Best foodie resort: Meadowood, California Located in a private 100-hectare estate in Napa Valley, Meadowood is mostly known for its Michelin three-star restaurant simply called The Restaurant. Each dish at The Restaurant is a tribute to the Napa Valley region. Chef Christopher Kostow cooks with ingredients from Napa Valley’s terroir. This includes curing Wagyu [...]
The Bangladeshi woman has a complete sense of identity with the sari. This has clearly made her resist changing her style of dressing and inadvertently provided continuity in weaving traditions in many parts of Bangladesh and The Bangladeshi woman has a complete sense of identity with the sari. This has clearly made her resist [...]
A new security hole has opened up in Apple Inc.’s iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch devices, raising alarms about the susceptibility of some of the world’s hottest tech gadgets to hacker attacks. Flaws in the software running those devices came to light after a German security agency warned that criminals could use them to [...]
Despite having limitation of modern equipments, country’s key seaport, Chittagong Port, secured top position in terms of efficiency among 69 ports of 17 countries in Asia, says a recent study. The report – Benchmarking the Efficiency of Asian Container Ports – says Chittagong port is using existing old and new equipments at its optimum [...]
Muammar Gaddafi has threatened to send hundreds of Libyans to launch attacks in Europe in revenge for the Nato-led military campaign against him. In a speech on Libyan television the Libyan leader said: “Hundreds of Libyans will martyr in Europe. I told you it is eye for an eye and tooth for a tooth. [...]
South Sudan has become the world’s newest nation, the climax of a process made possible by the 2005 peace deal that ended a long and bloody civil war. Sudan’s President Omar al-Bashir and UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon are among international dignitaries attending celebrations in the capital, Juba. Sudan earlier became the first state [...]
The rule of law in Bangladesh has come under stinging criticism in a new report produced by the Washington-based World Justice Project which ranks 66 countries on indicators involving the extent to which they adhere to ‘the rule of law, not in theory, but in practice.’ The report, launched in Washington in June, describes [...]
Bangladesh has nothing to fear from giving it transit rights to north-eastern Indian states, as it will be only for “peaceful purposes,” the Indian foreign minister says. But, S M Krishna added, Dhaka will have to create market in the land-locked states in the north-east to benefit from transit facility when asked what Bangladesh [...]