Hossen Sohel: A massive fire raced through Brazil’s 200-year-old National Museum in Rio de Janeiro on Sunday, probably destroying its collection of more than 20 million items, ranging from archeological finds to historical memorabilia, reports Reuters. The destruction of the building, once a palace for emperors that had fallen into disrepair was an “incalculable loss…
Ganesh Kumar Radha Udayakumar/Daily O, India Humans deserve the comforts of a native tongue and its culture — the near-simultaneity of thought and expression, the tacit understanding of unspoken meanings, the purity of accent and emotion. How important is it to have a mother tongue? The question seems silly — it’s not as if children…
Marilyn Thipthorpe DNA from Leonardo da Vinci’s paintings could be used to digitally recreate his face and confirm exactly where he was buried after his death in 1519. Researchers are going to attempt to recover hairs and flakes of skin from within his paintings and notebooks, which could be used to construct how the Italian…
Ahmed Raju 358.41 hector lands will be required for the Maoa-Vanga 82.35 kilometers Padma Bridge Railway Project. Over 3,548 families living in these areas, will be affected by this. Authorities has already started compensating for them. Total estimated cost of the adds up to 25 crores taka. Construction authorities has started distributing checks with the…
Science Alert: It has been reported that extreme rainfall events are increasing over India and widespread floods have increased threefold over the last several decades from an average of two events per year to six events per year. But the link between extreme rainfall events and rising incidence of floods remains tenuous. There is scientific…
Sofian Khan: Eleven more suspected drug peddlers have reportedly been killed in continuous gunfight across the country till early Tuesday. With this, the total number of drug peddlers killed in ‘gunfights’ has numbered to 33 in the last 8 days. The fresh incidents took place through Comilla, Dinajpur, Chuadanga, Feni, Chittagong, Narayanganj, Brahmanbaria and Netrokona….
Dr. A B Mirza Azizul Islam, Former Advisor to the Caretaker Government : The budget for the fiscal year (FY) 2018-19 cannot be implemented at all. Why cannot it be implemented? In recent history, the growth in the government spending lingered at an annual rate of 14-15%, which comparing to the rate in the FY2017-18, this…
Desk Report: Prices of cattle rawhides have this year gone down drastically compared to last few decades, reports Asian Age. However, prices of shoes, belts, bags and other leather goods have no sign of decreasing. Rather shoes have become even costlier despite the nosedive in rawhides prices. This is a paradoxical scenario and it poses…
AFP: The United Arab Emirates launched a three-month visa amnesty program, hoping to resolve a Catch-22 for foreign workers who are fined daily for overstaying their permits but prevented from leaving until they pay the penalties. The government isn’t releasing specific numbers, but said it expects “thousands” of people, primarily labourers from countries like Bangladesh,…
Desk Report: Filming has begun on the sequel to It, the Stephen King adaptation directed by Andy Muschietti, with an all-new cast on board. Unfortunately, one of the actors – James McAvoy, who plays the adult version of Jaeden Lieberher’s Bill Denbrough – has already had some trouble on set. While battling Pennywise, McAvoy managed…