Daraz Bangladesh, known as the country’s biggest online marketplace and shopping hub, is going to host world’s biggest sale campaign “11.11” in the country on Monday.

Bangladesh National ODI Cricket Team Captain Mashrafe Bin Mortaza is set to inaugurate the campaign through Facebook Live at 11:30pm on Sunday.

The daylong campaign will create the most worthy vibe of 24-hour online shopping experience when lots of fascinating deals will be unblocked.

The campaign was first launched by Daraz’s parent company Alibaba Group in 2009 worldwide.

Daraz first hosted the international campaign in Bangladesh in 2018 - on both its website daraz.com.bd and their official app.

During the last year’s “11.11” campaign, Bangladeshi customers bought products worth Tk 45 crore with 1.20 lakh orders.

This year, Daraz will celebrate the campaign with even bigger arrangement with the collective efforts of 3,500 employees and 15,000 sellers.

The mega sale event will provide a great shopping experience with more than 70 lakh products and lucrative offers. The special attraction includes Tk 11 Deal, Pre-sale Discount, Tk 1 Game, Double Tk Voucher, Shake-Shake Voucher, Happy Hour Voucher, Big Sale Time from 9pm to 12am and free deliveries on specific products.
 

Teen climate activist Greta Thunberg is staring down at pedestrians in the heart of San Francisco where an artist is painting a massive mural of the Nobel Peace Prize nominee.

Argentine muralist Andres Iglesias, who signs his art with the pseudonym Cobre, is set to finish the artwork of the Swedish 16-year-old in Union Square by next week, SFGate reported Friday.

Iglesias told SFGate that he's donating his time to complete the work and that he hopes the mural helps people realize "we have to take care of the world."

He had also painted a mural of Robin Williams in downtown San Francisco that has since been demolished.

Cobre said he was searching for a building for a new mural when environmental nonprofit oneatmosphere.org approached him about the project.

Paul Scott, the nonprofit's executive director, said he believed the artist would be perfect to create the first of what his group hopes will be a series of works honoring climate-change activists.

The Architects’ Regional Council Asia (ARCASIA)- a Council of the presidents of the National Institutes of Architects of 21 Asian countries that are members of ARCASIA. ARCASIA FORUM is hosted by one of the member countries of ARCASIA every alternate year. The Institute of Architects Bangladesh (IAB) is hosting ARCASIA FORUM 20 with the theme “Architecture in a Changing Landscape” from 2nd to 7th November, 2019. The 6-day long program kicked off on 31st October, 2019 with an open exhibition "Exhibition on Architecture of Bangladesh" at Manik Mia Avenue Plaza at 4.30 pm. Mr. Noor-E-Alam Chowdhury, MP, Hon'ble Chief Whip, Parliament of Bangladesh.

This public exhibition on displays various projects of Bangladesh by prominent architects. Each container houses the exhibits while the murals done on them represent each season of Bangladesh. The murals are done by Reesham Shahab Tirtho, popularly known as Tirtho.

Photo: Al-Amin Abu Ahmed Ashraf-Dolon

Photo: Zahidul Haque Bonny                                                            Photo: Quazi Anika Afrin

Photo: Al-Amin Abu Ahmed Ashraf-Dolon

Photo: Quazi Anika Afrin

Other exhibitions are being held at Shahid Tajuddin Ahmed Smriti Park, Gulshan and Bengal Institute. The exhibitions will end on 7th November, 2019.

Besides, the IAB Build Expo 2019 held at BICC is taking place from 3-5 November. The Forum will primarily take place at BICC: Hall of Fame and will be preceded with sessions by Emre Arolat (EAA Studio, Turkey) and Bangladeshi Architect Shamsul Wares. Besides, different sessions will be conducted by both national and international Architects, like Marina Tabassum, Nahas Khalil, Ehsan Khan, Saif ul Hoq, WOHA Architects (Singapore), Shigeru Ban (Japan), Sidhartha Talwar (India) and many more. Session discussion includes topics like: “Towards A New Asian Architecture and Urbanism Agenda”, “Architecture of Impermanence,” “Contextual Interpretations” and other technical sessions on society, economy, technology, education and environment.

 The 50 years celebration since its formation in 1969 will take place on the 6th November at Hatirjheel Amphitheater. The Forum ends on the 7th with a Friendship Night, binding professionals with diverse cultural background in a harmony of friendship at Zinda Park, a place to commensurate to the humble rural landscape of Bangladesh.

The Kangmei Chinese medicinal material price index, a barometer of the traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) material market, dropped 0.02 percent to 1,229.33 points on Wednesday.

Covering more than 500 TCM materials including herbs and minerals from six major markets nationwide, the closely-watched index reflects the overall price trend in the country's TCM material market. It is released daily by Kangmei Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd, one of China's major TCM companies.

The index was approved by the National Development and Reform Commission of China in 2012 to offer more timely and accurate reference for TCM material growers, traders and pharmaceutical companies.

Traditional Chinese medicines typically use the combination of a number of medicinal materials, mostly herbs, to address health problems.

A new Australian study examining the links between pet ownership and mental wellbeing found that acquiring a dog can make a person feel significantly less lonely in just three months.

Published by BMC Public Health on Tuesday, the University of Sydney's PAWS trail followed 71 Sydneysiders over an eight-month period, comparing new canine owners with people who had no intention of getting a dog.

The self-reported findings not only showed a reduction in loneliness amongst dog owners, but also a vast decrease in negative emotional states such as feelings of being upset or scared.

"Some previous research has shown that human to dog interactions can have benefits in settings like nursing homes using therapy dogs, however, there is very little research looking at the impact for everyday dog owners interacting with their dog at home," lead author Lauren Powell from the University of Sydney's Charles Perkins Centre said.

"While we can't pinpoint exactly how dog ownership positively affected mood and loneliness in our participants, many people in the study reported that they got to know others in their neighbourhood because of their new dog."

"We also know that short-term interactions with dogs improve mood so it may be that the regular occurrence of these interactions taking place with dog ownership produced long-term improvements."

The busy lifestyles in modern urban societies across the globe can often lead to social isolation and a lost sense of community.

That's why senior author, Professor Emmanuel Stamatakis from the University of Sydney's Faculty of Medicine and Health, believes studying the link between pets and mental health is so important.

"If dogs can help people get out into their neighbourhoods more and to meet other people, this is a win-win," he said.

"This is particularly important in older age when there is an increased risk of isolation and loneliness."

"It's a major cardiovascular disease risk factor, it's a major cancer risk factor, and it's a major risk factor for depression."

But while the study demonstrated positive results in terms of emotional improvement, researchers warned they saw no impact when it came to psychological distress related to conditions like depression and anxiety.

The group is now conducting a parallel study examining the physical activity patterns of dog owners, compared to those who don't have a pet.