BSS Speakers in a meeting of exchange of opinion yesterday stressed on removing drugs, militancy and corruption from the country to achieve the goal of making the country a developed one by 2041. Chapainawabganj district unit of Durnity Protirodh Committee arranged the meeting with the association of Chapainawabganj district administration in observance of Anti-Corruption Week-2016….
Sofian Khan: Popular small screen actress Tazin Ahmed has passed away at a Dhaka hospital yesterday. Confirming the news, General Secretary of Artists’ Association, Ahasn Habib Nasim said the actress breathed her last around 4:40 pm at Regent Hospital in Uttara. According to her family sources, the celebrated artiste of the 90’s suffered a cardiac arrest…
BDNews24: The four officers – Sanjida Hossain, Syeda Nazia Royhan and Farhana Afrin, and Sarah Amir – have been promoted from major to lieutenant colonel. Army Chief of Staff General Aziz Ahmed adorned them with the Lt Col rank badges at a ceremony at the Army Headquarters in Dhaka on Thursday, the Inter Services Public…
M Humayun Kabir: Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina said neighboring Myanmar always tries to find new excuses to delay the return of more than 700,000 Rohingyas who were forced across the border over the past year. “They agree everything, but unfortunately they don’t act, that is the problem,” Hasina said of Myanmar. “Everything is set but……
BSS: President of Bhutan’s ruling People’s Democratic Party (PDP) and former Prime Minister Tshering Tobgay has said the victory of Sheikh Hasina in the general election is good not only for Bangladesh but also the region and the international community. “The victory of Sheikh Hasina and Bangladesh Awami League is good for Bangladesh, good for…
Russia Today: A number of Syrian state and media-linked YouTube accounts have gone dark, as the battle for Idlib looms amid Russia’s warnings of an imminent false-flag chemical attack and Western preparations for retaliatory strikes. On Saturday afternoon, the channels belonging to the Syrian presidency, the country’s Ministry of Defense, and SANA news all showed…
Reuters: Minority Muslims in the southern Philippines cast votes on Monday in a long-awaited referendum on autonomy, the culmination of a peace process to end decades of separatist conflict in a region plagued by poverty, banditry and Islamist extremism. Some 2.8 million people in the volatile Mindanao region are being asked if they back a…
John Gapper/ Financial Times Setback marks end of golden age when speed of innovation provided obsolescence As Joni Mitchell sang in “Big Yellow Taxi”: “Don’t it always seem to go, that you don’t know what you’ve got ’til it’s gone.” Apple knows it now, from the abrupt fall in its share price last week as it…
Cancer Cells: Our cells wage wars inside of our body everyday. Although these tiny cells are too small to be seen without the help of microscopes, they are capable of overtaking any organ in our body. These are cancer cells and they are continuously declaring their presence inside our body. Our immune system neutralizes them…