Desk Report: Apex Footwear, an ‘A’ category company, will purchase one bigha (20 kathas) of land with a six-story building at a cost of Tk 290 million, excluding registration and other costs, reports Financial Express. The company on Sunday made the disclosure through the website of Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE). According to the disclosure, the…
DOT Desk: Quora, an online question and answer platform, has launched its service in Bangla after a successful beta phase, reports The Daily Star. Anyone can join Quora Bengali at bn.quora.com or through the mobile app, a press release of Quora says. With this latest addition, Quora is now available in 17 languages. People use…
Independent.UK: The etiquette surrounding email communication is entrenched in nuance. From signing off in an appropriate manner to striking the right balance between a friendly but professional tone, getting to grips with email rhetoric is a true art, one that many of us are evidently getting wrong. A new survey carried out by software company Adobe…
Arafat Hasan: A Malaysian diplomat has recently said that Bangladesh will be a ‘great market’ for investors with huge opportunities, but which the investors need to be made aware of. “Awareness needs to be created among the Malaysian investors about the challenges and opportunities for them in Bangladesh to strengthen the trade relations between Bangladesh…
Abrar Hussain: Nobel Laureate Professor Muhammad Yunus urged everyone yesterday to renounce civilization ‘based on greed’ and move on with a farsighted vision to address global issues. Yunus made the appeal while inaugurating the eighth Social Business Day organized by Yunus Center at Infosys Electronic City Campus in Bangalore, India. In his opening speech, he…
Sky News Singleton Zoe says she just wants men to be up front and tell her if they are no longer interested in taking things further. Zoe, 28, is fed up with “cowardly” men on dating apps suddenly going silent on her without explanation, or even a cursory text. Here is her experience of dating…
CNN: For the first time, Osama bin Laden’s mother, Alia Ghanem, has given an interview. Conducted in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, by Martin Chulov of The Guardian, the interview is noteworthy because bin Laden, the architect of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, and his mother were exceptionally close. What Ghanem says in the interview is largely credible…
Sofian Khan On monday, the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court directed Shawkat Chowdhury, the Jatiya Party lawmaker to pay back the 5 crore taka to Bangladesh Commerce Bank Ltd within 60 days as his connection with two loan scam cases involving Tk 94 crore was found.A five-member bench formed by the Appellate Division under…
DOT Desk: Oncologists on Saturday blamed early marriage and absence of precursor screening for the high incidence of cervical cancer in Bangladesh. But they also expressed the view at a discussion that if diagnosed at the early stage cervical cancer was found to be preventable and treatable in most cases, reports The New Age. March…
The Guardian: Hilary Swank has already raced through a full day’s schedule before the LA restaurant where we meet has had time to switch its menu from breakfast to lunch. She has taken her father to a doctor’s appointment, held a conference call for her new clothing line, Mission Statement, and run to a meeting…