Reuters: The only functioning airport in the Libyan capital Tripoli will reopen its airspace on Wednesday afternoon after clashes between rival militias forced it to close two weeks ago, the airport administration said. Mitiga airport was shut after rockets were fired in its direction. Flights were diverted to Misrata airport about 190 km (120 miles)…
DOT Desk The sale of train tickets in black market has become rampant in most of the railway stations across the country, causing inconvenience to commuters, reports Daily Sun. Many passengers alleged that most of the railway stations across the country, including Chattogram, Azampur and Akhaura in Brahmanbaria, have turned into a ‘den’ of black…
Taiara Farhana Tareque Invisibellas, a street art project which touched the hearts of people who were involved in it took place in Bhatara, Notun Bazaar. Young artists came together on the 5th and 6th of March to speak with their brushes. Global Shapers, Dhaka Hub launched “InvisiBellas” a street art project to bring forward the…
DOT Desk The government and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) on Thursday signed an agreement to implement $33m project which will benefit almost 7 lakh people from the disaster prone Satkhira and Khulna districts with a focus on women and adolescent girls, reports The Daily Sun. They have joined hands to make transformational changes…
BBC: If it does launch as currently scheduled in 2021, it will be 14 years late. When finally in position, though – orbiting the Sun 1.5 million km from Earth – Nasa’s James Webb Space Telescope promises an astronomical revolution. The US space agency boasts that it will literally “look back in time to see the…
Tanzim Taqrim The restaurant industry has a sexual harassment problem too, and 60% of women in the U.S. have dealt with it. At celebrity chef John Besh’s restaurants 25 women affirmed culture of harassment. In a survey of 688 current and former restaurant workers,2/3 of women divulged sexual harassment from managers and 80% reported it…
Abrar Hussain: Finance Minister AMA Muhith claimed yesterday that an ‘implementable budget’ has been proposed for the next fiscal year. “When we propose a budget, we do not do it without thinking whether it will be possible to achieve the target,” he told reporters at a post-budget media briefing at the Osmani Memorial Auditorium in…
Reported by: Kiron Sheikh Written by: Tanzim Taqrim Arnob Corruption in the implementation of projects, denser population, lack of development and repairing of the roads are the main issues of traffic jam in Dhaka says former judge Sikder Mokbul Haque. He says this in a press conference of Democracy International Leader Fellowship Program at Dhaka…
Marilyn Thipthorpe What makes it okay for one species to subject another to torturous experimentations for the others’ benefit? What separates human beings from animals? Are not humans, in a sense, animals as well? What makes it okay, then, for one species to subject another to torturous experimentations for the others’ benefit? These questions and…
UNB: A UK couple who tricked their teenage daughter into travelling to Bangladesh in an attempt to force her to marry her first cousin have been jailed. The husband and wife, who cannot be named for legal reasons, were found guilty in May of using violence, threats or coercion to force their daughter into marriage,…