Hindustan Times: Jadavpur University professor Kanak Sarkar who had made controversial remarks in a Facebook post has been divested of his duties with immediate effect, according a notice issued by the Department of International Relations of the university. As students and teachers of Jadavpur University (JU) and a large section of people across Bengal fumed…
Kabir Humayun: Quota reformists yesterday brought out a rally on Dhaka University campus demanding publication of the gazette on quota reform as soon as possible. The reformists brought out the rally from the DU Central Library around 10:30am and went through different areas of the campus before ending the rally at Raju sculpture, reports The…
BSS Alongside the excitement of a new baby, Aklima Begum,30, felt anxious for upcoming days since her fruit seller husband faced various crisis to run their six-member family. But like many other poor mothers across the country, Aklima Begum, mother of two children, has got relief from anxiety by receiving maternity allowance under Social Safety…
Desk Report Bangladeshi workers are being allured to migrate to Libya en route to European countries by organized transnational trafficking rackets with false promises. The traffickers pocket huge money of the workers who end up as their victims. The trafficking rackets use the air routes, Dhaka to Benghazi via Abu Dhabi, Dubai, Alexandria. From Libya…
Reported by: SM Nur Md. Written by: Eshan Maitra Kishorganj’s war-criminals Md. Moslem Prodhan and Syed Md. Hussain received death-sentence from International Crime Tribunal. For Human Rights Violation during the 1971 Liberation, on 19 April. Syed Md. Hussain is still in hideaway. Moslem Prodhan’s lawyer Abdus Sattar Plowana presented an appeal to the Supreme Court,…
AFP: Five people were killed yesterday when an apartment block collapsed in New Delhi, crushing residents beneath mountains of concrete, in the latest building accident to hit India. Rescuers combing the wreckage with sniffer dogs in Delhi’s north pulled out at least a dozen people who were trapped beneath the rubble. “We can confirm the…
CNN: I was in denial, but I had felt a wave of seasickness coming over me for quite some time. I tried to persevere but after focusing far too long on every wave that hit the Sunsail F40 yacht as I steered, I had to take some time out to catch my breath. “There’s a…
AOL: Duchess Meghan‘s estranged half-sister Samantha Markleis reportedly on a “fixated persons list” with Scotland Yard in the U.K. The Sunday Times reported on Sunday, December 30, that Markle, who has repeatedly criticized the former Suits star since her engagement and marriage to Prince Harry, has been flagged by the police royalty and specialist protection…
Anindya Nahar Habib If you are every now and then tapping your hand on your desk or on your way home in the bus then a high-tech glove could be the gadget to help you turn the tunes inside you into music. Which you can record by the way! Remidi T8 wearable instrument. This is…
Reuters: A heat wave in North Korea has led to rice, maize and other crops withering in the fields, “with potentially catastrophic effects”, the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) said on Friday. The world’s largest disaster relief network warned of a risk of a “full-blown food security crisis” in the…