BBC: Twitter has told an undisclosed number of users their private messages may have been leaked to third-parties for more than a year. The software “bug”, which has since been fixed, involved direct messages between users and businesses that offer customer services via Twitter. Affected users are being notified via a message that appeared when opening…
DOT Desk: The approach is cost-effective when applied to small, slow-flowing rivers. When riverbank erosion—one of Bangladesh’s major natural disasters—displaces thousands of families each year, state-sponsored bamboo and bio-engineering intervention, to mitigate riverbank erosion, provides significant prospects to reduce the destruction, reports the Dhaka Tribune. Erosion and channel-shifting during the monsoon—more specifically, during the rising…
Wali-ur Rahman, Former Ambassador: BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia is serving jail term after being convicted in a graft case. However, the party terms the incarceration to be political and the government was behind it all. But the question arises whether BNP has yet managed to prove the claim through proper logic, be at court or…
UNB US-Bangla Airlines, one of the leading private airlines of the country has been offering 48 per cent discount on tickets of all domestic and six international destinations marking the 48th Victory Day celebration of the country. The six international destinations are – Kolkata, Guangzhou, Singapore, Kuala Lumpur, Muscat and Doha. The promotional offer will…
Reporter by: Jafar Ahmed Written by: Eshan Maitra European buyers’ alliance Accord again showing workplace safety-concern about the garments workers in Bangladesh. Regarding the recent boiler-explosion incident at Maultifab Industry, on 3 July. Even, international labor organization IndustriALL Bangladesh Council (ICB) are demanding for taking any possible measures to avoid any further labor deaths. Accord…
Audra Wolfe, writer and science historian/The Atlantic By working for the CIA, a crack team of researchers honed the United States’ first formal peacetime campaign of propaganda and manipulation. The phrase Cold War didn’t always refer to a time period. In the late 1940s and early 1950s, the very years that the battle lines between…
Zaian F Chowdhury, Communications portfolio lead for learning and innovation of BRAC Communications & Chandra Chakma, Deputy manager of communications of BRAC’s education programme/ BRAC Belal reads the loudest in his class. He is only 12, but has already competed in sports on a national level. He is also one of 1.5 billion people across…
UNB A knife-wielding man slashed 10 children outside a primary school in southern China before killing himself Monday, police said. None of the children suffered life-threatening injuries during the attack in the southern city of Haikou, but two were seriously hurt in the attack, media reports said. An official at Haikou’s Longhu police station said…