The Guardian: 19th Leeds piano competition was won on Saturday night by Eric Lu, a 20-year-old from Boston in the United States, whose sparkling and supremely confident performance of Beethoven’s fourth piano concerto secured him the top place, and also the Hallé orchestra prize. The rebooted competition, held every three years, was co-founded 55 years…
Maj Gen (retd) Abdur Rashid speaks to DOT There is no international pressure behind the influx of Rohingyas from India. Pressure is on to take back the Rohingyas from Bangladesh. The international pressure has grown even more. In recent times, some Rohingya Muslims have crossed into Bangladesh from India. There are some 40,000 Rohingyas in…
AFP Their governments might not be ready for talks, but that did not stop Pakistan’s Mohammad Basheer opening his heart, and his wallet, to ensure India’s most recognised cricket fan Sudhir Kumar could be at the Asia Cup. The 37-year-old Kumar, from Muzaffarpur, Bihar, has travelled all over the world supporting India but was…
Abrar Hussain: Police in Indonesia revealed on Tuesday that an elderly village ‘witch doctor’ deceived a 12 year-old girl into being his sex slave for 15 years by claiming her to be ‘possessed’ by the jin, or spirit, of a young boy. The woman, an identified by police as “H”, was rescued on Sunday in…
Sayeed Muhammad: Canada has sharpened its tone towards asylum seekers, warning that simply traction through the border is not a “free ticket” to Canada as the number of migrants crossing from the US keeps soaring. Since the election of Donald Trump, growing numbers of asylum seekers have been entering Canada by foot, driven by fears…
Desk Report The United Arab Emirates (UAE) has expressed its interest to invest more in Bangladesh, considering the potential economic opportunities in the south Asian country. Both the countries discussed the issue at a bilateral meeting on the margins of the ongoing 73rd session of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA)in New York on Friday….
T.S Katy Perry has been holidaying somewhere, relaxing her tensions away in the beach, someone was trying to hack into her twitter account. The hacker successfully made it into her account as her fans noticed some nasty tweets from Katy Perry. The tweets were seen on her timeline at around 8.30 pm on Monday. “Haha…
Desk Report Joint venture Bangladesh-China Power Company (Pvt) Limited is likely to begin power generation at its coal-fired power plant at Payra in Patuakhali in 2019. The Payra power plant would the first echo-friendly coal-fired power plant in Bangladesh, Chinese partner of the joint venture China National Machinery Import and Export Corporation vice-president Kang Hubiao…
Desk Report The Chittagong Port Authority (CPA) has planned to give priority to gearless vessels to call the port as three new key gantry cranes arrived and more are scheduled to reach next month, officials said. A gearless ship is the one that lacks equipment needed for loading and unloading purposes. CPA chairman Zulfiqur Aziz…