Block 44 - Timeline
- May 2021May 12, 2021
Israel airstrike kills 35 in Gaza
Hostilities between Israel and Hamas escalated overnight, with at least 35 killed in Gaza and five in Israel in the most intensive aerial exchanges…
- May 12, 2021
Oculus now lets you access the Windows desktop
I recently had the enviable task of reading nearly every story Richard Matheson ever wrote and selecting 33 tales to be included in Penguin…
- May 12, 2021
Group show Dui under way at Dwip, Studio 6/6
A group art exhibition featuring artworks by young artists under the rubric Dui is under way at Dwip Gallery and Studio 6/6 in the…
- May 11, 2021
Pulse Oximeter: Everything you need to know before getting one
Silent hypoxia is one of the symptoms in which COVID-19 patients have alarmingly low blood oxygen saturation levels, yet they do not show any…
- May 12, 2021
Covid deaths cross 12,000 DGHS fears rise in cases after Eid
Bangladesh on Tuesday recorded 33 more Covid deaths and 1,230 new cases, with the country’s death toll from the disease crossing the 12,000 mark.…
- May 12, 2021
Banks’ interest rate spread rises to 3.05pts
The overall weighted average interest rate spread in the country’s banking sector rose to 3.05 percentage points in March after remaining below 3 percentage…
- May 12, 2021
Eid-ul-Fitr in Saudi Arabia on Thursday
Therefore, Wednesday (May 12) will be the last and 30th day of Ramadan, and Thursday (May 13) will be observed as the first day…
- May 12, 2021
Chinese rocket segment disintegrates over Indian Ocean
A large segment of a Chinese rocket re-entered the Earth’s atmosphere and disintegrated over the Indian Ocean on Sunday, the Chinese space agency said,…
- May 12, 2021
Apocalypse engulfs India
WEST Bengal elections results could not have been, to put it mildly, more disappointing for the Indian prime minister and his Bharatiya Janata Party-led…
- May 12, 2021
400m people at risk as cities fail to face climate change
Hundreds of cities have no climate adaptation plans in place despite rising threats like floods, heatwaves and pollution, according to a report Wednesday that…
- May 11, 2021
Dozens of state prosecutors tell Facebook to stop its plans for a children’s version of Instagram
Attorneys general for 44 states and jurisdictions called on Facebook to halt plans to create a version of Instagram for young children, citing concerns…
- May 12, 2021
Colorado gunman killed 6 at party ‘as he was not invited’
Colorado officials say the gunman who killed six people in a mass shooting at a birthday party at the weekend was upset that he…