The Register: Cosmos Bank in India says that hackers made off with $13.4m in stolen funds over the weekend. Multiple reports out of the country say that a group of attackers used cloned cards to withdraw cash from ATMs at a set time and perform a fraudulent SWIFT money transfer. Together, the efforts resulted in…
Taqi Zeppelin Kanye West and Krysten Ritter are the recipients of this year’s special achievement awards at the 2016 Webby Awards. The ceremony will honor West and Ritter’s contributions to Internet culture. West is this year’s Webby Artist of the Year, which recognizes the record-breaking release of his album The Life of Pablo through…
Sarah Verardo, Chief executive officer of The Independence Fund/USA Today As a caregiver of a catastrophically disabled veteran, I’m in a lifelong battle to support my husband. Too often, the VA forces me into battle alone. Eight years ago, my husband stepped on an improvised explosive device in Afghanistan. He lost his left leg and…
Hossen Sohel: Top officials from the US and EU met in Brussels yesterday in an effort to iron out differences on trade talks announced to great fanfare this summer, reports AFP. US President Donald Trump and European Commission head Jean-Claude Juncker in July pledged to hold off from further tit-for-tat tariffs and to work towards…
Aayan Ahmed The long expected January 1, 2019 finally arrived. It was the day when all of the Bangladesh contingent would fly to Australia towards an amazing adventure in the 25th Australian scout jamboree. We, the 16 young scouts from Sunnydale School were as excited as anything to join in that luxurious event. We were…
Hossen Sohel of DOT : The UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office, or FCO, has awarded Julian Francis for his outstanding contribution to Bangladesh since its independence, reports bdnews24.com. The FCO has announced 93 awards in recognition of truly exceptional and outstanding service to Britain internationally and overseas, popularly known as the Queen’s New Year’s Honours,…
Eshan Maitra The world already knows enough of this crazy dictator at North Korea, Kim Jong-un. Who already isolated North Korea from the rest of the worlds and turned the country oppression regulated fancy prison under communism. Along with all these inhumane actions, now he is banning weddings, funerals and freedom of movement. And you…
UNB Police recovered the hanging bodies of a couple at Amgram village in Durgapur upazila on Saturday morning, a day after they reportedly eloped following their extramarital affair. Officer-in-charge of Durgapur Police Station Parimal Kumar Chakrawarty said locals spotted the bodies of Khokon Islam, 23, son of Abdul Mazid of Amgram village and Tina Khatun,…
BSS Dublar Char, an island in the Sundarbans, will get about 4.5 square kilometre of land as soil will be deposited in the island during the dredging of the outer bar of Pashur channel aiming to enhance the large ship handling capacity of Mongla port. Dublar Char, whose land area is around 80 square kilometre…