Sayeed Muhammad of DOT : Awami League President Sheikh Hasina is making a new start forming her third government on the trot by bringing a number of new faces to her cabinet. After the landslide in the 11th national parliamentary polls held on December 30, the premier has formed a cabinet of 46 members, with 31…
UNB, Dhaka Though the Bangla literature embraced modernism through Rabindranath Tagore, Bangladesh has seen no ‘great’ writer over the last few decades due to the spread of job-oriented education and fall in readership, bemoan educationists. They also observed that once newspapers had played an important role in creating and promoting new and talented writers of…
UNB: Bangladesh, one of the most densely populated countries in the world, has long been witnessing an abnormal shift in its traditional six seasons due to changes in temperature, wind-flow and rainfall patterns, threatening the country’s future food security, according to local environment and weather experts. They also said frequent natural disasters like flashfloods, cyclones,…
Sabah Mannan Mount Agung has been spouting volcano ash with increasing intensity since last Tuesday but had heightened indicating the potential of a larger eruption forthcoming. This prompted the National Agency for Disaster Management to issue a Level 4 alert on Monday, recommending no public activities within 8 to 10 kilometers from the peak. Thick…
Ejinsight: Back in 1985, the National People’s Congress Standing Committee passed a resolution declaring Sept. 10 of every year as Teachers’ Day across China. Coincidentally, it was on Teachers’ Day this year that Alibaba Group chairman Jack Ma Yun announced that he is going to retire next year in order to return to his previous…
Reported by: Jafar Ahmed Written by: Eshan Maitra Natural calamity in the haor areas caused the increase in the rice price rapidly. Therefore, National Board of Revenue requested the Ministry of Food to omit tax on rice importing. But, it has been over a month and nothing has been done. The prices of rice…
Abrar Hussain of DOT Election Commission Secretary Helaluddin Ahmad announced that the commission is considering slowing down the internet bandwidth on polling day on December 30. Internet bandwidth will be readjusted to normal level after 4:00pm. Ahmad was briefing officials about election result management at the Election Training Centre (ETI) in the capital’s Nirbachan Bhaban…
BSS, Dhaka Transmission of Dhaka Betar came to a halt suddenly just before Bangabandhu started delivering his historic March 7 speech at the Ramna Race Course Maidan in 1971. Dhaka Betar kept its operation stopped till mid-night. The Dhaka centre of the television was also closed at night. So, Bangabandhu’s speech could not be directly…
BSS: The Barind Multi-purpose Development Authority (BMDA) has brought over 8.93 lakh hectares of croplands including 3.15 lakh hectares irri-boro fields under irrigation in almost 16 districts of Rajshahi and Rangpur divisions. The huge croplands get the irrigation facilities through operating 15,517 power-driven deep tube wells (DTWs) and 417 low lift pumps in almost round…
Tanzim Taqrim Arnob Google is the world’s most popular search engine. From now on, the company will support direct advertisements on Bangladeshi websites. They have announced the introduction of Adsense for Bengali language websites. On Tuesday, a blog post in Google AdSense was explained in detail. Initially the matter was reported at the ‘Top Contributor…