Nayon Sarkar: Secondary school certificate (SSC) Examination has been scheduled to start from February 1 next year, education ministry announced yesterday. The routine is also available online, at the websites of Education ministry and Education board.The written exams will be completed by February 24, followed by the practical. As usual, multiple choice questions (MCQ) test…
TS Mahesh Bhatt, a prominent Bollywood director, recently told the press that the powerful actress who talk about women empowerment on screen suffer abuse which is worse than what the domestic helps go through. This is sad, he said, that the most independent women fall weak when it comes to their partner. “In the entertainment…
UNB Members of Chittagong district police in a raid arrested three drug traders with 50 pieces of contraband Yaba tablets from Bazalia area under Satkania thana on Friday night. The arrestees were identified as Emran Hossain, Abul Hashem and Omar Faruk. All of them hail from Bazalia area under Satkania thana in the district.
Anindya Nahar Habib David A Bednar, the Mormon leader, sits on the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and had claimed when asked about the Church’s approach to the homosexual members.It comes after the Church rolled out a rigorous new anti-LGBT policy last year, which banished children…
Richard Hurowitz, Investor, writer / The New York Times Anyone who has seen “Casablanca” knows the connection between Portugal and World War II refugees. But few know the story of the Portuguese diplomat Aristides de Sousa Mendes, who in 1940 saved tens of thousands of lives only to be punished for this heroism by his…
Anadolu Agency: One-third of UN staffers and contractors said they have been sexually harassed in the past two years, the international body said in a report released late Tuesday evening. Consulting firm Deloitte carried out the online survey in November, which included responses from over 30,000 people, but that is just 17 percent of those…
Abrar Hussain of DOT Awami League general secretary Obaidul Quader has confessed that implementing their party’s election manifesto will be the main challenge for the 47-strong cabinet, reports UNB. Talking to reporters at Bangabhaban just after the oath-taking ceremony of the newly fromed cabinet, he said, “Now our main challenge is to implement the manifesto…
Arab News: Baghdad on Sunday denounced Iranian missile strikes that have killed at least 15 people in the northern Iraq. “Iraq protects the security of its neighbors and does not allow its territory to be used to threaten these countries,” Foreign Ministry spokesman Ahmed Mahjoub said after Iran’s Revolutionary Guards admitted firing seven missiles targeting…
Faridul Mostafa Khan, Cox’s Bazaar BNP’s Joint Secretary General and former State Minister Salahuddin Ahmed’s face was nowhere to be found during the 6th National Council and Conference of BNP on 19th March. Although he is alive and well in India, not even a single picture of him could be found around the conference,…
Shreya Dasgupta/MONGABAY * A team of indigenous parabiologists in Bangladesh’s Chittagong Hill Tracts, documenting their forest’s wildlife, have uncovered a surprisingly wide range of species. * The parabiologists belong to the Mro ethnic group and work with the Creative Conservation Alliance co-founded by Shahriar Caesar Rahman and colleagues. They set up camera traps, monitor hunting…