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Chinese Embassy in Dhaka invites essays from Bangladeshi friends

Chinese Embassy in Dhaka invites essays from Bangladeshi friends

-- 2021-05-13 16:28:35

The Chinese Embassy in Bangladesh has invited essays from its Bangladeshi friends for a competition with prizes and awards for the best writers, UNB reports. The year 2021 marks the 100th founding an...

Tiger Joe soon to be separated from human friends

Tiger Joe soon to be separated from human friends

Tanjim Hasan Patwary 2021-05-07 16:46:31

How would you feel if you ever go to a zoo where you hang out with a tiger outside its cage and do all sorts of fun with it, just like you do with your pet animal? Story of a movie? Not really. A tige...

Jamtala Sweet, a blend of taste and tradition

Jamtala Sweet, a blend of taste and tradition

MALIAT RAHMAN 2021-05-07 15:05:46

“The moment I take a bite of this sweet, it just pops in my mouth with a burst of flavour. I could, with ease, swallow several of them in a row,” said Tahiat Rahman, a 12th grader currentl...

Melting Antarctic 'could push seas to catastrophic levels'

Melting Antarctic 'could push seas to catastrophic levels'

Reuters 2021-05-06 14:59:25

Antarctic melting could cause a "dramatic" rise in sea levels if countries fail to keep global warming below 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 Fahrenheit), posing a serious threat to low-lying and coastal region...

Ancient Maya cave in Mexico reveals mysterious painted hand prints

Ancient Maya cave in Mexico reveals mysterious painted hand prints

-- 2021-05-02 15:53:21

Dozens of black and red hand prints cover the walls of a cave in Mexico, believed to be associated with a coming-of-age ritual of the ancient Maya, according to an archeologist who has explored and st...

Hermit alone on island leaves after 32 years

Hermit alone on island leaves after 32 years

CNN 2021-04-27 16:55:10

He's become known as Italy's Robinson Crusoe after spending more than 30 years as the only resident of an idyllic island off the coast of Sardinia. But Mauro Morandi is bidding farewell to his tiny h...

K-pop's BTS notch up marketing deals

K-pop's BTS notch up marketing deals

-- 2021-04-24 12:13:36

Mixing high- and low-cost styles is a well-worn fashion trick, and Korean pop sensations BTS are taking the approach to a whole new level in marketing deals announced this week. After first agreeing...

Make your room look bigger!

Make your room look bigger!

Morium Kulsum 2021-04-22 17:29:51

Maybe you’ve moved into a new apartment in a metropolitan area. Standing in the doorway of your empty living room, you start thinking about decorating the space. You’ve got so many eclect...

BCCB Matrimonial: A tale of a heavenly journey

BCCB Matrimonial: A tale of a heavenly journey

Farzana Tasnim 2021-04-17 22:47:25

There is a saying that a perfect marriage is just two imperfect people who refuse to give up on each other, goes a saying. And for that to happen, many depend on matchmakers. Matchmaking practice ha...

Grilling vs frying : Which is better?

Grilling vs frying : Which is better?

Nawal Naz 2021-04-16 16:22:27

Foodies and cooking experts can’t decide on one thing. Which is the better method of preparing a meal, grilling or frying?  Grilling involves cooking over direct heat, usually over an open...

176-year-old time capsule revealed in cross on Hungarian cathedral

176-year-old time capsule revealed in cross on Hungarian cathedral

REUTERS 2021-04-16 10:35:35

The cross on top of Hungary's largest church, the magnificent Esztergom Cathedral, has been hiding a 176-year-old time capsule that was only recovered during renovation work this year. The sealed cop...

Children swap classrooms for beach lessons

Children swap classrooms for beach lessons

-- 2021-04-14 15:46:34

Does having school at the beach sound like a dream? After a year of remote learning and socially distanced classrooms, one school in the Spanish region of Murcia is doing just that, trying to combine...

'Phone maniac' won't give up LG smartphones

'Phone maniac' won't give up LG smartphones

-- 2021-04-14 14:15:52

South Korean Ryu Hyun-soo describes himself as an “LG phone maniac” and says he won’t give up his LG smartphones even though the company that makes them is getting out of the busines...

Reuters names first woman as editor-in-chief in its 170-year history

Reuters names first woman as editor-in-chief in its 170-year history

Reuters 2021-04-13 09:44:41

Reuters News has named one of its top editors, Alessandra Galloni, as its next editor-in-chief, the first woman to lead the globe-spanning news agency in its 170-year history. A native of Rome, Gallo...

Chilean scientists unearth skunk that walked among dinosaurs

Chilean scientists unearth skunk that walked among dinosaurs

-- 2021-04-10 14:16:22

A fossil of a skunk-like mammal that lived during the age of dinosaurs has been discovered in Chilean Patagonia, adding further proof to recent evidence that mammals roamed that part of South America...

