Desk Report: Sabbir Rahman might be facing another lengthy ban from cricket. He is set to meet the BCB’s disciplinary committee yesterday, for a hearing related to the outburst on social media that allegedly came from Sabbir’s official account and directed abuse at a fan following Bangladesh’s loss in the second ODI in the West…
CNN: A Louisiana soldier was sentenced to 11 years in prison Monday for constructing and detonating a bomb last year near the Fort Polk Army post. Ryan Keith Taylor, 24, of New Llano, Louisiana, pleaded guilty in June to manufacturing and detonating a chemical weapon in the Kisatchie National Forest. The bomb contained “highly toxic…
Abrar Hussain: Myan-mar has received worldwide condemnation after it handed down a 7-year jail sentence to two Reuters journalists while they were investigating a massacre of Rohingya Muslims. Reuters has condemned it as a travesty of justice and severe blow to press freedom in the south-east Asian country. Wa Lone, 32, and Kyaw Soe Oo,…
Tahsin Rahman Oshin Since the 1997 when the Wi-Fi was first used, there has been numerous studies to explore the harmful effects of Wi-Fi. Though it has been found out that there are no fatal effects that we should be concerned about, constant use of Wi-Fi is harming us in ways that we don’t know….
Reuters: Samsung’s Galaxy S7 smartphones contain a microchip security flaw, uncovered earlier this year, that put tens of millions of devices at risk to hackers looking to spy on their users, researchers told Reuters. The Galaxy 7 and other smartphones made by Samsung Electronics were previously thought to be immune to a security vulnerability known…
Sofian Khan Bangladesh and Turkey ton Tuesday signed two MoUs to enhance cooperation in the areas of Small and Medium Enterprises (SME) as well maintain the standards of products.The Memorandum of Understandings (MoU) are between Small and Medium Enterprise Foundation, Industry and Technology, Bangladesh and Ministry of Science, Small and Medium Enterprises Development Organization, and…
UNB, Dhaka The Unnayan Onneshan (UO) cautions that lower growth in agriculture, underperformance in medium and large scale manufacturing industries coupled with greater product and market concentration of export, and slow expansion of service sector may hinder the achievement of 7 percent growth target. The independent multidisciplinary think tank gave the caution in its February…
Saleh Shahriar, PhD Researcher in Economics, Chinese Govt. Scholarship Program: This article aims to review an important research book entitled The Belt and Road Initiative: What will China Offer the World in its Rise, written by Professor Wang Yiwei, a leading Chinese expert on the topic. The book was published by the New World Press…
Tanvir Alam Khan: Desh media awarded 8 individuals for their contribution in various fields on 3 August, Friday in their 5th anniversary ceremony. The ceremony was held at a restaurant in the capital Dhaka. Honorable Prime Minister’s media adviser Iqbal Sobhan Chowdhury was the chief guest of the event. The individuals awarded were , Daily…
BSS: The government has decided to take 80 projects instantly at a cost of Taka 2,97,800 crore under Bangladesh Delta Plan-2100 for implementation within 2030. “In the first phase, the government would implement the 80 projects by identifying six ‘hotspot’,” Water Resources Minister Anwar Hossain said this, while replying to a starred question from treasury…