DOT Desk Ekushey Padak and National Film Award winning actor-filmmaker Amjad Hossain was flown to Bangkok for better treatment in the wee hours of Wednesday, reports New Age. An air ambulance carrying Hossain left Hazrat Shah Jalal International Airport in Dhaka at around 1:00am on Wednesday. He is accompanied by his sons Sohel Arman and…
Reported by: Jafar Ahmed Written by: Eshan Maitra MPs will start the game of looting & plundering if they are appointed for managing the dam renovation projects. Thus, MPs should be kept away from the Flood Rehabilitation Projects, suggested Water Expert Prof. Dr. Ainun Nishat. At the ‘Flood 2017: Situation & Solution’ seminar event. It…
Ashiq Rahman: Gover-nment Titumir College student Rajib was subjected to death in a mad rush of two bus drivers in the capital’s Karwan Bazar area. Reckless driving snuffed out the life of Rojina, the housemaid of Syed Ishtiaq Reza. A child lost one of him limbs after being knocked by a truck in Bogura on…
CNN: One year after Sierra Leone suffered a devastating mudslide that wiped out entire communities in its capital, survivors say they are are struggling to afford meals and decent accommodation. Survivors who lost their livelihoods say they have no source of income to rebuild their lives. In the aftermath of the disaster, the government provided…
Noman Mosharef H M Ershad said Rangpur City Corporation election would indicate how the next national election would be like, adding people will trust the election commission if they could conduct the city corporation election fairly. Ershad was addressing to a program organized at his office in the capital yesterday. In his speech, he called…
Science Daily: Michelle Janikian, who writes about marijuana for publications like Herb, Playboy and Rolling Stone, says after she tells someone what she does for a living, she usually spends the rest of the conversation “trying to act so friendly and mainstream” so they don’t think she’s stoned. Adam Salcido relates that after he went…
M Humayun Kabir: A special tribunal in Dhaka yesterday accepted the charge sheet against eight militants in a case filed over the attack on Gulshan café in 2016. Some 20 hostages, mostly foreign nationals, were killed in the attack and two police officials were also killed during the 12-hour standoff. Judge Mujibur Rahman of the…
Nusrat Jahan I was going to write a “shady things you didn’t know about Kaley Cuoco” article but what I found on the internet was nowhere near shady, but mostly stupid nonsensical stuff that are pretty much, well erm…normal! So here’s a random list of things you probably didn’t know about the ex-Sweeting! •Even though…
Hossen Sohel: Scientists claimed to have succeeded for the first time in wiping out an entire population of malaria-carrying mosquitos in the lab using a gene-editing tool to programme their extinction, reports AFP. So-called gene drive technology works by forcing evolution’s hand, ensuring that an engineered trait is passed down to a higher proportion of…
UNB Bangladesh can be a prime destination for foreign tourists who wish to visit any Asian country if required facilities like a vibrant night life for tourists and digital promotional activities could be ensured, says an expert. “What we’ve are extraordinary, natural and God-gifted ones. But we need to do much more to attract foreign…