Hossen Sohel: Efforts to salvage the North American Free Trade Agreement as a three-country pact were due to resume yesterday when Canada and the US sit down at the negotiating table in a politically charged atmosphere, reports AFP. But the talks will be dogged by President Donald Trump’s repeated threats to leave Canada on the…
UNB Robi Axiata Limited and “NAGAD” has signed an agreement to make financial services accessible to the broader segment of people through mobile telecom network. Managing Director and CEO of Robi Axiata Limited Mahtab Uddin Ahmed and Co-Founder & on behalf of “NAGAD”, Director of Third Wave Technologies Limited Rezaul Hossain inked the agreement at…
Desk Report: Canada relaxed its travel alert for Bangladesh last month, as the south Asian country has done well to improve its safety and security situation after the Holey Artisan attack in 2016, Canadian High Commissioner Benoit Préfontaine said. Canada needs Bangladesh’s support in business, he said at an event of the Canada Bangladesh Chamber…
AP: The Taliban is likely to keep up its recent surge of violence in advance of scheduled parliamentary elections in October but Western-backed Afghan defenses will not break, U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis said. In his most detailed comments on the Taliban’s assault on the eastern city of Ghazni since it began Aug. 10, Mattis…
TWion News: he spectacular fireworks show on Sydney’s harbour that rang in 2019 and dazzled spectators around the world was picture perfect, except for one element — it got the year wrong. More than 1.5 million people packed the harbour front of Australia’s largest city to watch the extravaganza, and noticed a signage beamed onto…
Desk Report: The government will appoint music and sports teachers at the country’s primary schools for the first time to make classrooms more lively and amusing for the young students, reports Daily Sun. According to the Primary and Mass Education Ministry, a total of 5,106 music and sports teachers will be appointed for around 65,000…
TS Himanshu Sharma who won the National Awards for the scripts of Tanu weds Manu is already writing his next script for Aanand L. Rai. Himanshu has expressed his wish to invite Shahrukh Khan for the script. The scripts starts shooting in India and thenmoves to US. Himanshu thinks that Shahrukh Khan will portray the…
Ashik kabir The newly established Chinese communist regime in 1949, planned and executed economic development policies that led to an unprecedented annual average economic growth of 4 percent from 1953 to 1978. The growth was among the highest in the developing countries of the world at that time. When China began its post-Mao economic reform…
Hossen Sohel of DOT : Sultan Abdullah Sultan Ahmad Shah ascended the throne of Malaysia’s Pahang state yesterday, ahead of the country choosing its new head of state, reports UNB. Sultan Abdullah took his oath in front of some 1,600 guests, comprising royal families, state government leaders and community leaders, according to state news agency…
Dr. Forqan Uddin Ahmed Tagore was born in 1861, a period during which the nationalist movement in India was crystallizing and gaining momentum. The first organized military uprising by Indian soldiers against the British Raj occurred in 1857, only four years before the poet was born. In 1905, the swadeshi movement broke out on his…