DOT Desk: Tin Duarer Kole, the autobiographical memoir by Subhash Ghosh, Chairman of Associated Builders’ Corporation (ABC) Limited, was recently launched at the ABC Garden, Anwar Jong Road, Ashulia. Prominent actor and founder of Asiatic 3 sixty, Aly Zaker, was the special guest and speaker at the programme, reports The daily Star. The author’s brother,…
Sayeed Muhammad: Pakistani Finance Minister Miftah Ismail lauded a resurgent economy and announced a big hike in military spending for the next fiscal year. The announcement came on Friday during a chaotic budget session marred by lawmakers’ jeers and scuffles ahead of an expected election, reports Reuters. pposition lawmakers objected to the ruling Pakistan Muslim…
AFP: Britain’s Prince William and Prime Minister Theresa May joined 2,000 guests at a service Wednesday (Aug 8) marking the centenary of the Battle of Amiens, which rang in the beginning of the end of World War I. Families of soldiers who took part in the lightning Allied advance, which smashed German defences and morale, precipitating…
Abdul Aziz, Erasmus Mundus Scholar, VUB, Belgium : In the country’s history, the ruling Bangladesh Awami League has introduced a long-term ICT integration strategy. It’s a country’s first benchmark initiative to ICT development that includes a number of critical fields at the national and regional levels. Officially titled Digital Bangladesh, a multi-stakeholder initiative launched in…
DOT Desk Bangla Academy celebrated its 63rd founding anniversary on Monday. A programme, beginning with wreaths placed at the Central Shaheed Minar and grave of Dr Mohammad Shahidullah was arranged to mark the day, reports the Daily Star. A discussion session chaired by writer Subrata Barua was held at the Abdul Karim Sahitya Bisharad hall…
Sky News: One of Mexican drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman’s trusted hitmen kept a soundproof “murder room” with a drain to speed up messy executions, jurors have been told. Edgar Galvan, a witness in Guzman’s trial, said Jose Antonio “Jaguar” Marrufo’s slaughterhouse was “where he killed people”, the New York Post reported. Galvan said:…
Science Alert Hymenasplenium is one of two genera in the almost comprehensively distributed and species-rich greenery family Aspleniaceae. Analysts have recently perceived Hymenasplenium laterepens, a triploid taxon from China, but did not designate a type specimen. Scientists from Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden (XTBG) collected and studied the triploid taxon at the classical place in Xishuangbanna….
NDTV: Pope Francis was set to host US bishops and cardinals on Thursday to discuss the Vatican’s response to a new wave of devastating claims of sexual abuse by clergy. The pope was scheduled to meet Cardinal Daniel DiNardo of Galveston-Houston, who leads the US Conference of Bishops, and Cardinal Sean O’Malley of Boston, who…
Desk Report: In their latest trip to the Atacama Trench, one of the deepest points in the Pacific Ocean, a team of scientists repeatedly lowered a device called a deep-sea lander overboard and watched as it sank into the cold, dark waters. Scientists have captured rare footage of what is believed to be three new…
UNB Members of Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) in a drive arrested five suspected robbers from Railway Colony besides Tejgaon Station Road in the city on Monday night. The arrestees were Md Jahangir, 40, Md Rumon, 26, Md Wadud, 30, Md Khorshed and Md Lalchand, 22.RAB also recovered several sharp weapons from their possessions. Being informed…