UNB: Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Monday hosted a tea party at Ganobhaban in honour of foreign diplomats, heads of different missions and representatives of international organisations. She hosted the tea party for them at the South Lawn of Ganobhaban, the official residence of the prime minister. The prime minister arrived at the venue at…
DOT Desk: The government has taken a plan to select and train 1,000 workers in each upazila for overseas jobs annually, reports The New Age. Expatriates Welfare and Overseas Employment Ministry officials told New Age that the plan was taken to cut down workers’ migration costs. They said that the names of workers keen to…
Eurek Alert: Engineering researchers have demonstrated proof-of-principle for a device that could serve as the backbone of a future quantum Internet. University of Toronto Engineering professor Hoi-Kwong Lo and his collaborators have developed a prototype for a key element for all-photonic quantum repeaters, a critical step in long-distance quantum communication. A quantum Internet is the…
Hossain Sohel of DOT Five people including two school children were killed in separate road accidents at Keraniganj, Uttara and Khilkhet in Dhaka yesterday. The school-goers– siblings– died and their father was injured when a truck hit a motorbike at Rajendrapur Mollar Pul in South Keraniganj, reports UNB. The deceased are Afifa Akter Afrin, 13,…
Sky News: A three-year-old boy who went missing for two days has told his family he “hung out with a bear” in the woods. Casey Hathaway was found by professional search and rescue teams near Cayton in North Carolina on Thursday, ABC News reports. Craven County Sheriff’s Office said they responded to a tip that…
DOT Desk: After witnessing an all-time low temperature last year, the country is now experiencing a five-year high temperature during winter in this season, according to official records, reports The Financial Express. The maximum temperature of the country was recorded at 32.6°C in Cox’s Bazar on the day, which is a five-year record in winter…
AFP: German military is plagued by various blunders these days, and there is one more – it emerged that only half of potential recruits are suitable for service, Bild revealed. Others are reportedly unfit or have no German passport. Bad news about the imperfect state of the Bundeswehr are coming regularly, but this one seems…
Syed Yusuf Saadat, Research associate at the Centre for Policy Dialogue (CPD)/ CPD What policymakers should consider The lift-operator is a peculiar person. He sits on a stool inside a small, claustrophobic space. In the olden days his job required quite a few skills. Back then, lifts were manually operated with a large lever, and…
DOT Desk: Newly appointed chief of Bangladesh naval staff Abu Mozaffar Mohiuddin Mohammad Aurangzeb Chowdhury was adorned with the rank of vice-admiral, reports The New Age. In presence of prime minister Sheikh Hasina, army chief General Aziz Ahmed and chief of air force Air Chief Marshal Masihuzzaman Serniabat adorned the new navy chief with the…
DOT Desk: Multiple teachers said education cadres have been the victims of discrepancies for a long time. The education administration is set to receive a major reform with the creation of 12,944 new cadre posts, reports The Dhaka Tribune. A total of 444 posts will be created, with 15 and 429 posts under the second…