Hossen Sohel: Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday said it is her duty to unchain people from deprivation and a plan is underway to provide urban facilities to villagers, reports UNB. “So many years have been wasted…we have lost times from 1975-96… we didn’t see any development in those 21 years, a handful of people managed…
Eshan Maitra Another creative French company, Wezzoo has brought the first modern-smart Umbrella. The core feature of this ‘OOMBRELLA’, it is connected to the user’s smart phone. Which also collects weather reports and will notify you to take it with you. The umbrella also keeps track of your distance from it. So, in case you…
Tara Sattar Lara Dutta who plays a lawyer in the upcoming movie “Azhar” said cricketer Azharuddin is a phenomenal person. The film is based on the life of the most controversial captain of the Indian cricket team in history. In her role in the movie, Lara Dutta is a lawyer who is adamant to prove…
DOT Desk: The week-long ‘Madhu Mela’, an annual festival marking the birth anniversary of the pioneer of Bengali sonnets poet Michael Madhusudan Dutta, will begin at his birth place in Sagardari of Keshabpur upazila on January 22, reports The Daily Sun. Marking the poet’s 195th birth anniversary, the festival will feature discussions, exhibition and cultural…
AP, Baghdad The United Nations says violence killed at least 1,119 Iraqis in March, a sharp increase from the previous month, as the Islamic State group stepped up attacks on civilians while suffering defeats on the battlefield. The U.N. mission to Iraq, known as UNAMI, said in a statement Friday that 1,561 Iraqis were wounded…
Sayeed Muhammad of DOT Myanmar’s government says it has ordered the military to “crush” rebels in the Rakhine state, after raids by insurgents killed 13 police officers earlier this month. The UN says fighting between the Myanmar military and Arakan Army forced about 5,000 people from their homes in the state in the past month,…
BDnews24: A man suspected of raping a madrasa student in Chattogram has been killed in an alleged shootout with police. Another man was arrested after the incident at Mariner’s Road in Firingibazar on Monday night, said Kotwali Police OC Md Mohsin. The deceased suspect Shahabuddin and arrestee Shyamol Dey worked as drivers. On Jan 27,…
The Hard Case ‘Hard cases make bad law’- it’s a famous saying in the legal community. The situation in which Apple and the FBI and the Justice Department find themselves right now was not generated by mere fate but a horrible tragedy, making it the definition of a hard case. Shooters from the San Bernardino…
Anand van Zelderen, Currently working on research at the University of Calgary/ Channel NewsAsia Dealing with employees who aren’t placed on a company’s talent management programme needs to be handled very delicately, say two observers from the University of Calgary. Have you ever compared your work performance to a colleague’s? It’s a daily habit for…
Desk Report: Bangladesh Cricket Board is looking to send some of the country’s leading cricketers to county cricket to hone their skill sets. To make headway in this regard, the board has asked newly appointed head coach Steve Rhodes to try and make some arrangements so that some of his charges have the opportunity to…