The Independent, BD: Renowned actress Suborna Mustafa and audience-admired actress Shomi Kaiser will be seen sharing the small screen for the first time in a new tele-drama titled ‘Jatra Pother Gaulpo’, directed by Arif Khan. Written by Badrul Anam Soud, the tele-drama is scheduled to be telecast on NTV during the upcoming Eid-ul-Azha. The talented…
Telegraph: Serena Williams says she pulled out of this week’s Rogers Cup in Canada after feeling like she was “in a funk” and “not a good mom”.The American 23-time Grand Slam singles champion initially withdrew from the tournament citing “personal reasons”.Williams, 36, returned to tennis earlier this year after giving birth in September 2017.She reached…
Sayeed Muhammad of DOT Deputy Minister for Education Mohibul Hasan Chowdhury Nowfel, who is given the charge after being election for the first time as a lawmaker, said Hefajat-e Islam chief Shah Ahmed Shafi made his own remarks on girls’ education. While exchanging views with journalists yesterday morning, Nowfel said, “It is his (Shafi) personal…
Saleem Samad of DOT The global rights alliance for garments workers of Bangladesh has invited uproar among expat Bangladesh nationals in Europe and North America. The global movement was spearheaded by an Amsterdam, The Netherlands based Clean Clothes Campaign (CCC), a global alliance dedicated to improving working conditions of factory workers, calls for living wages,…
Reuters Kurds voted in a parliamentary election in their semi-autonomous region in northern Iraq on Sunday, with the two dominant parties widely expected to extend their power sharing rule despite growing discontent. The poll comes a year after the region of six million made a failed bid to break away from the rest of Iraq…
DOT Desk At least 180 rooms at the workers’ colony in Chakrawarty area of the Gazipur were gutted in a fire yesterday, reports The Daily Star. The fire originated from an electric short circuit at a tin-shed room of the colony around 4:45am and spread soon, according to the local office of the Fire…
On a tip-off on Thursday, the Coast guard arrested 2 drug dealers in an operation at Angtihara area of Koyra thana in Khulna district. The arrestees were captured along with 70 bottles of alcohol, 40 bottles of Phensedyl, 12kg cumin and 24 pieces of soap. The drug dealers were then handed over to Koyra police…
Hossen Sohel of DOT : The curtain is set to fall on campaign this morning, 48 hours before the voting in the 11thparliamentary elections begins at 8am on Sunday, reports UNB. The Election Commission has already asked returning officers and authorities concerned to take necessary measures so that no one can conduct electioneering after 8am…
UNB A madrasah student drowned at Safaisri jetty on the Sitalakhya riverbank in Kapasia upazila of the district on Friday morning. The deceased was identified as Sadiqul Islam, 12, son of Main Uddin of Panbariad upazila. He was a student of Kapasia Arabia Saiyadai Madrasah.
Desk Report: The members of customs intelligence have seized a huge quantity of restricted and illegally imported medicine from a Hajj flight at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport (HSIA) in Dhaka, reports the financial express. The medicine, worth 16 million, was found in the Hajj flight that came in from Jeddah, Saudi Arabia around 5:00 pm,…