BSS, Rajshahi Prime Minister’s Adviser on Economics Affairs Dr Moshiur Rahman has said the Bangladesh’s GDP is increasing day by day and it will be double within next eight years. “We will no more dependent on foreign aid and we have become a self-reliant nation,” he added. He was addressing the inaugural session of the…
UNB, Dhaka The Malaysian government has decided to halt the recruitment of new foreign workers to the country, said its deputy prime minister Datuk Seri Ahmad Zahid Hamidi. Hamidi also made it clear that their initial plan to bring in 1.5 million Bangladeshi workers was officially scrapped, according to Malaysian media, including The Star Online…
BSS, Pirojpur Home-Minister Asaduzzaman Khan on Saturday categorically said Islam is a religion of peace and there is no place for militancy in Islam. “An ill force is hatching conspiracy to foil the country’s development and to help rising militancy by misinterpreting Islam among common people,” he came up with the observation while addressing annual…
UNB, Dhaka Though the Bangla literature embraced modernism through Rabindranath Tagore, Bangladesh has seen no ‘great’ writer over the last few decades due to the spread of job-oriented education and fall in readership, bemoan educationists. They also observed that once newspapers had played an important role in creating and promoting new and talented writers of…
Our Time Desk Before we work our way into the semantics of why, how and where Google’s AI (artificial intelligence) defeated the current reigning champ of the Go series in China. Lets gets to know what Go really is. Go is a traditional Asian game not unlike checkers. It is an intellectual game played on…
Marilyn Thipthorpe Last year, a study conducted at the University of Cambridge involving the production of viable sperms and eggs went viral (pun intended!). The scientists of the Gurdon Institute in Cambridge headed by Dr. Azim Surani, reported that they had successfully created primitive forms of artificial sperm and eggs by culturing embryonic stem cells…
Marilyn Thipthorpe If you’re an 80’s kid, you’re sure to remember sitting in front to the BTV waiting for the theme song of Six Million Dollar man to come on. The idea that a man torn to bits in a crash could still walk and talk and do amazing feats of action was totally a…
Tarannum Sattar On May 12, 1947, a powerful picture taken by student photographer Robert Wiles, was published in a full page in life magazine. It still remains as one of the most famous after almost seven decades. The photograph was of Evelyn McHale, a 23 year old California girl, who had jumped off to death…
Md Taqi Yasir After a lot of waiting and wailings and test of the patience of the Marvel followers, Captain America: Civil War released its teaser trailer. This time at the ending of the trailer, it seemed that Spiderman comes forth amidst of the war between Captain America and Iron Man, shooting its spider web…
The Way It Happens: Sneezing is something humans and even some animals like cats, dogs, and chickens do. Our question is why do we have to sneeze? Most of us would answer that our nose in order to get rid of dirt like irritants and mucus undertake the act of sneezing; this idea is not…