The ancient Roman archaeological park of Pompeii in southern Italy said on Friday it would cap daily visitor numbers at 20,000 as a response to its surging popularity. The change, effective from November 15, comes after a peak of more than 36,000 daily entrances on a free-admission Sunday, the par
William Radice, the poet, researcher and translator who made innumerable stories and poems of Rabindranath Tagore and ‘Meghnad Badh Kabya,’ the epic by Michael Madhusudan Dutt, available to English readers, has passed away. Radice died on Monday in England at the age of 73, confirmed p
On November 13, the 32nd death anniversary of renowned industrialist, late Mrs Anwara Begum will be observed today by her eldest daughter, Mrs. Sultana Daula, former member of parliament. Mrs Anwara Begum was the managing director of KDH Laboratories Limited, director of Industrialist Bank & Natio
The country's realtors have threatened tougher action unless the national building code is amended within 15 days. Office-bearers of the Real Estate and Housing Association of Bangladesh (REHAB) have also announced to start constructing buildings following the Dhaka Building Construction Rules 200
Microsoft has fired two employees who organized an unauthorized vigil at the company's headquarters for Palestinians killed in Gaza during Israel's war with Hamas, reports AP. The two employees told The Associated Press they were fired by phone call late Thursday, several hours after a lunch
A rare deluge of rainfall left blue lagoons of water amid the palm trees and sand dunes of the Sahara desert, nourishing some of its driest regions with more water than they had seen in decades. Southeastern Morocco’s desert is among the most arid places in the world and rarely exp
South Korean author Han Kang won the 2024 Nobel Prize in Literature for "her intense poetic prose that confronts historical traumas and exposes the fragility of human life," the award-giving body said on Thursday. The prize is awarded by the Swedish Academy and is worth 11 million Swedish
The moon blotted out most of the sun across the Pacific Ocean on Wednesday afternoon, giving just a few specks of land an impressive annular “ring of fire” eclipse. Only Easter Island and a small area near the southern tip of Chile and Argentina witnessed an annular eclipse, lasting ju
The town of Hilario Ascasubi near Argentina's eastern Atlantic coast has a parrot problem. Thousands of the green-yellow-red birds have invaded, driven by deforestation in the surrounding hills, according to biologists. They bite on the town's electric cables, causing outages, and are driving resi
The Jahangirnagar University (JU) authorities have filed a murder case against eight students after the death of Shamim Ahmed alias Shamim Molla, a former leader of the university's Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) unit. Shamim Molla died after a group of students beat him on the campus on Septembe
