Wio News: Typhoon Rumbia, packed torrential rains and strong winds, made a landfall in east China’s Shanghai on Friday morning, disrupting traffic, suspending ferries, flights and trains. Shanghai weather observatory on Friday morning issued a yellow alert for typhoon Rumbia, and upgraded it to orange as heavy downpour continues. China has a four-tier, color-coded weather…
Mezik Potetu Friends are like a basket of apples- there is always going to be a few bad ones with holes and worms. As you grow older, you start realizing who your real friends are, and your circle starts to shrink. You feel the need to get rid of the toxic people whose sole purpose…
Reuters: European capital goods companies are starting to show the strain of Washington’s trade conflicts with China and other countries, as tariffs push up costs for machine parts and raw materials and threaten to worsen supply bottlenecks. Makers of machines that rely on thousands of small parts from around the world – from Swedish lawnmower…
Al Jazeera: The US military force that oversees the country’s nuclear arsenal has sparked outrage when it tweeted it was ready to drop something “much, much bigger” than the traditional New Year’s Eve crystal ball in New York and showing a video of an aircraft releasing bombs. “#TimesSquare tradition rings in the #NewYear by dropping…
UNB: Amid the growing popularity of mobile app-based ride sharing services, a local IT company is going to launch both the car and motorbike ride services through new mobile app called ‘First Drive’ on August 15 to bring more relief for Dhaka city commuters. The residents of Dhaka, Narayanganj, Gazipur and Savar will be able…
M Humayun Kabir: Roma Chowdhury, the writer and Liberation War heroine (birangana), has passed away yesterday after a long illness. She was 79. Roma breathed her last at 4:40am at Chattogram Medical College Hospital, said her long-time companion and publisher Alauddin Khokon, reports bdnews24.com. Chowdhury was admitted to the hospital in January due to her…
Sabah Mannan More than three weeks into the worsening humanitarian crisis, a police operation is under way on Manus Island, with Papua New Guinean police and immigration officers entering the former detention centre in an attempt to move the remaining detainees out. Police forces were described as menacing and aggressive by refugees as they destroyed…
Desk Report: At least nine students of a college were injured as they engaged in a clash with policemen to protest assault of one of their teachers in Mymensingh yesterday reports Banglanews24. Five police members also sustained injuries. Shaheed Syed Nazrul Islam College Computer Science teacher Delwar Hossain said an auto-rickshaw hit the college’s English…
UNB The winter vacation of Shahjalal University of Science and Technology (SUST) will begin from December 18 (Tuesday). The academic activities of the university will resume on January 1 while the administrative activities on December 26, said a press releases issued by the university.
Desk Report: Cardiovascular disease became a cause of increasing concern for Bangladesh with patients suffering it topping the list of people with non-communicable diseases. The top cause of mortality, morbidity and hospital admission in the country is also the cardiovascular disease, according to the National Health Bulletin. The World Health Organization in its latest Non-Communicable…