UNB A labourer was killed and another injured as a timber-laden truck plunged into a roadside ditch at Banshbaria on the Chingra-Trimohoni road in Keshabpur upazila on Wednesday noon. The deceased was identified as Abdul Moral, 42, son of late Mosaddi Moral, a resident of Maddhakul village in Keshabpur upazila.
Abrar Hussain: A Nara-yanganj court yesterday sentenced four people to death for raping and killing Khadiza, a 10-year-old girl, fifteen years ago, reports Banglanews24. Judge Jewel Rana of Narayanganj Women and Children Repression Prevention Court announced the verdict at 12:00am. The convicts were Sujon, Alamin, Abul Kalam, Shahadat, none of whom were present in the court….
Kabir Humayun: Finance Minister Abul Maal Abdul Muhith yesterday said the progress earned in the country’s economy won’t be affected even if a new government comes to power through the upcoming national election. “The polls will be held within next three months. The recent economic growth won’t be influenced even if a new government comes…
Lilly Singh’s YouTube channel, ||Superwoman||, is aptly named. Singh has more than 8 million subscribers and 1 billion views on the video sharing platform. Last year, she raked in a cool $2.5 million, making her one of the world’s highest-earning YouTube stars. Her feature-length movie, “A Trip to Unicorn Island,” was one of the first…
UNB: Russia wants to strengthen its bilateral and constructive cooperation with Bangladesh securing peace and stability in South Asia and beyond. While congratulating new Foreign Minister Dr AK Abdul Momen, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said Bangladesh and Russia have similar approaches to regional and global agenda and are bound by friendship and partnership. Minister…
NDTV: A 33-year-old man who had been suffering from back pain decided to treat himself by resorting to an unusual remedy not supported by scientific research: he injected himself with a dose of his own semen every month for a year and a half. The “alternative therapy” baffled doctors at Tallaght University Hospital in Dublin,…
MEMO: A delegation from the Palestinian Islamic Jihad movement arrived in Moscow yesterday at the invitation of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Arab48 reported. In a statement, Islamic Jihad said that the delegation is led by the deputy leader of the movement Ziyad Al-Nakhalah and membership of Mohammad Al-Hindi and Anwar Abu Taha. They will meet…
Eurek Alert Light and high-frequency acoustic sound waves in a tiny glass structure can strongly couple to one another and perform a dance in step. A team of researchers from Imperial College London, the University of Oxford, and the National Physical Laboratory have experimentally achieved a long-standing goal to demonstrate the so-called “strong-coupling regime” between…
Barrister Nadim Ahmed, Associate lawyer, FM Associates : Rampant use of harmful chemicals like formalin, additives and other toxic materials have only led the food suppliers to banks while it landed the consumers, especially children, to hospitals. As tax-paying citizens of Bangladesh, we refuse to be fed toxic food in silence. There was a time…