Reported by: Syed Ripon, Savar Written by: Eshan Maitra Government has made it very easy for the initiators to collect loans from the banks for new businesses. Despite of this wide benefiting campaign, Silver business-owners are being left out. Without being able to collect government loans, they have to rely on usury. There are…
Abrar Hussain: Pope Fra-ncis exclaimed yesterday that he and not China will have the final say in the appointment of bishops after the Vatican and China struck a historic deal last week ending decades of conflict. “I think of the endurance of the Catholics who suffered. It is true that they will suffer. There is…
Reuters: Indonesian President Joko Widodo has created a buzz on social media after a video sequence shown at the opening ceremony of the 18th Asian Games culminated with the 57-year-old leader roaring into Jakarta’s main stadium on a powerful motorbike. After his motorcade is held up by Jakarta’s notorious traffic, the tongue-in-cheek video showed a…
The Guardian, UK: Human rights activists in Iran have said they are worried about a man on hunger strike who was reportedly jailed for protesting against rules requiring women to wear a hijab. Farhad Meysami, 48, a doctor and publisher before becoming a civil activist, was arrested in his office in July and taken to…
Nusrat Jahan Progga While we congratulate our friends for turning legal on their 18th birthday, the Japanese kids have to wait another 2 long years before they earn the right to vote. And how do they celebrate their special 20th birthday?With debauchery of course! 20 used to be the age when the Japanese kids stepped…
UNB: A two-day photo exhibition on Rohingya crisis will begin in the city today (Tuesday). The exhibition titled ‘Rohingya Crisis: 1 Year on’ will be presented by the government of Bangladesh, the Inter Sector Coordination Group and the United Nations. It will remain open at Bay’s Edgewater Gallery in Gulshan from 10 am to 8…
Desk Report: Trading and official activities on the bourses will resume today (August 26) after three-day Eid holidays and Friday-Saturday weekends, officials said, reports Financial Express. The trading on the Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) and Chittagong Stock Exchange (CSE) will begin at 10:30am and continue till 2:30pm while the offices will begin at 9:30am and continue…
Abrar Hussain The investigation into possible connections between Russia and Donald Trump’s presidential campaign began after a tip-off from Australia, the New York Times reports.Trump adviser George Papadopoulos allegedly told Australia’s top UK diplomat that Moscow had incriminating information on Hillary Clinton.The New York Times alleges the revelation came “during a night of heavy drinking”…
DOT Desk Boro paddy cultivation has started in all the four districts of Sylhet division as farmers began transplanting seedlings in the main cropland from seedbeds, reports The Financial Express. An official at the DAE Sylhet divisional office informed this correspondent on Thursday that already 54,256 hectares of land in four districts have been brought…
BBC: Fuku-shima residents have reacted angrily to the statue of a boy in protective gear, saying it gives the impression of a city still contaminated after the 2011 nuclear disaster. Fukushima’s nuclear plant was hit by a tsunami in 2011, causing the most serious such accident since Chernobyl. The statue was erected in early August…