed into Australia’s Sydney Harbour on Saturday launching a wave of protest across 95 countries organized by New York-based lobby group 350.org. Climate change is of great concern in the Pacific region with Pacific Island nations declaring on Friday that it is their “single greatest threat” and urging…