Abrar Hussain: Google has unveiled a stealth app to help the people in Bangladesh in finding jobs, according to a report by Tech in Asia. A team from Google’s Area 120 startup incubator announced that it has been working quietly behind the scenes on a new app called Kormo, which helps the people in Bangladesh…
Reuetrs A Filipino inventor has unveiled what he calls a flying sports car that represents the future of transport, riding it out of a warehouse toward a cheering crowd, leaving a cloud of dust in his wake. Former dancer and camera operator Kyxz Mendiola flew and hovered for a few minutes in a single-passenger contraption…
BBC Donald Trump has said he turned down a meeting with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, putting a damper on high hopes for trade renegotiations.Mr Trump’s comments were made as Nafta talks continue to drag on. “I must be honest with you, we’re not getting along at all with their negotiators,” he said at a…
Israel is ready to reopen a crossing point into the Syrian-controlled Golan Heights now that Syrian government forces have regained control from rebels, Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman said on Thursday. But Lieberman, on a visit to the Israeli-held side of the Quneitra crossing, said any resumption of operations at the facility depended on Syria. “The…
Dr. Mushfiqur Rahman : Mining own coal import, developing, and operating coal-based thermal power plants, are three different dimensions of expertise. Keeping the Power System Master Plan (PSMP), Bangladesh will require import/supply approximately 66 million tons of coal per annum for generating 22,000MW of power. Attainting this target is a huge challenge. The country is…
Sayeed Muhammad: Her #FreePeriods campaign that brought her granddad and 2,000 other protestors on Downing Street in the UK in December 2017 to demand free sanitary products for poor girls in school won 18-year-old Amika George one of the three Goalkeepers Global Goals Awards, popularly known as the Oscars for social progress. The other awards…
Reuters A Swiss minister who backs strong ties to the European Union announced on yesterday she planned to quit, the second to do so this week, amid efforts by the country to wrap up talks with the EU on renewing bilateral ties. Switzerland and the EU, its biggest trade partner, have been negotiating a new…
Dr AB Mirza Azizul Islam : I think, the government has decided to give loans at 5 percent interest rate to buy houses or apartments to win support from the government employees during the upcoming general election. There are so many people in the society who do not have any house and they have to…
Nahian Arefin Former First Lady of Malaysia Rosmah Mansor, wife of former Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak, faced an eight-hour long interrogation by the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) on Wednesday. She was brought in for questioning by the MACC in connection to the 1MDB state fund probe and was interrogated for having alleged connection with…
AFP Moscow has scoffed at a report by a respected investigative group claiming that one of the suspects in the poisoning of ex-spy Sergei Skripal was a highly decorated colonel in Russian military intelligence. Bellingcat, the British based investigative group, said Wednesday that the real name of Ruslan Boshirov is Anatoly Chepiga, a military intelligence…