Dr. Forqan Uddin Ahmed, Former Deputy General and Commandant, Ansar VDP Academy: Perhaps Bangladesh is the only country where the internet business dealers raised their protest to the withdrawal of VAT from budget. But in other countries, the picture is quite different. It is not the company or dealer rather it must be a point…
The Guardian, UK: Some suggest the banana is on the brink of extinction. Panama disease, also known as fusarium wilt, is on the march, wiping out plantations that provide a staple food for hundreds of millions of people and a livelihood for hundreds of thousands more. Others say talk of Bananageddon is exaggerated. They point…
MIT engineers has developed transparent, gel-based robots that may one day assist in surgical operations and evade underwater detection. Some gel-based robots made by Engineers at MIT which are fabricated transparent and move when water is pumped in and out of them. These robots can perform a number of fast, forceful tasks, including kicking a…
Afsan Chowdhury The government is least committed to the middle class since it is politically influential. The middle class does not have any political power. The government does not seem to care much about the middle class because it is weak. For this reason, the middle class can be denied. It is a different issue…
Hossen Sohel: Violence in northwest Syria has displaced more than 30,000 people this month alone, the United Nations said on Monday, warning that a looming assault could create the century’s “worst humanitarian catastrophe”. Idlib province and adjacent rural areas form the largest piece of territory still held by Syria’s beleaguered rebels, worn down by a…
UNB A tribunal here on Thursday sentenced a man to life term imprisonment for raping a minor girl in Patharghata upazila in 2009. The court also fined the convict, identified as Babu, son of Kuddus of Lathimara village in the same upazila, Tk 1 lakh. According to the prosecution, the convict violated the four-year girl,…
The Star The Kuala Lumpur International Airport (KLIA) will be reducing the number of public announcements it will make at its terminals, in its efforts to join the global “silent airport” movement. Malaysia Airports Holdings Bhd (MAHB), KLIA’s management body said boarding call announcements and public paging for passengers will stop completely, effective Dec 1. It…
Raj Abrar of DOT Supporters of BNP leaders and activists dropped by their own party from the 11th parliamentary polls sat for their second straight day of protests in front of the party’s offices in Gulshan in the capital. Several hundred BNP activists blocked the gates to Khaleda Zia’s offices in Gulshan-2’s Road 86 yesterday….
Tarannum Sattar A 5 star hotel in Amiens, France refused to take booking from the Royal Duke and Dutchess of Cambridge, Prince Williams and Kate Middleton. Le Hotel Marotte said it was unethcal for them to cancel other reservations in order to make way for the Royals. The Royals asked for four suites for two…
Desk Report: Farmers in Gaibandha could not plant Aman seedlings due to scanty rain in July while farmers in Lalmonirhat are not preparing their lands for Aman cultivation for lack of rain. The rain was too scanty to wet the fields last week, so farmers were unable to transplant Aman seedlings in Gaibandha. Sundarganj Upazila…