Charles M. Blow, Opinion Columnist/ The New York Times How can a family that can’t run a charity run a country? I will be going on book leave soon — today is my last column for a while because of the holiday schedule — to write what I believe to be the most important thing…
Nusrat Jahan Progga Don’t you often have panic attacks and have trouble falling asleep? Well, maybe instead of clearing out your medicine cabinet, you can take a look at the placement on your dinner table. Because surprise surprise- some of the food you eat everyday can be the culprit behind your migraines and numerous anxiety…
DOT Desk: BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia’s lawyers may move her pending pleas before the Supreme Court next week challenging her convictions in two separate corruption cases, reports The Daily Star. Zia, a former prime minister, could not take part in the general election, as she was not allowed to contest for her convictions and…
Financial Express: Although the number of public buses has ballooned in the country in the past decades, it cannot help reduce public sufferings mainly due to irregularities, experts say. They blame unhealthy competition, syndication and the lack of proper policy for the sorry state. According to the data available with the state-run Bangladesh Road Transport…
Reuters: Uber’s head of corporate development, Cameron Poetzscher, was disciplined after a probe found he had a pattern of making sexually suggestive comments about other co-workers, the Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday, citing people familiar with the investigation. When the findings of the probe by an outside law firm were presented to an internal…
Keys are detected by different colors by nail polish: A simple dot can be the identity of a key on its head Full head can be colored to detect them Only one key may paint different color than all the keys in the ring One can paint a glow colors so they can…
Monirul Alam of DOT Bangladesh officials appeared to have backtracked this week from filing a case to claim damage of reserve heist against US Federal Reserve Bank of New York (US Fed) considering insufficient evidences. The case has to be lodged with ‘Inform Commercial Court’ under local laws in the USA. As per the law,…
Fabia Shahzadi Dear my first love, Haven’t done this since the ninth grade, have we? Remember the struggles we went through to just express our raw feelings through words in those sealed letters? I still have them. Good times! So, how long has it been? Years? Months? Yes, I know it has roughly been over…
Dr. Syed Manzoorul Islam, Professor, Dept. of English, University of Dhaka: Any developed country needs skilled manpower since it is not possible to ensure sustainable development without skilled workforce. We hire managers from abroad, who take away $5 billion from us every year, mostly from the pharmaceutical and RMG sectors. The skilled manager is who…
UNB: A move is underway to install pre-paid metres for electricity consumers in Cumilla and Mymensigh regions as part of the government’s plan to gradually replace all the post-paid electricity metres. According to official sources at the Power Division, state-owned Power Development Board (PDB), which is responsible for power distribution system in Cumilla and Mymensingh…