Anadolu Agency Kickboxing fans in Myanmar are pinning high hopes on Tun Tun Min, the toughest fighter in the country’s traditional boxing ring. This December he will fight for the title in the national championship of traditional Lethwei, considered by many as one of the world’s most brutal martial arts. Tun Tun Min, an ethnic…
Voice of America: A fire at a hospital in Taiwan killed nine people on Monday and injured 15 and an investigation has been launched into the cause of the blaze, authorities said. Premier William Lai said the health ministry was overseeing rescue efforts at the hospital in New Taipei City, where the fire was extinguished…
AFP: Yoga pants and leggings have become a staple in the wardrobes of many Americans but one US school district is under fire for allegedly punishing young girls who wear them to class.Public schools in the Wisconsin lakeside city of Kenosha were defending themselves Tuesday against accusations of discriminating against female students who have embraced…
Sejuti Mourin: A views-exchange meeting was held yesterday discussing matters related to the progress of preparatory works for establishing Sheikh Hasina Public University at Rajur Bazar of Netrakona district town. The meeting on “development coordination affairs” was held at the conference room of Netrakona DC office with deputy commissioner Main-UL-Islam in the chair, reports the…
Arifur Rahman Tuhin The international leather & leather products’ market weight about 222 billion US dollars. It is estimated to surpass 271 billion mark by 2021. Unfortunately, as the 2nd largest industry of Bangladesh, from here leather industry had man aged to gain only 0.46% of the international market share. Thus, there is still a…
Desk Report: Sales of school uniforms and similar attires, especially white shirts and black trousers, have spiked mysteriously in the city amid the student movement demanding safe roads, reports Daily Sun. Cloth traders and dressmakers usually see a rise in the sales of school uniforms at the beginning of academic year, but a sudden surge…
BSS Over 3.55 lakh landless and homeless families across the country will get shelters and livelihood by 2019 through one of the Prime Minister’s 10 priority initiatives, ‘Ashrayan Prakalpa’. “A total of 2, 64,442 families have so far been rehabilitated across the country under the scheme in three phases since 1997,” Project Director of the…
Desk Report The overnight hostage crisis at a café in Dhaka ended after around 13 hours on Saturday morning after an operation by Joint forces of Police, RAB, Border Guards and Armed Force commandos. 13 hostages were rescued including 3 foreign nationals. The crisis begins around 8:45pm on Friday at the Holey Artisan Bakery and…
Sayeed Muhammad British Labour MP Tulip Siddiq has apologised for her comments to a Channel 4 News producer about having a difficult childbirth, reports The Guardian. Following a heated altercation with the channel’s reporter Alex Thomson, Siddiq told his producer, Daisy Ayliffe, who is pregnant: “Thanks Daisy for coming. Hope you have a great birth…
Tech Explorist: As smartphones approach the critical mass, we may begin to see a little spec-based overkill in order to make devices stand out from the crowd – especially within devices emerging from the Far East. Enter a new variant of the Oppo Find X, which will reportedly arrive toting a staggering 10GB of RAM…