Desk Report Publishers and research organizations have set up 21 stalls at the fair. The three-day non-fiction Book Fair has begun on the premises of the Faculty of Business Studies of Dhaka University (DU). DU Vice-Chancellor (VC) Professor M Akhtaruzzaman inaugurated the fair by releasing colorful balloons around 10:30am on Sunday. Addressing the ceremony before…
Desk Report Rapid Action Battalion claimed to have detained five suspected operatives of banned militant outfit Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh from Boraigram upazila of Natore early today. One of the detainees was identified as Jubayer Hossain, who was said to be the regional chief of the militant outfit, our Natore correspondent reports quoting Assistant Superin-tendent of Police…
Kabir Humayun A Dhaka court, setup in old central jail, yesterday directed BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia’s lawyers to explain why her bail order in Zia Charitable trust graft case will not be cancelled. Judge Dr Md Akhteruzzaman of Special Judge’s Court-5 passed the order and fixed October 7 for hearing both prosecution and defense lawyers’…
BSS Awami League Joint General Secretary Mahbubul Alam Hanif, MP, today said the demand or breaking laws or violating constitution marking upcoming national election are completely unacceptable. “The next general election will be held as per the constitution. We are inviting all the political parties to take part in the election. But any demand of…
David Greene, Civil liberties director and senior staff attorney for the Electronic Frontier Foundation/Gulf News Facebook, Twitter, Apple and other companies routinely silence voices in marginalised communities around the world that struggle to be heard There is finally a public debate about the big internet platforms policing content and suspending accounts. But it’s a serious…
Huffington Post Shockwaves from bombing raids by Allied forces during the Second World War reached the edge of space, scientists have discovered. The findings could help reveal how natural disasters such as earthquakes, volcanoes and even thunderstorms affect the Earth’s atmosphere, according to new research. Examining data gathered by British wartime scientists, researchers from the…
Tech Explorist A new study has estimated the size of Pakistan’s nuclear stockpile to be lower than present estimates, attributing it to a shortage of uranium. The study estimates that Pakistan could at best have between 112 and 156 nuclear weapons. Of them, about 78 to 104 would be highly enriched uranium (HEU)-based weapons and…
Desk Report Over 30 dwelling houses and vast croplands have gone into the Jamuna at Pashchim Jotgari village in Sirajganj’s Chowhali upazila as the river suddenly started massive erosion there on Thursday. “The areas on the Jamuna bank started going into the riverbed around 10:00am on Thursday and over 30 houses and a few hundred…
Desk Report Bangladeshi workers are being allured to migrate to Libya en route to European countries by organized transnational trafficking rackets with false promises. The traffickers pocket huge money of the workers who end up as their victims. The trafficking rackets use the air routes, Dhaka to Benghazi via Abu Dhabi, Dubai, Alexandria. From Libya…
Kabir Humayun A Dhaka Court yesterday asked the lawyer of BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia to explain by October 7 whether it will keep the bail order while she is in jail in the Zia Charitable Trust corruption case. Judge Md Akhteruzzaman of the Special Judge Court-5 of Dhaka passed the order. The order came after…