NY store keeps neon dream alive for 50 years

NY store keeps neon dream alive for 50 years

-- 2021-04-10 14:00:54

From a cross-legged Ronald McDonald to a martini glass replete with olive, classic neon signs fill Let There Be Neon, a Lower Manhattan shop that makes all their signs in-house. What makes that brigh...

Digital art gets physical home!

Digital art gets physical home!

REUTERS 2021-04-09 12:42:42

Digital art, whose prices can now rival those of Old Master paintings, is on display at a new physical gallery in New York that aims to show how such pieces can fit into the home or office. Digital a...

'Ancient Egyptian Pompeii' unearthed

'Ancient Egyptian Pompeii' unearthed

Reuters 2021-04-09 11:48:18

Archaeologists said on Thursday they had uncovered a large ancient pharaonic city that had lain unseen for centuries near some of Egypt’s best known monuments. The city was built more than 3,40...

As temperatures up, tigers get chicken ice pops

As temperatures up, tigers get chicken ice pops

REUTERS 2021-04-03 10:46:13

Tigers were fed frozen chicken 'popsicles' and enticed to splash in a wading pool at a Thai zoo on Thursday as temperatures rose. Around 50 of the big cats live at the Tiger Kingdom zoo in Chiang Mai...

'Hide the Pain Harold' accidentally used by Swedish Covid-19 vaccine website

'Hide the Pain Harold' accidentally used by Swedish Covid-19 vaccine website

Reuters 2021-04-01 13:28:13

A health authority in Sweden unwittingly used ‘Hide the Pain Harold’ - one of the internet’s most-recognised figures - as the face of its Covid-19 vaccination booking website, offici...

Idlib sanctuary offers cats a refuge from war

Idlib sanctuary offers cats a refuge from war

-- 2021-04-01 11:38:27

When Syria’s war forced Alaa al-Jaleel to close his cat sanctuary in Aleppo in 2015 and head north to the rebel stronghold of Idlib, he took around 100 animals with him and reopened it there. N...

Queen Victoria's gift of chocolate found intact after 121 years

Queen Victoria's gift of chocolate found intact after 121 years

Reuters 2021-04-01 11:16:04

A 121-year-old chocolate bar, from a batch commissioned by Queen Victoria for British troops fighting in South Africa, has been found in its original tin in the attic of an English manor. The chocola...

Spas closed, but Hungarian hot tub maker's got you covered

Spas closed, but Hungarian hot tub maker's got you covered

-- 2021-03-30 12:15:01

Gabor Kuntner had been planning to install a hot tub in his garden in a Budapest suburb for years but never got around to it until the pandemic prompted him to rush out and buy one to give his family...

'Recalculate' your career route

'Recalculate' your career route

REUTERS 2021-03-30 10:22:58

“Recalculating,” as the GPS often tells us when we are driving, may be our best career strategy after a year of uncertainty. Roadblocks or jams may lie ahead, but the route could be more...

Mia Shabeb's Maidan observe "Sobeh  borat" 

Mia Shabeb's Maidan observe "Sobeh  borat" 

-- 2021-03-28 22:54:19

Khanqueh-e-Shaheed (RA) Mia    Saheb's Maidan Khanqueh Sharif ,        situated at luxmibazar in the old city of Dhaka will hold religious    discussion Fateha...

5,000 music fans have Covid tests before non-distanced concert

5,000 music fans have Covid tests before non-distanced concert

Reuters 2021-03-28 11:31:55

Music fans in Barcelona hugged, danced and sang along at a sold-out rock concert on Saturday night after taking rapid Covid-19 tests in a trial that could revive the live music industry in Spain and b...

Icelandic volcano could erupt for years

Icelandic volcano could erupt for years

-- 2021-03-28 10:50:09

A volcano in Iceland spewing lava into the sky since it erupted last Friday could continue its spectacular display for years, potentially becoming a new tourist attraction on the island known for its...

'Pain into beauty': Argentine sculptor turns pandemic waste into art

'Pain into beauty': Argentine sculptor turns pandemic waste into art

-- 2021-03-27 11:03:33

Marcelo Toledo usually creates sculptures and jewelry out of metal. Now the Argentine artist is working with a new material: waste masks and syringes from the COVID-19 pandemic to create an exhibition...

Van Gogh's 'Street scene in Montmartre' goes under hammer

Van Gogh's 'Street scene in Montmartre' goes under hammer

Reuters 2021-03-26 12:45:08

A Vincent Van Gogh painting of a Paris street scene fetched 14 million euros ($16.47 million) at auction on Thursday, only to be put back under the hammer and sell for a lower amount. Auction house S...

Maya ruins offer peek at ancient wealth inequality

Maya ruins offer peek at ancient wealth inequality

Reuters 2021-03-25 13:41:10

An examination of numerous houses excavated at two sites in southern Belize is providing insight into gaping wealth inequality in ancient Maya cities - a disparity that researchers believe was closely...