Sayeed Muhammad of DOT The government is going to procure 17 dredgers to improve navigability on waterways side by side building and launching 45 water vessels across the country. “The government has already procured 14 dredgers to keep up navigability on waterways and built and introduced 45 vessels for ferrying passengers aimed at improving communications…
Hossen Sohel of DOT A Dhaka court yesterday granted bail to the two suspended teachers of Viqarunnisa Noon School and College in a case filed on charge of provoking the suicide of a ninth grader in December last year, reports The Daily Star. Metropolitan Magistrate Rashed Chowdhury passed the order considering the age of the…
AP: Unusually high levels of smog worsened by weather patterns are raising alarm across Asia, with authorities in Thailand’s hazy capital Bangkok opting to hand out face masks and step up enforcement of pollution controls. A combination of construction dust, auto exhaust and other pollutants, lingering over Bangkok due to prevailing weather patterns, has taken…
Ramin Jahanbegloo, Professor, vice dean and director of Mahatma Gandhi Centre for Peace Studies at O.P. Jindal Global University/ Live Mint Today, critical intellectuals are an endangered species. What will it take for ‘superheroes of the mind’ to be fighters of human dignity? Talking about the public role of intellectuals in today’s world, and more…
The Philippine Star: The $81-million cyber heist in Bangladesh Bank in 2016 is not yet a closed case despite the conviction of former Rizal Commercial Banking Corp. (RCBC) bank manager Maia Deguito for money laundering last week by a Makati City court. The Department of Justice (DOJ) confirmed yesterday that the criminal charges for money…
DOT Desk: Bashundhara cement will be used in the country’s first Metro Rail project and in the construction of Kalna Bridge over Madhumati River in Gopalganj, reports The Daily Sun. In this regard, Bashundhara Industrial Limited (producer of Bashundhara cement) on Sunday signed two joint-venture agreements with Tekken-Abdul Monem Limited Abenikko and Tekken-Abdul Monem Limited-YBC….
Science Alert: This past March, a NASA instrument on the International Space Station spotted a black hole, about 10,000 light-years away from Earth, in the process of devouring a star. What happened next was weird, even by the standards of super-dense celestial objects from which not even light can escape: the black hole started to…
Channel News Asia: A giant panda born in a Malaysian zoo celebrated her first birthday Monday (Jan 14) with a cake made of ice in front of adoring visitors. The youngster looked around shyly as a zookeeper carried her to a platform in her enclosure where the cake, which had a large number “one” on…
UNB: Officer-in-charge of Bandar Police Station Azharul Islam was withdrawn on Sunday over Saturday’s clash between locals and police at Madanpur in Bandar upazila that left a person dead. He was attached to the district police lines in the evening at the order of the Superintendent of Police of the district, said Additional SP (Crimes)…
Anadolu Agency: The terrorist PKK/PYD group does not represent Kurds, a Kurdish official said on Monday. Speaking to Anadolu Agency, Nuri Brimo, representative of the National Council of Syrian Kurds at the Kurdish Regional Government (KRG) said that the terrorist organization created animosity between Kurds and Arabs. “The PYD has been sowing a seed of…