Marilyn Thipthorpe We all know and hate that point when we get writers block. You’re searching for the right word or the appropriate opening sentence. Here are a few tips to follow if you are a budding writer. 1. Enjoy your work: Always appreciate your work no matter how trivial. Learn to enjoy what you’re…
Reuters: Kim Jong Un has confirmed his readiness to visit Russia, the RIA news agency quoted speaker of the upper house of the Russian parliament Valentina Matvienko as saying after she met the North Korean leader in Pyongyang on Saturday. Kim “wants peace”, Matvienko said after the meeting, which lasted for more than an hour….
Speakers at a consultation called for involvement of non-governmental organizations along with the government for combating human trafficking especially child trafficking. Stressing on giving priority to child protection, they said, it is difficult for the government alone to handle the task. Combined efforts by the government and NGOs would help protect the rights of trafficking…
Hossen Sohel of DOT A High Court bench yesterday refused to hear a writ petition challenging the legality of the schedule for the 11th parliamentary election slated for December 30, reports The Daily Star. The bench of Justice FRM Nazmul Ahasan and Justice Razik-Al Jalil also dropped the petition from the hearing list saying that…
Abrar Hussain: The Moulvibazar administration has recently been able to ramp up measures to distribute relief among the victims thanks to the flood receding for the last three days. However, there have been allegations of irregularities and thorough complains, which the authorities have acknowledged to be true. The Daily Star reported that most of the…
The Guardian, UK: A tender and rarely seen portrait of a boy by Lucian Freud that hung in a legendary Irish house tucked away in the Wicklow mountains for more than 50 years is to appear at auction for the first time. The 1956 painting, Head of a Boy, is of Garech Browne, the wealthy…
UNB Want to lose weight? Are you depriving yourself from eating what you love? Here is a catch, read on to know how you can lose weight by eating not starving. Starving yourself in the hope that few kilos S might reduce in the weighing machines, might seem a good idea to many. But,…
Eurek Alert Staphylococcus epidermidis is an ubiquitous colonizer of healthy human skin, but it is also a notorious source of serious nosocomial infections with indwelling devices and surgical procedures such as hip replacements. It has not been known whether all members of the S. epidermidis population colonizing the skin asymptomatically are capable of causing such…
Michelle Alexander, Civil rights lawyer and advocate, legal scholar and author/ BDnews24 On April 4, 1967, exactly one year before his assassination, Martin Luther King Jr stepped up to the lectern at the Riverside Church in Manhattan. The United States had been in active combat in Vietnam for two years, and tens of thousands of…
DOT Desk: A good number of potters in the district have attained financial solvency in recent days, reports the Financial Express. They make pots of different shapes and sizes according to the market demand. Akkelpur, Kalai and Sadar upazilas of the district are well-known across the country for pottery. Some 3,000 people of the three…