TOKYO, April 10 – Masazo Nonaka from Japan was recognised Tuesday as the world’s oldest man at the ripe old age of 112, as his family revealed his secret: sweets and hot baths. –BSS/AFP
Category: Life
Syed Mahmud mourned with rich tributes
Dhaka, March 18 – Rich tributes were paid to veteran journalist Syed Mahmud by his colleagues and friends at a condolence meeting organised by the Dhaka Journalists Housing Cooperative Society at its Mirpur Residential Area on Saturday. Syed Mahmud passed…
2 bullet-hit bodies found in Cox’s Bazar
Cox’s Bazar, Mar 16 – Police recovered the bullet-hit bodies of two unidentified people at Himchhari Dhala on Eidgaon-Baishari road in Sadar upazila of Cox’s Bazar on Friday.
‘People were burning, screaming and falling, it was horrific’
Dhaka – Bangladeshi citizen Shahreen Ahmed, 29, is one of the passengers of US-Bangla aircraft who survived the crash and is undergoing treatment for burn injuries at Kathmandu Medical College Teaching Hospital, reports The Himalayan Times.
Monsoon season threatens more misery for Rohingyas
By Naimul Haq Dhaka, Feb 28 2018 (IPS) – More than half a million Rohingya refugees crammed into over 30 makeshift camps in Cox’s Bazar in southeast Bangladesh face a critical situation as the cyclone and monsoon season begins in…
Garment industry boom in BD leaving workers behind
By Naimul Haq Dhaka, Feb 9 (IPS) – Although Bangladesh has made remarkable recent strides like building green factories and meeting stringent safety standards, garment workers here are still paid one of the lowest minimum wages in the world.
BD middle class potential yet to be fully tapped
Abdur Rahman Jahangir, UNB Staff Writer Dhaka, Feb 1 – Though Bangladesh has been witnessing a tremendous growth of its middle-class population over the last two decades, the full potential of this driving economic force still remains untapped, mainly for…
US Student extends support to accident victim BD student
Rajshahi, 19 Jan – At the benevolence of an American student, a Bangladeshi student Mesbaul Haque gets back his life from his critical condition.
Minimum temperature rises slightly across Bangladesh
Lowest temperature recorded 4.8 °C in Dinajpur Dhaka, Jan 9 – The overall situation of the cold wave, sweeping over parts of the country over the last few days, is gradually improving as the temperature across the country rose by…
People can avoid paralysis if they are conscious’
Savar, Dhaka – The Creator’s love is attained thru service to the paralyzed. Joys lie in service, said Valery A Taylor, the founder and coordinator of ‘Centre for the Rehabilitation of the Paralyzed (CRP)’.
Shivering cold paralyses normal life
Bone-chilling cold gripped the country, especially the northern districts, with the lowest-ever 2.6 degrees Celsius temperature being recorded in Panchagarh’s Tentulia on Monday, as the cold wave keeps on battering normal life and leading to the deaths of a number…
Five including 3 elderly women die in BD severe cold
Dhaka, Jan 6 – At least two elderly women died in Thakurgaon on Saturday besides three others in Kurigram overnight as the northern districts bore the brunt of a cold wave crossing over of the country.
To snap every yoke: World law to end slavery in Libya
By René Wadlow “Is not this what I require of you… to snap every yoke and set free those who have been crushed?” Isaiah, 58 v 6 There are many ways that an individual can be held in chains through…
BAU freshers’ orientation programme held
Mymensingh, 02 Jan – An orientation programme of the newly enrolled students of 2017-18 under six faculties of Bangladesh Agricultural University (BAU) was held on Tuesday at Shilpacharya Zainul Abedin auditorium of the university.
Cost of living went up 8.4 percent in 2017
The living cost in the capital marked a rise by 8.44 percent in 2017 due to the hike in the prices of daily essentials and the tariffs of utility services, including that of food, house rent, electricity and gas, according…
New Year welcomed with jubilant celebrations
Dhaka, Jan 1, – The people of Bangladesh welcome New Year 2018 with jubilant celebrations and exchange of wishes for family, friends.
House rent consumes 30pc incomeof tenents
Rental house and utility costs are eating up 30 percent income of most of the tenants in Dhaka metropolis, according to a latest study conducted by a leading private university.
The saga of Rohingya refugees
Mostafa Kamal Majumder A tiny tot, playing near a hand-pump beside shanties covered with polythene-sheet roofs was visibly worried as he saw a handful of visitors getting closer to him, and at one stage he ran away into one such…
Endangered giant soft-shell turtle nest found in Cambodia
Conservationists have found a nest of the endangered Asian giant softshell turtle on a Mekong River sandbar in northeastern Cambodia, while 115 new species of various other animal and plant life have been discovered in the greater Mekong region. The…
Victory Day from a foreign perspective
When the names of freedom fighters are long forgotten, their memory will live eternally in the Bangladesh soil that their blood helped fertilize Sir Frank Peters Today, December 16, is Victory Day… as if you didn’t know and wondered what…
Rohingya refugees endure lingering trauma
By Farid Ahmed Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh, Dec 14 (IPS) – Twelve-year-old Rubina still struggles with the horrors she witnessed in her homeland in Myanmar before fleeing to neighbouring Bangladesh three months ago.
HC bans horns in posh residential areas at night
Dhaka – The High Court on Thursday banned to use horn after 10.00pm and set the 20kmph speed limit at the residential and VIP areas of Dhaka city.
Patuakhali clinic asked to pay surgery fault victim TK 9 Lakh
Dhaka – The High Court on Wednesday asked the owner of the Niramoy Private Clinic and fake physician Razan the Das of Patuakhali, who left gauze inside a woman’s abdomen, to pay the victim Tk 9 lakh as compensation.
Rain disrupts normal life in Dhaka city
Dhaka, Dec 10 – Moderate rainfall, coming under the influence a depression which in the Bay of Bengal, disrupted the normal life in the city on Saturday and since Sunday morning.
IFAD looks at impact of dev projects on life in rural BD
Rome, 26 Nov – A delegation of member state representatives from the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) begins a five-day working trip to Bangladesh today, with planned visits to IFAD-funded projects designed to increase incomes and improve living conditions…
Why water, soap and toilets are keys to ending malnutrition
By Tim Wainwright London, Nov 6 (IPS) – I started work this morning feeling disillusioned. A report had hit my desk that painted a very bleak picture of the state of the world’s health – and for a moment I…
Scientist recalls training dog Lika for1st trip to space
“I asked her to forgive us and I even cried as I stroked her for the last time,” says 90-year-old Russian biologist Adilya Kotovskaya, recalling the day she bid farewell to her charge Laika. The former street dog was about…
‘Hand of God’ saved Indonesian teen from fatal factory fire
Tangerang, Oct 28 (AP/UNB) – The explosion came first, shocking 17-year-old Fitriyah and sending her running for the only exit of the Indonesian fireworks factory where she started work just the week before.
How would world’s millennials combat racism?
A recent study by Pew concludes that over 58% of Americans believe racism is a “big problem” in society. H. Richard Milner, a noted researcher and expert on race and education at the University of Pittsburgh says that, “education is…
Rape accused killed in Cox’s Bazar ‘gunfight’
Dhaka, Oct 17 – An accused of a rape case was killed in a reported gunfight with members of Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) in Kurushkul area of Sadar Upazila of Cox’s Bazar early Tuesday. The deceased was identified as Selim,…