Syed Nasir Ershad There are diverse views on the future of the U.K. in the greater Europe: some positive others negative and some are mixed. According to former British Prime Minister Tony Blair, the U.K. could stay in a reformed European Union despite the Brexit vote. Blair recently said every alternative for the…
John Harris, Guardian columnist/ Aljazeera In among all the noise about Brexit and Donald Trump, there’s a remarkable sound: a great deal of the free-market, laissez-faire ideas that have dominated the last four decades being criticised and contested, perhaps as never before. In the US, the fallout from the election of 2016 has fed into…
North Koreans are marking the seventh anniversary of the death of leader Kim Jong Il with visits to statues and vows of loyalty to his son, Kim Jong Un. As snow fell Sunday, a steady flow of North Koreans offering flowers and paying respects to the late leader was seen at Mansu Hill in central…
Anindya Nahar Habib This is 2010s and most popular songs of the past half decade are pop, electronic-pop, hip-hop, puck-rock. But there is gorgeous 30 year, stage name- Lana Del Rey, produces songs that will take you back to the 50s-60s. Looking at her will make you think that she walked right of a 60s…
Jerusalem Post HomeBiogas, an Israeli company specializing in the manufacture of small-scale biogas systems, launched its contribution to global sanitation efforts: the Bio-Toilet. Packed into one box, the compact Bio-Toilet provides a dual solution for off-grid, rural communities. First, it provides an easy-to-assemble and more dignified toilet waste solution. Second, toilet waste is dispatched directly…
DOT Desk: Directorate General of Health Services suspended the accountant of the 250-bed Manikganj District Hospital for embezzling around Tk 70 lakh from public fund through different misconducts, reports The New Age. DGHS director (administration) Abul Kalam Azad issued an office order on January 24 after getting the probe report. The misconducts include procuring goods…
Md. Taqi Yasir 235 years back, William Herschel discovered the planet of ice in the solar system on 13th March, 1781. This was marked as one of the best discoveries and a newly added dimension in the astronomical paradigm shift. The very myth of naming Uranus came from the sideline of a unique and a…
Kabir Humayun: The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) quizzed Khorshedul Hasan, a former managing director of Barapukuria Coal Mining Company Ltd (BCMCL), over the ‘disappearance of coal’ from the coalmine. ACC Deputy Director Shamsul Alam grilled the former MD yesterday morning in Dhaka, ACC Public Relations Officer Pranab Kumar Bhattacharya told The Daily Star. Following the disappearance…
BSS, Laksmipur Police in a pre-dawn swoop arrested infamous robber Sheikh Farid from Alexander Bazar area in Ramgati upazila of the district on Thursday. Acting on a tip off, a team of police of Ramgati thana conducted the raid in the Alexander Bazar area and arrested infamous robber Sheikh Farid.