BDnews24 Five people have received the prestigious Begum Rokeya Padak 2018 for their outstanding contributions to society and women’s empowerment. Zinnatun Nesa Talukder, Prof Zohra Anis, Shila Roy, Rauma Chowdhury (posthumously), and Rokeya Begum (posthumously) received the awards on Sunday. Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina handed out the medals, cheques of Tk2 lakh, and certificates, to…
Arafat Hasan of DOT The Jatiya Party has been allocated 29 seats as part of the Grand Alliance, but is also planning to run candidates for 132 seats separate from the coalition, reports BDnews. “The Jatiya Party has received 29 seats from the Awami League,” Jatiya Party Secretary General Mashiur Rahman Ranga told the media…
The Guardian This year has been by far the worst on record for gun violence in schools, the advocacy group Sandy Hook Promise said, citing research by the US Naval Postgraduate School (NPS). The NPS Center for Homeland Defense and Security counted 94 school shooting incidents in 2018, a near 60% increase on the previous…
Arab News Thousands of Hindu monks and activists linked to Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Hindu nationalist party gathered in the Indian capital New Delhi on Sunday to urge the government to build a temple at the ruins of a 16th century mosque. The calls for a new temple in the northern town of Ayodhya come…
Raj Abrar of DOT A special court in Dhaka announced January 3 for holding a hearing on a petition seeking permission to produce an FBI special agent and two members of Canadian police in connection with the Niko corruption case. The court also asked all the 11 accused, including BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia, of the…
Pervez Hoodbhoy, teaches physics in Lahore and Islamabad/Dawn, Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan says naya Pakistan shall soon resemble the seventh-century state of Madina. Beginning with his inaugural address of Aug 20, he has repeated his vow on no less than 11 separate occasions. Although all Muslims acknowledge the Madina state as a model of…
DOT Desk A total of 75,478 hectares of land have been brought under the cultivation of crops and vegetables in Sylhet division during the current Rabi season, reports the Financial Express. Potato, gourd, sweet gourd, radish, bean, tomato, cucumber, leafy vegetables, pumpkin, cauliflower, cabbage and brinjal are the most popular vegetable items this time. Varieties…
Mohammed Jalal Alrayssi, Executive Director of the Emirates News Agency/Gulf News Continued improvement is always on the agenda Both regionally and globally, there have been a number of important political and economic developments preceding and following the recent second annual meeting of the UAE government, which examined a set of strategies and initiatives launched to…
UNB Mizanur Rahman Mizan, locally known as a motor mechanic, has turned out to be a very inspiring man as he achieved the national acclaim through inventions of new devices and machines. Mizan, who has actually no institutional education, has invented 10 devices, including automatic fire extinguisher, anti-pollution machine and automatic irrigation machine. He has…
BDNews24 A Bangladeshi scientist and two other researchers have made a breakthrough in cancer testing by inventing a new method that is as simple as a blood test. But it will still take time to make the test commercially available as clinical trials are needed before they know for sure if it can be used…