DOT Desk: The Construction work of the much awaited 16-km expressway in the port city (Shah Amanat Airport to Lalkhan Bazar) is likely to begin next week. Talking to the Daily Observer, Project Director Mahfuzur Rahman said the preliminary work, including piling, has already been completed, reports The Daily Observer. In the first phase, the…
John Lloyd, Co-founded the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism at the University of Oxford, where he is senior research fellow/ BDnews24 Britain is moving towards an exit from the European Union on March 29, possibly with no agreement, and thus courting – according to the Bank of England – an 8 percent drop…
Henry Newman, Director of Open Europe, a non-partisan policy think-tank based in London and Brussels/The Economist Another vote would be even more divisive, says Henry Newman, the director of Open Europe There are three options for Britain ahead of the March 29th deadline to leave the European Union: Brexit without a deal, Brexit with a…
DOT Desk: Bangladesh Panorama is one of the eight sections at the ongoing 17th Dhaka International Film Festival. The section has emphasized local films and documentaries. It has featured ten recent and acclaimed films, reports The Daily Observer. This year, the section has screened Iftekhar Ahmed Fahmi’s To Be continued, Arun Chowdhury’s Alta Banu, Golam…
BSS: Rajshahi University (RU) has adopted a 50-year mega plan for transforming it into a digital one through expanding the fields of ICT-based academic and research works. Under the plan, Bangabandhu Square, university archive, international relation centre, media centre and mural of four national leaders. will be installed in the campus premises. RU administration revealed…
UNB: The central bank has injected more than US$1.20 billion so far this fiscal year into the market to help keep the country’s foreign exchange (forex) regime stable, officials said. As part of the measure, the Bangladesh Bank (BB) sold the US currency directly to the commercial banks as liquidity support for meeting their import…
DOT Desk: Criminal gangs are active in the city and elsewhere in the country to rob cash and valuables in disguise of hawkers, tenants, social workers, reports The Daily Sun. Police and Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) officials said they came to know about the gangs and some of their methods of committing crimes after arresting…
Reuters: China blasted Canada for “irresponsible” remarks on Tuesday after Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau accused the country of “arbitrarily” sentencing a Canadian to death for drug smuggling, aggravating already icy relations. Beijing and Ottawa have been at odds since early December, when Canadian police arrested Meng Wanzhou, chief financial officer of Huawei Technologies Co…
Eurek Alert: New research led by an astronomer at the University of Warwick has found the first confirmed example of a double star system that has flipped its surrounding disc to a position that leaps over the orbital plane of those stars. The international team of astronomers used the Atacama Large Millimeter/sub-millimeter Array (ALMA) to…
Bdnews24: Police have rescued a madrasa student who was allegedly raped while being held captive for 21 days in Tangail. The tenth grader, who went missing on her way to a market, was found after police grilled one Mojibor Rahman in custody. The 42-year-old, accused of raping the girl, was arrested along with his wife…