BSS Access to quality and reliable electricity is no more a dream as the country’s 92 percent people are now getting uninterrupted supply of power, which was only 47 percent before 2009.After assuming power in 2009, the government formulated a roadmap for the power and energy sector declaring it as a thrust sector with an…
BSS Awami League (AL) General Secretary Obaidul Quader yesterday said Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina never breaches her commitment while she always keeps what she pledges. “AL’s election manifesto was announced yesterday. Special emphasis has been given on youth employment in the manifesto. If the leader (Sheikh Hasina) is voted to power, at least one person from…
Science Alert All the planets in our Solar System have their charms, but few are as flashy and iconic as Saturn’s glorious rings. But, like everything in the Universe, they’re not going to last forever – and now planetary scientists have discovered that they’re disappearing at an incredibly fast rate. Well, fast in planetary terms….
Raj Ahmed of DOT BNP leader Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir is reportedly travelling to Cumilla for campaigning in the Chandina and Shoagazi races. The BNP secretary general left the party chairperson’s office in Gulshan at 10 am on Wednesday on his way to Cumilla where he is scheduled to hold rallies, according to a report…
BBC Hackers successfully targeted the European Union’s diplomatic communications over a period of several years, The New York Times reports. Thousands of messages were intercepted in which diplomats referenced a range of subjects from US President Donald Trump to global trade. The breach was reportedly discovered by the cyber-security company Area 1. European officials say…
Xinhua The story of a dying elderly man leaving 14 years of Christmas gifts for his 2-year-old neighbor has gone viral on the Internet recently. Ken Watson, an 87-year-old retired diver in Wales, had bought the little girl next door Christmas gifts for the next 14 years before he died. After Ken passed away, his…
DOT Desk Tangail 4 constituency independent candidate Abdul Latif Siddique is being transferred from Tangail General Hospital to Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University (BSMMU) Hospital in Dhaka’s Shahbagh area reports Dhaka Tribune. The matter was confirmed by Tangail Sadar police station Officer-in-Charge (OC) Sayedur Rahman. Earlier, around 9:10am Wednesday, Latif was taken to Tangail General…
BSS Officials here have stressed on ensuring safer migration as well as rights, dignity and justice of overseas job-seekers to enhance remittance inflow for further strengthening economy. They expressed the views at a post-rally discussion jointly organised by the district administration and District Employment and Human Resources Office on Tuesday at the conference room of…
Middle East Monitor Walaa Abu Aisha works in a corner of the El Amal Rehabilitation Society centre in the besieged Gaza Strip. A Palestinian woman, Walaa picks up her tools and carves wooden pieces in to art, a skill normally reserved for men in this society. After Walaa works on creating her traditional pieces, they…
Imran Khalid, Freelance columnist based in Karachi, Pakistan/Daily Sabah, Turkey Each election period in Bangladesh has produced something new and further added more twists to the already febrile and charged political atmosphere in the country and now the same is expected in the forthcoming national elections as well The evolution of politics in Bangladesh has…