Tanya Sirohi/ India Times How many times have you felt you’re being followed on the street? How many times have you then reached for the pepper spray in your bag or gripped your keys between your knuckles wondering if it’ll even work when it has to? Now imagine the person who stalked you, wrote to…
BBC: A Malaysian court has ruled that the evidence against two women accused of murdering the half-brother of North Korea’s leader is strong enough for the case to go to trial. Kim Jong-nam died at Kuala Lumpur’s airport last year after the toxic VX nerve agent was rubbed on his face. Siti Aisyah and Doan…
Sky News A California aquarium has apologised after unwittingly appropriating African American vernacular to describe the voluptuous body of a female sea otter. Monterey Bay Aquarium tweeted a photograph of Abby, an otter who serves as an adoptive mother to baby otters who have been abandoned. “Abby is a thicc girl,” the conservation centre and…
Ambassado Muhammad Zamir writes for DOT : Like many other developing countries, Bangladesh is dependent on the remittance inflow that we receive from our expatriate workers. This helps us not only to meet our balance of trade deficit but also to add to our foreign exchange reserve. At this point of time we have nearly…
Halima Akter: Vegetables might help from protect you from cancer. A team at the Francis crick institute discovered a chemical produced by eating certain vegetables that might hold a key to suppressing cancer. Some vegetables contain aryl hydrocarbon receptors (AhR), a molecule that helps our gut from inflaming. Gut inflammation is a common contributor to…
BSS The world’s 20 top economies will agree to use all policy tools to lift sluggish global growth, according to a draft communique obtained by Bloomberg News on Saturday, despite German disquiet over fiscal and monetary stimulus. The G20 finance ministers and central bank chiefs meeting in Shanghai agreed to use those methods, as well…
DOT Desk: Bangladesh’s economy needs to grow at a rate of 8.0 per cent or more in the coming years to absorb the country’s growing labour force, a recent government report has suggested, reports The Financial Express. At the same time, attracting more foreign direct investment along with other forms of foreign resources will be…
DOT Desk: Most of the franchises of Bangladesh Premier League started their preparations for the sixth edition of the tournament in full swing on Wednesday and were waiting for their foreign players and coaching staff to join soon to give it a momentum, reports The New Age. Apart from reigning champions Rangpur Riders and Khulna…
NDTV: The past four years have been the four warmest that humans have ever recorded – and now, according to a new scientific forecast, the next five will also probably be “anomalously warm,” even beyond what the steady upward pace of global warming would produce on its own. That could include another record warmest year,…
Tarannum Sattar Risha is dead. Another voice silenced and this time through no fault of her own. Risha, a student of 8th grade in Willes Little Flower School went to the tailor with her mother to order a dress to be custom made. Her beauty attracted one of the workers in the tailor shop. Her…