Desk Report: The Bangladesh Telecom-munication Regulatory Commission has fined Robi Axiata Limited Tk 50 crore as the mobile phone operator continued receiving ‘unauthorised’ fibre optic transmission service from Bangla Phone Limited, reports New Age. The telecom regulator issued a letter to Robi in this regard on Monday asking the mobile operator to pay the amount…
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…
NDTV The patient had come in for heart failure, and physicians at the University of California at San Francisco had an aggressive plan to help. Doctors there inserted a heart pump through his leg artery to flood his organs with blood. But there is a downside to the strategy – clots can form through its…
Desk Report From 52 to 71, our motherland, Bangladesh, result of the bloodshed of millions of martyrs. Sundarban to Cox’s Bazar, our Bangladesh, and our pride. She is full of art, traditions and culture. It’s time to represent the beauty to the world through song, dance, acting or other talents. For the first time in…
Sayeed Muhammad While delivering a keynote speech in Myanmar, Pope Francis, on the second day of a four-day visit to the country, demanded “respect for each ethnic group” without specifying the Muslim Rohingya community.Rights groups had earlier urged him to use the term for backing the community. Myanmar’s Catholic Church had told him the term…
Uri Friedman/ The Atlantic The Trump administration’s concerted diplomatic effort did not originate on Twitter. It didn’t begin with a tweet.Donald Trump’s decision this week to recognize Venezuela’s opposition leader as the nation’s legitimate president is surprising on many levels. But one of them is that it didn’t arrive as a bolt from the president’s…
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Sayeed Muhammad: Myanmar National Security Adviser Thaung Tun said the country is willing to take back all 700,000 Rohingya refugees who have fled to Bangladesh if they volunteer to return. He was speaking at the Shangri-La Dialogue, a regional security conference in Singapore, where he was asked if the situation in Myanmar’s Rakhine state, where…
The Independent, BD: Several large consignments of ‘khat’ leaves, a narcotic substance originating in the African continent, have recently been seized in Dhaka and Chattogram, which law enforcers say have added a new dimension to drug trafficking in the country. These seizures came at a time when the country is abuzz with anti-narcotic drives in…
Wikihow: Though it may seem dramatic, an angry mob can be just as dangerous and unpredictable as just about any natural disaster. 1. Carry a solution for rinsing your eyes in case you’re exposed to tear gas. If you’re worried that you may be exposed to tear gas, you should have a solution of half…