DOT Desk: Two culverts over two canals in Hakaluki Haor area at Shahpur village in Juri upazila remain useless due to lack of approach roads, much to the suffering of thousands of people in the area, reports The Daily Star. Upazila Project Implementation Officer (PIO) Omar Faruk said a culvert was built on the Gungijuri…
Anirudh Bhattacharyya, Toronto-based commentator on American affairs/Hindustan Times Fifteen years ago, a young American lawyer had a MeToo moment, though not quite in the context of that term’s current hashtagged connotation. She cold called the organisation Indian-American Leadership Initiative or IALI, which had been formed just three years earlier to build national support within the…
Reported by: Syed Ripon Written by: Eshan Maitra Under the Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics (BBS), Monitoring the Situation of Vital Statistic of Bangladesh (MSVSB) Project has published the reported that, Bangladesh’s population on 1 January 2017 was, 16 crores 16 lacs and 50 thousands. BBS held an event at the Sher-e-Bangla Nagar’s NIC Seminar room…
Desk Report: Police arrested a leader of pro-BNP youth organisation Jubo Dal with 223 yaba pills in Chattogram city’s Sadarghat area early yesterday, claiming that he was running a yaba business with an aim to collect funds for carrying out subversive activities, reports The daily Star. Arrestee Bappu Kumar Das, 27, is general secretary of…
DOT Desk The International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) has carried out security audit of the Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport (HSIA) in the city from November 25 to December 04 after a gap of nine years reports Financial Express. The audit was completed on December 03 and the concluding meeting was held at the airport on…
Myisha Nawar We definitely love spoiling ourselves with masks and lotions that promise to deliver high levels of skin amazing-ness, but let’s face it, there is only so much they can do if we don’t take care of our bodies from the inside as well. What does that mean? It means we need to incorporate…
BSS “Son of Saul,” a harrowing Holocaust drama which offers unflinching depictions of the gas chambers of Auschwitz, won the best foreign language film Oscar on Sunday. Laszlo Nemes’s Hungarian film beat Colombia’s “Embrace of the Serpent,” French movie “Mustang,” “Theeb” from Jordan, and Denmark’s “A War.”
DOT Desk: The first session of the 11th Jatiya Sangsad will begin at 3:00pm on Wednesday, January 30, reports The Daily Star. President Abdul Hamid called the session on January 9 exercising the power bestowed upon him as per clause (1) of article 72 of the constitution. President Hamid will deliver speech on the…
Hossen Sohel: Talks between the United States and Canada will continue after the two sides made “good progress” in their effort to rewrite NAFTA, as Washington was poised for a possible escalation in its trade war with China, reports AFP. Discussions with Canada — the largest US trading partner — seem to be on track…
Abrar Hussain: Dhaka Metropolitan Police Commissioner Asaduzzaman Mia has ‘promised’ that the police will take a ‘tough line’ on traffic violators and strengthen punishments for offences. The traffic rules will be implemented and an amendment to the existing road transport law will bring harsher punishments to the errant drivers, the DMP chief said at a…