AP, Baghdad Defense Secretary Ash Carter arrived in Baghdad Monday to talk to Iraqi leaders about beefing up Iraqi forces working to retake the northern city of Mosul, a critical goal in the effort to defeat the Islamic State group. A senior U.S. official said that as the U.S. moves to help the Iraqis, it…
S.M. Fahim Tahmina Rahman, 23, is making a statement in various points in Dhanmondi by selling peanuts despite being a student of Lalmatia Women’s College. She is doing this by selling peanuts whilst wearing her usual attire of jeans, converse and navy blue shirt with white headphones dangling from her ears, reports Banglanews24. “Kotha”, as…
Shakil Ahmed There are about 5 lacs of establishments around Dhaka that are not listed in RAJUK, by the database of establishments under Detail Area Plan (DAP). Most of these establishments were constructed when Narayanganj, Gazipur, Savar, Ashuliya, Keraniganj & other nearby areas, were included into DAP, after 2010. Number of these establishments is ever…
The Guardian: For certain health food shops and wellbeing sites it is the panacea that helps everything from bad hair and mental grogginess to obesity and haemorrhoids. But the carefully-crafted image of coconut oil as a cure for many ills has been roundly rejected by a Harvard professor. Karin Michels, an epidemiologist at the Harvard…
UNB Two people were killed and three others injured when a truck rammed a CNG-run auto-rickshaw at Rasulpur in Sadar upazila on Friday. The accident took place around 6:30 am when a Mymensingh-bound truck from Tangail hit a CNG-run auto-rickshaw coming from the opposite direction, leaving two passengers of the auto-rickshaw killed on the spot…
Pauline Bock/Gulf News The French president has dared those who have criticised his handling of the affair to ‘come get him’. They just might It was just two weeks ago that French President Emmanuel Macron was on top of the world. At the World Cup final in Russia, he was photographed raising a victorious fist…
Afrida Ahmed According to BBC, the Bayeux Tapestry is set to be displayed in Britain after French President Emmanuel Macron gave his approval. French President Emmanuel Macron is expected to announce the loan during his visit to the UK on Thursday. New York Times reported that it could take five years before the tapestry arrives.The…
M Humayun Kabir: The Dhaka University administration has finally met with the Dhaka University Central Student Union (DUCSU), hall student councils and leaders from ‘active’ student groups over the issue of DUCSU polls. The initiative was taken to hold the meeting after a case was filed last Thursday over ignoring the DUCSU elections, reports bdnews24.com….
Muhammad Ali Bukhari from Toronto: Surpr-isingly the recent book of Bangladesh former Chief Justice Surendra Kumar Sinha in kindle edition, A broken dream: The status of rule of law, human rights and democracy, ranks at number 1 in terms of selling in biography categories of law in its hourly updates as of September 22, 2018…