Thursday, October 22

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WhatsApp Changes Everything With Its New Status Feature
22Feb By Sumon AdminNo Comments
ENGLISH, Technology

WhatsApp Changes Everything With Its New Status Feature

    WhatsApp is making a radical update to its app, turning it for the first time into a platform for passively consuming content, similar to the way people scroll through their Facebook or Instagram newsfeeds and it’s a move that could finally usher in a money-making system like advertising. WhatsApp’s new Status feature, being rolled out on Monday, will let users share photos, GIFs or videos overlaid with drawings, emojis and a caption that will be visible to selected friends for 24 hours, before disappearing. If this sounds familiar, that’s because it’s exactly like Snapchat’s hugely successful Stories feature, launched three years ago, which lets users share similarly ephemeral timelines. The move probably shouldn’t be surprising. Facebook, which owns WhatsApp, saw its oth...
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News Brief from Bangladesh High Commission London
22Feb By Sumon AdminNo Comments
ENGLISH, London

News Brief from Bangladesh High Commission London

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina returned home yesterday wrapping up her three-day official visit to Germany where she attended the Munich Security Conference. Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has sought support of international community to arrange temporary accommodation for Myanmar refugees in a healthy and safe environment in Bangladesh. She said this in a luncheon meeting with German Chancellor Angela Merkel on the sidelines of the 53rd Munich Security Conference at Hotel Bayerrischer Hof in Munich yesterday. Sheikh Hasina said Bangladesh has taken the issue of extruded Myanmar citizens from humanitarian point of view. Hundreds of Rohingyas who fled to Bangladesh to escape persecution in Myanmar have returned home, community leaders said yesterday, adding that most had gone back temporarily t...
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Discord in Angela Merkel’s government after environment ministry bans meat at official functions
21Feb By Sumon AdminNo Comments
ENGLISH, Europe, Featured

Discord in Angela Merkel’s government after environment ministry bans meat at official functions

    Angela Merkel A row has broken out in Angela Merkel’s government after the environment minister banned meat at official functions. Barbara Hendricks claims eating meat is damaging to the environment and has ordered only vegetarian food to be served. A rival minister has accused her of nanny-statism and trying to force vegetarianism on people by the back door. With elections only months away and Mrs Merkel’s Christian Democrats (CDU) lagging behind their junior coalition partner in the polls, it was only a matter of time before tempers started to fray. But no one expected the first falling-out to be over vegetarian vol-au-vents. Ms Hendricks is a member of the Social Democrats (SPD), who have surged ahead of Mrs Merkel’s CDU in the polls under their new leader, Martin Schul...
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How does Pakistan observe International Mother Language Day
21Feb By Sumon AdminNo Comments
Asia, ENGLISH

How does Pakistan observe International Mother Language Day

    Proclaimed by the General Conference of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) in November 1999, 21 February has been observed as International Mother Language Day every year since February 2000 to promote linguistic and cultural diversity and multilingualism. On 21 February 1952, students demonstrating for recognition of Bangla vehemently refuting the rulling then West Pakistan authorities’ decision as one of the two national languages of the then Pakistan were gunned down by police in Dhaka, the capital of what is now Bangladesh and the then East Pakistan. So, does the then ruling West Pakistan, now Pakistan, observe the International Mother Language Day? How does it observe the day? Quoting Karachi-based journalist Monir Ahmed, BBC...
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Dramatic moment German fighter jets intercept London
21Feb By Sumon AdminNo Comments
ENGLISH, London

Dramatic moment German fighter jets intercept London

    This is the dramatic moment two German fighter jets intercepted a London-bound passenger plane after air traffic control failed to make contact with its pilot. The Eurofighter Typhoons were scrambled after the Jet Airways Boeing 777 aircraft lost contact with local air traffic control for a few minutes as it was crossing over Cologne. Video footage apparently taken from a British Airways plane travelling behind showed two fighter jets flying alongside a passenger plane above the clouds. The London-bound flight had 330 passengers and 15 crew on board and was flying from Mumbai to Heathrow. Officials said contact with the passenger plane was restored by the time the fighter jets were airborne and that they were deployed to ensure the safety of the flight and its guests. It m...
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West Bengal observes International Mother Language Day
21Feb By Sumon AdminNo Comments
Asia, ENGLISH

