UNB: The government has created 30,000 more skilled manpower through providing world-class IT training to them to boost the country’s ICT sector, reports UNB. UK-based Ernst and Young (EY) conducted the training under the World Bank-financed Leveraging ICT for Growth, Employment and Governance (LICT) Project of Bangladesh Computer Council (BCC). “We engaged the local and…
Desk Report: Bangladesh can now manage multi-billion dollar development projects at ease, thanks to high GDP growth and local engineers, many of whom are from BUET (Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology), the country’s top citadel of learning. These remarks were made by Prof Jamilur Reza Choudhury in Toronto, Canada, while addressing a group of…
Al Jazeera: A Palestinian fatally stabbed an Israeli at a shopping mall in the occupied West Bank on Sunday before an armed civilian shot and wounded the assailant, Israeli police and medical officials said. Security camera footage circulated on social media appeared to show the attacker stabbing a man in the back outside the mall…
Al Jazeera: When Syrians first started trickling in through the border, fleeing the flaring conflict, residents of the Turkish border town of Reyhanli in Hatay province welcomed them. “We are all human beings and we are Muslim, so it is our duty to help them,” said 47-year-old Coskun Kaya, sitting in the sports cafe he…
BBC: The rise of the machines is taking aim at truckers. This is Volvo’s concept for a driverless, electric truck, or ‘semi’ if you prefer. Stop sniggering at the back, you’ll offend her. She’s called Vera. Volvo says the idea is for ‘Vera’ to be monitored by a cloud-based service, speeding up the worldwide business…
Sayeed Muhammad: BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia’s physical condition is not under any danger, but she should be treated at a hospital run by specialized doctors of all fields, doctors have suggested. A day after the newly formed five-member medical team examined Khaleda at the Old Dhaka jail, the physicians have also said they think Bangabandhu…
Desk Report: Fire fighters are not getting enough water to douse blaze in Mymensingh town as most of its ponds were filled with earth, creating public concern, reports The Daily Star. Locals said there were at least 20 ponds in the town. Many of those were used as the only source of water for taking…
Desk Report: The finance ministry has allocated Tk 89.67 crore to the state-owned Steel and Engineering Corporation for payment of installment for 30 per cent of shares in the Bangladesh Honda Private Limited, a Bangladesh-Japan joint venture company, reports The New Age. Narayan Chandra Debnath, a director of the steel corporation, on Saturday told New…
Desk Report: The government is in a hurry to get rural infrastructure development projects involving substantial volume of funds approved by the Planning Commission (PC) before the forthcoming national elections, officials said on Saturday, reports the financial express. They said the Local Government and Engineering Department (LGED) alone has sought approval for nine projects meant…
BBC: Despite the international ban on uncontrolled trade in cacti, policing the smuggling faces many problems and semi-professional hunters continue to uproot plants to order, stealing from National Parks, Indian Reservations, but more significantly from the wild. In southern Spain, the plants are being devastated by the cochineal beetle. But the picture there is mirrored…