DOT Desk: The textbook festival will be celebrated across the country on Tuesday, marking the distribution of free textbooks among the students of schools and madrasa, reports The Financial Express. Education Minister Nurul Islam Nahid will distribute books from Azimpur Government Girls’ School and College field around 9:30am, said senior information officer Arfazur Rahman of…
Prof Dr Mizanur Rahman: According to the law, every private university is to have own campus. And, if any such university is shut for defying the law, it will not cause any difficulties to the students. It is often noticed that the private university authorities carry out their activities on rented houses, apartments and any…
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AP, Tehran Iran’s Supreme Leader said Sunday that Washington has continued its animosity toward Tehran, despite a friendly message by President Barack Obama marking Persian New Year. State TV broadcast Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s New Year’s speech on Sunday live from the northern city of Mashhad. He said of the U.S., “From one hand they send…
Sejuti Mourin: US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is expected to return from North Korea with three American prisoners, along with details of the upcoming summit between North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and US President Donald Trump, a South Korean official said yesterday.Pompeo yesterday travelled from Japan to the North Korean capital, Pyongyang, and…
Sofian Khan: Secretary-General of UN Antonio Guterres and President of World Bank Group Jim Yong Kim are scheduled to visit Rohingya camps in Cox’s Bazar while pressure on Myanmar mounts following the ‘ethnic cleansing’ in the Rakhine State. International Criminal Court judges gave the country a deadline to respond to a prosecution request that the…
DOT Desk Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday inspected the second Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner of Biman Bangladesh Airlines at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport (HSIA) in Dhaka. She inspected and boarded the aircraft named ‘Hangsabalaka’ at the VVIP Tarmac of the HSIA, reports state news agency BSS. After boarding, the premier went round different zones of the…
Agence France-Presse, Cairo: Egypt’s Al-Azhar university on Sunday said it had expelled a female student after she appeared in a video hugging a male colleague, accusing her of undermining the school’s reputation. The video, which went viral earlier this month, showed a young man carrying a bouquet of flowers kneeling before a young woman and…
Reader’s Digest:A better night’s sleep: A 2013 study from the University of Colorado at Boulder found that natural light from the sun regulates your circadian rhythm, or internal biological clock, and standardizes your sleep cycle. According to the study, your natural sleep schedule coincides with the timing of the sunrise and sunset. When you regularly…
Desk Report: Top officials of BRAC on Sunday urged all humanitarian agencies working on Rohingya issue to prioritize the needs of the local people. At a briefing at BRAC Centre Auditorium in Dhaka marking one-year since the beginning of the latest Rohingya influx, the NGO also urged donors to come forward fast with adequate funding…