The love story between between Setara and Mohammad is extraordinarily rare in Myanmar — she is a Buddhist and he’s from the minority Muslim Rohingya community. The Buddhists despise the Rohingya in their country, and the United Nations has called…
Category: The unusual
Man’s 1944 love letter found within remodeled home’s walls
Greenfield, Dec 24 (AP/UNB) — Massachusetts police have a new mystery to solve: Who wrote a 1944 love letter discovered within the walls of a house being remodeled?
Ancient child burials found in Egypt
Four intact child burials made more than 3,000 years ago are among a series of recent discoveries near the Egyptian city of Aswan, officials say. One of the burials found by a Swedish-Egyptian team still had the linen used to…
100,000 medical consultations in 100 days
By International Organization for Migration Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh, Dec 11 (IOM) – If Morisha’s family had waited a matter of minutes before bringing her to the UN Migration Agency(IOM)’s health post in the Balukhali makeshift settlement, she would be dead. Full-term,…
Egypt uncovers ancient tombs at Luxor
Archaeologists in Egypt have displayed items, including a mummy, from one of two previously unexplored tombs in the ancient Nile city of Luxor. The mummy is believed to be that of a senior official from Egypt’s “New Kingdom”, about 3,500…
Body formed to probe Ivy car’s loose wheel nuts
Dhaka – A probe body has been formed to investigate the incident of loosening the wheel nuts of the vehicle carrying Narayanganj City Corporation (NCC) Mayor Selina Hayat Ivy.The four-member probe panel, formed on Thursday headed by NCC engineer Azgar…
Trump puts elephant trophy imports on hold
US President Donald Trump has suspended the import of elephant hunting trophies, only a day after a ban was relaxed by his administration. Imports of trophies from elephants legally hunted in Zambia and Zimbabwe had been set to resume, reversing…
Mild tremor shakes Dhaka, rest of Bangladesh
Dhaka, Nov 8 – A mild tremor jolted different parts of the country including the capital Dhaka on Wednesday morning.
Where spacecrafts go to die
China’s Tiangong-1 space station is currently out of control and expected to fall back to Earth next year. But not in the remote place where many other spacecraft end their days. Explorers and adventurers often look for new places to…
Mid-air horror: Airasia flight sent back Australia
An AirAsia flight from Australia to Indonesia was forced to turn back to Perth after losing cabin pressure, with passengers Monday recounting their terror as oxygen masks dropped from the ceiling. Air Asia said the plane suffered a “technical issue”…
‘Chief Justice on one-month leave – Acting CJ soon’
Dhaka, Oct 2 – Chief Justice of Bangladesh, Surendra Kumar Sinha, went on a one-month leave of absence from Monday on health grounds, Law Minister Anisul Huq said.
Kushner ‘registered to vote as a woman’
Donald Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner has been registered to vote as a woman for eight years, it is claimed. His gender is listed as “female” in records from the New York State Board of Elections, according to screen grabs published…
Canada denies Chelsea Manning entry
BY TERESA WELSH Chelsea Manning has been denied entry to Canada because she violated the U.S. Espionage Act, according to a letter she posted to Twitter.
Eman Ahmed once world’s heaviest woman dies in Abu Dhabi
World’s heaviest woman Eman Ahmed, who came to India for weight-loss surgery and then flew to Abu Dhabi for further treatment amid controversy, has died at 37. Doctors said she died today of complications including heart disease and kidney dysfunction.…
Bodybuilder dies after celebrity kickboxing bout in Singapore
A 32-year-old bodybuilder has died following a celebrity kickboxing bout in Singapore. Pradip Subramanian was taking part in a Muay Thai contest against YouTube personality and former Singapore Idol contestant Steven Lim on Saturday.
Ryanair cancels flights after ‘messing up’ pilot holidays
Ryanair cancelled 82 flights on Sunday after admitting it had “messed up” the planning of its pilots’ holidays. The budget airline said on Saturday that it will cancel 40-50 flights every day for the next six weeks. Marketing officer Kenny…
‘Sea monster’ on Texas beach after Hurricane Harvey
A mysterious fanged sea creature that washed up on a beach in Texas following Hurricane Harvey has been identified.
Putin says, ‘Trump is not my bride nor I am Trump’s groom’
Russian President Vladimir Putin refrained from criticizing U.S. President Donald Trump at a news conference in China on Tuesday, but said a decision to shutter Russian diplomatic outposts in the U.S. was poorly handled. Speaking at a news conference during…
Japan’s Princess Mako engaged to commoner
Japan’s Princess Mako has formally announced her engagement to a commoner after receiving the emperor’s approval.
‘REUTER’s misleading report on Ken Betwa Project’
Posted on September 2 by SANDRP New Delhi – On Sept 1, 2017, Reuters published a report[i] about Interlinking of Rivers, with focus on Modi flagging off work on Ken Betwa Project. The report was carried VERY widely, including in local,…
Denmark prince refuses to be buried next to queen
Copenhagen — The husband of Denmark’s Queen Margrethe is causing a stir in one of the world’s oldest monarchies. Prince Henrik has announced he won’t be buried next to Margrethe in the Roskilde cathedral, where Danish royals have been buried…
Teen exits plane via emergency door, arrested
A teenager has been detained after opening the emergency door of a passenger plane and sliding down a wing onto the tarmac minutes after touching down in San Francisco, officials say. The boy, 17, shocked passengers on board the Copa…
‘Pygopagus’ twins successfully separated in Dhaka
Dhaka – Conjoined twins–Tofa and Tahura–have successfully been separated by a group of expert physicians at Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH) on Tuesday.
Blind Saiful scored GPA 5 at HSC Examination
Dhaka – Though blind since birth and indigent, a determined Saiful Islam has achieved GPA -5 in the recently published HSC Exam of Dhaka Board (Humanities group) from Mirpur Bangla Government College, Dhaka this year.
The extraordinary life of a 91-year-old beauty queen
Krystyna Farley is a 91-year-old beauty pageant queen in the US state of Connecticut, but her life was not always this glamorous. Although she grew up in a loving home in rural Poland, her childhood was cut short by the…
Mother and auntee passes HSC exam along with boy
“When there is a will, there is a way.” This was proven once again by three members of a family from Natore – a mother, her son and her elder cousin who sat this year’s Higher Secondary School Certificate (HSC)…
2332 commit suicide in one BD district in 7 yrs
A total of 2,332 people committed suicide in the district in the last seven years till 2016, as per the data of Society for Voluntary Activities (SOVA). SOVA, which has been working on suicide in Jhenidah for over 10 years,…
6 health workers transferred over Ctg kids’ death
Chittagong, July 18 – Six health workers of Sitakunda Health Complex have been transferred to Sandwip Upazila Health Complex for their negligence of duty as nine children at Tripurapara in Sitakkunda upazila have died of ‘measles’.
Measles caused death of 9 children at Tripura Para Ctg
The nine children who recently died of unknown disease in Sitakunda of Chittagong were suffering from measles, says the Institute of Epidemiology, Disease Control and Research (IEDCR).“The children died at Tripurapara of Sitakunda after they were affected from measles virus…but…
7 more children attacked by unknown fever
Seven more children have been affected by the ‘unknown’ disease at hilly Tripurapara in Sitakunda upazila.The newly affected children — Toufiq Kumar Tripura, 4, Madhu Kumar, 8, Gita Babu, 14, Shimul, 2, Hridoy, 10, Rimon, 4, and Rotna, 8 —…