DOT Desk: State Minister for Information and Communication Technology Zunaid Ahmed Palak has said the government has a target to have at least one thousand cyber security experts in the country by 2021. “The digital infrastructure has been developed in the last decade, now it is time to ensure the digital security, he said….
AFP: Seoul on Friday (Jan 25) sent aircraft over the Yellow Sea to carry out cloud-seeding experiments in an effort to tackle air pollution many South Koreans blame on China. Air quality in South Korea is generally better than in its giant neighbour, the world’s biggest polluter, which is periodically affected by choking bouts of…
UNB: Members of Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) arrested a suspected member of banned militant outfit Jama’atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) who is a charge-sheeted accused in the Holey Artisan Bakery attack case from Nachole upazila of the district on Friday. The arrestee is Md Shariful Islam alias Khalid alias Rahat alias Nahid alias Abu Sulaiman, 27….
Timothy Kreider/Medium It happens to every generation, and not for the reasons they expect Nothing is more arbitrary and changeable over time, or regarded as more self-evident and absolute in their moment, than social mores. In my own fleeting half-century, I’ve watched mores shift (and, long after them, with tectonic slowness and resistance, laws) until…
Hossen Sohel of DOT More than 7,000 people were killed in road accidents throughout the country last year, Bangladesh Jatri Kalyan Samity (BJKS) said in a report yesterday, reports The Daily Star. The BJKS Secretary General Mozammel Hoque Chowdhury revealed the report at a press conference in the capital’s Jatiya Press Club around 11:00am. According…
Abrar Hussain of DOT In the United States, Arkansas State Rep. Julie Mayberry has moved to file House Bill 1015 after several lawmakers voted to remove journalism classes as an elective in public schools prior to last year. While the lawmakers termed their decision as ‘a mandate’, Mayberry said she was appalled. “Journalism is essential…
BSS: The Bangladesh Export Processing Zones Authority (BEPZA) is planning to hand over industrial plots to the investors in Mirsarai Economic Zone (EZ) after few months. BEPZA General Manager Nazma Binte Alamgir said road development works of the economic zone are going on and earth filling works will start soon. “After making the EZ suitable…
Hossen Sohel of DOT At least 13 workers were killed and two others injured after a coal-laden truck skidded off and overturned on a mess at a brick kiln in Chouddagram upazila of Cumilla early yesterday, reports Teh Daily Star. The deceased are: Ranjit Chandra Roy, 30; Md Morsalin, 18; Torun Chandra Roy, 25; Md…
Hossen Sohel of DOT Foreign Secretary Md Shahidul Haque thanked House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Congressman Eliot Engel for his initiatives to adopt resolutions condemning the atrocities on the Rohingyas, reports UNB. When they met at the Hill on Thursday, Shahidul also thanked Engel for putting greater pressure on Myanmar so that the latter…
Hossen Sohel of DOT Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen yesterday said that Rohingyas will be shifted to Bhasanchar soon, reports UNB. “The work of infrastructure development at Bhasanchar is progressing fast. Rohingyas will be shifted there soon after completion of work,” he said. He came up with the remarks while talking to reporters after attending a…