Abrar Hussain Shakib Al Hassan has received the best sportsman award for 2017, reports Banglanews24. The Bangladesh Sports Press Association (BSPA) announced the ‘Kool BSPA Sports Award 2017’ and nominated Shakib and two others for the award. Alongside Shakib Al Hassan, the two others are- Arnab Sarar Ladif and Mohammed Jafar Iqbal. They were adjudged the…
Reported by: Mona Haque Written by: Eshan Maitra Awami League Government has taken a huge initiation in rejuvenating the rivers & creating 53 water-routes in order to reduce the dependency on roads. As part of this, capital dredging project for 50km water-ways from Daudkandi-Homna-Ramkrishnapur has been initiated. Now, BIWTA also announced that, a modern naval…
Gurmehar Kaur, Indian student activist and author/Daily O, India Delhi was wrong to reject Imran Khan’s peace dialogue offer. My heart fluttered as my news app notification pinged on my phone with the headline titled: “Indo-Pak talks to happen in New York MEA meets”. The last few months had been surprisingly positive for India-Pakistan relations…
UNB: Rumana Rahman has become the first Bangladeshi to be appointed as the Asia Pacific and Middle-East Head of Human Resources of British American Tobacco Group. The appointment will be effective from February 15, according to a press release. She served as the HR Head at BAT Bangladesh for the last seven years. Rumana started…
Reported by: Jafar Ahmed Written by: Eshan Maitra Fled Rohingyas poses to create a long-term economic crisis in Bangladesh. On top of it, by any case if Bangladesh & Myanmar’s diplomatic relation worsens and escalates into a war. That would really dent the budget of development. Warned South Asian Network on Economic Modeling (SANEM) in…
Sky News: A circular saw, 1,200 toilet rolls and a black, 2007 registered Volvo S80. These are just a few of the items for which diplomats at the US embassy in London apparently no longer have a use. But if you fancy giving them a good home, you can bid for them in an online…
Kazi Akramuddin Ahmad, Former President, FBCCI : The upcoming budget has to prioritize ICT, Pharmaceuticals and other alternative industries alongside the garments industry. Our garments industry is doing well and it is obviously good news for us but we also have to create alternative sectors as well. We have fisheries and ICT. We have a pharmaceuticals…
DOT Desk: A schoolgirl was allegedly killed after violation in Gabtola village in Ashashuni upazila of Satkhira, reports The Daily Observer. Deceased Sushmita was the daughter of Proshanto Das. She was a student of class III of Gabtola Government Primary School. When Sushmita became senseless, he threw her into a pond. Local people recovered Sushmita’s…
Brazil launched its first domestically built submarine, named Riachuelo, in Rio de Janeiro state under the witness of Brazilian President Michel Temer and President-elect Jair Bolsonaro. “Over the next months, we will carry out port and deck tests, and soon Riachuelo will be a new instrument for the national strategies of defense,” said Brazilian Navy…
Big Think: For nearly four billion years, Earth and the Moon have been inseparable as they’ve journeyed together through the cosmic void. It’s our only permanent satellite we’ll ever know. But new research has unearthed (…unmooned?) evidence that our planet occasionally captures “mini-moons” every once in a while. These tiny asteroids zoom around our planet…