Reuters: Washington was bracing for a white nationalist rally on Sunday organized to coincide with the anniversary of last year’s racially charged violence in Charlottesville, Virginia. The “Unite the Right 2” event was scheduled to take place at 5:30 p.m. (2130 GMT) in Lafayette Square, across the street from the White House. Several counterprotests have…
Dr. Salahuddin Ahmed, Former Governor, Bangladesh Bank : There is no need to create a ruckus on whether GDP is growing. Whether or not the government does anything, the people will definitely do something about it. Besides, everyone has not yet become self-reliant. The poverty rate in the country is still almost 23%. It is true…
NDTV: Facebook users aged 65 plus and conservatives are more likely to share fake news on the platform than younger or more liberal counterparts, according to a new study published Wednesday. Researchers from Princeton University and New York University analyzed the Facebook posts of nearly 1,200 people who agreed to share their data in the…
Md. Ali Raj: After four days of unbearable congestion, traffic gridlock on the four-lane Dhaka-Chittagong highway largely reduced yesterday. As motorists were diverted to alternative routes around an 800-metre stretch of road in Feni’s Fatehpur where the construction work of a flyover is going on, the situation improved from there. Between Chittagong and Comilla the…
Myisha Nawar Mother Nature has packed some filling foods and drinks with naturally beneficial ingredients to enhance our mental health. 1. Drink Tea. Black, green and oolong teas contain flavonoids. Drink black tea in the morning for the extra mental lift due to the caffeine hit and then switch to green or oolong tea in…
Peter Appsis, Reuters global affairs columnist/BDnews24 As the West obsesses over Donald Trump’s legal and political challenges, Brexit and a host of other domestic crises, Chinese troops will join their Russian counterparts for Moscow’s largest military exercises in more than three decades. Coming six months after Beijing’s biggest ever offshore naval drills, the joint war…
The Verge: Last Septem-ber, Apple officially stopped selling its iPhone X, iPhone SE, and iPhone 6s models, following the release of the iPhone XS and XR. This weekend, MacRumors noticed that Apple has quietly begun to sell the iPhone SE once again in its clearance section. The 2016-era phone is available in 32GB and 128GB…
BDnews24 The pilot of the US-Bangla Airlines plane that made a forced landing in Chattogram after its nose gear failed while flying to Cox’s Bazar has earned plaudits for saving the lives of 171 on board. The Boeing 737 aircraft was carrying 164 passengers and seven crewmembers from Dhaka on Wednesday. Its pilot Captain Mohammad…
Vincent Dolman/ Scroll.in, India Vincent Dolman spotted the gesture on a visit to India and found it to be delightfully unconventional. A surprising cultural norm prevails in India: Men here like to hold hands. Though masculinity is rigidly defined and homophobia rampant in the country, the practice is so common that it is rarely noticed….