BSS, Bandarban State Minister for Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT) Affairs Bir Bahadur on Saturday said the government is bringing the whole hill region under communications network by constructing roads in remote areas. The pace of ongoing development activities is being enhanced maintaining peace and harmony in the CHT, he said speaking as the chief guest…
UNB, Dhaka The Unnayan Onneshan (UO) cautions that lower growth in agriculture, underperformance in medium and large scale manufacturing industries coupled with greater product and market concentration of export, and slow expansion of service sector may hinder the achievement of 7 percent growth target. The independent multidisciplinary think tank gave the caution in its February…
UNB, Dhaka Bangladesh Women’s team made a good practice beating Irish Women’s by eight wickets with 45 balls remaining in their 2nd official warm–up match of the Women’s World Twenty20 at M Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bangalore on Saturday. Bangladesh women’s started their World Twenty20 campaign taking on hosts India in a Group B match on…
UNB, Dhaka Noting that the appeal of the historic March 7 speech of Bangabandhu is the unfading one, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Saturday urged the young generation to listen to it repeatedly to draw inspirations from it to build themselves as worthy citizens. The Prime Minister said this while addressing a seminar on the…
BSS, Rajshahi Prime Minister’s Adviser on Economics Affairs Dr Moshiur Rahman has said the Bangladesh’s GDP is increasing day by day and it will be double within next eight years. “We will no more dependent on foreign aid and we have become a self-reliant nation,” he added. He was addressing the inaugural session of the…
UNB, Dhaka The Malaysian government has decided to halt the recruitment of new foreign workers to the country, said its deputy prime minister Datuk Seri Ahmad Zahid Hamidi. Hamidi also made it clear that their initial plan to bring in 1.5 million Bangladeshi workers was officially scrapped, according to Malaysian media, including The Star Online…
BSS, Pirojpur Home-Minister Asaduzzaman Khan on Saturday categorically said Islam is a religion of peace and there is no place for militancy in Islam. “An ill force is hatching conspiracy to foil the country’s development and to help rising militancy by misinterpreting Islam among common people,” he came up with the observation while addressing annual…
UNB, Dhaka Though the Bangla literature embraced modernism through Rabindranath Tagore, Bangladesh has seen no ‘great’ writer over the last few decades due to the spread of job-oriented education and fall in readership, bemoan educationists. They also observed that once newspapers had played an important role in creating and promoting new and talented writers of…
Our Time Desk Before we work our way into the semantics of why, how and where Google’s AI (artificial intelligence) defeated the current reigning champ of the Go series in China. Lets gets to know what Go really is. Go is a traditional Asian game not unlike checkers. It is an intellectual game played on…
Marilyn Thipthorpe Last year, a study conducted at the University of Cambridge involving the production of viable sperms and eggs went viral (pun intended!). The scientists of the Gurdon Institute in Cambridge headed by Dr. Azim Surani, reported that they had successfully created primitive forms of artificial sperm and eggs by culturing embryonic stem cells…