Straits Times: The youth charity founded by Prince Charles, heir to the British throne, said it will not accept any new donations from Huawei Technologies “in light of public concerns”, in the latest sign of strain in one of the Chinese company’s biggest markets. Huawei is a major supplier of broadband gear and mobile networks…
WIO News: Pakistan’s Supreme Court will decide on January 29 whether to allow an appeal against its acquittal of a Christian woman at the centre of a blasphemy row, a lawyer involved in the case said Thursday. If the court refuses to allow the appeal, it will remove the last legal hurdle facing Asia Bibi,…
Minar Al Hasan, JnU Correspondent ‘Advanced Training on Research Methodology’ organized by Social Work department with the support of SSRC, planning department, planning ministry, and the Government of the People’s Republic of Bangladesh held at 11:00 am yesterday (January 24, 2019-Thursday).Treasurer of JnU Prof Salim Bhuiyan was present as chief guest. Presided over the program…
DOT Desk: The fourth death anniversary of Arafat Rahman Koko, the younger son of Bangladesh Nationalist Party founder Ziaur Rahman and current chairperson Khaleda Zia, was observed yesterday. On January 24, 2015, Koko died of a cardiac arrest at the age of 45 at a rented house in Malaysia. His body was brought back home…
DOT Desk: Import of industrial raw materials increased by nearly 12 per cent during the July-October period in 2018 compared to the corresponding period of the previous year, reports The Financial Express. The rise in import was because of the fast growth in local investments, sources said. Economists attributed the increase in investment to political…
DOT Desk: Police rescued an old woman, Mridul Saha, 80, from a house in No. 15 Ward of Feni Municipality, reports The Daily Observer. She is wife of late Haripad Saha and mother of three sons and two daughters. She was living in the house alone. On Tuesday, finding no response from inside the house,…
BSS: Over 6,000 youths (both male and female) in Narsingdi district became self-reliant receiving training from Skill Development center of BSCIC during the last 28 years. Assistant General Manager of BSCIC Industries Service center Shazzad Hossain told BSS that the BSCIC skill development center imparted institutional training to 7,700 youth (both male and female) on…
Imad Zafar/ Asia Times After fracturing Nawaz Sharif‘s mandate and injuring him politically, the invisible forces are now busy tightening the noose on the chairman of the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP), Asif Ali Zardari, and his aides. Because of the way things were designed, it was not difficult to understand that sooner or later the…
Abrar Hussain of DOT BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir has alleged that the government is conspiring to split their party. “Many plots are now going on to weaken BNP and split it. They (govt) also tried to do so in the past, but failed,” he said while speaking at a milad mahfil at…
BSS: A three-day interschool science fair ended here on Wednesday with a call for making science and technology popular and projecting new innovations. The fair is aimed at encouraging young scientists towards building a science-oriented nation. Bangladesh Council of Scientific and Industrial Research organized the industrial science and technology fair-2019 on its Rajshahi campus. “To…