DOT Desk A campaign titled, Bhalobashar Bangladesh, was organised by Chabial, Aamrai, reports The Daily Star. Bangladesh and Greenbee Communications, in association with Square Toiletries Ltd and Mediacom Limited, to celebrate 47 years of Bangladesh’s victory. The main goal of this campaign was to show the positive sides of Bangladesh from the perspective of the…
BSS: Bangladesh’s first geostationary communication satellite Bangabandhu-I is set to start its maiden transmission on Tuesday through broadcasting of South Asian Football Federation (SAFF) Championship. “We are set to broadcast the SAFF Championship using BS-I through Bangladesh Television (BTV),” said Dr Shahjahan Mahmood, Chairman of Bangladesh Communication Satellite Company Limited (BCSCL), the organisation responsible to…
Hindustan Times, India: China has operationalised the prototype of a new generation supercomputer that can execute a quintillion calculations per second as part of its efforts to lead as the most prolific producer of computing technology. The Sunway exascale computer prototype was put in operation on Sunday.It has been jointly developed by the National Research…
AP, Austin The Panama Papers, which illustrate how a small class of global elites find elaborate ways to shield their wealth from tax collectors, bank regulators and police, offer a glimpse into what’s driving the populist outrage that has marked this year’s presidential campaign. The trove of 11.5 million leaked documents have thus far shed…
Abrar Hussain: Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader has said that BNP has been complaining to the UN in an effort to return to power because it has lost people’s support. The road transport and bridges minister made the remarks during the inauguration of the Awami League’s Science and Technology Sub-Committee website at the Engineers…
M Humayun Kabir: Expressing deep concern about Digital Security Act which was passed on September 18 by the parliament, the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) in a letter to the Bangladesh president has urged him to return it to the parliament for a review. CPJ, an independent press freedom advocacy organisation, published the letter on…
Syed Nasir Ershad In yesteryears, friends used to mean someone we knew and an opinion was something we arrived at after long thought. Since the time of my upbringing I heard people identifying newspapers on the basis of political bias. However, it appears to be difficult to discover that there were politics in any certain…
Reported by: Shakil Ahmed Written by: Eshan Maitra In the eye of the constitution, every citizen is equal. Everyone has the rights of workplace security equivalent to the risk of their work. Doctors with one of most risky study of medical science. Therefore Bangladesh Medical Association (BMA) General Secretary Dr. Ehteshamul Haque presented 6 demands…
BBC The rock carvings – known as petroglyphs – have been discovered in their thousands atop hillocks in the Konkan region of western Maharashtra. Mostly discovered in the Ratnagiri and Rajapur areas, a majority of the images etched on the rocky, flat hilltops remained unnoticed for thousands of years. Most of them were hidden beneath…