Hossen Sohel of DOT A total of 4,439 people were killed and 4,425 others injured in 3,103 incidents of road crashes last year, Nirapad Sarak Chai said in a report yesterday, reports The Daily Star. Ilias Kanchan, founder of road safety campaigning group Nirapad Sarak Chai revealed the statistics at Dhaka Reporters Unity in the…
Jafar Ahmed There is lack of transparency & accountability checks in the economic sector of Bangladesh. It creating scopes for the great irregularities in the system. Former Chairman of Janata Bank, economist Dr. Abul Barkat made these statements at the pre-event seminar of 20th Biennial Conference of Bangladesh Economic Association (BEA), on yesterday. He also…
Tara Sattar For those who are a big fan, TNT has finally accepted and ordered a drama to be made on the life of William Shakespeare. The drama will be a ten episode series named “Will”. The approval came two years after the pilot was commissioned by TNT.The Turner-owned cable also ordered another drama “Civil”…
DOT Desk The results of Junior School Certificate (JSC), Junior Dakhil Certificate (JDC), Primary Education Completion (PEC) and Ebtedayee examinations will be published today (Dec 24), reports Banglanews24. Prior to the publishing of the results, Education Minister Nurul Islam Nahid and Primary and Mass Education Minister Mustafizur Rahman will hand over the copies of JSC…
Zakaria Swapan, Technologist: It is great to have Bangabandhu I satellite. It also feels good. And there is no reason for feeling bad in this regard. Like the rest of the countrymen, I also feel proud over matter of the satellite being sent into the space. Though we did not manufacture it, Bangladesh owns Bangabandhu…
Desk Report: People of a village in Gazipur’s Sreepur upazila collect herbs to earn their livings. They collect herbs from remote corners of Bhawal forest, process, and supply them to pharmaceutical companies, reports Dhaka Tribune. They say they have chosen the profession of herbal trading due to geographical location and huge demand of herbs for…
Tahmeed Taha: In Gaza funerals are to be held for 58 people killed when Israeli troops opened fire on Palestinian protesters on Monday, in the deadliest day of violence there since a war in 2014. With the 70th anniversary, the burials coincide of what Palestinians call the Nakba – the mass displacement of Palestinians after the…
BSS Hillary Clinton defeated Bernie Sanders in a landslide in Saturday’s Democratic primary in South Carolina, projections showed, seizing momentum ahead of the most important day of the nomination race: next week’s “Super Tuesday” showdown. Four weeks into the White House primaries, the former secretary of state earned a decisive win in the first southern…
Forqan Uddin Ahmed 21 February is being observed globally as the International Mother Language Day. The decision was proclaimed at the 30th General Conference of the United Nations Education, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) held from 26 October to 17 November 1999 in Paris. UNESCO considered the threat to linguistic diversity posed by the globalization…
Dr. Amena Mohsin speaks to DOT : The four MOU’s between India and Bangladesh are not very effective because of more important issues like the Teesta issue, border management and Rohingya crisis, according to Dr. Amena Mohsin, a Professor of DU. The MOUs that the two countries signed in the meeting: Firstly, India will give…