Aayan Ahmed The long expected January 1, 2019 finally arrived. It was the day when all of the Bangladesh contingent would fly to Australia towards an amazing adventure in the 25th Australian scout jamboree. We, the 16 young scouts from Sunnydale School were as excited as anything to join in that luxurious event. We were…
Sayeed Muhammad: All CNG refuelling stations across the country will remain closed for two additional hours during Ramadan, meaning that they will not be operational for 6 hours every day. The measure has been taken aiming to boosting gas supply in the power plants, according to UNB. The decision was taken at a meeting between…
T.S Reg E Cathey has started promoting his series Outcast. And to do so e filmed him rapping in German, reports nme.com. Cathey grew up in Germany. He played the role of former diner in the series Outcast who was known by the name Freddy Hayes. Outcast co-stars Philip Glenister and Patrick Fugit flank Cathey…
Al Arabiya: A Syrian official made a slip of the tongue during an interview last Thursday with Syria TV when he said there was no need to use chemical weapons against the Syrian people as traditional weapons were enough. “We cannot use (chemical) weapons against our people, and why would we use them? Normal weapons…
Stock market transactions rise ahead of election Desk Report: Stock market transactions are increasing as the national election draws near. Transactions in the country’s leading bourse Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) exceeded Tk 10 billion last Thursday, the highest since last 11 July, reports The Prothom Alo. Market analysts think, political factors.
DOT Desk: The Farmers Bank Limited (FBL) has changed its name to Padma Bank Limited. Bangladesh Bank- the central bank of the country, has issued a circular for all the scheduled banks to this end, reports The Independent. The Farmers Bank Limited is a private commercial bank headquartered in Gulshan-1, Dhaka. The bank was established…
Nusrat Jahan Gone are the days when kids were all about having chitchats over tea and chanachur on their rooftops, and fights only broke out during games of monopoly. Nowadays, it is all about who has more likes on their Facebook display pictures or who has more followers on Instagram. The things that teens and…
John Lloydco, Founded the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism at the University of Oxford/BDnews24 Two men of influence – the conspiracy theorist Alex Jones and the politician Boris Johnson – now face media bans and/or ridicule for what they saw as speaking their minds. Both, though quite different in background, manner and actions,…
Himanjali Sankar/ Scroll.In An excerpt from Himanjali Sankar’s ‘The Lies We Tell’, told from the point of view of 17-year-old Irfan Ahmed. I didn’t do it. Why would I send Uma’s photo, that was meant only for me, to Rishi and Abhishek and a bunch of other random classmates? It was for me. Why would…
BBC: US Strategic Command, which oversees America’s nuclear arsenal, has apologised for a tweet that said it was ready to “drop something much, much bigger” than New York’s Times Square ball.The message, posted on New Year’s Eve, was accompanied by a video showing a B-2 bomber dropping weapons. Strategic Command later deleted the tweet, saying…