Probashbangla24 online Desk : The Hindu devotees are celebrating Maha Ashtami, the most auspicious of the five-day Durga puja festival, at different Puja mandaps across the country. The main attraction of Maha Ashtami is Kumari Puja in which a pre-pubescent girl is worshipped as ‘Mother Goddess’. The rituals began around 11:00 am where girls were worshipped…
Probashbangla24 online Desk : Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina attended a meeting with Saudi King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud at his royal palace in Saudi Arabia’s capital Riyadh on Wednesday. The Bangladesh premier met with Salman, also the custodian of the two holy Mosques, at 1:30pm local time. The two world leaders had lunch together after…
Probashbangla24 online Desk : Hindu devotees will celebrate Maha Ashtami at puja mandaps across the country on Wednesday as part of Durga Puja. The main attraction of Maha Ashtami is Kumari Puja where a pre-pubescent girl is worshipped as “Mother Goddess”. Thousands of Hindu devotees will throng puja mandaps throughout the country to celebrate…
Probashbangla24 online Desk : Authorities in India’s most populous state have changed the Muslim name of an historic city to one with Hindu overtones, local media reported. Allahabad, a city of more than one million people in northern Uttar Pradesh (UP) state, will now be known as Prayagraj, a senior official from the ruling Bharatiya Janata…
Probashbangla24 online Desk : As so often, the cabinet managed to agree on what they don’t like – the EU’s version of the backstop – but they had a harder time agreeing what they do all like. And even after more than two hours of talks, there is, as things stand, no “fully formed” UK proposal…
Probashbangla24 online Desk : A rocket fired from Gaza struck a residential home in southern Israel early Wednesday and the Israeli military began attacking militant sites in Gaza in response after days of rising tensions. The Magen David Adom medical service said a woman and her three children, whose home in Beersheba was struck, were being…
Probashbangla24 online Desk : Sidhika Sharma is a famous actress down south. She forayed into the silver screen with ‘Paisaa’ in 2013. Hailing from Punjab, Sidhika is one of the few Punjabi stars who had a niche audience down south. She is keen on working with the aces in Telugu industry and is trying her luck…
Probashbangla24 online Desk : The US Food and Drug Administration said on Tuesday it approved Pfizer Inc’s drug for an advanced form of breast cancer tied to an inherited gene mutation. The drug, talazoparib, belongs to a closely watched class of new medicines called PARP inhibitors, which block enzymes involved in repairing damaged DNA, thereby helping…
Probashbangla24 online Desk : More needs be done to teach children how to stay safe around dogs and to reduce the risk of avoidable injuries. That’s the view of MPs who want animal behavioural experts and charities to come up with a canine childhood education plan for schools and parents. They also want a review into…
Probashbangla24 online Desk : Social networking giant Facebook is developing a camera-equipped set-top box for TVs that would support functionalities like video-calling, a media report said. Internally codenamed “Ripley”, the device would use Artificial Intelligence (AI) to automatically detect and follow people as they move through the frame during a video call, news website Cheddar reported…