Channelnewsasia: A Pakistani university is rebranding Valentine’s Day as “Sister’s Day”, and debating marking the holiday widely seen as a Western import by handing out headscarves and shawls to its female students. The University of Agriculture in Faisalabad (UAF), in central Punjab province, said the change was taken to promote “eastern culture and Islamic traditions…
Md. Fakrul Islam Chowdhury writes for DOT : Seismologists can guestimate the magnitude of an Earthquake from measuring how long an earthquake lasts. . Fifteen seconds Earthquakes hit more than 6.8 in Richter scale. A thirty-second earthquake generally has a magnitude in the mid-sevens. A minute-long quake is in the high sevens, a two-minute quake…
Hossen Sohel of DOT : Jatiya Oikyafront top leader also Gono Forum President Dr Kamal Hossain is scheduled to leave here for Singapore on Jan 20, for treatment and medical check-up, reports banglanews24.com. Reliable sources from his party confirmed the matter. Gono Forum Training Affairs Secretary Rafiqul Islam Pathik said Dr Kamal Hossain missed his…
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…