Afrida Ahmed A group of Indian girls who grew up in Mumbai’s notorious red-light district, Kamathipura, have brought their stories to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, source BBC. Laal Batti Express (Red-light express) explores the struggles faced by 15 girls – whose mums are sex workers – and how after leaving the red-light area, they have…
Marilyn Thipthorpe Are you fed up with your Chrome Browser? Is it lagging or just low on options? Well good news is in, the Vivaldi 1.0 is a new interface created by the creators of Opera for you to break out of the confines of an ordinary browser. No one wants to be stuck in…
Science Alert Scientists at the UC Berkeley have developed a new, efficient catalyst that can produce hydrogen fuel from water. Working as effective as Platinum, this made of Jell-O catalyst is an inexpensive new material for important catalytic reactions. Scientists used a similar recipe of making Jell-O from a box to create this catalyst. They…
Arafat Hasan of DOT BNP has expressed acceptance over the Election Commission’s decision to deploy army in the country starting from today for the upcoming 11th Parliamentary Election on December 30. “We welcome the decision to deploy army during the 11th Jatiya Sangsad polls. We sincerely believe that the deployment of army will help create…
Sayeed Muhammad of DOT In a shocking statement, Housing and Public Works Minister SM Rejaul Karim yesterday said the capital’s development authority has been directed to prevent the construction of unplanned buildings. “We will take strict legal actions against illegally constructed buildings,” he said as he was replying to a question at a review meeting…
UNB A court here on Tuesday convicted a man and sentenced him to death for killing his wife in Rampal upazila on Bagerhat in 2014. The convict was Habi Sarder, son of Jahir Sarder, a resident of Gona Balay village of the upazila. According to the prosecution, Hasina Begum, 32, daughter of Torab Ali Mollah,…
continues for 5th day NTV Online: The rescue operation for the 20 workers, who went missing after a soil-laden trawler capsized in the Meghna River in Munshiganj on Tuesday, has rolled into the 5th consecutive day as the trawler remains still traceless. Two teams started the rescue operation around 8:00am Saturday and they are trying…
Reuters: A court in Vietnam handed lengthy prison terms on Monday to several former bankers accused of mismanagement, amid a crackdown on corruption in the communist-ruled country. In the early 2010s, Vietnam’s banking system was rocked by a string of mismanagement scandals and under-regulated lending, and is still reeling from nonperforming loans. Pham Cong Danh,…
Desk report: The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs approved a proposal to award a contract to Bangladesh Navy-run Khulna Shipyard to protect the Zajira and Naria upazilas from river erosion at a cost of Tk 1077.58 crore, reports The Daily Observer. The committee at a meeting on Wednesday.
Reuters: Egypt sentenced to death 75 people, including prominent Islamist leaders, on Saturday over a 2013 pro-Muslim Brotherhood sit-in which ended with the killing of hundreds of protesters by security forces. Others being tried in the case, including Brotherhood spiritual leader Mohamed Badie, were handed life sentences, judicial sources said. Those being sentenced are accused…