Desk Report: The human haulier, which collided head-on with a bus killing 15 people on Saturday, was actually a microbus illegally modified to seat passengers double its capacity, reports The Daily Star. The bus also did not have the route permit for plying the roads, investigators found. The police arrested assistant of the bus Abdus…
UNB: Six suspected members of Jamaat-e-Islami and its student front Islami Chhatra Shibir were arrested with improvised bombs and Jihadi books in South Keraniganj on Monday night. “We suspect that they gathered there to carry out subversive activities,” said Shah Zaman, the officer-in-charge of South Keraniganj Police Station. He said they raided Hasnabad Housing building…
Sofian Khan: A six-member committee was formed by the Cabinet for further reviewing the Bangladesh Tariff Commission (Amendment) Bill, 2018 draft during a regular weekly cabinet meeting with Principal Secretary to Prime Minister’s Office as its convener yesterday. Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina presided over the meeting. “The draft law was placed before the cabinet today…
Desk Report: Stocks on the country’s both bourses stayed in the positive trend at midday on Monday as investors remained active on sector specific stocks, reports Financial Express. Following the previous day’s marginal correction, the Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) and the Chittagong Stock Exchange (CSE) opened higher amid rising trading activities. Within first 15 minutes…
Tech Explorist On Dec. 13, the brightest comet 46P/Wirtanen passed 7.4 million miles (12 million kilometers) from Earth. On this event, NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope captured it from multiple angles. In this visible light image, the comet’s nucleus is covered up in the center of a fuzzy glow from the comet’s coma. The coma is…
Fabia Shahzadi You’ve worked hard, and now there’s a hefty chunk of time out to enjoy. But whether you’re between years at university or finishing your A Levels, a summer wasted isn’t always a good thing. 1 – Drifting aimlessly Give yourself time to recover, but don’t lose all focus. Once you end up feeling…
Tara Sattar Famous Bollywood choreographer Farah Khan just finished working with Jackie Chan during the shoot of “Kung fu Yoga”, Jackie Chan’s new film. Farah was hugely impressed by the gesture of Jackie Chan and was all praise for the legend. “It was fantastic. He is 60-year-old but behaved like a newcomer on the sets….
Reuters: EDF has halted four nuclear reactors at three power plants in France because of the current heatwave affecting Europe, a spokesman for the utility said on Saturday. High temperatures registered in the Rhone and Rhine rivers, from which the three power plants pump their water for cooling, led to a temporary shutdown of the…
Md. Shamsul Islam, Executive Editor, Our Time : As a media-critic turned journalist, I find it quite difficult to objectively assess the role of the media in the ongoing drive against drugs and the extrajudicial killings associated with it. Following some classic quotes on freedom of expression, our expectations to the media always remain sky-high….