3 ‘suspects’ shot dead in Cox’s Bazar

    Hossen Sohel of DOT Three people have died in Cox’s Bazar during alleged shootouts with police and the Rapid Action Battalion early yesterday, reports bdnews24.com. The “gun battles” took place at Khurer Mukh in Teknaf’s Sabrang Union and Matarbari of Moheshkhali, according to law-enforcing officials. Of those killed during the late night raids, two were…

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      Things You Didn’t Know About Kaley Cuoco

      Nusrat Jahan I was going to write a “shady things you didn’t know about Kaley Cuoco” article but what I found on the internet was nowhere near shady, but mostly stupid nonsensical stuff that are pretty much, well erm…normal! So here’s a random list of things you probably didn’t know about the ex-Sweeting! •Even though…

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        The far-right has a utopia. What’s ours?

        Lorenzo Marsili, Writer, politic activist, and the founder of international NGO European Alternatives/Al jazeera Trump’s former strategist Steve Bannon has vowed to help start a far-right revolution in Europe. Who will oppose him? There is something that ties together nationalist leaders the world over: from US President Donald Trump to the new Italian interior minister,…

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          4 firms allowed to launch mobile app-based calling service

          DOT Desk Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission has allowed four internet protocol telephony service providers (IPTSP) to launch mobile phone application-based calling service amid concern about misuse of the service for international call termination. BTRC gave the entities the permission to run the service at a recent commission meeting with its acting chairman Md Jahurul Haque…

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            1st JS session of 11th parliament from 3pm

            Sayeed Muhammad of DOT :  The first session of the 11th Jatiya Sangsad (JS) starts at 3 pm today. President Abdul Hamid summoned the session on January 9 exercising the power bestowed upon him as per clause (1) of article 72 of the constitution, reports BSS. The president is supposed to will deliver his speech…

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              Russian opposition leader Navalny detained after prison release

              Hossen Sohel: Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny was detained yesterday on his release from prison after serving a 30-day sentence for an unauthorised protest, his spokesperson said. “Alexei Navalny was detained outside the detention centre,” Kira Yarmysh wrote on Twitter, adding that the politician was taken to a central Moscow police station, reports news channel…

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                Patients with cold-related diseases surge

                DOT Desk: Hospitals in Dhaka and other parts of the country have been struggling to deal with a surging number of patients with cold-related diseases as a moderate cold wave is sweeping over some regions of the country, reports The New Age. Dhaka Shishu Hospital is referring patients to other hospitals as it is struggling…

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                  66 found HIV positive in Sylhet

                  UNB At least 66 new patients have been tested HIV positive in the district till November this year, says a report released by a local voluntary organisation on Sunday. Among the affected, a total of 902 people were detected as carrying the lethal virus while the number was 836 in last year, according to Ashar…

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                    Saturn’s rings are younger than the planet itself

                    AFP: Saturn’s rings are younger than scientists thought and appeared within the last 10 to 100 million years, according to research published on Thursday (Jan 17) based on findings from Nasa’s Cassini spacecraft. The sixth planet from the Sun formed about 4.5 billion years ago, along with the rest of the planets in our solar…

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