M Humayun Kabir : Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday urged her party leaders and workers not to be over complacent about coming back to power in the next election. She made the call to party leaders to work together to help win of the candidates in all constituencies in the upcoming polls, reports BSS. “We should…
CNN A senior scientist has given what has been described as a “highly offensive” presentation about the role of women in physics, the BBC has learned. At a workshop organised by Cern, Prof Alessandro Strumia of Pisa University said that “physics was invented and built by men, it’s not by invitation”. He said male scientists…
Al Jazeera Palestinian activist Ahed Tamimi, whose arrest last year drew international condemnation, has been honoured by Spanish football club Real Madrid after she was released from Israeli prison. The 17-year-old was arrested in December 2017 after a video of her slapping and hitting two Israeli soldiers outside of her house in the village of…
Wion Bangladesh has postponed plans to begin relocating Rohingya Muslims to a remote island, officials said Monday, amid staunch opposition to the controversial idea among refugees living near the Myanmar border. Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina was slated to open the new settlement built to house 100,000 refugees on Bhashan Char on October 3, despite…
Abrar Hussain James Allison and Tasuku Honjo won the 2018 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for their discoveries leading to breakthroughs in cancer therapy, according to a statement released yesterday by the award-giving body. “Allison and Honjo showed how different strategies for inhibiting the brakes on the immune system can be used in the…
Prof Dr Abul Barakat : The wholesale criticism over defaulted loans is not fair since it will send a negative signal to the people. As a result, the businesspersons who are not deliberate defaulters will feel letdown. We badly need industrialization. We are working for the infrastructural development. We are working for electricity, roads and…
Tasmiah Nuhiya Ahmed : In August 2017, the world witnessed one of the largest cross-border forced displacements of recent times. In a report, titled “Rohingya emergency” it was stated that the Bangladesh government has responded generously throughout the Rohingya crisis, focusing on meeting up the massive humanitarian needs and mitigating the impact of the seasonal monsoon…
Dr Salehuddin Ahmed The middle class are always educated and becomes entrepreneurs. The middle class is a driving force due to its skill and organized capacity. They can contribute greatly. We are witnessing economic development in the country. The affluent class is concentrating wea-lth for which the middle class is being deprived. There many smart…
Banglanews24 Jannatul Ferdous Oishee was crowned Miss World Bangladesh 2018. Now she will represent Bangladesh at this year’s Miss World Beauty Pageant to be held in China. Nishat Sarwar Salwa and Naziba Bushra were declared first and second runner-ups respectively. The grand finale of the Miss World Bangladesh beauty pageants was held at the Rajdarshan…
Utpal Dutta Sajeeb Wazed Joy, in a signed article wrote on state of democracy refuting a number of issues, allegations from the corner of opposition BNP over quite a few years. “They (opposition) are wrong. None of these claims are true,” says Sajeeb Wazed Joy, ICT advisor of Sheikh Hasina while striking down a number…