Desk Report: As a part of the world’s celebration of Teachers’ Day 2018, Google Doodle paid a special tribute to the mentors of our lives, reports Daily Star. A spinning globe with spectacles accompanied by all the major topics of knowledge like astronomy and biology, physics, chemistry, mathematics, music and sports. This year, World Teachers’…
Maureen Dowdis, New York Times Op-Ed columnist//BDnews24 Scheming white men, once allies in the conservative cause, knifing one another in the back. Complaints about pervasive — and sexist — bullying at the top. Galloping paranoia on the right. Wrenching battles over whether refugee policies are racist and cruel, and whether climate change fears are overwrought….
Desk Report: The flow of remittances grew by more than 7.0 per cent in August as expatriates sent increased amount of money on the occasion of Eid-ul-Azha, reports Financial Express. The money sent home by Bangladeshis working abroad amounted to $ 1.41 billion in August 2018, up by $ 92.87 million from the previous month’s…
Desk Report: CEMS Global Conference and Exhibition Management Services Ltd is going to present “19th Textech Bangladesh International Expo 2018” along with the “14th Dhaka International Yarn and Fabric Show 2018-Summer Edition” and “33rd Dye+Chem Bangla-desh 2018 International Expo” from September 12 to 15, 2018 at International Convention City Bashu-ndhara (ICCB) in Kuril in Dhaka,…
NY Times: Saudi Arabia’s public prosecutor is seeking the death penalty for a prominent Muslim cleric who has criticised the way the monarchy is governed, the Saudi news media and the cleric’s son said. The trial of the cleric, Salman al-Awda, comes after a year-long crackdown by Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, the kingdom’s day-to-day…
Golam Rosul/BSS Hena Begum, a duck farmer (khamari) has become the talk of the haor area for her outstanding work as she turned herself into a successful self reliant woman in the area. She and her husband Nayan Khan jointly operating a duck farm at Khan Bari village of Dewghar union under Austagram haor upazila…
Reuters: At 1 am on April 23, Yue Xin was rudely awakened in her dormitory at China’s prestigious Peking University by her mother and a faculty adviser. Yue, emboldened by the global #MeToo movement, had gained prominence across China for demanding that her university release information about a decades-old rape and suicide case. She should…
Kabir Humayun: BNP yesterday announced countrywide programmes demanding its Chairperson Khaleda Zia’s release from jail. The party men will hold an hour-long human chain on September 8 and a two-hour long token hunger strike on September 12, reports Asian Age. BNP senior joint secretary general Ruhul Kabir Rizvi made the announcement at a press conference…
UNB: Each of the state-owned commercial banks (SCBs) will have to put in place a dedicated supervision cell to oversee cases of default loan worth Tk. 100 crore and above and take measures to recover the money. This is one of the 26 recommendations that the Finance Ministry has recently come up with as governments…
Kabir Humayun: A fire has burnt down at least 14 shanties at a Rohingya refugee camp in Teknaf of Cox’s Bazar. The locals tamed the fire 20 minutes after it broke out at the Chakmarkul Rohingya camp in Whoaikong Union at around 5 am yesterday, reports bdnews24.com. Teknaf Police Station chief Ranajit Kumar Barua said…