M Humayun Kabir: For-mer cricket star PTI Chief Imran Khan has been elected the 22nd prime minister of Pakistan. Khan won with 176 seats while his opponent, PML-N’s Shahbaz Sharif, secured 96 votes in the polling that took place in the National Assembly yesterday, reports BBC, Dawn. His PTI party won the most seats in…
Samiul Bashar Samin Sixteen of Lou Reed’s solo recordings will comprise a new box set due out this fall. The RCA & Arista Album Collection spans the late Velvet Underground frontman’s albums between 1972 and 1986. Reed spent the months prior to his death in 2013 remastering each of the LPs, which include Transformer, Berlin…
UNB: Police have arrested a Jatiyatabadi Mohila Dal leader here on Saturday for allegedly provoking the student protests.Fatema Badshah, acting president of the city unit of Jatiyatabadi Mohila Dal, the female wing of BNP, was picked up from her residence at Supariwalapara in the city on Friday night.
Tahmeed Taha: By vowing to take steps to immunize European firms doing business with Tehran from any US sanctions the European Union has moved to protect the 2015 Iran nuclear agreement. A day after Donald Trump announced the US would exit the Iran deal agreed with other major powers in 2015, and impose the highest level…
Engr. Mashiur Rahman, Managing Director, TGTDCL: The capacity constraint of Titas Gas Transmission and Distribution Company Limited (TGTDCL) is not responsible for the ongoing gas crisis. Though no expansion of network is done, maintenance and upgrading of pipelines and network is ongoing. But failure in supplying gas as per demand is the main reason for…
Samiul Bashar Samin Every year brings new CoD games, and the franchise regularly tops charts, racking up more than 175 million sales over the course of the past decade. Each game weaves together a semi-coherent narrative that combines the regular annihilation of its characters at a George R R Martin pace with a wider and…
UNB: Police recovered three bodies including a minor from different areas of the industrial zone on Tuesday morning. Shawgatul Islam, officer-in-charge (investigation) of Savar Police Station, said that police recovered the body of five-year minor boy Monir Hossain from beneath a bridge on Bongshi river in Islampur area in the morning. The boy went gone…
Justin Higginbottom /Ozy.com Diving for pearls was a man’s job — but everything else fell to the women. On the Bu Maher shore of Muharraq, in the former capital of Bahrain, women and children gather to bid farewell to the men in their community. A steady beat of drums fills the air, and women’s voices…
Sayeed Muhammad: Khurshid Alam says he pulls 17-hour shifts three days a week driving a private bus in Dhaka, where tens of thousands of students held angry protests for over a week demanding an end to rash driving that killed two teenagers late last month. The government has moved swiftly to defuse the protests that…