AFP: Kenya and Tanzania tomorrow mark 20 years since the devastating US embassy bombings that thrust Al-Qaeda onto the global stage and went on to shape how a generation thinks about personal security. It was mid-morning on August 7, 1998, when the first massive blast hit the US embassy in downtown Nairobi, followed minutes later by…
M Humayun Kabir: The government yesterday signed a $225 million loan agreement with the Asian Development Bank (ADB) for overhauling secondary education and boosting education quality, access, and relevance in the country. This is the third and final tranche of the $500 million Secondary Education Sector Investment Program (SESIP) approved by the ADB in 2013,…
Science Alert: NASA’s Worldview program has some bad news. The Earth is on fire. The red points in the picture above are areas around the world with fires actively burning, accurate as of Thursday. It doesn’t look great. The Worldview website lets you look at current events happening across the planet. One of those events…
BSS: Officials and experts of the Department of Agriculture Extension (DAE) are expecting a better wheat production despite a shortfall in the fixed farming target this season in Rangpur agriculture region. “Despite shortfall in the farming target, the tender wheat plants are growing excellent amid favourable climatic condition predicting better production this season,” Horticulture Specialist…
Hossen Sohel of DOT Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) has opened a Facebook page titled ‘Rab Cyber News Verification Centre’ to aware people over false news and rumours spread during the 11th parliamentary election, reports UNB. Director General (DG) of Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) Benazir Ahmed revealed it at a press conference arranged to brief journalists…
Abrar Hussain: After a New York Times report on Friday claimed that Alibaba co-founder and Chairman Jack Ma will retire today, the South China Morning Post published a report yesterday denying that claim, and argued that he will unveil a succession plan instead. The SCMP, which is owned by Alibaba, said China’s most famous tech…
Afrida Ahmed US Sena-tor Al Franker was accused of groping a woman in her sleep and forcibly kissing her in a rehearsal for a comedy act. Leeann Tweeden said both the incidents took place on a tour in December 2006 before Mr. Franken entered politics. She mentioned at a press conference how he aggressively kissed…
Nature: t was the closest that physicist Pablo Jarillo-Herrero had ever come to being a rock star. When he stood up in March to give a talk in Los Angeles, California, he saw scientists packed into every nook of the meeting room. The organizers of the American Physical Society conference had to stream the session…
BBC : Foreign navies have played a key role in curbing piracy off Somalia’s coast, writes the BBC’s Anne Soy. On a beach in Hordeia on the northern coast of Somalia, I asked a former pirate what attracted him to piracy in the first place. The man, who wanted to remain anonymous, told me he…
M Humayun Kabir: Bangladesh A 43-foot high portrait of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman was installed at TSC (Teacher- Student Center) of Dhaka University paying tribute to the nation’s founder on his 43rd death anniversary. Commerce Minister Tofael Ahmed on Tuesday inaugurated the largest ever portrait of Bangabandhu drawn by Bangladesh Charushilpi Sangsad, reports UNB. DU…