Australia said on Wednesday it will add YouTube to sites covered by its world-first ban on social media for teenagers, reversing an earlier decision to exempt the Alphabet-owned, opens new tab video-sharing site and potentially setting up a legal challenge. The decision came after the internet reg
As the world observes Global Tiger Day on Tuesday, forest officials and conservationists in Bangladesh have expressed cautious optimism over a gradual rise in the number of Royal Bengal Tigers in the Sundarbans. According to the Forest Department, the number of tigers in the Bangladesh part of the
Facing complex bureaucracy at home in Poland, Magdalena Kujawińska and her Colombian fiancé Heinner Valenzuela travelled to Copenhagen to become husband and wife. “We realized that it’s not that easy to get married in Poland,” the 30-year-old Kujawińska said as the couple
A three-day training programme on ‘Technical Knowledge Development for Women’ concluded on Tuesday in Dhaka. Fourteen women journalists from various print and electronic media took part in the training. The training, held at NGO Forum for Public Health Office at Lalmatia, was organised
Tens of thousands of centuries-old books are being pulled from the shelves of a medieval abbey in Hungary in an effort to save them from a beetle infestation that could wipe out centuries of history. The 1,000-year-old Pannonhalma Archabbey is a sprawling Benedictine monastery that is one of Hunga
For sale: A 54-pound (25-kilogram) rock. Estimated auction price: $2 million to $4 million. Why so expensive? It's the largest piece of Mars ever found on Earth. Sotheby's in New York will be auctioning what's known as NWA 16788 on Wednesday as part of a natural history-themed sale that also inclu
When Plufl co-founders Yuki Kinoshita and Noah Silverman pitched their "dog beds for humans" prototype to Shark Tank in 2022, they envisioned making the plush, snuggly, memory foam beds in China and selling them at retail in the US for $299. Mark Cuban and Lori Greiner invested $200,000 jointly fo
An Australian domestic flight was delayed for two hours after a stowaway snake was found in the plane’s cargo hold, officials said on Wednesday. The snake was found on Tuesday as passengers were boarding Virgin Australia Flight VA337 at Melbourne Airport bound for Brisbane, according to snak
Bangladesh's journey toward nuclear energy took a major step forward as the main and auxiliary transformers at the first power unit of the Rooppur Nuclear Power Plant (NPP) were successfully commissioned. This milestone signals the plant's readiness for integration with the national power grid, br
Dr Sarwar Ali has been appointed as the new President of Chhayanaut, one of Bangladesh's most prominent cultural organisations, three months after the passing of the legendary cultural activist Sanjida Khatun. Dr Ali, who had been serving as the Executive President, was named President at Chhayana