West Bengal observes International Mother Language Day

    The Indian state of West Bengal on Tuesday observed International Mother Language Day paying homage to those who laid down their lives for the cause of the Bengali language in Bangladesh in 1952. Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee took to Twitter in Bengali, stressing the importance of each and every language. ‘Every language is equal. The mother tongue should be the medium to express one’s views. My respect to the martyrs,’ she said. In her homage, Banerjee highlighted the song ‘Ekusher Gaan’ which is popularly known for its opening line ‘Amar Bhaiyer Rakte Ranga Ekushey February, Aami Ki Bhulite Pari’ (How can I forget February 21, it is soaked in the blood of my brethren), that was composed in memory of the martyrs of the language movement. The day began with ‘prabhat pheri...
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Five die as plane crashes into Melbourne shopping centre
21Feb By Sumon AdminNo Comments
Australia, ENGLISH

Five die as plane crashes into Melbourne shopping centre

    Five people have been killed after a small plane crashed into a shopping centre near an airport north of Melbourne, Australia. The Beechcraft plane exploded on impact just before 9am local time, an hour before the Direct Factory Outlet shopping mall was due to open. Those killed reportedly include four US citizens. Assistant police commissioner Stephen Leane said: There were five people on the aeroplane and it looks like nobody's survived the crash. A plane carrying five people has crashed into a shopping centre in northern Melbourne A taxi driver told ABC radio there was a "massive fireball" after the impact. He said: I could feel the heat through the window of the taxi, and then a wheel - it looked like a plane wheel bounced on the road and hit the front of the taxi as w...
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The top 12 rumors we’re hearing about Apple’s next iPhone
20Feb By Sumon AdminNo Comments
ENGLISH, Technology

The top 12 rumors we’re hearing about Apple’s next iPhone

    Even die-hard iPhone fans have to admit that the AMOLED displays on other phones, particularly those from Samsung, look better than the LCD screens on iPhones. But if the rumors are true, iPhone fans may no longer need to make that admission, as Apple is reportedly looking to use a form of OLED display on the next iPhone. Just prepare your wallet, because OLED isn't cheap. But that's just one of the rumors we're hearing. Check out all the latest scuttlebutt surrounding Apple's next iPhone. There WILL be an S model of the iPhone 7. A Barclay's report obtained by MacRumors said Apple would skip the S model this year, which has historically followed each new phone version. The report claimed Apple would instead jump directly from the iPhone 7 to the iPhone 8 — possibly called...
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Most vitamin supplements are useless but there’s more evidence that vitamin D could be the exception
20Feb By Sumon AdminNo Comments
ENGLISH, Life Style

Most vitamin supplements are useless but there’s more evidence that vitamin D could be the exception

    When it comes to vitamins and minerals, more is always better, right? Not exactly. While it may be enticing to reach for that vitamin-C packed drink when feeling under the weather, your body can't actually process it all. And a balanced diet typically carries enough B, C, and E vitamins to keep your body running smoothly. But there is growing evidence that there could be one vitamin worth getting with the help of supplements: vitamin D. Though how much of this vitamin the body is actually able to use is still up for debate, it's difficult to get much vitamin D from food. Especially if a person is deficient in vitamin D, a supplement can help get to the recommended daily amount. Technically, two different vitamins D2, which mainly comes from supplements and food, and D3, wh...
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There’s one quality in men that women find even more attractive than good looks
20Feb By Sumon AdminNo Comments
ENGLISH, Life Style

There’s one quality in men that women find even more attractive than good looks

    Women’s preferences for men are more influenced by whether they are altruistic than good looking, a new study has found. To establish this scientists showed women photographs of different men accompanied by a description of how they would behave (altruistically or not) in certain situations for instance whether or not they would buy a homeless person a sandwich or help a drowning child. The results showed that women preferred altruistic men, especially when it came to long term relationships. This preference interacted directly with a preference for physical attractiveness; being both attractive and altruistic made a man more desirable than the sum of the two desirable parts. Though the ideal man would be both attractive and altruistic, the study showed that for long term ...
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