Desk Report: Hotels, motels and guesthouses in and around the popular tourist zones of the country have geared up for a brisk business during Eid festivities. Holiday destinations like Cox’s Bazar, Kuakata, Sylhet, Bandarban, Rangamati and St Martin’s Island are expecting a big turnout of tourists during the holidays. Sheikh Imrul Siddique, an official at…
UNB: Bagerhat, one of the popular tourist destinations of the country, attracted a huge number of visitors with its historical sites and magnificent beauty in this Eid vacation as in previous years. While the people of all age have been crowding the tourist spots and recreation centres in the district to enjoy the vacation, the…
Sami Moubayed/Gulf News A major assault on the Syrian province depends on the outcome of diplomacy between the Turks and the Russians The once sleepy city of Idlib, perched in the Syrian northwest, was supposed to be next on the battle list of the Syrian and Russian armies. They had started operations around the Idlib…
Seth Lipsky/The New York Post None too soon to think about the prospect of impeachment. It’s in the headlines, after all, in the wake of the guilty verdicts against Paul Manafort and the guilty pleas by Michael Cohen. It may be claimed that none of the crimes of President Trump’s ex-campaign manager and ex-personal lawyer…
Desk Report: In the busy and concrete city life, people get little time to travel to panoramic places. Eid vacations come with the opportunity of taking a break from the mundane daily life and visit the wonderful places of the country, reports The Daily Sun In Bangladesh, travelling during the vacation of Eid has become…
Ramzy Baroud/Al Jazeera Lamia, Reem, Shaima and Dwlat are powerful Palestinian women just like Ahed, but their stories have been ignored. Ahed Tamimi, the 17-year-old Palestinian activist from the village of Nabi Saleh in the West Bank, is an icon of a rebellious young generation of Palestinians which has demonstrated it has little tolerance for…
Desk Report: Dhaka city corporations have claimed mass achievement in delivering to the promise of cleaning up the capital of animal wastes within 24 hours, reports The Daily Star. While Dhaka South City Corporation has claimed of 90 per cent cleanup, Dhaka North has claimed “success” for what it said was due to “responsible role…
Desk Report: Jute cultivation in the district has been reduced by about 40 percent this year compared to last year, mostly due to unfavourable weather condition. Jute was cultivated on 20,228 hectares of land last year, producing 2,01,890 bales of fibre, said Shariful Islam, a sub-assistant agriculture officer at the district Department of Agriculture Extension…
Independent.UK: Break-ups are no picnic, but how you cope depends entirely on the terms with which you and your partner divide. In some cases, it’s as easy as having a conversation and saying “so long”, resulting in a breakup devoid of drama. Here are 3 types of break-ups and how to get over it, according…
Desk Report: More than 10,000 new private passenger cars were pressed into service in Dhaka in the first seven months of the current year, reports The Financial Express. Statistics available with Bangladesh Road Transport Authority (BRTA) showed that number of newly registered private car stood at 10,160 in Dhaka during January-July period of this year….