Kabir Humayun of DOT BNP yesterday said it will not allow any war criminal to contest the 11th parliamentary election with the party’s electoral symbol ‘Sheaf of Paddy’. “I can assure you no war criminal will be allowed to use our electoral symbol Sheaf of Paddy,“ said BNP standing committee member Nazrul Islam Khan, reports…
BSS A woman was killed and his husband injured as a truck hit their motorcycle at Gunali Bazaar under Tala upazila of the district on Saturday morning. The victim was Saleha Begum, 35, wife of Masud. Police said the accident took place on the Khulna-Pikegachha road at about 10 am when a truck hit the…
Hossen Sohel: Russian President Vladimir Putin, sitting on a stage alongside Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, proposed yesterday that the two men sign a peace treaty by the end of this year, reports Reuters. The two countries are in dispute over a chain of Pacific islands and as a result have still not formally ended…
Juno Spacecraft shows the first close-up of the planet’s southern lights. Juno flew below Jupiter’s innermost radiation belt. It found a magnetic field twice as strong as predicted, 10 times stronger than any on Earth. Jupiter has massive polar cyclones, part of a more complex, turbulent world than expected. Source: NASA via CNN https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YHyge_OoYCs
Reuters: China rejected on Monday allegations raised by a U.N. panel that 1 million Uighurs may be held in internment camps in the Xinjiang autonomous region. Gay McDougall, a member of the U.N. Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, said on Friday it had received many credible reports that 1 million ethnic Uighurs in…
Arafat Hasan of DOT The Jatiya Party has been allocated 29 seats as part of the Grand Alliance, but is also planning to run candidates for 132 seats separate from the coalition, reports BDnews. “The Jatiya Party has received 29 seats from the Awami League,” Jatiya Party Secretary General Mashiur Rahman Ranga told the media…
Sofian Khan The Election Commission (EC) has ordained to complete the Smart National Identity (NID) card distribution process across the country by December of 2018. The digital cards are now being distributed among 37 districts and the distribution process in in the remaining 27 districts will start in February.‘We think we’ll be able to complete…
Reported by: Jafar Ahmad Written by: Eshan Maitra Krishi Shomprosharon Council very much concerned about the severity of the Blast disease in the rice paddies. The traditional ways are failing to prevent it. BRRI estimated, over 1% of the seasonal Ropa Rice will be affected in the South-East region of the country. The number is…
DOT Desk: A move is well under way to make private insurance employees’ as “public servants” with intent to bring them under a legal framework, reports The Financial Express. The people working at the Financial Institutions Division under the Ministry of Finance are examining the issue. The division has so far met twice on the…
Desk Report: Bangladesh is going to participate at the World Skills Competition to be held in Russia in next year, reports Financial Express. WorldSkills is the collective voice for skills excellence and development in vocational, technological and service oriented careers around the globe. National Skills Development Council (NSDC) will organise selection events to select national…