UNB A court here on Tuesday convicted a man and sentenced him to death for killing his wife in Rampal upazila on Bagerhat in 2014. The convict was Habi Sarder, son of Jahir Sarder, a resident of Gona Balay village of the upazila. According to the prosecution, Hasina Begum, 32, daughter of Torab Ali Mollah,…
Sofian Khan Turkish warplanes have hit Kurdish YPG militia targets at Afrin region in Syria, informed the army on Friday, and a monitoring group reported that seven fighters and two civilians were killed in strikes.The overnight struck after a lull in Turkish airstrikes after the shooting down of a Russian warplane elsewhere in Syria last weekend.The…
Sayeed Muhammad of DOT Jatiya Party will announce tomorrow whether they will remain as the opposition or be part of the government. The party is a key component of Awami League-led 14-Party Grand Alliance that registered a landslide victory in Sunday’s 11th general election. JP Secretary General Moshiur Rahman Ranga said this while addressing journalists…
Marilyn Thipthorpe When you think of fish, it’s probably as you and you would never imagine that these underwater being have emotions and feelings too. It’s amazing how fast science is advancing to tap into the mystic world of the consciousness, that too of fish! Author Jonathan Balcombe, on the other hand, spends a lot…
Sejuti Mourin of DOT Ratan Tata is an Indian industrialist, investor, philanthropist, and a former chairman of Tata Sons who serves as its chairman emeritus. He received the Padma Bhushan in 2000 and Padma Vibhushan in 2008, the third and second highest civilian honours awarded by the Government of India. When asked him why isn’t…
Reuters: British foreign minister Jeremy Hunt denied on Wednesday that warnings about fallout from a disorderly exit from the European Union were an attempt to scare opponents of the government’s preferred Brexit plan into supporting it. With less than eight months until Britain leaves the EU, the government has yet to agree an exit deal…
Ejinsight: Back in 1985, the National People’s Congress Standing Committee passed a resolution declaring Sept. 10 of every year as Teachers’ Day across China. Coincidentally, it was on Teachers’ Day this year that Alibaba Group chairman Jack Ma Yun announced that he is going to retire next year in order to return to his previous…
Desk Report: The central bank of Bangladesh has taken initiatives to expedite the flow of inward remittances from Japan and South Korea, officials said. Under the latest moves, the Bangladesh Bank is giving approval to the interested commercial banks for setting up more drawing arrangements with money transfer companies in the two countries. Some local…
AFP: Egyptian police killed 40 “terrorists” in separate raids early Saturday, a day after a roadside bomb near the Giza pyramids killed three Vietnamese tourists and their guide, the interior ministry said. Two raids in the Giza governorate killed 30 “terrorists”, while the remaining 10 were killed in the restive North Sinai, the ministry said…
DOT Desk: All leading furniture manufacturers are offering discounts from 5 percent to 20 percent at the month-long Dhaka International Trade Fair with a view to logging in big sales numbers, reports The Daily Star. Many of them are also offering the facility of equated monthly installment (EMIs) to attract customers. Customers can purchase products…