DOT Desk: Megacity Dhaka is getting rid of the load-shedding crisis as its residents are now having uninterrupted power supply for the government steps towards bringing the country under 100 percent electricity coverage by 2021, reports The Daily Sun. “There is no load-shedding in capital Dhaka now as dwellers are hardly facing any disruption of…
H.K Shahriar, IU Correspondent The Islamic University Journalists Association (IUJA) has condemned the attack on three journalists of Dhaka University. IUJA president Abdullah Al-Faruk and its general secretary M Emran Shuvro was issued a press release in this regard on Monday morning. The wing demanded immediate punishment of the attackers who beat the journalists indiscriminately….
Joanna Slater and Azad Majumder, Majumder reported from Dhaka/Washington Post On Sunday, Bangladesh, the world’s eighth most populous country, held what was billed as its first competitive election in a decade. But the results were anything but close: The incumbent prime minister, Sheikh Hasina, and her ruling coalition won 288 out of 300 seats in…
John Podhoretz/ New York Post Can social media be saved? We had better hope so. Over the past week, we have seen a virtual lynch mob hunt a group of high schoolers almost exclusively on the basis of truncated viral footage — and there has actually been an ongoing argument about whether what has happened…
Reuters: Myanmar has scaled back plans for a Chinese-backed port on its western coast, sharply reducing the cost of the project after concerns it could leave the Southeast Asian nation heavily indebted, a top government official and an advisor told Reuters. The initial $7.3 billion price tag on the Kyauk Pyu deepwater port, on the…
Sharar Shams Shayor One of Bangladesh’s iconic bands since the past decade, Black is back with a new song and a promise of a new album to be released this year. Since the departure of Jon Kabir, the current lead singer of Indalo, Black has struggled to recruit a new front-man, leaving a trail of…
Samiul Bashar Samin Decades before Instagram and iPhones, Bill Cunningham was the godfather of street-style photography. The longtime fashion photographer for The New York Times who died Saturday at the age of 87 didn’t care about celebrity for celebrity’s sake. The latest movie and TV stars in the front row at fashion shows held no…
DOT Desk: A total of 82,500 students who passed the Primary Examination Completion (PEC) exams will get scholarships for the next three years. Directorate of Primary Education (DPE) sources said the successful candidates of PEC and equivalent exams will get the scholarships from the first week of March this year during their ongoing studies in…
Abrar Hussain: Google has unveiled a stealth app to help the people in Bangladesh in finding jobs, according to a report by Tech in Asia. A team from Google’s Area 120 startup incubator announced that it has been working quietly behind the scenes on a new app called Kormo, which helps the people in Bangladesh…