BSS: President M Abdul Hamid yesterday lauded the contribution of artists and cultural activists to all achievements of the nation as he inaugurated the month-long Asian art exhibition at Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy (BSA) here. “The art-culture too has a huge contribution to our nation building . . . The cultural activists always play a brave…
NYtimes: Donald Trump hungered for applause — the more frequent and louder, the better. He found that campaign rallies were a source of it like none that he had ever savored. He thrilled to the appearance of his name not just in gold letters on tall buildings but also in newspaper headlines and on…
DOT Desk: That lovely saree you have got your eye on might feel so lovely if it is made out of silk and also it might be better at keeping you warm in chilly weather without compromising your fashionable panache. We are in the midst of winter season, and we have got still two months…
Dr Rezwan Siddiqui speaks to DOT : The Awami League promising freedom of the press in its election manifesto is something worth being mocked. We who are doing journalism are sensing badly how devastating the freedom of the media has been during the current government’s tenure. An editor of a major media outlet in an…
Desk Report: Bangladesh national team batting consultant Neil McKenzie on Monday said that he was very much impressed with the talents in the team and wanted to add more value to this country’s cricket. The 42-year old former South African batsman, who was appointed as the batting consultant of Bangladesh cricket team for the limited-over…
Desk report: Baffled, hurt or indignant, many inside Myanmar are struggling to digest a week of opprobrium heaped on their country by the UN and even Facebook over the treatment of the Rohingya, a stateless Muslim group whose plight elicits little sympathy in the Buddhist-majority nation, reports the daily star. Last year’s military crackdown ostensibly…
BSS Two people including a woman were killed and three others injured in a road accident at Hatgopalpur-Chagolbandha crossing in Sadar upazila on Monday. The deceased were Robiul Islam Latu, 50, and Saira Khatun, 51, a resident of Dhananjoypur.
Leah Sharman, PhD Candidate in the school of psychology at the University of Queensland/ Channel NewsAsia Crying can be a self-soothing behaviour, one researcher points out. Crying is a big part of being a kid. As you grow older, you may find you’re crying less than during childhood and adolescence. Studies show, on average, adult…
Science Alert: Once a month, a 33-year-old Irish man would fill a syringe with his own semen and squirt it into the veins and muscles of his right arm, hoping it would make his chronic lower back pain go away. Sorry, we don’t understand it either. It’s a new one for the books. Physicians came…