Abrar Hussain: The Afghan election authorities have announced yesterday that their long-delayed parliamentary and district-level elections will be held this year, as they confirmed October 20 as the date of the vote.With his credibility at question with both Afghans and the international community, President Ashraf Ghani has vowed to hold the elections before presidential elections…
A strange radio signal is received from A Star which is located just 11 Light-years away. No planet was found surrounding a little- explored red star. Researchers told that it was coming from Ross 128. They suspected that these signals were picked up in ‘almost periodic’ burst and needed more investigation to clarify the…
Desk Report: Razib Ahmed, former president of the e-Commerce Association of Bangladesh (e-CAB), will receive a grant of $50,000 for further development of the project Facebook has selected Bangladeshi entrepreneur Razib Ahmed as a fellow of its “Community Leadership Program” for his group ”Search English” where members help each other to become more fluent in…
John Lloyd, Co-founded the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism at the University of Oxford/Reuters The British prime minister and the leader of Her Majesty’s opposition gave speeches on the same day this week, outlining their vision for their country’s economy – and by implication, its society. They had little in common. It’s hardly…
BSS Dublar Char, an island in the Sundarbans, will get about 4.5 square kilometre of land as soil will be deposited in the island during the dredging of the outer bar of Pashur channel aiming to enhance the large ship handling capacity of Mongla port. Dublar Char, whose land area is around 80 square kilometre…
Tarannum S. Angelina Jolie was media mobbed while visiting a refugee camp in Greece. Other than an A listed actor, she is an UNHCR goodwill ambassador. She visited and stayed in the port for about 30 minutes and termed the living situation of the refugees as “deteriorating humanitarian situation”. She spoke to several UN peacekeepers….
Reuters: Mexican authorities have released on bail the wife of one of the country’s most wanted drug lords, Nemesio Oseguera, boss of the powerful Jalisco New Generation Cartel, local media reported late on Friday. Rosalinda Gonzalez, who in May was arrested on organized crime and money laundering charges, was freed from prison late on Thursday…
6 Froggie Green I believe that we have already established the fact that, at one point in life, we all wondered if the person sitting next to us could here what we hear when we much of chips/chanachur/ anything crispy. It is like an open secret now, and those who are still obsessed with how…
Tech Explorist: A team of researchers has unraveled the imprints of the sea level fluctuations and climate change that may have occurred along the coastal river of Saurashtra region in India’s west coast over the past 1.5 lakh years. Researchers analyzed samples taken from more than six meters sedimentary sequences along the Noli River between…
Money control: Friends of a man who got married here presented him with five litres of petrol, the price of which has skyrocketed, as a ‘wedding gift.’ The young man and his newly wedded wife were greeting guests at a marriage hall when his friends trooped in and gave him the petrol in a five…