BSS: Amidst a well harvest and better prices in the market, the tomato growers in the region including the vast Barind tractare happy this winter. Tomato, an attractive vegetable to the consumers, has been appearing in different local markets of the region for the last couple of weeks here. Now the farmers are collecting tomatoes…
Abrar Hussain: Increasing fines and penalties, the Cabinet has given final approval to draft of ‘Bangladesh Standards and Testing Institution Act, 2018’ The approval came from a regular meeting held yesterday, while Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina was in the chair in her office, reports Banglanews24. After the meeting, Cabinet Secretary Mohammad Shafiul Alam told reporters, “An…
Jessica Powell, Formar head of communications for Google/New York Times The decision has taken away an essential platform for some women and members of the L.G.B.T.Q. community. This week, the social networking site Tumblr banned the very thing that drove many people to its site: adult content. Many cheered that Tumblr had finally caught up…
Bangladeshi-American Society of Professionals (BSP) Inc., a newly established non-profit, organized its inaugural professional networking event at midtown Manhattan last Friday. A significant number of professionals and college students attended the event. In his welcome speech, BSP President Imtiaz R. Chowdhury emphasized on the organization’s mission, which is to create an active networking platform for…
Desk Report At least 15 people were hurt during an attack on an election campaign of opposition Jatiya Oikyafront in Chattogram’s Fatickchhari yesterday, reports The Daily Star. The injured include Oikyafront’s candidate for the constituency Azim Ullah Bahar and his associates, our local staff correspondent reports. Bahar alleged, Chhatra League men known as ‘Tayeb Bahini’…
Md. Taqi Yasir Online Chaperoning is an alternative while the human jobs the robots replace human job in different engineering sectors. Chaperoning is controlling and operating jobs of robots and being a professional regulator. According to the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization, some risky jobs must be replaced by humans with robots. But professional…
Reported by: Riku Amir Written by: Eshan Maitra Secretaries at the Health Ministry are very irritated about the recent increase of ‘Transfer Lobbying’. Also for the fact that, it is turning into a bad culture. Including, nurse-doctors & employee-officers are always crowding the ministry office corridors. Health Minister Md. Nasim noticed that, such crowding is…
Yanis Varoufakis/Project Syndicate The real battle in Europe is not between north and south, but between progressives and authoritarians – whether establishment austerians or insurgent racists – in every EU country. Only transnational democracy can counter the sectarian, nationalist narratives that conceal this underlying struggle. Despite its obvious significance, Brexit is a mere sideshow when…
ScienceAlert: Researchers have spotted a biological pathway triggered by insulin that supercharges T cells – those cells that spit out cytokines to tell the rest of the immune system to be on guard. All of which means scientists might eventually be able to develop new ways of either boosting or dialing down the body’s immune…
Desk report: Bangladesh will no longer eligible for concessional loan from the World Bank as it has started lending at 2.0 per cent rate, reports the financial express. The Washington lender has made the higher rate effective from last month instead of 0.75 per cent, officials said on Monday. Besides rate, the bank’s other lending…