Our Time Desk If you consider yourself as a narcissist and looking out to make new friends, you should be really looking for people of your kind: other narcissists. It is easy to get along with self-obsessed people like you since you yourself are self-obsessed and fail to really notice that. So it all works…
Julian Francis/BDnews24 Having been responsible, in 1971, for the humanitarian needs of about 600,000 Bangladeshi refugees, in over 50 Oxfam-supported refugee camps in all the States bordering India and Bangladesh and having visited the Rohingya Refugee Camps in Cox’s Bazar District in 2017, I am often asked about my extensive feelings and how I see…
Prof Dr. Mahbubullah, Economist: There has been debate on whether the state’s money can be kept in private banks. It can be kept at 6% deposit rate. But what should the deposit and interest rates be? Interest rates should be brought down within 3-4%, not more than that. For every bank, profit is a huge…
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Asian Age: The government distributed khas land among 267 landless families including, Freedom Fighters (FF) of Pirojpur during the last 2017-2018 fiscal year. District administrative sources said the government earlier decided to distribute khas land among landless people as well as poor freedom fighters. A total of 49.94 acres of land have been distributed among…
Monirul Alam of DOT Bangladesh officials appeared to have backtracked this week from filing a case to claim damage of reserve heist against US Federal Reserve Bank of New York (US Fed) considering insufficient evidences. The case has to be lodged with ‘Inform Commercial Court’ under local laws in the USA. As per the law,…
DOT Desk: A unit of water will now cost domestic consumers Tk9.92. Chittagong Water Supply and Sewerage Authority (CWasa) has increased its water tariff by 5%, in effect since January this year, reports The Dhaka Tribune. The decision was taken during CWasa’s 50th board meeting held on January 10. Due to the tariff hike, domestic…
Kabir Humayun: The Anti Corruption Commission (ACC) has grilled eight more officials of Petrobangla over Barapukuria coal scam yesterday. ACC spokesperson Pranab Kumar Bhattachariya told Banglanews that ACC Deputy Director and Investigation Officer Shamsul Alam quizzed the officials. The eight officials who appeared before the ACC office in Segunbagicha are: Petrobangla Deputy Manager (coal handling…
Nobonita Chowdhury With increased pressure on studies both at school and at private tuition centres, it is not surprising to see so many high schoolers dropping out of conventional schooling. Something like homeschooling which is supposed to be rare has now become a norm. No one reacts with surprise when they find out that a…