Tanzim Taqrim Drones are saving lives in Rwanda. The locals label them as ‘Sky Ambulances’. The unpiloted aircrafts convey hundreds of blood supplies daily. Due to Rwanda’s poor infrastructure ground deliveries can take hours but these do it in minutes. Flight operators load the supplies onto the drones then launch from a catapult to their…
Sejuti Mourin National Film Award winning popular singer and music director Kumar Biswajit’s musical film ‘Sarangshe Tumi’ is scheduled to be screened at the seventh edition of the ongoing SAARC Film Festival in Colombo, Sri Lanka. The festival will open with Indian film “Pinky Beauty Parlour”, and feature a total of 24 feature-length and short…
Reuters: Greek lawmakers began the final steps on Wednesday toward ratifying an historic accord on a name-change for neighboring Macedonia, as a bitter row rumbled with opponents who say it harms Greece’s national identity. Parliament opened a two-day debate on ratifying the so-called Prespes Agreement, a U.N. mediated deal between Athens and Skopje changing the…
Channel News Asia An hours-long gun and suicide attack on a Kabul government compound killed at least 43 people, the health ministry said Tuesday (Dec 25), making it one of the deadliest assaults on the Afghan capital this year. No militant group has claimed responsibility for the raid, which caps a bloody year for Afghanistan…
Mohammad Ali Sattar Facebook postings and the newspaper images of water mixed with blood of the sacrificial animals during Eid times has put Dhaka in the news for right and wrong reasons. In the global parameters Dhaka is measured frequently. No one perhaps misses Dhaka these days. I don’t quite understand if the pictures of…
Reuters: Four people, including two police officers, were killed in a shooting in eastern Canada on Friday in the latest eruption of gun violence across the country that has led to calls for weapons bans in cities. Below are mass shootings in Canada over the past three decades. TORONTO, ONTARIO: July 22, 2018 – A…
Marilyn Thipthorpe Robots are creepy, plain and simple. Engineers are always trying to tell you that these robots are going to make life easier and simple and oh soo good. But what happens when a robot goes gaga and says that she dreams of a family, going to school, studying art and wants to kill…
M. Mehdi İlhan, Professor at Istanbul Sabahattin Zaim University/Daily Sabah, Turkey Idlib, a town located 60 kilometers from Aleppo and about 25 kilometers from the Turkish border, is strategically important as a gateway for the port of Latakia on the Mediterranean. The M-5 Highway connects Turkey to Jordan through Syrian territory; therefore, this route is…
UNB The 3rd National Women’s Hockey League will begin at Maulana Bhashani Hockey Stadium on Monday. Nine district teams — Dhaka, Rajshahi, Narail, Rangpur, Kishoreganj, Dinajpur, Patuakhali, Jhenaidah and Thakurgaon — split in three groups will take part in the seven-day meet. Private TV channel ‘ATN Bangla’ will live telecast the inauguration match and…
Kabir Humayun: The sale of advance bus ticket for Eid-ul-Azha scheduled to begin yesterday has been postponed due to the unrest following the ongoing student protest demanding safe roads. Contacted, Saod Mosharref Hossain, general manager of Hanif Paribahan, told The Daily Star that the bus operators will fix a new date for starting the sale…