Hossen Sohel of DOT The body of Awami League Presidium member and Public Administration Minister Syed Ashraful Islam, who passed away at a Thailand hospital on Thursday, was brought back home yesterday evening and he will be laid to eternal rest today, UNB reports. The mortal remains was flown back on a Biman Bangladesh Airlines…
Clarence Page, a member of the Tribune Editorial Board/Chicago Tribune Rep. Mia Love was a rising star in Republican Party ranks until she wasn’t. Even before the America-born daughter of Haitian immigrants was elected to Congress in 2014, she was given a prime speaking spot at the 2012 Republican National Convention.There she raised the sort…
Sky News: A rare type of durian fruit, known for its pungent aroma, has gone on sale in Indonesia for three times the average monthly salary. The J-Queen variety of the smelly fruit is on sale in West Java, and costs 14m rupiah each – about £750. According to the manpower ministry, the average monthly…
Desk Report: E-commerce site Shophoods started its journey in Bangladesh aiming to provide quality products from authentic Chinese manufactures, said a press release, reports Financial Express. Purchasing overseas products online from Bangladesh is a complicated process for many reasons, including non-accessibility to different payment methods. To ensure a comfortable internet shopping experience Shophoods offers its…
M Humayun Kabir: Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has given Tk 2 million to each family of the students who died in a road crash on July 29 in Dhaka. The prime minister has handed over the funds in family savings certificates to the grieving families, when they met her at her 8More offices yesterday, reports…
Science Alert: That’s because scientists have used the groundcherry as an experimental test case to illustrate just how quickly CRISPR genome editing can speed up the domestication of wild, unruly plants. For a relatively obscure crop like the groundcherry (Physalis pruinosa) – aka ‘husk cherries’ and native to Central and South America – it would…
Hamid Dabashi, Hagop Kevorkian Professor of Iranian Studies and Comparative Literature at Columbia University/ Aljazeera Muslims across the world persecuted, abused and murdered by Muslim and non-Muslim regimes. What is happening to Muslims around the globe? In China they are put into concentration camps, in Myanmar they are slaughtered en masse, in India they have…
Eurek Alert Some of you may have made a New Year’s resolution to hit the gym to tackle that annoying belly fat. But have you ever wondered how physical activity produces this desired effect? A signaling molecule called interleukin-6 plays a critical role in this process, researchers report December 27 in the journal Cell Metabolism….
BBC: Some four million people have taken to the waters at the confluence of the sacred Ganges and Yamuna rivers at the Kumbh Mela festival – humanity’s largest gathering. At least 15m people are expected on the first day alone. Officials project about 120m visitors over 49 days. Hindus believe bathing at the rivers will…
Arafat Hasan of DOT Prime Minister’s political advisor HT Imam said the present government has been making constant strides to create a congenial atmosphere in the country so that people of every religion can live and prosper together in Bangladesh, reports BSS. “Everyone will live and prosper together in Bangladesh as ‘religious togetherness’ is the…