Tasmiah Nuhiya Ahmed, Executive Editor, The New York Times- Bangladesh National Section: Just four months ahead of the national election, the Election Commission (EC) has taken decision for bringing amendment to the Representation of People Order (RPO) in order to incorporate the use of the Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs) in the upcoming 11th parliamentary elections…
Shira Ovide/Bloomberg The company has reached the end of its denial phase. The optimistic narrative about Apple Inc.’s iPhone business is falling apart in front of our eyes.The company on Wednesday stunningly slashed its own revenue forecast for its first fiscal quarter that ended in December. Apple led by blaming a slowing economy in China…
DOT Desk The cabinet on Monday decided to amend the Chittagong Hill Tracts (Land Acquisition) Regulation 1958, raising compensation rate to 200-300 per cent from existing 15 per cent of the land price, reports The New Age. The land ministry placed a draft proposing amendments to the regulation in the 202nd cabinet meeting chaired by…
DOT Desk Street food mostly sold in front of educational institutions in the capital and elsewhere in the country poses health risk to students as food sellers often do not maintain proper hygiene, reports The Daily Sun. The mouth-watering street food, which contains various types of bacteria, is mainly consumed by students of schools and…
UNB: Four people were killed in separate road crashes in Chapainawabganj and Chattogram districts on Tuesday. In Chapainawabganj, two motorcyclists, Mizanur Rahman, son of Jalal Uddin, and Moshiur Rahman, son of Salauddin, of Kolail Diyar area of Gomostapur upazila, were killed when a truck rammed their vehicle in Kolyanpur area of the district town at…
Desk Report Myanmar’s outgoing President Thein Sein has lifted the emergency of state according to the state media, said reports from BBC. This comes as Thein Sein ends his 5 year term as president. The emergency of state was issued back in June 2012 when violence erupted between Buddhist and Muslim communities. There were many…
Simon Johnson, Former chief economist of the IMF, is a professor at MIT Sloan & a senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics/Project Syndicate A chaotic Brexit could do great damage to ordinary people, as was the case with Britain’s self-ejection from the Exchange Rate Mechanism of the European Monetary System in 1992….
BSS March, the month of English calendar year, has much significance to the ‘Bangalee’ nation, as the formal struggle for independence began this month after Bangabandhu’s 7th-March historic speech and the massacre of Bangalees by Pakistani forces at the dark night of 25 March 1971. In this month, the Banglalee nation received a clear guideline…
Sustir Sarker, Netrokona Corresponent Netrokona Medical College started the process of teaching. The number of students in the first batch is 50. On 10th January, Bangabandhu will return home. The college authorities started their journey with special emphasis on this day, on the other side Netrokona started as a new horizon. At 10am at Netrokona…
Sofian Khan Banglad-esh government on Tuesday has allotted Tk 2,312 crores in order to temporarily accommodate the Rohingya refugees awaited for repatriation. AHM Mustafa Kamal, Planning minister for Bangladesh Government after a meeting of a top government body confirmed that Bangladesh Navy will eventually implement the project. Rohingyas will be sheltered at Noakhali’s Bhashanchar area…