I recently had the enviable task of reading nearly every story Richard Matheson ever wrote and selecting 33 tales to be included in Penguin Classics’ The Best of Richard Matheson. This turned out to be like…

Apollo 11 astronaut Michael Collins dies

Michael Collins – one of the three crew members of the first manned mission to the Moon, Apollo 11 in 1969 – has died aged 90, his family say. He died on Wednesday after “a valiant…

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, following fevered speculation over where the 18-tonne object would come down. Officials…

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 was not invited. Police say Teodoro Macias, 28, fatally shot his girlfriend,…

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 of Eid-ul-Fitr.

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 said this could put 400 million people at risk across the world.…

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. It took just 16 days to count the latest 1,000 deaths as…

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 National Democratic Alliance. Never in India’s electoral history has the party/alliance in…

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 capital. Dui is the second chapter of a series exhibition, Ek, curated…

Let us celebrate Eid at home: celebs

Celebrities belonging to different fraternities urged all to celebrate the upcoming Eid-ul-Fitr at home with their family members like the past year as the country’s Covid situation is looking bleak and many people have passed away.…

Programmed for war

WHY don’t America’s wars ever end? I know, I know: president Joe Biden has announced that our combat troops will be withdrawn from Afghanistan by 9/11 of this year, marking the 20th anniversary of the colossal…