Sabah Mannan: Briefing the reporters at the EC secretariat Thursday noon (April 26), Election Commission (EC) Secretary Helaluddin Ahmed said the upcoming polls to Gazipur City Corporation (GCC) won’t have any deployment of army. Previously, BNP placed 26-point demand seeking army deployment and abolishing the use of EVM machines in the polls to GCC and Khulna…
Desk Report: Bangladesh has offered duty concessions on import of 602 products from five countries including China and India under the Asia Pacific Trade Agreement (APTA), reports New Age. The National Board of Revenue on September 18 issued a statutory regulatory order allowing duty concessions ranging from 10 per cent to 70 per cent to…
Samiul Bashar Samin With thirteen albums and over thirty years in their past, age and inevitability establishes the notion that we won’t have Dream Theater reigning as the progressive rock/metal kings forever. The incoming candidates to take their place are stacking in numbers including the likes of Tesseract, Leprous, and the more recent style of…
Sally Breen, Senior Lecturer in Writing and Publishing, Griffith University/The Conversation, Australia When you grow up with no books in the house except maybe the full Readers Digest set of Catherine Cooksons and Bert Ryan’s Guide to Fishing you worship other heroes. The great battles in life are not going down in drama theatres, they’re…
Reuters: Lionel Messi became the first man to score 400 La Liga goals as Barcelona eased to a 3-0 win at home to Eibar on Sunday which kept the Catalans five points clear at the top of the standings at the halfway point of the season. Luis Suarez, who scored twice, helped tee up Messi’s…
Sofian Khan The goodbye of a successful businessman and a well-known TV anchor and businessman, Annisul Huq came too heavy upon the nation. It was an early goodbye as the curtain on the colourful life of the 65- year old former FBCCI president came Mayor Annisul Huq. In the condolence message, the President expressed his…
The Guardain, UK: Russian diplomats held secret talks in London last year with people close to Julian Assange to assess whether they could help him flee the UK, the Guardian has learned. A tentative plan was devised that would have seen the WikiLeaks founder smuggled out of Ecuador’s London embassy in a diplomatic vehicle and…
Mohammad Tanvir Kaisar Lots of observations regarding Primary to Higher Secondary Education make us feel that our education system is just heading towards producing result-oriented students every year. The social structure and average social attitudes are also facilitating the tendency without caring much about the objectives. Students are tied up with class works, home works,…
Marilyn Thipthorpe Since the devastating attack on Brussels, airports all around the world have begun to beef up their security. Australian Prime Minister blamed the attacks on Europe’s porous borders and lax security, further stating that Australian domestic security is much stronger than Europe. Asian airports, like the ones in South Korea, Japan, Indonesia, Thailand…