BBC: Italian President Sergio Mattarella is presiding at a state funeral for 18 of the victims of Tuesday’s bridge collapse in Genoa. Mr Mattarella and Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte are leading mourners at the ceremony at a hall in the city. So far 38 people are confirmed to have died in the disaster and five…
Munir Akram, Former Pakistan ambassador to the UN/ Dawn, Pakistan RECENT statements from Prime Minister Imran Khan and his ministers have outlined fairly clear plans to address Pakistan’s macro-economic challenges. Even if all goes well, economists project that, due to financial constraints, Pakistan’s economic growth will remain between 3 to 4.5 per cent during the…
UNB: Police has taken legal action against 58, 549 vehicles and collected fines amounting to around Tk 1.91 crore in separate special drives against traffic rules violators across the country in the three days since special Traffic Week began Sunday . Besides, legal action was also taken against 15,389 drivers for various charges including violation…
Tech Explorist: Putting in half a month cruising the oceans on an extravagance liner is a thought that interests to a developing number of individuals, especially in Asian nations. Be that as it may, cruise ships don’t simply sail from port to port: as veritable drifting lodgings pleasing a few hundred travelers, they utilize a…
Tech Explorist Scientists at the University of Otago have made a groundbreaking revelation by identifying an association between smell and obesity. The study suggests that there is a strong link between a person’s body weight and their smell ability – the better a person can smell, the more likely the person is to be slim,…
Kabir Humayun: Bim-stec foreign ministers from the seven-nation group identified and agreed on Wednesday to push forward 167 various connectivity-related projects at an estimated cost of $50 billion, reports the Kathmandu Post. Following a detailed study by the Asian Development Bank, the ministers agreed to approve projects, at least in principle. Nepalese Foreign Minister Pradeep…
BSS Secretary General of the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) Amjad Hussain B. Sial has said SAARC will surely be able to realize the region’s fullest potential as it is the common identity and inspiration of South Asian nations. “With sustained endeavours, we will surely be able to realize the region’s fullest potential,”…
Samiul Bashar Samin With thirteen albums and over thirty years in their past, age and inevitability establishes the notion that we won’t have Dream Theater reigning as the progressive rock/metal kings forever. The incoming candidates to take their place are stacking in numbers including the likes of Tesseract, Leprous, and the more recent style of…
DOT Desk The footwear sector is set to get a fresh investment of Tk 177 crore through three companies seeking to grab a share of the country’s growing domestic market, reports The Daily Star. One of the companies is Walkar, a sister concern of Pran-RFL Group, which would be putting in Tk 150 crore to…
Raj Abrar of DOT BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia filed three separate writ petitions with the High Court yesterday, challenging the legality of the Election Commission order that cancelled all the three nominations of Khaleda for the upcoming general election. Barrister Nowshad Jamir, on behalf of Khaleda Zia, filed the petitions seeking High Court directive on…