Nasser Al-Qasem, Ramallah/ Seven Billion Today The Palestinian teenager and activist Ahed Tamimi who was jailed for 8 months for slapping an Israeli soldier has been honoured by Spanish football club, Real Madrid.The teenager was jailed after her offense which followed her refusal to leave her family home in the occupied West Bank ~ just…
Imran Hussain: Eid shopping has intensified at Patharghata in Barguna. Men and women of every age are engrossed in their purchases. The sale of Indian apparel alongside local ones is extraordinary. Shops large and small have been crowded by people looking to buy their favorite clothes. Women’s clothes range from Tk 2,000 to 6,000 while…
Tech Explorist: MIT scientists have devised a new cryptocurrency that definitely diminishes the data users need to join the system and confirm trasactions— by up to 99 percent contrasted with the today’s famous cryptographic forms of money. Dubbed as Vault, this implies a substantially more adaptable system. It allows users to join the network by…
Reuters: Aid agency Médecins Sans Frontières, working in Cox’s Bazar at the southern tip of Bangladesh, estimated in the first month of violence, beginning at the end of August 2017, that at least 6,700 Rohingya were killed. But the survey, in what is now the largest refugee camp in the world, was limited to the…
PK Balachandranis, BDnews24.com Special Correspondent in Colombo/BDnews24 Work on the National Register of Citizens (NRC) in the north-eastern Indian state of Assam bordering Bangladesh is proceeding at a feverish pace regardless of its domestic and international consequences. The Assam and Central governments are smugly claiming that everything will be tickety-boo once a “clean” list of…
Hannah Giorgis, Staff writer at The Atlantic, where she covers culture/The Atlantic The outspoken British actor recently wrote that airbrushing should be illegal. But there are far more compelling ways to consider the tyranny of gendered beauty standards. Earlier this week, the British actor Jameela Jamil took a familiar stand. For the BBC, she wrote…
UNB Police recovered the bullet-hit body of a young man from a beach of the Bay of Bengal in Teknaf upazila on Thursday morning. The deceased was identified as Mohammad Hanif, 28, son of late Siddique Ahmed of Sabrang union. Locals spotted the body at Baharchharar Noakhalipara beach in the morning and informed police, said…
Arafat Hasan of DOT The National Economic Council (Ecnec) Executive Committee approved Tk 368.87 crore for the enhancement of the Jatrabari (Mayor Hanif Flyover)–Demra (Sultana Kamal Bridge) highway into a four-lane project, reported BSS. The approval came from the maiden Ecnec meeting of the present government’s term held with Ecnec Chairperson and Prime Minister Sheikh…
DOT Desk: Bangladesh should focus on resource development as well as ensuring good governance at the institutional level for its graduation to a developed country, economists said, reports The Daily Sun. They also stressed the need for political stability and increase taxation to reduce the income of gap and foster an inclusive economy. United Kingdom-based…
Tarannum Sattar Tum Bin 2 is coming back 15 years after the first movie Tum Bin. Director Anubhav Sinha is starring the same actors as the first one. A new teaser poster has been released by fans where it shows the backside of the three stars that will be starring in the movie. Director Anubhav…