Desk Report: About 2,000 hawkers sit along the footpaths around the Mirpur-10 intersection in the capital. The hawkers have to pay around Tk 50 to 100 every day to run their businesses there, reports Prothom Alo. These businesses on the footpaths leave hardly any space for pedestrians. The traffic intersection spans wards 3, 7 and…
UNB Police in special drives arrested 74 people, who are accused in different cases, from eight upazilas of the district from Friday evening to Saturday morning. Of them, 19 were arrested from Sadar upazila, 24 from Kolaroa upazila while the others from Kaliganj,Ahsashuni,Patkelghata, Debhata, Shamnagar and Tala upazilas. said Azam Khan, Inspector of Special Branch…
Eshan Maitra Surprisingly the blend is often supplied by best brands. Such as Starbucks or Dunkin’ Donuts on American airlines. The actual problem is ‘not so clean – drinking water’. Even a 2012EPA report shows 12% of commercial airplanes were found with gut-rocking coliform bacteria. Since, the tanks are only cleaned once every six months….
Dr. Forqan Uddin Ahmed, Writer, researcher & columnist The Rohingya crisis is a refugee boat dilemma, which caught the attention of international podium in the second half of May 2015 when the government of Myanmar state sponsored religious and ethnic discrimination against the Muslims of Burma. The Rohingya crisis highlights both humanitarian and security implications…
Hossen Sohel of DOT The families of the workers killed after a coal-bearing truck overturned in Cumilla’s Chauddagram will receive Tk 100,000 each in compensation, reports bdnews24.com. The medical bills of the workers injured in the accident will also be paid in full. State Minister for Labour and Employment Monnujan Sufian made the announcement at a…
Sayeed Muhammad: The Executive Committee of the National Economic Council (Ecnec) has cleared a Tk 3,825.34 crore project to procure 1.5 lakh electronic voting machines (EVMs) ahead of the polls to be held in the year-end. The approval came from the weekly Ecnec meeting held at the NEC conference room here with Prime Minister Sheikh…
Channel NewsAsia: Hundreds of thousands of Tokyo 2020 athletes, staff and reporters will be scanned by cutting-edge facial recognition technology in an Olympic Games first, organisers said on Tuesday.About 300,000 athletes, staff members, volunteers and reporters will be required to use their ID card and be verified with the facial recognition system to access venues….
Russia Today: Iran’s Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has accused the United States of waging a “psychological war” against Tehran and its business partners. US sanctions were re- imposed on August 7, just months after US President Donald Trump withdrew from the multilateral Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), also known as the Iran nuclear…
BSS: The State-Owned Manufacturing Industries Workers (Conditions of Service) Bill, 2018 was passed in the parliament with a view to implementing the recommendations placed by the National Wage and Productivity Commission (NWPC). State Minister for Labour and Employment M Mujibul Haq Chunnu moved the bill in the House today which was passed unanimously by…
Al Arabiya After forming a joint judicial committee, Iraq’s Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) handed over about 1,400 detainees belonging to ISIS to the federal government in preparation for the extradition of more. Dindar Zebari, the KRG coordinator for international advocacy said in a press release that Erbil has begun handing over detainees to Baghdad, adding…