Staggered upazila polls from first week of March

      BSS: The Election Commission will hold Upazila Parishad elections in five phases from first week of March. The commission secretary Helal Uddin Ahmed on Monday said schedule of the election will be announced in the first week of February. In first four phases, elections to most of upazila parishads will be held and in…

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      All mobile handsets to be registered

      DOT Desk: The telecom regulator is set to introduce a registration process for all mobile handsets in the country with a view to mitigating the challenges of illegal import, theft, cloning, organised crimes and health hazard, reports The Daily Star. The mobile operators themselves will register the handsets that are in use in its network,…

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        Star Kabab, Sultan’s Dine fined for food adulteration

        DOT Desk: DSCC Mayor Sayeed Khokon on Sunday ordered the authorities concerned to award jail terms along with fines for those found guilty of food adulteration, reports The Dhaka Tribune. During an anti-adulteration drive on Sunday, Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC) fined popular restaurants Star Kabab’s Dhanmondi branch Tk5,000, Sultan’s Dine in the Satmasjid Road…

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          How a hacked phone may have led killers to Khashoggi

          CNN: Jamal Khashoggi probably thought the messages he was sending to fellow Saudi dissident Omar Abdulaziz were hidden, cloaked in WhatsApp security. In reality they were compromised — along with the rest of Abdulaziz’s phone, which had allegedly been infected by Pegasus, a powerful piece of malware designed to spy on its users. Abdulaziz, as…

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            Ivanka ‘being considered’ to head the World Bank

            South China Morning Post: US President Donald Trump’s daughter and adviser Ivanka Trump and former UN Ambassador Nikki Haley and are among possible US candidates to replace outgoing World Bank President Jim Yong Kim, according to a report on Friday. Kim abruptly announced Monday he was cutting short his tenure as the bank’s president more…

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